Election campaigns on the Internet
How much algorithm can democracy take?
3. October 2022
Democracy can only work if citizens are able to take informed decisions. But what happens if a news feed is so incredibly personalised that nobody really knows what is actually presented to us, and from whom. Sophie Lecheler and her team at the University of Vienna are using experiments and 'data donations' to see what users see – and to understand political discourse in times of digitalisation.
A team from the University of Vienna led by Sophie Lecheler is investigating the potential and unintended side effects of digital election campaigns.
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Read more about it
- More about the "DATADRIVEN" project
- More about "The Good News Project"(in German)
- Political Communication Research Group
- Website of Sophie Lecheler
- Sophie Lecheler auf Twitter
- Department of Communication
- Öffentliche Ringvorlesung "Demokratie und Digitale Revolution" der Universität Wien in Kooperation mit der Stadt Wien
- Virtual lecture series "Practicing Democracy in the Digital Age" by the research platform Governance of Digital Practices
- Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS)