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.