Rahel Winter

CV

Rahel Winter began working as a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” lab at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen in January 2025.
She completed her master’s degree in “Digital Transformation in the Information and Media Sector” at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (HAW) in 2023. In her master’s thesis, she analyzed high-coverage German newspapers’ reporting on the topic of gender-fair language (“Gendern”) and the corresponding reactions on social media. This was developed in collaboration with the Social Media Observatory (SMO) of the Hans Bredow Institute | Leibniz Institute for Media Research, where she worked as a student research assistant during her master’s degree.
After her master’s degree, she researched the perception of Russian propaganda narratives on Facebook as a research assistant in the project NARDIV – United in Narrative Diversity? at the HAW Hamburg. In addition, she also takes on organizational and curatorial tasks as a media educator at the PLAY – Creative Gaming Festival in Hamburg.

Research Focus

• Digital spaces
• Computational Social Sciences
• News reporting
• Experiences of queer people on the internet
• Web Scraping