Gabriele Hooffacker (born February 10, 1959) is a German journalist, journalism teacher and a professor for specifics of

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Leipzig University of Applied Science The Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, in German the Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (HTWK), is a Fachhochschule in Leipzig, in the Saxony region of Germany. It offers a combination of practice-oriented teaching and applicati ...

. Her research interests are online media as well as interactive and participative formats in journalism.

Life

Gabriele Hooffacker studied Historical Sciences,

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and

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at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. Meanwhile, she was employee of

Monumenta Germaniae Historica The ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (''MGH'') is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire ...

. She has been dealing with the new media since the early eighties. In 1987 she founded CL-Net (later part of the APC), a computer-based grassroots organization for citizens who wanted to use the internet as a tool for political and cultural interaction. In 1988 she set up her own company, now called Foundation Journalists-Academy Dr. Hooffacker, which is a Journalism school and a consultancy on new media issues. Her works include several publications on

online journalism Digital journalism, also known as netizen journalism or online journalism, is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet, as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast. What constitutes digital j ...

, teaching journalism and the societal dimension of the internet. Hooffacker writes for the online magazines onlinejournalismus.de,

Telepolis ''Telepolis'' is a German Internet magazine, published by the Heinz Heise Verlag since the beginning of 1996. It was founded by journalists Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and gen ...

and others. She deals primarily with the themes of teaching journalism, online journalism, Internet culture, Internet and right-wing radicalism. Hooffacker is member of the jury of “Alternativer Medienpreis”. She publishes the book series "Journalistische Praxis", which was founded by Walther von La Roche. In 2018, Gabriele Hooffacker is co-founder of the bilingual journalism journal "Journalistik" for journalism research.

Publications (extract)

* (with Klaus Meier): ''La Roches Einführung in den praktischen Journalismus: Mit genauer Beschreibung aller Ausbildungswege Deutschland · Österreich · Schweiz'', Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, * (with Wolfgang Kenntemich and Uwe Kulisch): Die neue Öffentlichkeit. Wie Bots, Bürger und Big Data den Journalismus verändern.

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, Wiesbaden 2018, * (with Cornelia Wolf): Technische Innovationen – Medieninnovationen? Herausforderungen für Kommunikatoren, Konzepte und Nutzerforschung.

, Wiesbaden 2016, * Gabriele Hooffacker / Peter Lokk: Pressearbeit praktisch. Ein Handbuch für Ausbildung und Praxis, Journalistische Praxis, 1. Auflage Berlin 2011, * Gabriele Hooffacker (ed.): Journalismus lehren, München 2010, * Gabriele Hooffacker: Online-Journalismus. Online-Journalismus. Schreiben und Konzipieren für das Internet. Ein Handbuch für Ausbildung und Praxis, Journalistische Praxis, 1. Aufl. München 2001, 4. Auf. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, * Gabriele Hooffacker: Wir nutzen Netze. Ein kommunikatives Manifest, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1995, * Gabriele Hooffacker: Avaritia radix omnium malorum (Mikrokosmos 19), Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, Publications of Gabriele Hooffacker, www.onlinejournalismus.org
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External links

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Interview with Ronda Hauben on netizen journalism

foundation Journalists-Academy Dr. Hooffacker

References

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