Dr Hanne Detel

The focus of Hanne Detel's research and key topics include mediatisation research and medium theories, the social web, strategies of presentation and (unwanted) celebrity in the digital age, scandalisation, Internet shaming and cyberbullying.

Hanne Detel is responsible for PR and marketing at the Department of Media Studies. She is also a B.A. studies advisor. She is collaborating with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Pörksen on a research project on the subject of "scandals in the digital age". Her PhD thesis was published in 2017 ("Netzprominenz. Entstehung, Erhaltung und Monetarisierung von Prominenz im digitalen Zeitalter", Herbert von Halem Verlag, Köln).

Hanne Detel studied journalism and communication science, public law and East European studies in Hamburg and in South Africa (Stellenbosch University). She received a scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation and the Rudolf Augstein Foundation, as well as a journalism scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. From 2006 until 2009 she also worked for the dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and completed internships with the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the ZDF. For her Master's thesis (2010) she examined scandalising processes on the Internet. Since 2010 she has been on the academic staff of the Department of Media Studies at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.

• Detel, H. (2017). Netzprominenz. Entstehung, Erhaltung und Monetarisierung von Prominenz im digitalen Zeitalter. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.
• Pörksen, B., & Detel, H. (2014). The Unleashed Scandal. The End of Control in die Digital Age. Exeter: Imprint Academic.
• Pörksen, B., & Detel, H. (2012). Der entfesselte Skandal. Das Ende der Kontrolle im digitalen Zeitalter. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.
• Detel, H. (2013). Disclosure and Public Shaming in the Age of New Visibility. In J. Pertley (Ed.), Media and Public Shaming. Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure (pp. 77-96). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. University of Oxford. London/New York: I.B.Tauris.
• Detel, H. (2013). Zur Anatomie des Skandals im digitalen Zeitalter. Kollektive Empörungsdynamiken unter dem Einfluss der kommunikativen Deterritorialisierung. In B. Pfetsch, J. Greyer & J. Trebbe (Eds.), MediaPolis – Kommunikation zwischen Boulevard und Parlament (pp. 275-292). Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft.
• Pörksen, B., & Detel, H. (2012). Kollaps der Kontexte. In der Digital-Ära wird der Kontrollverlust zur Alltagserfahrung – und der Skandal allgegenwärtig. Der Spiegel, (14), 140-141.

Complete list of publications as a PDF file.