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Members of the Political Communication Research Group study the interaction between political elites, media, and citizens. We are specifically interested in understanding how and under which conditions political elites communicate with citizens, what role media organizations and journalists play in the political communication process, and how citizens process elite and journalistic communication. We use a variety of qualitative and quantitative social research methods to develop and test theories that help understand the quality of political communication in democracies today.

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29.05.2023
 

What happens after someone has been deceived by a deepfake? Is it true, that people do no longer believe wat they see? And how does this work for...
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17.05.2023
 

Members of the Political Communication Research Group will share their latest research findings at the 73rd Annual ICA Conference in Toronto.

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10.05.2023
 

As part of the Journalistic Role Performance (JRP) Project, led by Claudia Mellado, Sophie Lecheler has published their new paper "Does News Platform...
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20.04.2023
 

Jana Laura Egelhofer won the Award for Media Research of the Association of Austrian Newspapers (VÖZ) for her outstanding dissertation on fake news.
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04.04.2023
 

Teresa Weikmann and Sophie Lecheler published their paper "Cutting through the Hype: Understanding the Implications of Deepfakes for the Fact-Checking...
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20.03.2023
 

George Georgarakis joined the Political Communication Research Group as Moritz Schlick Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
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20.03.2023
 

Svenja Schäfer has won the Teaching Award of the Department of Communication honoring her excellent teaching during the previous semesters....
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01.03.2023
 

Daniel Wiesner joined the Political Communication Research Group as a PhD candidate. Welcome!
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14.12.2022
 

Hossein Kermani, together with Fatemeh Rasouli, published his paper entitled "Protesting is Not Everything: Twitter Use During Electoral Events in...
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14.12.2022
 

Teresa Weikmann, together with Sophie Lecheler, published her paper on "Visual disinformation in a digital age: A literature synthesis and research...
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07.12.2022
 

Jana Laura Egelhofer won the award for her outstanding thesis entitled “I don’t like it – let’s call it ‘fake’ – The content and consequences of the...
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07.11.2022
 

Hossein Kermani, together with Niloofar Hooman published their article "Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and...
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