Short Vita
I am a Senior Professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. I am also affiliated with the Weizenbaum-Institute for the Networked society, which investigates the political, ethical, legal and economic aspects of digital change. I am also a member of the collaborative research center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (CRC 1265) at the Technical University Berlin.
My work focuses on political communication of political parties and social movements and international comparative studies in online political discourse and transnational public sphere. My current projects investigate digital political protest and translocal public discourse in climate justice, dynamics of digital campaign mobilisation in elections as well as right-wing issue networks on social media which threaten social cohesion and democracy. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Mannheim and a habilitation from the Freie Universität Berlin. During my career I received fellowships from the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Policy and Politics at Harvard University, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Social Sciences at Stanford University, the Hebrew University Jerusalem and the Helsinki Institute for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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