Tobias Rohrbach works as an early post doc at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern. His research focuses on the intersection of gender and media in political communication, political psychology, and health communication. He specializes in mixed methods designs combining a wide range of methodological approaches, including observational and experimental designs, quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as computational methods. He completed a joint PhD in communication research (at the University of Fribourg) and in political science (at the University of Amsterdam) on media-based mechanisms of gendered evaluations of political candidates.

Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen

Number of items: 5.

Journal Article

Rohrbach, Tobias; Aaldering, Loes; Van der Pas, Daphne Joanna (2023). Gender differences and similarities in news media effects on political candidate evaluations: a meta-analysis. Journal of communication, 73(2), pp. 101-112. Oxford University Press 10.1093/joc/jqac042

Conference or Workshop Item

Adam, Silke; Rohrbach, Tobias; Makhortykh, Mykola; Keller, Franziska; Valli, Chiara Lisa; Baghumyan, Ani; de León, Ernesto (29 February 2024). Die Verbreitung von Verschwörungsideen: eine Feldstudie zu Beginn der Covid-19 Pandemie (Unpublished). In: Symposium „Information, Netzwerke und digitale Öffentlichkeiten in der politischen Kommunikation". Berlin.

Adam, Silke; de León, Ernesto; Makhortykh, Mykola; Rohrbach, Tobias; Keller, Franziska; Valli, Chiara Lisa; Baghumyan, Ani; Gil Lopez, Teresa (June 2023). What makes people trust conspiracy ideas (Unpublished). In: Workshop Information quality and trust. Dresden.

Adam, Silke; de León, Ernesto; Makhortykh, Mykola; Rohrbach, Tobias; Keller, Franziska; Valli, Chiara Lisa; Baghumyan, Ani; Gil Lopez, Teresa; Maier, Michaela (13 May 2023). Wie Informationen und Voreinstellungen den Glauben an Verschwörungstheorien beeinflussen (Unpublished). In: Münchenwiler Seminar. Schloss Münchenwil.

Working Paper

Rohrbach, Tobias; Makhortykh, Mykola; Sydorova, Maryna (2024). Finding the white male: The prevalence and consequences of algorithmic gender and race bias in political Google searches (arXiV). Cornell University 10.48550/arXiv.2405.00335

This list was generated on Sun Dec 8 05:01:47 2024 CET.
  • International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Annual Conference: 2021, 2022, 2024

  • Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM), Annual Conference: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024

  • Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA), Annual Conference: 2023

  • International Communication Association (ICA), Annual Conference, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

  • European Conference of Gender and Politics, Bi-annual Conference, 2022, 2024

  • European Communication Research and Education Association, 2020, 2022, 2024