Dissertation Prize for ZeMKI Member Dr. Rieke Böhling

At the annual conference of the DGPuK specialist group “Sociology of Media Communication” in Mannheim, ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling was awarded the dissertation prize “Media – Culture – Communication” for her thesis “Mediated Memories of Migration”, which was completed in 2022.

Rieke Böhling researched (media-)mediated memories in connection with the “guest worker” migration from Turkey to Germany. The dissertation presents practices of memory work in families and uses a variety of collected data to trace how private stories intersect with public representations and narratives of “guest worker” migration. The publication will appear in the series “Media – Communication – Culture” by Springer VS.