Julia Ihls was working as a student assistant at the research project „Smartphone Communities. Participation as Promise and Imposition“ led by Professor Dr. Isabell Otto. Within the project she worked on the development of an App-Analyzing Database and the intermediation between research and teaching.

She wrote her Bachelor’s thesis at the University Konstanz on the subject of the interplay between user-localisation and location-constitution based on the gaming-app „Ingress“. Currently she continues her Master’s Programme in Media Studies at the University Konstanz in autumn of 2015 focusing on Digital Media and Participation Cultures.