Katharina Tittel obtained her PhD in Sociology under the supervision of Jean-Philippe Cointet (médialab) and Ettore Recchi (Center for Research on Social Inequalities), funded by the Institut Convergences Migrations. Her thesis analyses (social) media discourses on the topic of immigration in France. Drawing on a large-scale dataset of content produced by different types of actors, as well as interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, she adopts a multi-method approach to examine how public debates on migration are structured and whose voices are amplified or marginalized, as well as discursive strategies of far-right actors. Her work contributes to broader research at the médialab on the structure of the public media space.

Prior to her PhD, she obtained a Master’s degree in Economic Policy from Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), with a specialization in Europe and Methods, supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Leuphana University of Lüneburg and previously worked for a tech start-up. She also contributed to a project at the Centre Marc Bloch, where she was part of the Computational Social Sciences team studying the fragmentation of the European public sphere on Twitter during the European elections. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford and at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University. She is currently a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at the Menton campus of Sciences Po and co-founder of the Palestine Initiative of the Institut Convergences Migrations.