Lion Wedel joins the Media Use & Effects division at IKMZ as a Research Fellow from October 2024 until the end of 2024.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Economics from Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and a master’s degree from RWTH Aachen University in Computational Social Systems. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in communications science at the Freie Universität Berlin and working as a research associate at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Berlin in the Digital News Dynamics research group. His research is located at the intersection between computational and social sciences. In his research he is focusing on the application of computational methods to social science topics, and on audience perceptions of news and information on visual social media platforms. During his time at the IKMZ, he will work on the large-scale content classification of user digital data retrieved through data donations of TikTok and YouTube users.

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