Dr. Hanne Detel

Hanne Detel's main topics and research areas include journalism studies and audience research with a focus on journalism-audience interactions and relations, as well as digital communication with a focus on (unwanted) celebrity, scandalisation, Internet shaming and cyberbullying.

Hanne Detel is head of the Tübingen subproject of the joint project “Journalists and their Audience in the Digital Age. Mutual Expectations and their Consequences for Journalism-Audience Relations and Public Opinion Formation” of the Universities of Münster, Erfurt, and Tübingen (BMBF funding line: “Kleine Fächer – Zusammen stark” / “Small Disciplines – Strong Together”).

Her PhD thesis was published in 2017 by Herbert von Halem under the title "Netzprominenz. Entstehung, Erhaltung und Monetarisierung von Prominenz im digitalen Zeitalter" ["Internet Celebrity. Formation, Maintenance, and Monetization of Prominence in the Digital Age"]. Previously, she worked together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Pörksen on a research project dealing with "Scandalization in Digital Media Environments". Together they published the book „The Unleashed Scandal. The End of Control in the Digital Age" (Imprint Academic, Exeter).

Hanne Detel studied journalism and communication, public law and East European studies in Hamburg and in South Africa (Stellenbosch University). She received a scholarship from the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" 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.

• 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.