Dr. Jessica Kunert

Dr. Jessica Kunert is a member of Prof. Michael Brüggemann’s team at the chair of Communication Studies, Climate and Science Communication since December 2018.

Her research focuses on the following topics:

• Digitalisation in journalism through data and algorithms
• Computational Journalism
• Societal impact of digital communication
• Sports communication and sports journalism
• Digital qualitative empirical methods

Curriculum Vitae

Since December 2018	Senior Research Associate with Prof. Michael Brüggemann’s team Chair of Communication Studies, Climate and Science Communication Universität Hamburg
January 2016 – November 2018	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chair for Computational Journalism at the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
August 2015 – January 2016	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chair for Political Science (esp. Comparative Government) at the Institute of Political Science of the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
2010-2015	Graduate and doctoral studies
October 2012 – March 2013	Visiting Research Student at the Government Department with Prof. Simon Hix of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Great Britain
February 2012- July 2015	Doctoral studies leading to Dr. rer. pol. At the Center for the Study of Democracy of the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, Title: “MEPs on the Web. Transparency, Information and Representation on Personal Websites of Parliamentarians” (published in 2016 with NOMOS); Fully funded (for 3 years) by Leuphana University Lüneburg
2010-2011	Master of Science “Politics and Government in the European Union” at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Great Britain; Class: “Distinction”; Master’s dissertation won the “thesis competition” for the best master’s thesis at the 14th General Online Research Conference 2012
2009-2010	Student Research Assistant (Department “Digital Interactive Media”) at the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research, Hamburg, Germany
2007-2010	Bachelor of Arts “Political Science” at the Universität Hamburg, Germany; Degree average: 1.4 (“excellent”)

Publications

I. Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

1. Schallhorn, C. & Kunert, J. (2020). Football without football: Creativity in German football coverage by TV broadcasters and clubs during the Coronavirus crisis. International Journal of Sport Communication, 13(3), 514–525.
2. Kunert, J. (2020). Automation in sports reporting: Strategies of data providers, software providers, and media outlets regarding automation and data use in German sports reporting. Media and Communication, 8(3), 5–15.
3. Thurman, N., Lewis, S., & Kunert, J. (2019). Algorithms, automation, and news. Introduction. Digital Journalism, 7(8), 980–992.
   Kunert, J. (2019). The footy girls of Tumblr: How women found their niche in the online football fandom. Communication & Sport. Online first.
4. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (2019). The form of content personalisation at mainstream, transatlantic news outlets: 2010-2016. Journalism Practice, 13(7), 759–780.
5. Thurman, N., Dörr, K., & Kunert, J. (2017). Journalists get hands-on with robo-writing. Professionals consider news automation’s capabilities and consequences. Digital Journalism, 5(10), 1240–1259.
6. Kunert, J. (2016). Informations- und Transparenzelemente auf den persönlichen Webseiten der Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 10(Suppl. 2), 41–65.

II. Book chapters

1. Kunert, J. (2019). Journalists, meet your new colleague algorithm: The impact of automation on content distribution and content creation in the newsroom. In T. Osburg & S. Heinecke (Eds.). Media trust in a digital world (pp. 135–148). Wiesbaden: Springer.
2. Kunert, J. & Schmidt, J. (2011). Hub, Fine-Tuner oder Business as Usual? Social Network Sites und die Bundestagswahl 2009. In: E. J. Schweitzer & S. Albrecht (Eds.). Das Internet im Wahlkampf. Analysen zur Bundestagswahl 2009 (pp. 226–243). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

III. Monographs

1. Kunert, J. & Duncan, S. (in press). Automated Sports Journalism. In: P. Pedersen (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Sport Management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2. Kunert, J. (2016): Members of the European Parliament on the web. Transparency, information and representation on personal websites of parliamentarians. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

IV. Edited volumes

1. Thurman, N., Lewis, S., & Kunert, J. (Eds.). (in press). Algorithms, automation, and news. Capabilities, cases, and consequences. London: Routledge.
2. Thurman, N., Lewis, S., & Kunert, J. (Eds.). (2019). Algorithms, automation, and news [Special issue]. Digital Journalism, 7(8), 980–1190.
   
   

V. Reports

1. Thurman, N. & Kunert, J. (2016). Country report: Journalists in the United Kingdom. Worlds of Journalism Study. Available at: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30989/1/Country_report_UK.pdf.
2. Thurman, N., Cornia, A. & Kunert, J. (2016). Journalists in the UK. Oxford: Reuters Institute Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

 VI. Book reviews

1. Kunert, J. (2019). [Review of Die Orientierung von Online-Journalismus an seinen Publika. Anforderung, Antizipation, Anspruch von M. Haim]. Publizistik, 65, 91–93.
2. Kunert, J. (2019). Journalismus und Social Media [Review of Journalism and social media. Practitioners, organisations and institutions by D. Bossio und Gatewatching and news curation: Journalism, social media, and the public sphere by A. Bruns]. Publizistik, 64(1), 117–119.
3. Kunert, J. (2016). [Review of Die Online-Kommunikation von politischen Interessengruppen in der Schweiz by M. Brändli]. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 64(1), 121–122.
4. Kunert, J. (2015). [Review of Social-Media-Kommunikation nationaler Regierungen in Europa. Theoretische Grundlagen und vergleichende Länderanalysen hrsg. by H. Sievert & A. Nelke]. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 63(3), 434–435.

VII. Invited weblog posts

1. Kunert, J. (2015): Die Webseiten der Europaabgeordneten: Wie informativ und transparent präsentieren sich MdEP im Netz. „Hamburger Wahlbeobachter“. URL: http://www.hamburger-wahlbeobachter.de/2015/08/die-webseiten-der-europaabgeordneten.html.
2. Kunert, J. (2015): How websites help MEPs to reconnect with citizens. Available at „Political Insight“ of the Political Studies Association UK. URL: http://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/how-websites-help-meps-reconnect-citizens.

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Invited talks

1. Kunert, J. (January, 2021): Algorithms in Journalism. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford, Großbritannien.
2. Kunert, J. (November, 2020): Big Data, Algorithmen, AI: Computerunterstützte Journalismen – wer ersetzt die Journalisten? Lecture„Journalismus und digital vernetzte Gesellschaft“ at the University of Hamburg.
3.  Kunert, J. (December, 2019): Lokaljournalismus: Wie fördere ich die „Visibility“ meiner Schule in Zeiten automatisierter Textproduktion? Tagung ‚Führung in der digitalen Welt: Nutzen, Gefahren und politische Dimension der Medien im schulischen Kontext‘ der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, Tutzing.
4. Kunert, J. (June, 2018). Von viralen Blasen – Wie Medien rechtspopulistische Gegenöffentlichkeit schaffen. Springer Dialog 2018 – Demokratie unter Druck? Rechtspopulismus in Politik und Betrieb, Springe.
5. Kunert, J. (June, 2018). Automatisierter Journalismus und die Journalisten. Conference DNIe: Roboterjournalismus, München.
6. Kunert, J. (April, 2018). Künstliche Intelligenz am Newsdesk – Journalismus im digitalen Wandel. Tagung ‚Die digitale Revolution‘ der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, Tutzing.
   
   

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Conference and workshop presentations

2021

1. Kunert, J., Frech, J., Brüggemann, M., Lilienthal, V., & Loosen, W. (July, 2021). An (im)perfect match: How digital technologies impact the working routines of investigative journalists. Agency in a Datafied Society International Conference, Bremen.
2. Kunert, J., Frech, J., Brüggemann, M., Lilienthal, V., & Loosen, W. (May, 2021). An (im)perfect match: How digital technologies impact the working routines of investigative journalists. ICA21, Denver, USA.
3. Kunert, J., Birkner, T., & Keute, A. (May, 2021). From Traditional to Automated News: How did sports coverage change in the past 100 years? ICA21, Denver, USA.
4. Kunert, J., Frech, J., Brüggemann, M., Lilienthal, V., & Loosen, W. (April, 2021). An (im)perfect match: How digital technologies impact the working routines of investigative journalists. Dreiländertagung für Kommunikationswissenschaft – DACH21, Zürich, Schweiz.
5. Kunert, J. & Kuni, P. (March, 2021). The Role of Entertainment in Live Soccer TV Commentary: The Commentator's Perspective. IACS Summit, Clemson, USA.

2020

1. Kunert, J. (September, 2020). Praxislehre Sportjournalismus zu Zeiten von Corona: Herausforderungen und Chancen der digitalen Lehre. Annual conference of the DGPuK group Sports Communication, Bochum.
2. Kunert, J., Brüggemann, M., Sprengelmeyer, L. (September, 2020). Burger vs. Bulgur: Berichterstattung über Ernährung als transformativer Journalismus. Annual conference of the DGPuK group Journalism Studies , Hamburg.

2019

1. Kunert, J. (September, 2019). It’s a bumpy road to automated sports reporting: The strategies of data providers, software providers, and media outlets regarding automation in German sports reporting. Future of Journalism 2019 Conference, Cardiff, Großbritannien.
2. Kunert, J. (September, 2019). Der lange Weg zur Automatisierung im Sportjournalismus: Die Strategien von Datenprovidern, Softwareprovidern, und Redaktionen hinsichtlich der Automatisierung im deutschen Sportjournalismus. 3. SciCAR Conference, Dortmund.
3. Thurman, N., Stares, S., & Kunert, J. (September, 2019). Viewers’ perceptions of ‘automated’ news videos. 3. SciCAR Conference, Dortmund.
4. Kunert, J. & Chaplin, D. (September, 2019). Female fandom on Tumblr: A study of European football. 27. European Sport Management Conference, Sevilla, Spanien.
5. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (May, 2019). Reception of automated news: A critical review and recommendations for future research. Human-Machine Communication ICA Pre-Conference 2019 in Washington, D.C., USA.
6. Thurman, N., Stares, S., & Kunert J. (February, 2019). A Qualitative Analysis of Consumers’ Perceptions of Short-Form Online News Videos”, ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference, Wien, Österreich.
   
   

2018

1. Kunert, J. (October, 2018). The Phantom Menace or a New Hope? How German Sports Journalism is Affected by Automation in the Newsroom. Sports, Data, and Journalism Conference, Zürich, Schweiz.
2. Kunert, J. (September, 2018). #football #this is me #COYG: Wie weibliche Fußballfans auf Tumblr kommunizieren, 1. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Mediensport und Sportkommunikation in der DGPuK, Salzburg.
3. Kunert, J. (September, 2018). Sportvereine unter Druck: Das Zusammenspiel von Sportvereinen und externen Akteuren im Mikrokosmos Kleinstadt. Jahrestagung der dvs-Sektion Sportsoziologie, Berlin.
4. Kunert, J. (September 2018). The Footy Girls Of Tumblr: How Women Communicate In The Online Football Fandom. Insights From The US, The UK, And Germany, 26. European Sport Management Conference, Malmö, Schweden.
5. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (May, 2018). A longitudinal study of mainstream, transatlantic news personalization. Algorithms, Automation, and News: Capabilities, Cases, and Consequences Conference, München.
6. Thurman, N, Kunert, J., & Dörr, Konstantin (May, 2018). Journalists on their robot pretenders. Algorithms, Automation, and News: Capabilities, Cases, and Consequences Conference, München.
   
   

2017

1. Kunert, J. (September, 2017). Die DNA der deutschen Fußball-Talks. Themenauswahl, Themendarstellung, Aufmachung, und Gästeauswahl von Sportschau Club, Volkswagen Doppelpass, und Sky90. 3. Jahrestagung der Ad-hoc-Gruppe Mediensport & Sportkommunikation der DGPuK, Hamburg.
2. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (September, 2017). Perceptions of automated news: A meta-analysis. Future of Journalism 2017 Conference, Cardiff, Großbritannien.
3. Curini, L., Hanitzsch, T., Kunert, J., Splendore, S., & Vos, T. (June, 2016). An ideological gap? Citizens and journalists in four countries. 7. Jahrestagung der European Political Science Association, Mailand, Italien.
4. Thurman, N., Dörr, K., Kunert, J. (May, 2017). When reporters get hands-on with robo-writing: Professionals consider automated journalism’s capabilities and consequences. 67. ICA-Jahrestagung, San Diego, USA.
5. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (May, 2017). The form of content personalisation at mainstream, transatlantic news outlets: 2010-2016. 67. ICA-Jahrestagung, San Diego, USA.
6. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (May, 2017). The how and why of personalised news distribution: An international, longitudinal, mixed-methods study of online outlets (2010-2016). ICA-Preconference Distribution Matters: Media Circulation in Civic Life & Popular Culture, San Diego, USA.
7. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (March, 2017). Der Trendsetter ist männlich, Großstädter, und Mainstream-Journalist. Wie Algorithmen Nachrichten aus Twitter auswählen. DGPuK-Jahrestagung, Düsseldorf.
8. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (March, 2017). Male, metropolitan, and mainstream: Bias in algorithmic news sourcing from Twitter. ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference, Odense, Dänemark.
   
   

2016

1. Kunert, J. & Thurman, N. (September, 2016). Involved or apathetic? Journalists’ relationship with the political sphere”, Second Annual International Journal of Press/Politics Conference, Oxford, Großbritannien.
   
   

2015

1. Kunert, J. (March, 2015). Parliamentarians on the Web – what do their websites tell us about them? Members of the European Parliament and national parliamentarians in comparison. 17. General Online Research Conference, Köln.
   
   

2013

1. Kunert, J. (October, 2013). MEPs on the web – different from national MPs or just the same? Socialisation and the new digital media in the European Parliament. Political Science and Political Economy Research Group Doctoral Seminar of the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, Großbritannien.
2. Kunert, J. (Juni, 2013). MEPs on the web. The European Parliament, its communications function, and the new digital media. Research seminar of the Zentrum für Demokratieforschung der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.
3. Kunert, J. (Mai, 2013). MEPs on the web – The European Parliament, its communication function and the new digital media. Thirteenth European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference 2013, Baltimore, USA.
   
   

2012

1. Kunert, J. (May, 2012). E-participation in the European multi-level system. Supply and use of new digital media in the European Parliament. Research seminar of the Zentrum für Demokratieforschung der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.
2. Kunert, J. (March, 2012). Building a digital electoral connection: MEPs' websites and Facebook profiles. How do MEPs present themselves online?. 14. General Online Research Conference 2012, Mannheim.
   
   

2010

1. Kunert, J. & Schmidt, J. (Mai, 2010). Hub, Fine-Tuner or Business as Usual? Social Network Sites in the 2009 Federal Election. 12. General Online Research Conference 2010, Pforzheim.