Marcus Bösch

Teaching areas: Digital storytelling

Marcus Bösch is a political and communication scientist. He researches, advises and publishes on digital storytelling, platform logic and narrative communication strategies.

Marcus is doing a PhD at the University of Münster on propaganda and participatory forms of communication on TikTok, and he publishes the internationally read newsletter Understanding TikTok. He studied politics, history and media informatics (MA) in Cologne and Cambridge, trained at Deutsche Welle and completed a part-time Master of Arts in Game Development and Research at TH Köln.

After more than ten years as an editor and author in public broadcasting, he co-founded the game studio the Good Evil GmbH and the AR/VR studio Vragments GmbH. Both companies were named ‘Kultur- & Kreativpiloten Deutschland’ (Cultural and Creative Pilots Germany) by the German government.

Contact:
www.marcus-boesch.de
understanding-tiktok.com
m@marcus-boesch.de

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Stories about Marcus Bösch

Comment and debate

‘Why should I watch this right now?’.

TikTok researcher Marcus Bösch on attitude, platforms and why good journalism should still be seen today.

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Masculinity

The social pull of masculinity

What does it mean to be a man today? On the pressure to conform, on uncertainty – and why simple answers are so seductive.

After dark

‘You have to make your boundaries clear’

During the week Selma works at a nursery; at weekends she works the door of a club. On respect, safety and standing your ground as a woman in nightlife.

Traces

Into the bushes

From city parks to cemetery toilets: how public places became refuges for gay men – and why cruising still exists today.

Work

Wanted: travelling shepherd

Travelling shepherds are slowly disappearing from the pastures. Why there are still good reasons not to let the profession die out.

Two herding dogs stand alert in the long grass of a meadow, while on the right-hand edge of the picture a person’s arm in a weatherproof jacket, holding a wooden staff, is visible. The scene conveys a working atmosphere in the countryside. Black-and-white photograph.

Work

Taking a break – out of sight

In the back room, in the warehouse, on crates in the back yard: breaks are part of the working day – and often happen out of sight. Quiet, unremarkable, indispensable.

What holds us together

Record of a disappearance: a Belarusian photographer in exile

He documented the protests, was persecuted and had to flee. His pictures tell of violence, of hope – and of holding on to memory.

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