Linh Ha has been a member of the administrative staff at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) since August 2026.
In the Human Resources department, she is responsible for personnel administration throughout the entire employee lifecycle, processing payroll, preparing reports and addressing other HR-related matters.
She studied International Business Administration at the European University Viadrina.
Last update: 31.08.2026
The latest issue of the Leibniz Association’s magazine, which is part of the Science Year 2026, focuses on the topic of “Medicine.” Claudia Lampert, head of the Health Communication research group at the HBI, is interviewed about health influencers.
In a current project by Leonie Alatassi, students explore what political participation means to them, how it can be encouraged, and what barriers stand in the way. The first workshops show that many young people are eager to get involved. However, they need not only information, but also concrete support and opportunities to try things out and gain experience.
Stephan Dreyer, Claudia Lampert, and Kira Thiel published an English summary of their study on babies and toddlers in family-influencing content. They present their findings on how babies and toddlers (ages 0–5) are depicted in German-language, commercially oriented social media profiles on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
In their article in a journal on artificial intelligence and law, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Moritz Wiechert analyze the first German case law on automatically generated content. In doing so, they highlight the fundamental challenges facing traditional freedom of expression law in the age of AI.
How are different forms of news avoidance related to various types of individual public connection? The article by Julia Behre, Lisa Merten, and Uwe Hasebrink suggests that avoiding the news does not necessarily mean turning away from public life.
In her Friedrich Ebert Foundation publication project, Magdalena Stratmann describes how public service broadcasting in Germany addresses the challenge of fulfilling its legal mandate amid drastically changed conditions in the digital information ecosystem.
In January 2029, the Regional Public Broadcasting Corporation of the Federal State of Hesse (Hessischer Rundfunk) will celebrate its 80th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner is conducting scholarly research on its origins. His research focuses specifically on corporate history, personnel decisions, and programming policy in the postwar period.
Public debates about AI often oscillate between promises of technological salvation and dystopian visions of the future. How can journalists report on this ubiquitous yet elusive topic in a nuanced way? The HBI's Research Clinic discussed the challenges of AI reporting and possible solutions.
How do organizations justify their decisions, establish legitimacy, and engage with their environment through communication? This article introduces aspect-based argument mining (ABAM) as a new method for answering these questions. ABAM can identify patterns of argumentation in large text corpora, such as the Twitter debate on nuclear energy in Germany.
Jan-Hinrik Schmidt and Milena Braun conducted a study on behalf of Aktion Mensch examining how people with disabilities perceive social cohesion in Germany. The study allows for a comparison with the general population and reveals that, despite being more likely to participate in politics and volunteer work, people with disabilities experience less social cohesion.
Since 2012, the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey has conducted annual, representative surveys in 48 countries to examine general trends and national differences in news consumption. As a cooperation partner, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is responsible for the German sub-study. The 2026 findings are now available for download.
On the ARD talk show “What Unites Germany,” people from a wide variety of backgrounds engage in conversation with one another. As part of the project, the HBI is conducting research to determine how these discussions influence the participants’ attitudes. The initial findings are now available.
