Dr. Talke Klara Hoppmann

Dr. Talke Klara Hoppmann (born 1980) studied communication and American Studies at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, at the University of Hamburg and on a Fulbright Scholarship to Temple University Philadelphia, USA. After working as a student assistant for several years on various projects (above all related to Europe) at the Hans Bredow Institute and for a year on the project “Designating various Forms of Advertising from the Viewer’s Viewpoint”, she has been an Associate of the Institute from 2006 to 2009 and has been writing a doctorate on the topic of user perception of EU institutions and of their perception of communicators. In this comparative project, she has been researching since February 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the University of Copenhagen and subsequent to that in Leeds, Great Britain, at the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence of the University of Leeds. Her research interests involve above all media use, new media, online communication and political communication, as well as the entire complex “European Union”. Since 2009 she has been a user experience consultant at Cimex (www.cimex.com) in London, UK.