Dr. Rieke Böhling
Research Associate
Vita
Rieke Böhling works as a postdoctoral research associate at ZeMKI. In her project “‘You Are Your History’: Family Memory and Identity on Genealogy Platforms” (funded by the Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) of the University of Bremen), she investigates how genealogical platforms shape and transform media practices related to family memory.
Previously Rieke Böhling was a doctoral candidate at ZeMKI. She completed her doctoral dissertation on mediated memories of migration in families in 2022.
She studied American Studies (BA) at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) with a semester at the College of Charleston (USA). Subsequently, she obtained a double degree from the Erasmus Mundus MA European Studies: Euroculture, at the University of Groningen and the University of Deusto (Spain).
Research interests
Memory studies, migration studies, qualitative methods
Other activities
Editorial Board Member for VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (previously Managing Editor)
Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)
- Vermittelte Migrationserinnerungen. Medien, Generation und Familie. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47437-9 - Mediated Memories of Migration. Vorstellung des Dissertationsprojekts. Rundfunk und Geschichte 47(3-4)
https://rundfunkundgeschichte.de/artikel/heft-3-4-2021/ - Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Bhling (2021). Cultural Studies. Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung. 1--11
https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-658-26593-9_43-1 - In their shoes? Categorizing identities and creating citizens in refugee reality TV. European Journal of Cultural Studies
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419869355 - On “Storing Information” in Families: (Mediated) Family Memory at the Intersection of Individual and Collective Remembering. Information Storage
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19262-4_6 - Book review: Risk and Hyperconnectivity: Media and Memories of Neoliberalism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698018824511b - Identity Interventions: Investigating Questions of Identity, Language and Citizenship in Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland. Jeunes, médias et diversités / Youth, media and diversities
http://jeunesetmedia.wixsite.com/jeunesetmedias - Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Bhling (2017). Communicating family memory: Remembering in a changing media environment. Communications. 42 (3). Walter de Gruyter GmbH
https://doi.org/10.1515%2Fcommun-2017-0031 - Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Bhling (2017). Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research. Communicative Figurations. 343--362. Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0_14
