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Annett Heft
Dr Annett Heft is a research associate at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, and head of the research group Digitalization and the Transnational Public Sphere at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin. Dr Heft's research interests include the comparative study of political communication in Europe, with a focus on digital public spheres, transnational communication and the European public sphere, transnational journalism networks and cross-border journalism, and quantitative and digital research methods. Dr Heft has studied media and communication studies and sociology and cultural communication at the universities of Berlin and Valencia. She received her doctorate in media and communication studies from Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on the role of media and journalists in the making of a European public sphere. Recent publications have investigated transnational journalism networks as drivers of Europeanization, national orientations as an obstacle to transnational public spheres and digital communication networks.