Lisa Plumeier

Lisa Plumeier

Academic Assistant Media Studies & Digital Media Culture

1Tel: +49 331 6202 216Lisa.Plumeier(at)filmuniversitaet.de

Since June 2022 Lisa Plumeier is an academic assistant at the Chair of Aesthetics and Analysis of Audiovisual Media and is doing her PhD on User Generated Shorts on TikTok with special attention on content remix and referentiality. In her work she investigates the intersections between platformed communication, newly emerging user cultures and the referencing of film and television artefacts and aesthetics. Simultaneously she is experimenting with methodologies in overcoming technological hierarchies when studying platforms and apps, drawing from participatory and ethnographic approaches. Lisa graduated with a B.A. in Linguistics and Literature at the University of Erfurt and the University of York, followed by an M.A. in Media Studies at the Film University. Her master's thesis focused on the challenges of the platform economy and the opportunities of co-creative approaches for media education.

Since 2024 Lisa Plumeier is accredited mental health first responder (MHFA). She is a member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the German Communication Association (DGPuK) where she functions as early career spokesperson for the visual communication section.

 

Academic Field:

  • Media and Communication Studies

 

Research Areas:

  • Media Impact and Media Reception Studies
  • Audiovisual Media Analysis and Online Cultures
  • Participatory Media Practices and Co-Creation
  • Platform and App Studies
  • Meme Studies

 

Publications:

  • Claudia Wegener, Kirsten R. Müller-Vahl, Carolin Fremer, Lisa Plumeier, Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens, Luise Laudenbach & Anna Pisarenko (2022): Dissemination and reception of a functional tourette-like behavior via YouTube: a qualitative study with German patients. Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2133550

  • Wegener, Claudia, Jage-D’Aprile, Friederike & Plumeier, Lisa (2022). Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation. Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2108479

 

Panels & Presantations:

  • Plumeier, Lisa (March 27, 2025). When is a meme a meme? Popular artefacts on TikTok. In-person workshop of the German network for Meme Studies. March 27-28, 2025. Berlin, Germany.

  • Jage-D’Aprile, Friederike, Plumeier, Lisa, Eichner, Susanne & Schlütz, Daniela (March 20, 2025). Digitale Medienumgebungen und die Ethics of Care. Roundtable at the 70th DGPuK annual conference „Öffentlichkeit(en) und ihre Werte“. March 19-21, 2025. Berlin, Germany.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (20.11.2024). Remix culture in popular media artefacts and intertextual practice in user-generated shorts on TikTok. Early career workshop “How to deal with ephemerality?” at the annual conference “Generative Images - Generative Imageries: Challenges of Visual Communication (Research) in the Age of AI” of the DGPuKsection „visual communication“ and the ICA-Division "Visual Communication Studies". November 20-22, 2024. Bremen, Germany.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (September 25, 2024). Chances and challenges of participatory digital ethnography on TikTok. 10th European Communication Conference, Section: Digital Culture and Communication. ECREA 2024. September 24-27, 2024. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

  • Bitar, Christian, Plumeier, Lisa, Rai, Rishika (July 2024). The development of faces in Gen AI. Part of the research sprint: It's Giving AI: exploring and investigating generative AI aesthetics. Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024. July 01-12, 2024. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (June 20, 2024). From main protagonist users to Gandalf the drag queen: tracing popular artefacts role in TikTok‘s remix culture. Presentation at RUG Cultures of Media Production Group. Groningen, Netherlands.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (October 27, 2023). Tracing TV on TikTok: mapping out showcases of televisuality in TikTok’s remix culture. Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods. Biennial Conference of the Television Studies Section of ECREA. October 25-27, 2023. Potsdam, Germany.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (July 10, 2023). How is online identity defined through communal building of popular practice? Understanding reception and appropriation of popular texts via intertextual structures in user-generated remixes on TikTok. International Association for Media and Communication Research, Section: Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society. IAMCR 2023. July 09-13, 2023. Lyon, France.

 

Organization:

  • Co-Organizer of “Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods.” Biennial Conference of the Television Studies Section of ECREA. October 25-27 2025. Potsdam, Germany.

 

Transfer:

  • Plumeier, Lisa (November 05, 2024). Gandalf the drag queen and other tales of TikTok‘s remix culture. Science Slam as part of the anniversary celebrations for “70 years of Babelsberg Film School”, 05.11.2024, Potsdam, Germany.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (February 18, 2025). Panel moderation: “Tell it to the audience. Telling unique stories in a way that resonates with audiences”. ENCOURAGE Film Talents, Berlin, Germany.

  • Plumeier, Lisa (November 29, 2025). Panel moderation: “What research does media practice need?” Launch of the Media Research Center Babelsberg. Potsdam, Germany.
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