Sophie Lecheler was interviewed on the normalization of combat media in the Ö1 magazine Doublecheck. The full interview can be found here [German].

Sophie Lecheler was part of a discussion hosted by the Community-Plattform of the DigitalCity.Wien on Voices of Democracy: The Indispensable Role of the Media.

More information on the event here [German].

Sophie Lecheler was interviewed by The FWF Science Magazine – scilog. She shared her expertise on personalized political advertising.

Read the full interview here [English and German].

Under the leadership of communication scientist Sophie Lecheler at the University of Vienna and Allan Hanbury from the Vienna University of Technology, an interdisciplinary team of social scientists and computer scientists has been working on the Transparent Automated Content Moderation (TACo) project since September 2021.

Learn more about the project here [German].

Our team member, Anna Maria Planitzer, took part in an insightful and critical panel discussion at the Volkshochschule Wien's public event “Politisches Café”, where she discussed ethics, risks, opportunities, and future directions of AI from a citizen perspective.

Learn more about the event here [German].

Sophie Lecheler and Nikolaus Wimmer shared their insights on audience expectations towards news media and their role in democracy in Rudolphina - the Science Magazine of the University of Vienna. Read the full article here [German].

Our team member, Dominika Betakova, was interviewed by Misch Pautsch from Lëtzebuerger Journal about her dissertation topic, news avoidance. In the interview, Dominika speaks about how news avoidance can be defined, how prevalent it is in Austria, which factors raise a probability of being a news avoider, what are the effects of this behavior and also possible options to reengage news avoiders with news. Read the full article here [English, German, French].

Teresa Weikmann was interviewed by the fact-checking website logicallyfacts.com on visual misinformation in the age of AI. Find the full interview here [English].

Vera Axyonova was interviewed on Expert influence in policy- and decision-making at Business Diplomacy Today. Find the full podcast here [English].

Vera Axyonova was interviewed by the Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR) on the role of Kazakhstan’s think tanks. Read the full interview in English here.

Faime Alpagu shared her thoughts on a racism-critical archive of migration at the conference "Flucht ins Archiv". Find coverage on her talk here (in German).

In this research seminar, Vera Axyonova draws on the findings of her research project "Expert Knowledge in Times of Crisis - Uncovering Interaction Effects between Think Tanks, Media and Politics beyond Liberal Democracies". Find the full presentation here.

Sophie Minihold was a guest in the podcast "Doctor it!" and talked about the thrills and troubles of academic writing. Find the full podcast here.

Faime Alpagu wrote a guest comment for the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" about structural racism against people from Turkey living in Austria and explains what needs to change. Find the full article here (in German).

Faime Alpagu was a guest in "Aufnahmebereit", a podcast on migration related topics. The Podcast (in German) can be found on Spotify.

Faime Alpagu talked about carrer opportunities after completing a PhD in Episode 11 of "Doctor it!" - the podcast of PhD candidates in the humanities and the social sciences at the University of Vienna. Find the podcast here.

Sophie Lecheler was interviewed for the series Spontan gefragt by Kurier TV and talked about digital humanism and the role of modern communication technologies for our everyday lives. Find coverage on the talk by Profil and Leadersnet (in German).

Ming Boyer and Loes Aaldering wrote a blog post about their recent publication on the influence of societal status on motivated reasoning.

You can read about this study in more detail in this blog by Ming Boyer and Loes Aaldering here (written in Dutch) or in the open access research paper here (written in English).

Sophie Lecheler was interviewed for the series kulturMontag by ORF and talked about the role of social media, freedom of opinion and political communication during COVID-19. 

Find the full interview in German here. 

Nieman Lab and RQ1 Newsletter

The study 'From novelty to normalization? How journalists use the term "fake news" in their reporting' by Jana Laura Egelhofer, Loes Aaldering, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Sebatian Galyga and Sophie Lecheler was featured in the RQ1 Newsletter, which highlights the latest research on journalism, and on the Nieman Lab Website. 

Find the RQ1 Newsletter here.

Find the Nieman Lab Feature here. 

"Does immersive journalism have a future and if so, what does it look like?" Yael de Haan talks to the 'Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek' about the research by the JournalismLab, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Vienna, which is trying to answer these pressing questions for two years. In the years to come, we will certainly see immersive stories, made with, for example, virtual reality, but the technology remains subordinate to the story.

Find the full article in dutch here. 

In a portrait by the Austrian newspaper "Die Presse", Sophie Lecheler talks about the roots of her passion for science, the current focus of her research and provides glimpses into what it means to be a professional researcher. Find the full article "Sophie Lecheler: Aufruhr im Cyberspace" here! 

As an expert, Sophie Lecheler explains why politicians need spin doctors, why they need to adhere to media logic and why emotions in political communication are not necessarily bad. 

Find the full article "Nur nicht stolpern: Wie Politiker sich inszenieren" in german in the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" here. 

Sophie Lecheler wrote a guest commentary on the topic of combining family life with her job as a professor for the APA Science website.

The APA Science article can be found here.

Fake News disseminate faster in the virtual world than the truth - but how can these Fake News be invalidated? Sophie Lecheler talks in this interview with ORF Science about the role of humans in contrast to bots in spreading Fake News, the situation regarding Fake News in Austria and the role of media literacy in handling Fake News. 

Find the full interview - „Fake News“: Warnung vor „Faktor Mensch“ - here. 

The doctoral thesis written by Loes Aaldering is discussed on the Science X Platform. There, her findings are summarized - namely that the impact  of positive media attention on citizen's voting behavior is larger than negative reporting. Negative attention, however, does not seem to have negative repercussions for party leaders. 

You can find more information in the article "Negative media attention during election campaign does not harm party leaders: study" on the Science Communication Platform of Science X in English here. 

Sophie Lecheler talked at Ö1 Doublecheck on political satire.
Find the full talk here!

Sophie Lecheler gave a radio lecture for Ö1 titled 'the Power of Words', on the influence of framing effects.

The lecture can be listened here.