Jenny Voth, M. A.

Jenny Voth (born 1983) studied Journalism/Communication Science and German Philology at the University of Hamburg and the Aristoteles University of Salonika/Greece. And in addition, she has studied Psychology. She has been a junior researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute since October 2008. During her studies she worked as a tutor for Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla. During an internship at the Department of Media Psychology, she analysed the impact of social identity within the process of selecting media. As a student assistant, she took part in an interdisciplinary research project „Wer krank ist geht ins Netz“ ["If people are sick, they go into the Net"] at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Science at the University of Hamburg. Following this project dealing with patients' habits when retrieving information, she outlined a theoretical model of Internet usage in case of illness. One of her particular research interests and emphases is dedicated to the usage of media and the Internet, especially information behaviour. She maintains a particular focus on Health Communication.