Lehr- und Forschungsbedingungen: Wann kommt die Antwort der Fachgesellschaften auf #IchbinHanna?

Fritz, Fabian; Janotta, Lisa; Marks, Svenja; Prigge, Jessica; Schirmer, Sarah

doi:10.3224/debatte.v4i1.05

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“…And how did the movement generate its substantial impact in terms of media attention and influence on policymakers? While there are other accounts of the #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan movement (Bahr et al, 2021(Bahr et al, , 2022Dirnagl, 2022;Fritz et al, 2021Fritz et al, , 2022, these contributions either summarise the existing empirical research on working conditions in German academia (Bahr et al, 2022;Fritz et al, 2021) or contribute to the discussion of possible ways to improve working conditions (Bahr et al, 2021;Dirnagl, 2022;Fritz et al, 2022). Here, we provide the first empirical analysis of the content and dynamics of the #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan movement on Twitter itself.…”

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Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan

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Outraged by the release of a ministerial video, in which short-term employment contracts inGerman academia were lauded through the embodiment of fictitious doctoral researcherHanna, thousands of researchers rallied behind the hashtag #IchBinHanna to vent theirfrustrations about precarious academic employment in Germany. We explore the discourseof over 45,000 tweets featuring the hashtags #IchBinHanna and/or #IchBinReyhan from theoutset of the movement in June 2021 to March 2023. We use a mixed-methods approach,combining machine-learning, corpus-linguistics, and qualitative methods to gain a deepunderstanding of collective and individual struggles. Comparing the movement to similar,preceding ones, we find that #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan reached a substantiallylarger and broader audience. We show how the movement exhibits remarkable tenacity,re-igniting multiple times, and influencing offline events such as parliamentary debates andamendments to labour laws. In addition to describing the topics discussed in both Germanand English-language tweets, we also detail when issues were raised, and by which groupsof actors. Our analysis exemplifies the potency of social media platforms for fosteringtransformation, demonstrating how hashtag activism can sustain widespread interest both onand beyond social media and exert substantial influence on policy-making processes.

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