Dr. Julian Maitra
Division Communication Policy / Media Economics
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Visiting Scientist
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Garystraße 55
Room 207
14195 Berlin
Room 207
14195 Berlin
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- 07/2025 - present: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, FU Berlin, funded by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- 06/2021 – 06/2025: Senior Researcher, Department of Communication and Media Research (Francophone Section), University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
- 2021: Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Dr. rer. pol, Doctoral Program in Organization Studies and Cultural Theory), University of St. Gallen
- 2013-2017: Employment as a journalist in Berlin
- 2013: M.A. in Business Innovation, University of St. Gallen
- 2009: B.A. in Economics, University of St. Gallen
- University of Fribourg (2021-2025):
- B.A. level: Media Economics (lecture), Quantitative Research Methods (Introduction to Data Analysis with R), Proseminar (intro to academic work)
- M.A. level: Analyzing social media (intro to computational methods: web scraping, text mining, etc.)
- Supervision of theses
- University of St. Gallen (2018):
- M.A. level: Course on Culture and Technology: How algorithms transform how we think and act
- Current SNF project (2025-2027): Quality journalism on Instagram and TikTok? Analyzing public service media news values, publishing strategies, and audience engagement in the social media attention economy. Link to project
- General research interests: Social media as news platform, digital journalism, computational communication science
- Ansar, A., & Maitra, J. (2024). Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022). Social Media + Society, 10(1). http://www.doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228603
- Maitra, J., & Hänggli, R. (2023). Who speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, vol. 3. http://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2023.008
- Maitra, J. (2021). Journalistic authorship from the print to the digital era: How patterns of authorial agency, authority, and signature survive and thrive in the era of social media, analytics, and news automation. [Doctoral dissertation, University of St.Gallen]. Link to full text
- Tandoc, E.C., Cheng, L., & Maitra, J. (2021). Analysing News Values in the Age of Analytics. In: M. Temmerman, M., & J. Mast (Eds.) News Values from an Audience Perspective (pp. 81-93). Palgrave Macmillan. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45046-5_5
- Maitra, J. (2020). Shakespeare’s verified Facebook Page: How authorship patterns survive and thrive in the digital sphere. In V. Kaufmann (Ed.), Kodex 10/2020: Im Digitalen Jenseits der Literatur (pp. 111-128). Harassowitz. Link to full text
- Tandoc, E.C., Jr. & Maitra, J. (2019). Audience Measurement. In T.P. Vos, F. Hanusch, D. Dimitrakopoulou, M. Geertsema-Sligh, & A. Sehl (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies (pp. 1-9). http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0047
- Tandoc, E. C., & Maitra, J. (2018). News organizations’ use of Native Videos on Facebook: Tweaking the journalistic field one algorithm change at a time. New Media & Society, 20(5), 1679-1696. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817702398
