Jakob Ohme Senior Fellow 2024–2025
- Discipline
- Communication studies
- Fellowship duration
- September 01, 2024–December 31, 2024
- Academic or artistic job title
- Head of Research Group
- Home institution
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, DE
- Contact
- Links
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Jakob Ohme leads the interdisciplinary Digital News Dynamics research group at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin (DE), exploring the impact and dissemination of professional journalism on digital platforms versus other sources such as influencers or artificial intelligence.
Jakob’s work emphasizes the changes digital and mobile communications bring to news consumption and political engagement, particularly across different generations. He is dedicated to advancing digital methodologies in political communication and journalism research, notably through the innovative use of digital trace data. Jakob is also a co-principal investigator in the #DSA40 Collaboratory, focusing on collaborative access to platform data under the EU’s Digital Services Act.
