At the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern (ikmb), we study political communication in all its facets. We are interested in how digitalisation is changing political communication, how algorithms and artificial intelligence are shaping it, how it works in authoritarian and democratic states and how we use it, what this has to do with our preconceptions, identities and character traits and which (alternative) world views it promotes.
The ikmb is part of the Department of Social Sciences. We are active in teaching on the Bachelor's degree programme in Social Sciences, which we offer jointly with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. We also teach in the BA Minor ‘Digitalisation and Applied Data Science’.
We are supported in both research and teaching by the Communication and Media Studies Friends Association of the University Bern.
New SNSF Project
This project studies what and how outsiders learn about politics occurring in closed settings, i.e. in bodies where the outcome of the decision-making process may eventually be made public, but the process itself can be analyzed contemporaneously only by interpreting limited public signals and information gleaned through informal channels or leaks. I focus on the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, but the findings will likely apply to other authoritarian and democratic regimes.
Franziska Keller
Silke Adam has secured funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a new research project, which is now getting underway. This project focuses on people who feel marginalised in our societies. We want to find out who these people are, how they use political information and what impact this information has on them.
Silke Adam
Call for Papers
IKMB
Roman Winkelhahn, Qian'ge Liu, Charlotte Herentrey
Fabrikstrasse 8 3012 Bern
Phone: +41 31 684 48 08
