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.
Flight in the media from the perspective of the population – a representative population survey
Key social concepts and digital public spheres: On the communicative construction of cohesion, the public opinion and responsibility in an immigration society
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