Kira Thiel has been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow Institute (HBI) since August 2019. As part of the research group “Growing Up in Digital Media Environments” she studies the diverse experiences of children and adolescents in the digital world. She is particularly interested in stress and coping, the role of social media in the opinion-forming process of young people, and related phenomena such as social media influencers and disinformation.
In addition, she is coordinating the establishment of an “International Observatory on Young People in Digitized Societies”, which focuses on the systematic observation and classification of international research on growing up in digital media environments.
Kira Thiel studied communication science (with a minor in psychology) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and children’s and youth media at the University of Erfurt.
