Dr. Jörg Haßler
Academic Staff
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung
Political Communication • Online communication and AI • Empirical methods
Office address:
Akademiestraße 7
Room 605
80799 München
Office hours:
After request
About the person
- Since March 2025
- Post-Doc Researcher (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) at the Chair of Media Reception and Media Effects
- From October 2024 to March 2025
- Interim Professor at the Department Media and Communication at LMU Munich
- Summer 2018
- Research stay at Bournemouth University, UK
- Since 2023
- Consortium Leader of the interdisciplinary bidt consortium project " The Impact of Humorous Communication on Political Decision-Making in the Climate Change Context (KLIMA-MEMES)" and Consortium Partner in the interdisciplinary bidt consortium project "Data Donations and Digital Nudges for Sustainable Behavioral Change [DataDonations4SustainableChange]"
- Since 2019
- Head of the junior research group “Digital Democratic Mobilization in Hybrid Media Systems (DigiDeMo)” at LMU, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and coordinated by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)
- Co-initiator of the networks Campaigning for Strasbourg (CamforS) and Digital Campaigning Worldwide (DigiWorld) for the international comparative study of digital election campaigns
- 2022 to 2024
- Vice Chair of the Communication and Politics Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
- 2020 to 2022
- Chair of the Communication and Politics Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
- Summer 2018
- Research stay at the University of Valencia
- 2017 to 2019
- Post-Doc at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- 2016
- PhD (Dr. phil.) awarded for the dissertation “Media Climate and Political Climate: A Comparative Input-Output Analysis of the Adoption of Media Logic by Politics”
- 2011 to 2017
- PhD student (and from 2016 on Post-Doc) in the subproject “Digital Knowledge Gaps. Political Information Transfer and Knowledge Acquisition in the Online World” within the DFG Research Group “Political Communication in the Online World”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Marcus Maurer at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2011–2014) and at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2014–2017)
- 2011
- Master’s thesis on the topic “Deliberation in the Weblogs of CDU and SPD? A Content Analysis Based on the 2009 Federal Election Campaign”
- 2005 to 2010
- Studies of Communication Research and Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz