Hannah Immler has been a junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) since October 2020. Her research interests focus on the question of how people in different social contexts influence processes of social cohesion through their use of media and news. She researches these topics in the sub-project Media Use and Social Cohesion as part of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC).
At the HBI, she has already been working since 2016 as a student assistant for the research programme 1 “Transformation of Public Communication – Journalistic and Intermediary Functions in the Process of Opinion Formation” with Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen.
Hannah Immler studied sociology at Universität Hamburg and the Universitetet i Oslo. During her studies she focused on alternative news media and their users. In addition, she was a student assistant under Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder at Universität Hamburg.
