Dr. Jana Laura Egelhofer

Dr. Jana Laura Egelhofer

Universitätsassistentin (Post-Doc)

Main Research Areas and Interests

Mis- and disinformation
Political elite media criticism
Media perceptions
Anti-science discourse

Jana Laura Egelhofer was a PhD and Post-Doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna. She worked in the Political Communication Research Group, chaired by Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler. Her main research topics included mis- and disinformation, political elite media criticism, media perceptions, and anti-science discourse. She defended her thesis with distinction on the 15.12.2021.

In her dissertation (completed December 2021 with distinction), Jana Laura Egelhofer investigated how the ‘fake news’ term has been instrumentalized by politicians in order to discredit critical news outlets, how this and other incidents of media criticism affect citizens’ media perceptions.

Jana then worked in the Scientific Programme Coordination of the interdisciplinary research program “GOVERNANCE – Democratic governance in a turbulent age” (funded by NORFACE).#

From December 2022 on Jana Laura Egelhofer works at the Munich Science Communication Lab of the Department of Media and Communication of the Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich.

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Recent Publications

Egelhofer, J. L., Boyer, M., Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S. (forthcoming). Populist Attitudes and Politicians’ Disinformation Accusations: Effects on Perceptions of Media and Politicians. Journal of Communication.
Egelhofer, J. L. & Eberl, J. M. (forthcoming). Fake News . In: Ceron, A. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham
Eberl, J. M. & Egelhofer, J. L. (forthcoming). Post-truth. In: Ceron, A. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham
Egelhofer, J. L. (forthcoming). Fake News – zwischen Desinformation und Medienkritik. In: Bendheim / Jennifer Pavlik (Ed.): ›Fake News‹ in Literatur und Medien. Fakten und Fiktionen im interdisziplinären Diskurs. [Fake News in Literature and Media. Facts and Ficition in interdisciplinary Discourse]. transcript. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6019-7
Lecheler, S., & Egelhofer, J. L. (2022). Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News: Understanding the Supply Side. Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments, 69-87.
Lecheler, S., & Egelhofer, J. L. (2021). Consumption of misinformation and disinformation. In The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism (pp. 323-331). Routledge.
Egelhofer, J. L., Aaldering, L. & Lecheler, S. (2021). Delegitimizing the media? Analyzing politicians’ media criticism on social media. Journal of Language and Politics. 1569-9862.
Egelhofer, J. L. (2021). Fake News. In: Ranan, D. (ed.) Sprachgewalt. Missbrauchte Wörter und andere politische Kampfbegriffe. [Power of Language. SPRACHGEWALT – Misused words and other political battle terms], pp. 15-30. Bonn: Dietz-Verlag.
Jaidka, K., Zhou, A., Lelkes, Y., Egelhofer, J. L., & Lecheler, S. (2021). Beyond anonymity: Network affordances, under deindividuation, improve social media discussion quality. Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication.
Aaldering, L., Egelhofer, J. L., & Lecheler, S. (2020): Nieuwe uitdagingen voor de ournalistiek in het tijdperk van nepnieuws [New Challenges for Journalism in the Age of Fake New]. In: de Ridder, J., Vliegenthart, R., Zuure, J. (Ed.): Doen, durven of de waarheid? Democratie in digitale tijden [Truth or dare? Democracy in a Digital era]. Amsterdam University Press, 87-103.
Egelhofer, J. L., Aaldering, L., Eberl, J. M., Galyga, S., Lecheler, S. (2020). From Novelty to Normalization? How Journalists Use the Term “Fake News” in their Reporting. Journalism Studies, 21 (10), 1323 - 1343.
Egelhofer, J. L., & Lecheler, S. (2019). Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: a framework and research agenda. Annals of the International Communication Association, 43(2), 97-116.
Egelhofer, J. L. & Lecheler, S. (2018). Das Fake News-Phänomen - eine Einordnung. Historische Sozialkunde, 4, 3-9.