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...

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.

04.04.2023
 

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

20.03.2023
 

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

20.03.2023
 

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

01.03.2023
 

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

14.12.2022
 

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

14.12.2022
 

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

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...

07.11.2022
 

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

07.11.2022
 

The new paper by Jana Laura Egelhofer, Sophie Lecheler, Ming Boyer and Loes Aaldering was published in the Journal of Communication! Congratulations!

30.10.2022
 

Sophie Lecheler, together with her colleagues Sanne Kruikemeier and Rens Vliegenthart published their article "What is holding us back? We should be...