Julia Hünniger – författare

Social media is becoming increasingly attractive for users. It is a fast way to communicate ideas and a key source of information. It is therefore one of the most influential mediums of communication of our time and an important area for audience research. The growth of social media invites many new questions such as: How can we analyze social media? Can we use traditional audience research methods and apply them to online content? Which new research strategies have been developed? Which ethical research issues and controversies do we have to pay attention to? This book focuses on research strategies and methods for analyzing social media and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners using social media, as well as those wanting to keep up to date with the subject. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services.

Social media is becoming increasingly attractive for users. It is a fast way to communicate ideas and a key source of information. It is therefore one of the most influential mediums of communication of our time and an important area for audience research. The growth of social media invites many new questions such as: How can we analyze social media? Can we use traditional audience research methods and apply them to online content? Which new research strategies have been developed? Which ethical research issues and controversies do we have to pay attention to? This book focuses on research strategies and methods for analyzing social media and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners using social media, as well as those wanting to keep up to date with the subject. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services.

Social media is becoming increasingly attractive for users. It is a fast way to communicate ideas and a key source of information. It is therefore one of the most influential mediums of communication of our time and an important area for audience research. The growth of social media invites many new questions such as: How can we analyze social media? Can we use traditional audience research methods and apply them to online content? Which new research strategies have been developed? Which ethical research issues and controversies do we have to pay attention to? This book focuses on research strategies and methods for analyzing social media and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners using social media, as well as those wanting to keep up to date with the subject. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services.

Soziale Unterstützung in Internetforen, so zeigt Julia Hünniger in der vorliegenden Studie, hat eine andere Qualität als in klassischen Settings wie Gesprächen unter Freunden oder in einer Selbsthilfegruppe, was in erster Linie auf strukturelle Besonderheiten computervermittelter Kommunikation zurückführbar ist. Im Forum entwickeln sich neue Kommunikations- und Beziehungsmuster, denn die Kontakte unter Nutzerinnen und Nutzern erreichen zum einen ein hohes Maß an Intensität und sind zum anderen auf eine bestimmte Lebensphase begrenzt, wie beispielweise nach der Trennung vom Partner.Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Dissertationspreis 2018 der Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Augsburg ausgezeichnet.