SI am a Professor of Communication Research at the University of Jena in Germany. She is also the head of a research group focused on Digitalization and the Public Sphere. Her primary research focus is on how political communication is shaped by opportunity structures in different countries. She analyze various forms of online communication, including comment sections, YouTube videos, and news, and use empirical typologies to explain differences between countries. She is researching ways to empower news users against manipulative communication, such as disinformation, conspiracy narratives, and hate speech, in different countries.
