Kira Thiel successfully defended her dissertation on “How Adolescents Cope with Stressful Online Experiences: A Process-Oriented Analysis of Stress and Coping.” Congratulations!
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw supervised the dissertation, which was defended on June 19, 2026 with Prof. Dr. Judith Möller as chair.
Kira Thiel is Junior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) since August 2019. Her work focuses on the experiences of children and adolescents in the digital world. In addition to stressful online experiences and how to cope with them, she is also interested in digital media, mainly social media platforms, in the opinion-forming process of young people and related phenomena such as social media influencers and fake news.