Sofie Beisemann

Scharnhorststraße 44
48151 Münster

  • Research Foci

    • Moral toxicity, social media & well-being
    • Media attention dynamics, (social) media logics

  • CV

    Bachelor’s degree at the University of Mannheim in the program Culture and Economics: Media and Communication Studies and Business Administration, followed by a Master's degree in Communication Studies at the University of Münster with a stay abroad at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since October 2023 research associate in the DFG project "Social Issue Emergence in the Hybrid Media System" in the team of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt.

    Academic Education

    M.A. Communication Studies @ University of Münster
    Summer school @ University of California. Los Angeles (UCLA)
    B.A. Culture and Economics: Media and communication, business administration @ University of Mannheim

  • Teaching

  • Scientific Talks

    • Beisemann, Sofie; Boberg, Svenja; Quandt Thorsten : „Emotional Labor, Work, and Coping: The Invisible Work of Social Issue Influencers“. 71. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Dortmund, .

    • Beisemann, Sofie; Boberg, Svenja; Quandt, Thorsten : “Journalists as social issue influencers: Negotiating (blurred) distinction lines between journalistic and activistic roles in social media discourses – A qualitative interview study”. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Denver, Colorado, .
    • Beisemann, Sofie; Boberg, Svenja; Quandt, Thorsten : „‘[T]his lovely idea that Twitter is the marketplace of the new world [...] that's completely broken.” A qualitative interview study of politicians, journalists and activists on the role and change of social media for social debates on social problems“. 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), Berlin, .

    • Boberg, Svenja; Beisemann, Sofie; Unger, Said; Klapproth, Johanna; Davydova, Anna; Quandt, Thorsten : “Luring TikTok-Users into the right-wing rabbit hole via housekeeping and lifestyle content? Exploring #tradculture communities on TikTok”. 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana, .
    • Beisemann, Sofie : “Activists or Danger to Society? A Computational Content Analysis of German Quality Newspaper Coverage of the Last Generation”. 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast, .