{"id":2709,"date":"2024-07-03T14:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-employee&#038;p=2709"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:16:48","slug":"kira-thiel","status":"publish","type":"hbi-employee","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/kira-thiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kira Thiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hans-bredow-institut.de\/en\/research\/research-programmes\/knowledge-for-the-media-society\/growing-up-with-digital-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/en\/research\/research-programmes\/knowledge-for-the-media-society\/growing-up-with-digital-media\">Growing up with Digital Media<\/a>&#8221; within research program 3 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hans-bredow-institut.de\/en\/research\/research-programmes\/knowledge-for-the-media-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/en\/research\/research-programmes\/knowledge-for-the-media-society\">Knowledge for the Media Society<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/media-and-communications\/research\/research-projects\/eu-kids-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/media-and-communications\/research\/research-projects\/eu-kids-online\">EU Kids Online<\/a>\u00a0project, she researches the opportunities and risks of children&#8217;s online use, among other things. Her dissertation project\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hans-bredow-institut.de\/en\/projects\/coping-with-stressful-online-experiences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/en\/projects\/coping-with-stressful-online-experiences\">Coping with Stressful Online Experiences in Adolescence<\/a>\u00a0builds on this topic and focuses on how adolescents deal with stressful online experiences and which coping strategies they use in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s and adolescents&#8217; online use and coping were also on her agenda in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the project\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hans-bredow-institut.de\/en\/projects\/kids-digital-lives-in-corona-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/en\/projects\/kids-digital-lives-in-corona-times\">Kids&#8217; Digital Lives in Covid-19 Times<\/a>\u00a0(KiDiCoTi), she investigated the effects of the lockdown on the media use and well-being of 11- to 18-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kira Thiel studied communication science (minor in psychology) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t Munich and children\u2019s and youth media studies at the University of Erfurt. 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