Prof. Dr. Jakob Ohme

About

Jakob Ohme is currently holding a Guest Professorship for Political Communication at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich and a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum.

At Weizenbaum Institute, Jakob leads the interdisciplinary Digital News Dynamics research group, 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.

Prior to his work in Berlin, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, and as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Journalism, University of Southern Denmark, where he also earned his PhD degree in 2017.