Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

About

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann leads the subproject DECORA at the Weizenbaum Institute, which is part of the collaborative research project Decoding Antisemitism in YouTube Videos (DAYVid), funded by the BMFTR.

The DECORA subproject focuses primarily on far-right forms of online antisemitism in videos and comments and analyzes specific coded visual and narrative patterns of antisemitic communication. With his background in film and media studies and many years of research on how the Holocaust and Nazi persecution are addressed in social and digital media, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann primarily oversees the area of multimodal video analysis and the study of audiovisual forms of antisemitic discourse in algorithmically amplified media environments.

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann earned his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin and is an associate professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and the European Forum at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a partner in the Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Action AVCloud—Audiovisual Use Cases for the Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH) consortium and an associate researcher in the “Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media” research project at Umeå University. He is also a visiting scholar at the Tikvah Institute, where he studies antisemitism in infotainment formats on YouTube.

Project Lead: DECORA – Decoding Online Right-Wing Antisemitism

Research Group: Digital News Dynamics