Kira Thiel

Junior Researcher Media Socialization

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 as part of the competence area “Growing up with Digital Media” within research program 3 “Knowledge for the Media Society“.

As part of the EU Kids Online project, she researches the opportunities and risks of children’s online use, among other things. Her dissertation project Coping with Stressful Online Experiences in Adolescence builds on this topic and focuses on how adolescents deal with stressful online experiences and which coping strategies they use in this regard.

Children’s and adolescents’ online use and coping were also on her agenda in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the project Kids’ Digital Lives in Covid-19 Times (KiDiCoTi), she investigated the effects of the lockdown on the media use and well-being of 11- to 18-year-olds.

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.

Kira Thiel studied communication science (minor in psychology) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and children’s and youth media studies at the University of Erfurt. During her studies, she worked at the JFF – Institute for Media Research and Media Education and the children’s television station KiKA of ARD and ZDF.

Contact information

Kira Thiel

Junior Researcher Media Socialization

Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)
Rothenbaumchaussee 36
20148 Hamburg
Germany

Last update: 04.07.2024

Works by Kira Thiel

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Coding Public Value

How can we develop software that is not only oriented towards business models, but also towards the common good, user interests, and media regulation? Coding Public Value (CPV) translates questions on media law into approaches and methods for a responsible software engineering.

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Projekt Pilot Project Computational Social Science

Journalistic Use of Information Environments Influenced by Algorithms

The pilot project in the field of computational social science used browser data donations to investigate how relevant the offerings of individual search engines and social media are in the everyday work of journalists.

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Projekt BMBF Project

Communication in Times of Crisis

How do communications change in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? What role do actors from science, politics and the media take over? How do they deal with uncertainty from this situation? A project that reviewed existing studies and interviewed experts provided answers to this question.

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Projekt Funded by Stiftung Mercator

Platform Democracy

How could "platform councils" or other institutions for integrating public interests into platform rule-making processes ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account? A new project is embarking on a search for global best practice models.

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Projekt BMBF Project

Media and Science Communication

How do scientific findings about journalistic media and social media get into the world? What criteria do science editors use to select topics? And what impact can scientific content have with it?

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Projekt International Cooperation Project

Global Media and Internet Concentration

The international Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMICP) analyses communication, internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries. The HBI is responsible for collecting and reporting the data for Germany.

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Projekt Expert Opinion for the KJM

Labeling of Edited (Influencer) Photos

Must, should, may digitally edited photos in social media be labeled? On behalf of the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM), the HBI is investigating the necessity of a legal labeling requirement for edited photos and videos.

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Publikation From the Research Institute Social Cohesion

Social Cohesion on the Ground

A new volume in the publication series of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) presents articles on the topic of "Local Social Cohesion". This includes an article by Jan-Hindrik Schmidt and Hannah Immler, both researchers at the FGZ's Hamburg site at the HBI, on Local Media Repertoires and Cohesion-Related Attitudes.

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Publikation Working Paper No. 71 Available for Download

Trust in Established News Sources

In Germany, trust in established news sources can best be explained by age: Older internet users tend to place more trust in the news than younger ones.

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Publikation Dissertation Published!

Legal Protection through Decision Architectures

In his dissertation written at the HBI, Johannes Schmees deals with the state's use of algorithmic decision-making systems and its constitutional control. The entire work has now been published open access by Duncker und Humblot Verlag.

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Publikation Enabling Political Consulting

Theses on the Translation Performance of Advisory Documents at the Interface of Science and Policy

The thesis paper provides practical tips on how scientific consultation documents should be created and used.

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Publikation Report available for download

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024

Surveys were conducted simultaneously in 47 countries in an international comparison to identify general trends as well as national peculiarities.

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