Lab membership
Curriculum Vitae
Andrea Grahl was a research assistant at the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research from April 2018 to February 2026. She was initially involved in the project “Tinder die Stadt – Software-related scenarios for overcoming the crisis of mediatized public life in cities and surrounding areas.” Since April 2023, she has been working on the follow-up project “molo.news: Validating a relational platform for urban public life.”
After studying social sciences and urban and regional development in Oldenburg and Bremen, Andrea Grahl worked as a research assistant and museum educator at the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven until 2017. Her work there focused on the “Forum Migration” project, which was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The project aimed to teach intercultural communication skills.
Area of expertise
Communication and media studies with a focus on media culture and communication theory
Publications
Heitmann, Katharina/Grahl, Andrea (2022): Media in Bremen: From mass media to a digital local urban public sphere. In: Probst, Lothar/Güldner, Matthias/Klee, Andreas (eds.), Politics and Governance in Bremen. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 435–454.
Heitmann-Werner, Katharina/Grahl, Andrea/Hepp, Andreas/Loosen, Wiebke/Kramp, Leif (2022): From Gatekeeping to Co-Creation: molo.news as a Relational Platform for Overcoming the Crisis of Local Public Sphere. In: Southwest German Media Days: “We don’t need them anymore!” – Direct Communication vs. Free Press?, Vol. No. 44. Evangelischer Pressedienst, 25–36.