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Tanja Evers
Dr. Tanja Evers
Research Associate ZFM - Head of Research
Phone +49 8421 90 90-447
E-mail tanja.evers@ku.de
Building Marktplatz 13 | Room: MP13-103
Postal Address
Center for Flight and Migration
Prof. Dr. Tanja Evers
Marktplatz 13
85072 Eichstätt
Tasks
- Head of research team
- Coordination of research project applications and implementation

Profile

Dr. Tanja Evers is a research associate at the Center for Flight and Migration (ZFM) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She studied journalism, political science as well as cultural and economic geography from 2005 to 2010. She gained professional experience in newspaper and radio editorial offices. As a communication scientist, her main interest is on political communication research, with a special focus on election campaigns in a digital public sphere. As head of the research team at the ZFM she accompanies and/or supervises various empirical projects, among others on the sustainability of volunteer work in the field of refuge and asylum, on the investigation of the causes of flight in selected African countries as well as on the role of values and religion in the integration process.

In the context of her doctorate (2010-2016) on the election campaign of German parties in social networks, she also dealt with populism as a political strategy. From a media-ethical point of view, a current project on the communicative construction of the public interest and cohesion in an immigration society shows strong references to the topic of migration.

Research interests

  • Research on political communication and election campaigns
  • structural change of the public
  • digital public
  • populism
  • media ethics
  • changes in journalism
  • civic engagement
  • causes of flight
  • media and migration

Current projects

Completed projects (selection)

  • Edited volume on practices of (im)mobilization

  • Forschungsmanufaktur - media and migration
  • Evaluation of the work with refugees in Upper Bavaria
  • Health education for Refugees – evaluation of the touring exhibition "Only Human. Life. Loving. Being Human"
  • Believing and Belonging: Religion, National Identity, and the Integration of Migrants and Refugees

Committees and memberships

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
  • European Communication and Research and Education Association (ECREA)
  • Netzwerk Migrations- und Fluchtforschung Bayern (NeMiF)
  • Board member of the alumni association "Absolventenvereins der Eichstätter Journalistik (AEJ)"

Courses and seminars

previous courses and seminars
BA Journalism

  • empirical communication research I: fundamentals of empirical social research (4 SWS)

  • empirical communication research II: content analysis and survey (4 SWS)

  • introduction to communication science

  • editorial structures and types of journalism

MA Journalism with focus on innovation and management
  • empirical media research (empirical methods and research practice)

Publications

Artikel

Buch

Aufsatz in einem Buch

Rezension

Hochschulschrift

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