Hannah Immler, M. A.

Hannah Immler has been a junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) since October 2020. Within the Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ; Research Institute Social Cohesion), she works for the project Media Use and Social Cohesion.
 
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.
 
Hannah Immler studied sociology at Universität Hamburg and the Universitetet i Oslo. During her studies she focused on alternative news media and their users.

At the Hans Bredow Institute, 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.

In addition, she was a student assistant under Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder at Universität Hamburg.