Prof. Dr. Benjamin Krämer
Professor
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung
Media reception • media history and media change • political communication • music in the media
Banjamin Krämer
Benjamin Krämer studied Media Management at the Department of Journalism and Communication Research at Hanover University of Music and Drama (2001 to 2006; Bachelor of Arts in 2004 • Master of Arts in 2006) and sociology at Paris Sorbonne University (winter term 2005/06).
2006 to 2023 • he was a research assistant at LMU Munich's Department of Media and Communication.
In 2012 • he completed his PhD with a thesis on media socialization (2014 biannual dissertation award of the German Communication Association). He visited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in June 2015.
2015 to 2016 • he served as an interim professor for empirical methods of communication research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
During spring term 2016 • he was a Junior Researcher in Residence at LMU's Center for Advanced Studies with a project on the relationship between right-wing populism and the media.
From 2017 to 2023 • he was Akademischer Rat auf Zeit at IfKW. In 2019 • he was awarded the venia legendi and the title of Privatdozent by LMU's faculty of social sciences (facultas docendi based on the habilitation thesis "How to do things with the Internet" • 2022 habilitation award of the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft).
During spring term 2022 • he served as an interim professor for communication ethics at the University of Greifswald.
Since August 2023 • he directs the project "Mediennutzungsstrategien – innere Struktur • Messung und sozialstrukturelle Verteilung" ("Strategies of media use - inner structure • measurement • and social-structural prevalence") funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Since January 2024 • he has been Heisenberg Professor of Communication with a Focus on Media Use and Media History at IfKW.