Media Communication
Janine Brill, M.A.
Media Communication 

Portrait: Janine Brill, M.A.
Janine Brill, M.A.
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    +49 371 531-34436
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    Reichenhainer Straße 41, 09126 Chemnitz
  • Room:
    C47.110 (prev. 2/41/110)
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    by appointment

About

Janine Brill has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Media Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology since October 2023. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Communication Science with a Focus on Social Communication at the University of Erfurt and at the Chair of Fundamentals of Media Communication and Media Effects at the Institute of Communication Science at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

Janine Brill studied Communication Science and Intercultural Business Communication (B.A.) as well as Public Communication (M.A.) at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. During her master's studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Communication Science. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at Chemnitz University of Technology, where she is investigating the interrelationship between the acculturation trajectories and the health information repertoires of first-generation migrants in Germany.

Since 2025, she has been a member of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) Standing Committee on Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig). Since 2024, Janine Brill has been YECREA Representative of the Health Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). She is involved as a network partner in the subproject “FoMo” (research monitor) of the joint project “Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalization” (MOTRA) on behalf of the Chair of Media Communication, as well as in the Health Communication Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and the Mobile Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).

Teaching and research focus areas

  • Health communication: health information behavior, mHealth, eHealth, health reporting, strategic health communication, health campaigns, nudging
  • Migration: acculturation, health (information) behavior of migrants, reporting on people with a migration background (especially in connection with crime)
  • Media and advertising impact
  • Framing and news value research
  • Methods: qualitative and quantitative surveys, qualitative and quantitative content analysis, experiments, diary studies, experience sampling

Publications

Journal articles

  • Brill, J., Karnowski, V., & Rossmann, C. (2026). Google or call mom? Insights from a diary study on the health information repertoires and needs of immigrant university students. European Journal of Health Communication, 7(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2026.101
  • Brill, J., Karnowski, V., & Rossmann, C. (2025). From social to informational exclusion: How othering shapes acculturation trajectories and health information access among international students. Frontiers in Communication, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1679179
  • Brill, J., Karnowski, V., Hryhorovych, D., & Cheban, O. (n.d.). Bridging borders, broadening access: How acculturation shapes health information repertoires of war-displaced Ukrainians in Germany. European Journal of Health Communication.
  • Rossmann, C., Karnowski, V., Metag, J., Raupp, J., Reifegerste, D., Riesmeyer, C., Sawalha, N., Lux, A., Esser, A.-L., Kammerer, R., Singh, F., Roedel, N., Brill, J., Gerling, E., & Wiedicke, A. (n.d.). The role of digital media in chronic disease self-management: a multi-method study protocol of the DISELMA-research consortium. JMIR Research Protocols.

Talks & Posters

  • Brill, J., & Karnowski, V. (2025, April). Navigating power imbalances and othering: Ethical and methodological challenges in research with first-generation migrants in Germany. 4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop, 3./4.04.2025.
  • Brill, J., Karnowski, V., & Rossmann, C. (2024, September). Ask Google, a Doctor or a Friend? A Diary Study on the Health Information Repertoires of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany. 10th European Communication Conference “Communication & social (dis)order”, 24.-27.09.2024.
  • Brill, J., Karnowski, V., & Rossmann, C. (2024, June). The more integrated, the more versatile the health information seeking? A multi-method study of first-generation immigrants’ health information repertoires and acculturation strategies. 74. ICA-Jahrestagung “Communication and Global Human Rights”, 20.-24.06.2024.
  • Brill, J., Karnowski, V., & Rossmann, C. (2023, November). Google or call mom? A multi-method study on first-generation immigrants’ health information repertoires and acculturation strategies. European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC), 15. –17. 11. 2023.
  • Brill, J., & Karnowski, V. (2023, May). To google or to text mum? A diary study on first-generation migrants’ health information-seeking patterns. 73. ICA-Jahrestagung “Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication”, 25.-29.05.2023.

 

Brill, J., Guenther, L., Ehrhardt, W. & Ruhrmann, G. (2021, August 5). Crime in Television News: Do News Factors Predict the Mentioning of a Criminal's Country of Origin? 2021 Media Sociology Symposium.

Brill, J., Reinhardt, A. & Rossmann, C. (2021, Juli 2). Eine Typologie des Informationsverhaltens der Deutschen in der Corona Pandemie unter Berücksichtigung von Themenverdrossenheit und Informationsvermeidung. Interdisziplinäre Forschungszugänge zu Wissenschaftskommunikation und Informationsverhalten in der Corona-Pandemie (InFoCoP).

Brill, J., Daube, D. & Azevedo, F. (2019, Dezember 2). Science as a Profession. Gastvortrag an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.