Prof. Dr. Benjamin Krämer

• Benjamin Krämer studied Media Management at the Department of Journalism and Communication Research at Hanover University of Music and Drama (2001 to 2006; Bachelor of Arts in 2004, Master of Arts in 2006) and sociology at Paris Sorbonne University (winter term 2005/06).
• Since 2006, he was a research assistant at LMU Munich's Department of Communication Science and Media Research (chair of Prof. Wolfram Peiser).
• In 2012, he completed his PhD with a thesis on media socialization (2014 biannual dissertation award of the German Communication Association). Hevisited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in June 2015.
• 2015 to 2016, he served as an interim professor for empirical methods of communication research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
• During spring term 2016, he was a Junior Researcher in Residence at LMU's Center for Advanced Studies with a project on the relationship between right-wing populism and the media.
• From 2017 to 2023, he was Akademischer Rat auf Zeit at IfKW. In 2019, he was awarded the venia legendi and the title of Privatdozent by LMU's faculty ofsocial sciences (facultas docendi based on the habilitation thesis "How to do things with the Internet", 2022 habilitation award of the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft).
• During spring term 2022, he serves as an interim professor for communication ethics at the University of Greifswald.
• Since August 2023, he directs the project "Mediennutzungsstrategien – innere Struktur, Messung und
  sozialstrukturelle Verteilung" ("Strategies of media use - inner structure, measurement, and social-structural prevalence") funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• Since January 2024, he has been Heisenberg Professor of Communication with
  a Focus on Media Use and Media History at IfKW.

His research interests include media reception and -socialization, media economics, media change, music and media, sociological and normative theories, and research methods.

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