Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink, after studying Psychology and German Philology in Hamburg, he subsequently worked for three years at the Institute for Social Psychology at the University of Hamburg.
He joined the Hans Bredow Institute in 1986 as a researcher; from 1988 he also acted as the executive manager. In 1998, he was elected to the Institute’s directorate. In 1999, he was Acting Professor of Communications at the College of Music and Theatre in Hanover. In spring 2001, he received a chair in “Empirical Communications Studies” from the University of Hamburg and the Hans Bredow Institute jointly.
Since 2009 he is a member of the board of directors of the Research Center for Media and Communication (RCMC), which brings together university and non-university media and communication research in Hamburg, and at the same time one of the spokespersons of the Graduate School Media and Communication, which is being supported within the context of the Hamburg initiative of excellence.
Alongside this, he was spokesperson for the specialist group on reception research in the DGPuK from 1998 to 2003, co-publisher of the series “Rezeptionsforschung” (reception research) from 2003 to 2007, and a member of the Management Committee of the International Radio Research Network (IREN) from 2004-2006. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) since 2004 and has held a curatorship at the Academy for Journalism and Communications in Hamburg since 2001. Since 2009 he has been a member of the international board of the "Journal of Children and Media".
His research emphases at the Institute are in the areas of media use and media contents, as well as media politics; in recent years these included primarily: patterns of individual use and media repertoires, the convergence of the media from the user's perspective, consequences of online media for classical media, media use with children and young people, forms of user interest vis-à-vis the media, as well as European media and European audiences.
Latest publications
Paus-Hasebrink, I., Hasebrink, U. (2012): Vergleichende Forschung als Kooperationsstrategie. Das Beispiel EU Kids Online [Comparative Research as Cooperation Strategy. The Example EU Kids Online]. In: B. Stark, M. Magin, M. Maurer, O. Jandura (eds.): Methodische Herausforderungen komparativer Forschungsansätze. Köln: von Halem, pp. 95-114.
Livingstone, S., Hasebrink, U., Görzig, A. (2012): Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety. In: S. Livingstone, L. Haddon, and A. Görzig (eds.): Children, risk and safety online: Research and policy challenges in comparative perspective. London: Policy Press, pp. 323-337.
Hasebrink, U. (2012): Young Europeans’ online environments: a typology of user practices. In: S. Livingstone, L. Had-don, A. Görzig (eds.): Children, risk and safety online: Research and policy challenges in comparative perspective. London: Policy Press, pp. 127-139.
Hasebrink, U; Schröder, H.-D.; Schumacher, G. (2012): Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz aus der Sicht der Eltern [Children and Youth Media Protection from Parents’ Perspective]. In: Media Perspektiven 1/2012, pp. 18-30
Schröder, H. D.; Hasebrink, U.; Dreyer, S.; Loosen, W.; Schröter, F. (2011): Mapping Digital Media: Germany. A Report by the Open Society Foundations (PDF).
Hölig, S.; Domeyer, H.; Hasebrink, U. (2011): Souveräne Bindungen. Zeitliche Bezüge in Medienrepertoires und Kommunikationsmodi [Confident Liaisons. Temporal Relations in Media Repertoires and Communications Modes]. In: M. Suckfüll; H. Schramm; C. Wünsch (eds.), Rezeption und Wirkung in zeitlicher Perspektive. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Hasebrink, U.; Lampert, C. (2011): Kinder und Jugendliche im Web 2.0 - Befunde, Chancen und Risiken [Children and Young People in the Web 2.0 - Findings, Opportunities and Risks]. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 3/2011, pp. 3-17 (available online in German).
Hasebrink, U.; Domeyer, H. (2010): Die Konstruktion europäischer Fernsehpublika [The Construction of European TV Audiences]. In: U. Daniel, A. Schildt (eds.), Massenmedien im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts [Mass Media in 20th-Century Europe]. Köln; Weimar; Wien: Böhlau, pp. 121-148.
Livingstone, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2010): Designing a European Research Project on Children and the Internet: Reflections on Comparative Research in Theory and Practice. In: T. Brodasson, U. Kivikuru, B. Tufte, L. Weibull, H. Ostbye (eds.), The Nordic Countries and the World. Perspectives from Research on Media and Communication. Göteborg: Göteborgs Universitet, pp. 135-147.
Hasebrink, U.; Paus-Hasebrink, I.; Schmidt, J.-H. (2010): Das Social Web in den Medienrepertoires von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen [The Social Web in Media Repertoires of Yound People and Adolescents]. In: Hepp, A.; Wimmer, J. (Eds.): Medienkulturen im Wandel. Konstanz: UVK, pp. 319-355.
Hasebrink, U. (2010): Wandel der Mediennutzung [Changes in Media Usage]. In: J. Hennig, M. Tjarks-Sobhani (eds.), Veränderte Mediengewohnheiten – andere technische Dokumentation? Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, pp. 13-28 (Schriften zur Technischen Kommunikation; Band 15).
Paus-Hasebrink, I.; Hasebrink, U. (2010): Der Umgang von Heranwachsenden mit dem Social Web. Handlungstypen, Chancen und Risiken [How Adolescents Deal with the Social Web. Action Types, Opportunities and Risks]. In: D. Hoffmann, N. Neuß, G. Thiele (eds.), Stream your Life!? Kommunikation und Medienbildung im Web 2.0. München: Kopaed, pp. 33-44.
Hasebrink, U.; Schulz, W.; Deterding, S.; Schmidt, J.-H.; Schröder, H.-D.; Sprenger, R. (2010): Leitmedium Internet? Mögliche Auswirkungen des Aufstiegs des Internets zum Leitmedium für das deutsche Mediensystem [Key Medium Internet? Potential Effects of the Rise of the Internet as “Key Medium” in the German Media System]. Expert Opinion submitted to the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB) in April 2010 (unpublished).
Hasebrink, U. (2009): Quality Assessments and Patterns of Use. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to the Audiences of Public Service Media. In: G. F. Lowe (Ed.), The Public in Public Service Media. Göteborg: Nordicom, pp. 135-149.
Hasebrink, U.; Domeyer, H. (2010): Zum Wandel von Informationsrepertoires in konvergierenden Medienumgebungen [On the Change of Information Repertoires in Convergent Media Environments]. In: M. Hartmann, A. Hepp (eds.), Die Mediatisierung der Alltagswelt [The Mediatisation of the Everyday World]. Wiesbaden, pp. 49-64.
Latest lectures
"Information Repertoires in Changing Media Environments", lecture by U. Hasebrink and J. Schmidt at the "4. European Communication Conference" of ECREA on 26 October 2012 in Istanbul.
"Anytime? Modi linearer und nicht-linearer Bewegtbildnutzung” [Anytime? Modes of Linear and Non-Linear Use of Moving Images], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the symposium "Medien und Zeit” [Media and Time] in Hamburg on 17 February 2012.
"Quo vadis, Jugendmedienschutz?” [Quo Vadis, Youth Media Protection], U. Hasebrink as "pilot” at the eponymous conference of ARD, ZDF, Protestant Church Germany and Catholic Episcopal Conference in Mainz on 30 November 2011.
"Media Repertoires as Patterns of Behaviour and as Meaningful Practices", lecture by U. Hasebrink and H. Domeyer at the conference "Transforming Audiences 3" in London on 2 September 2011.
"What is the TV Audience? The Audience's Perspective", Lecture by U. Hasebrink und S. Hölig at the preconference "Transforming Audiences 3" of "COST Action IS0906: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies" in London on 31 August 2011.
"Publikumskonstruktionen im medialen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel” [Constructions of Audiences in Medial and Social Chang], lecture by U. Hasebrink in the course of the Research Colloquium of the Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) in Bremen on 6 June 2011.
"Communication Modes as Key Elements of Converging Media Environments", lecture by S.Hölig and U. Hasebrink at the "First conference of the COST Action IS0906: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies" in Zagreb on 9 April 2011.
"New Challenges and Methodological Innovations in Research on Media Audiences and Patterns of Usage”, keynote by U. Hasebrink at the "First Conference of the COST Action IS0906: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies" in Zagreb on 8 April 2011.
"Onlinenutzung und Onlinerisiken von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Europa. Ergebnisse des Projekts EU Kids Online II“ [Online Usage and Risks for Children and Young People in Europe], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the board conference of the State Media Authority Lower Saxony (NLM) in Hanover on 6 April 2011.
"Interkulturell vergleichende Rezeptionsforschung" [Interculturally Comparative Reception Research], lecture by U. Hasebrink in the context of the lecture series "The Sound of Music. Interkulturelle Phänomene der Populärkultur“ at the University of Salzburg on 21 March 2011.
"Online Child Safety – Why it is Important and Which are Issues and Future Challenges", lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Multi-Stakeholder-Workshop “Self-Regulation in the Field of Online Child Safety” of the EU Commission in Brussels on 16 March 2011.
“The Merits of Inter-Cultural Research: The Case of the EU Kids Online Network”, Keynote by U. Hasebrink at the 2nd Workshop of the Young Scholars Network on Privacy and Web 2.0 in Hamburg on 3 March 2011.
"Kompetenzerwerb, exzessive Nutzung und Abhängigkeitsverhalten bei Computerspielen” [Acquisition of Competences, Excessive Use, and Behaviour of Addiction with Video Games], lecture by U. Hasebrink and J. Fritz at the conference "Computerspiele zwischen Spaß, Pädagogik und Exzess” [Video Games between Fun, Education, and Excess] in Düsseldorf on 16 February 2011.
„Soziale Netzwerke: Der aktuelle Stand der Nutzungsforschung“ [Social Networks: Current Status of Usage Research], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the 10th Symposium on Media Ethics, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, on 13 January 2011.
“Findings from EU Kids Online II: Initial Results”, lecture by U. Hasebrink at the conference “Growing Up in a Digital Society – Internet and Value Orientation in the Lives of Children and Young People in Germany and Europe” in Berlin on 7 December 2010.
"Giving the Audience a Voice: The Role of Research in Making Media Regulation More Responsive to the Needs of the Audience”, lecture by U. Hasebrink at the workshop “Media Diversity from the User Perspective”, University of Amsterdam on 3 December 2010.
"Fernsehnutzung und Onlinenutzung: Konstruktion von Publika und aktuelle Trends" [TV Usage and Online Usage: Construction of Audiences and Current Trends], presentation by U. Hasebrink in the context of the lecture "Einführung in die Audiovisuelle Kommunikation" [Introduction to Audiovisual Communication] at the Faculty of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg on 1 December 2010.
"Different Cyberspaces across Europe? Towards a Typology of Young People’s Online Practices", lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Cyberspace 2010 Congress in Brno on 28 November 2010.
"Die Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke im Internet durch Jugendliche" [The Use of Social Networks on the Internet by Young People], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the 19th Federal Congress Schulpsychologie Handy&Computer@schule.de in Hameln on 18 November 2010.
"Mediennutzung in konvergierenden Medienumgebungen: Das Konzept der Medienrepertoires“ [Media Usage in Converging Media Environments: the Concept of Media Repertoires], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Summer School "Medienkonvergenz: Konzepte, Formen, Folgen" [Media Convergence: Concepts, Forms, Consequences] at the University of Hamburg on 27 July 2010.
"Das Nahe und das Ferne – Mediennutzung im Zeichen der Globalisierung" [The Near and the Distant - Media Use under the Banner of Globalisation], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the conference „Plattdeutsch in den Medien“ in Hamburg on 20 May 2010.
"Lagerfeuer der Zukunft – Wer fesselt die Digital Natives?" [Camp Fire of the Future – Who Captures Digital Natives?], lecture by U. Hasebrink and head of a panel at the Media Congress in Stuttgart on 3 May 2010.
"Zukunft der Kommunikationswissenschaft" [The Future of Communication Studies], participation of U. Hasebrink in the panel discussion at the conference "Die nächsten 40 Jahre – Selbstverständnis und Praxisrelevanz der Kommunikationswissenschaft" [The Next 40 Years – Self-Conception and Practice-Orientation of Communication Studies] of the Faculty of Communication Studies of the University of Salzburg on 1 February 2010.
"Souveräne Bindungen. Zeitliche Bezüge in Medienrepertoires und Kommunikationsmodi“ [Confident Ties. Temporal References in Media Repertoires and Communication Modes], lecture by S. Hölig, H. Domeyer and U. Hasebrink at the conference of the DGPuK work group on reception and impact research "Rezeption und Wirkung in zeitlicher Perspektive“ [Reception and Impact in Temporal Perspective] in Berlin on 30 January 2010.
"Wege in die Wissenschaft: Wissenschaftliche Organisationen, Tagungen & Netzwerke" [Ways into Science: Academic Organisations, Conferences and Networks], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the postgraduate workshop of the DGPuK expert group Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung in Berlin on 28 January 2010.
"Kulturwissenschaftliche und kommunikationswissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung: Wo liegt der Unterschied? Und was können Beide von einander lernen?“ [Reception Research in Cultural and Communication Studies: What Is the Difference? And What Can They Learn from Each Other?], lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Summer School "Film, Fernsehen, Internet - Kulturwissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung“ in Hamburg on 27 July 2009.
Latest Courses
"Audiences and Identities in Europe", seminar by U. Hasebrink and H. Domeyer in the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme "Journalism and Media within Globalisation" at the University of Hamburg, winter semester 2010/2011.
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