Current Research Projects

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• Coding of online discussion following Facebook-Posts related to news articles on the veiling ban initiative
• Exploring the mechanisms of selective exposure, political persuasion and participation
• Auditing the information quality of voice assistants
• Preparing the mainstream media for the next pandemic – when does mainstream media content foster belief in conspiracy theories?
• Algorithmic turn in Holocaust memory transmission: Challenges, opportunities, threats
• Algorithmic content selection in Switzerland – a study of Google and YouTube
• Exploring the mechanisms of resistance to political persuasion in the context of the Swiss ‘anti-burqa’ initiative
• The Relevance of Communication during Corona Crises (RCCC)
• Algorithmic curation of (political) information and its biases
• Populist radical-right attitudes and political information behavior. A longitudinal study of attitude development in high-choice information environments.
• Political Instrumentalization of Islam? Framing the Burqa as a Threat to National Values and Security in Switzerland and its Consequences (2018-2022)