Marcel Lemmes, born 1996, is Research Assistant at the chair of Media Innovation / Media Change from Professor Klaus Sachs-Hombach.

In his research, Marcel Lemmes focuses on questions of the socioformative affordances of digital media. He is particularly interested in social media in their interaction between everyday culture and politicization. In particular, he is currently focusing on recent transformations of image culture (such as Internet memes or sharepics).