Sina Julia Blassnig

Prof. Dr.

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 sina.blassnig@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 8393
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7815-0186

Journalism Studies: digital journalism, journalism and new technology (e.g. news recommender systems, AI), media innovation, news use, user perceptions of new technology, media logic(s), role of audiences (e.g., user comments, news sharing)

Political communication: (digital) communication of political actors, social media, political news coverage, populism, hate speech/ incivility

International comparative media research, international comparison of media systems

Biography

Sina Blassnig is full professor of digital communication and datafication at the Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM) at the University of Fribourg. She is also Director of the Institute for Digital Communication and Media Innovation (IDCMI) in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR). In teaching, she is mainly responsible for the Joint Master's degree program "Digital Communication and Creative Media Production", which is offered in cooperation with the FHGR.

Sina Blassnig studied communication science and political science at the University of Zurich, where she also completed her doctorate on the topic of populist online communication. She was then a senior research and teaching associate at the Department for Communication Science and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich. She was also a visiting scholar at the Department of Communication and Journalims, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2019) and at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) and the AI, Media and Democracy Lab at the University of Amsterdam (2023).

Her research interests lie in the areas of digital communication, digital journalism and media innovation, political communication, media use, and media systems in a comparative perspective. In her current research, Sina Blassnig focuses in particular on the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence in the production and distribution of media content and how this affects the role of the audience and the usage behavior of citizens. She also researches how political actors use digital platforms. Her research places particular emphasis on an international comparative perspective and the integration of supply and demand perspectives in communication science. 

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