Dr. Jonathan Hendrickx

Jonathan Hendrickx, PhD, is a Visiting Fellow at the research group “Digital News Dynamics“ of the Weizenbaum Institut. Together with PhD candidates Lion Wedel and Anna-Theresa Mayer he works on a multi-method research project that studies the intersection of journalism and TikTok in the DACH region.

Dr. Hendrickx obtained his PhD in Media and Communication Studies in 2021 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) and has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Journalism Studies at the University of Vienna since 2022.

His work has been published in leading scientific journals such as Journalism, Journalism Studies and Digital Journalism. In 2023, he obtained a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to pursue a research project at Penn State University in the United States.