10.11.2020
 

We are excited to announce that Teresa Elena Weikmann will join our team in 2021 as a PhD student with her dissertation project: "Getting real with...

01.11.2020
 

The full and growing PolCom team moved form UZA to our new building: Kolingasse 14 - 16, 1090 Vienna.

01.09.2020
 

We are excited to welcome Svenja Schäfer in our team! In her Post-Doc position Svenja Schäfer will support our team with her experience in digital...

28.08.2020
 

Jana Laura Egelhofer talked to the magazine "Medium" about the inflationary use of the term "Fake News", and provided practical tips on how to improve...

22.07.2020
 

Sophie Lecheler was appointed to the editorial board of the journal Political Communication. Congratulations!

09.07.2020
 

Sophie Lecheler was invited to speak at the Podcast "Nur in Wien" by Kurier about pop-up culture and politics.

07.07.2020
 

Sophie Lecheler became the Director of Studies at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS). Congratulations!

 

16.06.2020
 

Sophie Lecheler was invited to talk at the Podcast "Audimax" of the University of Vienna about emotions in political- and media research, and the...

16.06.2020
 

Sophie Lecheler was invited to discuss the question of the Covid-19-Infodemic, science communication in times of crisis and news avoidance with...

08.06.2020
 

The RQ1 Newsletter featured the study "A first-person promise? A content-analysis of immersive journalistic productions" by Kiki de Bruin, Yael de...

27.05.2020
 

Sophie Lecheler together with her colleagues Kiki de Bruin, Yael de Haan, Sanne Kruikemeier and Goutier Noelle published a content-analysis of...

14.05.2020
 

The study 'From novelty to normalization? How journalists use the term "fake news" in their reporting' by Jana Laura Egelhofer, Loes Aaldering,...