Contact
Department of Media and Communication
Akademiestrasse 7
D-80799 Munich
Germany
Room:
605
Phone:
+49 89-21809464
Email:
joerg.hassler@ifkw.lmu.de
Office hours:
by appointment
Further Information
Career
Since 2023 consortium leader of the interdisciplinary third-party funded consortium project “The Influence of Humorously Intended Communication on Political Decision-Making in the Context of Climate Change [KLIMA-MEMES]” and consortium partner in the interdisciplinary third-party funded consortium project “Data Donations and Digital Nudges for Sustainable Behavior Change [DataDonations4SustainableChange]” (both funded by: bidt).
Since 2019 head of the junior research group “Digital Democratic Mobilization in Hybrid Media Systems (DigiDeMo)” at LMU Munich, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and coordinated by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).
Co-initiator of the Campaigning for Strasbourg (CamforS) and Digital Campaigning Worldwide (DigiWorld) networks for international comparative research into digital election campaigns.
2022 to 2024 Deputy Spokesperson of the Communication and Politics section of the German Association for Journalism and Communication Studies.
2020 to 2022 Spokesperson of the Communication and Politics Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK).
Summer 2018 research stay at the University of Valencia.
2017 to 2019 research assistant at the Department of Communciation Research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2016 PhD with a thesis on “Media Climate and Political Climate. A Comparative Input-Output Analysis on the Adoption of Media Logic by Politics [Medienklima und politisches Klima. Eine vergleichende Input-Output-Analyse zur Übernahme der Medienlogik durch die Politik]”.
2011 to 2017 research assistant in the sub-project “Digital Knowledge Gaps. Political Information Dissemination and Knowledge Acquisition in the Online World” of the DFG research group “Political Communication in the Online World” with Prof. Dr Marcus Maurer at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2011-2014) and at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2014-2017).
2011 Thesis (Magister Artium) on “Deliberation in the weblogs of CDU and SPD? A content analysis based on the 2009 Bundestag election campaign”.
2005-2010 studies of communication research and political science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Research focus
My research focuses on political communication, online communication and empirical methods. In particular, I focus on the analysis of direct and media-mediated election campaigning and party communication, the analysis of mediatization processes and media change.