Dr. Wiebke Loosen
Dr. Wiebke Loosen studied Communications at the University of Münster, where she was also a researcher and assistant until in 2000 she changed to the University of Hamburg. In 2006/2007 she acted in place of a professorship for communication studies focusing on online communication and communicator research at the LMU in Munich.
In 2010, Wiebke Loosen habilitated on the subject „Transformationen des Journalismus und der Journalismusforschung“ [Transformations of Journalism and Journalism Research] at the Faculty of Social Studies Faculty at Hamburg University.
Since 1 April 2010 Wiebke Loosen has been a senior researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute.
In her research, she focuses on the areas of journalism research, online communication and methods of empirical communication research.
Latest publications
Loosen, W. (2011): (Massen-)Medien und Privatheit [(Mass)Media and Privacy]. In: J.-H. Schmidt, T. Weichert (eds.), Datenschutz. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (forthcoming).
Loosen, Wiebke; Scholl, Armin (2011): Validierung oder Ergänzung? Zur Praxis von Methodenkombinationen in der Journalismusforschung [Validation or Endorsement? On the Practice of Methodical Combination in Journalism Research]. In: O. Jandura, T. Quandt, J. Vogelgesang (eds.), Methoden der Journalismusforschung. Wiesbaden, pp. 109-121.
Loosen, W. (2011): Online Privacy as a News Factor in Journalism. In: S. Trepte, L. Reinecke (eds.), Privacy Online. Perspectives on Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Social Web. Heidelberg, New York: Springer , pp. 205-218.
Loosen, W.; Dernbach, B. (2011) (eds.): Didaktik der Journalistik. Konzepte, Methoden und Beispiele aus der Journalistenausbildung [Didactics of Journalism. Concepts, Methods, and Examples from Journalistic Training]. Wiesbaden.
Loosen, W.; Scholl, A. (2011) (eds.): Methodenkombinationen in der Kommunikationswissenschaft [Methodical Combinations in Communication Studies]. Köln.
Loosen, W. Scholl, A. (2010): Validierung oder Ergänzung? Zur Praxis von Methodenkombinationen in der Journalismusforschung [Validation or Supplement? On the Practice of Combining Methods in Journalism Research]. In: T. Quandt, O. Jandura (eds.), Methoden der Journalismusforschung [Methods of Journalism Research]. Wiesbaden (in print).
Latest lectures
"German Culture of Journalism Research: Systems Theory and the (De-)Differentiation of Journalism", lecture by W. Loosen at the 61st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Boston on 27 May 2011.
"Entgrenzung des Journalismus?" [Dissolution of Boundaries in Journalism?], lecture by W. Loosen at the workshop "Medienwandel und Medienkrise" [Media Change and Media Crisis] of the Netzwerk Medienstrukturen in Düsseldorf on 17. September 2010.
"The (Re-) Discovery of the Audience: The Relationship Between Journalism and Audience under the Conditions of Web 2.0", lecture by W. Loosen at the annual conference of the International Communication Association in Singapore on 23 June 2010.
"Die (Wieder-)Entdeckung des Publikums – Inklusion in Journalismus" [The (Re-)Discovery of the Audience - Inclusion in Journalism], lecture by W. Loosen and J. Schmidt at the annual conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [German Association for Journalism and Communication Studies] in Ilmenau on 13 May 2010.
"Journalism: Privacy as a News Factor", lecture by W. Loosen at the first workshop of the DFG network „Young Scholars‘ Network on Privacy & Web 2.0“ in Hamburg on 9 March 2010.
"Validierung oder Ergänzung? Zur Praxis von Methodenkombinationen in der Journalismusforschung" [Validation or Supplement? On the Practice of Combining Methods in Journalism Research], lecture by W. Loosen and A. Scholl at the joint conference „Methoden der Journalismusforschung“ [Methods of Journalism Research] of the DGPuK professional groups „Journalistik- und Journalismusforschung“ [Journalism and Journalism Research] as well as „Methoden“ [Methods] in Berlin on 5 February 2009.
Contact
Dr. Wiebke Loosen
Hans-Bredow-Institut
Dependance
Warburgstraße 8-10
20354 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (0)40 45 02 17 - 91
Fax +40 (0)40 45 02 17 - 99