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Prof. Dr. Martin Emmer

Principal Investigator, Founding Director

Prof. Dr. Martin Emmer has been professor of Communication Studies and head of the Division Media Use Research at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies of Freie Universität Berlin since 2011. He is Principal Investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society since 2017, where he also served as a Founding Director from 2017 to 2019.

His research focuses on political communication and participation, the use of digital media and methods of empirical communication research. His latest projects are dealing with mobile media use in Subsahara Africa, the transformation of digital citizenship and user-tracking methods for mobile media use research.

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Phone

+49 30 838 57528

E-Mail

martin.emmer[at]fu-berlin.de

Website

FU Berlin

Organisation
Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
  • Positions

    Research Focus: Weizenbaum Digital Science Center (WDSC)

    Principal Investigator (PI) since 15 September 2022

    “Weizenbaum Panel“

    “Method Lab“

    Principal Investigator (PI) until 14 September 2022

    Research Group “Digital Citizenship“

    Founding Director Weizenbaum Institute

  • Committees and functions
    • Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Media Use Unit
    • Principal Investigator at the Einstein Center Digital Future
    • Chairman of the Doctoral Committee for Journalism and Communication Studies at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin
    • Founding Editor "Weizenbaum Journal for the Digital Society"
    • Coordinator of the cross-university degree programs "Media Informatics" (BSc, MSc) at Freie Universität Berlin
    • Member of various scientific organizations (ICA, ECREA, DGPuK)

     

  • Fields of research
    • Media use
    • Political communication
    • Emprical research methods
    • Disinformation
    • Subsahara Africa
Projects

Selection

2015-2017
Konvergenz von Fernsehen und Internet (DFG)

2016
Flucht 2.0: Digitale Mediennutzung durch Flüchtlinge (Auswärtiges Amt)

2015-2016
Automatisierte Messung individueller Nutzung digitaler Medien (FU Berlin, E-Club Brückenprojekt)

2013-2014
ICTs for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (BMBF)

Miscellaneous

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0722-132X

Publications

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