Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen is a senior journalism researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg (Germany) since April 2010. She is also professor at Universität Hamburg.
Wiebke Loosen studied communication science, psychology and German studies at the University of Münster (Germany), where she also received her doctorate. She habilitated in communication studies at Universität Hamburg with the topic "The Transformation of Journalism and of Journalism Research." Wiebke Loosen held visiting professorships at the Universities of Münster and Munich. Her major areas of expertise are the transformation of journalism within a changing media environment, theories of journalism, and methodology.
Her current research focuses on the changing journalism-audience relationship, data journalism, the emerging ‘start-up culture’ in journalism as well as algorithms’ ‘journalism-like’ constructions of public spheres and reality. She is also working in interdisciplinary projects situated where the fields of journalism research and computer science converge. She is member of several national and international collaboration networks, including the “Communicative Figurations” research network – a joint initiative of the Universities of Bremen and Hamburg and the Hans-Bredow-Institut as well as the international “Journalism Elsewhere” network.
