Doctoral Projects (3)
The communicative construction of alternative visions of the future and contemporary practices in “the time after”
How do visions of the future shape social change — and how do they affect collective identities in times of multiple crises? This dissertation examines competing visions for a time after a possible societal collapse (…)
The Construction of Mental Health among Muslim Influencers on Instagram. A comparative Study between German and Tunisian Actors.
“Can only a Muslim therapist really treat me well? How important is it that the therapist has the same faith?” These questions come from a post on the Instagram page of a German influencer of (…)
Back to the Roots: Interpretable Machine Learning in Communication Research
This doctoral project investigates how interpretable machine learning can advance communication science — from the transparent identification of protest-related news and the recognition of AI-generated images to the analysis of political TikTok communication in the (…)