Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen has been a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and a professor at Universität Hamburg (in accordance with §17 of the HmbHG) since April 2010. She researches the transformation of journalism within a changing media environment, journalism theories and methods of communication and journalism research.

Currently, Wiebke Loosen is investigating data journalism, the changing journalism-audience relationship, forms of pioneer journalism and the developing start-up culture in journalism as well as journalism-like services of algorithms. She is also working in interdisciplinary projects situated where the fields of journalism research and computer science converge. Wiebke Loosen is a member of various national and international cooperation networks, including the research network “Communicative Figurations” – a joint initiative of the Universities of Bremen and Hamburg and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) as well as the international network “Journalism Elsewhere”.

She studied communication science, psychology, and German studies at the University of Münster, where she also completed her doctorate. Her habilitation at Universität Hamburg was dedicated to the topic of “Transformations of Journalism and Journalism Research”. Wiebke Loosen held visiting professorships at the Universities of Münster and Munich.