I am a lecturer for research methods and statistics at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam and affiliated with the program group Political Communication and Journalism. 
Until December 2022, I was first a doctoral and then a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication (ITDxC) at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. Here, I also received my PhD in Communication Science. 
Beside my teaching and research at UvA, I currently serve as the co-chair of the Visual Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK).

In my research, I (inter alia) focus on

• How different actors discuss, frame and envision implications of new technologies, platformisation, datafication, platform and AI for our societies, including implications for public values and citizenship
• What different actors deem ‘appropriate’ and desirable technology usage and how they define such norms.

Research expertise

•    Norms of technology usage
•    Visual communication
•    Framing of datafication and AI
•    Surveillance studies
•    Algorithmic bias
•    Media, algorithmic and visual literacy
•    Social media affordances
•    Theories of publics & public spheres / discourse studies
•    Social media platforms, platform governance, content moderation
•    Social media & protest/protest movements

Other links

• Political Communication & Journalism

Research methods

•    Qualitative & Quantitative content analysis 
•    Qualitative & Quantitative analysis of visual data
•    Visual methods (i.e. visual elicitation, network drawings)
•    Focus groups
•    Qualitative individual interviews 
•    Survey

Research grants

• Governance of digital hate speech from the users’ perspective (project submitted to the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), funding period December 2022 – August 2023, grant: CHF: 28'156. Co-Responsible: Prof. Dr. K. Lobinger. (https://search.usi.ch/en/projects/2897/governance-of-digital-hate-speech-from-the-users-perspective)

Honours

• Top Student Paper Award of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division (2019) 
• Shortlisted for the bi-annual Surveillance Studies Prize for Excellent Publications (2021) (https://www.surveillance-studies.org/2021/06/shortlist-der-surveillance-studies-preise)

BA

• Qualitative Research
• Research Workshop: Content Analysis
• Methods of Communication Research and Statistics
• Research Workshop: Survey