Edda Humprecht, Dr.
Oberassistentin / Senior Research and Teaching Associate
Phone: +41 44 635 20 42
Room number: AND 3.52
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CV
| 2015–today | Senior research and teaching associate
Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich |
| Fall semester 2013 | Visiting scholar at New York University
Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School NYU |
| 2010–2014 | Research and teaching associate at Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
PhD project: Comparing Online News Under Different Market Conditions: A Cross‐National Study of News Performance. |
| 2008–2010 | Master's degree in Mass Media and Political Communication
2008–2009 Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2009–2010 CELSA – Sorbonne IV Paris, France |
| 2008–2010 | Research assistant
Institute for Media and Communication Policy (IfM), Berlin |
| 2006–2008 | TV journalist |
| 2003–2007 | Bachelor's degree in Media and Communication Research
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
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Teaching & Research Interests
political online communication, media systems, news performance, cross-nationally comparative research
Current projects:
- disinformation on social media
- polarizing discourses on social media
- practices of fact-checking services
Selected Publications
Activities & Offices
2018. Host of panel discussion "Lessons learnt from the No Billag Debate", Swiss Association Communication and Media Research (SACM) annual conference, April 12-13, 2018, Lugano, Switzerland
2017. Organization of panel discussion "The power of algorithms: governance of and by algorithmic selections", Swiss Association Communication and Media Research (SACM) annual conference, April 27-28, 2017, Chur, Switzerland
2016. Member of the expert team “Revision of doctoral studies decree” at the Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich
2015-2017. Jury member Herbert von Halem dissertation award, German Communication Association (GCA)
2015. Co-organization of roundtable discussion "New models for public service media", Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM) annual conference, March 13-14 2015, Berne, Switzerland
2015. Co-organization of workshop "Where is the next generation of journalism scholars?", Re-Inventing Journalism conference, Feb 4-5 2015, Winterthur, Switzerland
Since 2014. PhD and PostDoc representative at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
Since 2013. Chair of division Media Politics & Media Structures, Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM)
2012-2016. Co-founder and chair of Young Scholars in Journalism Research, German Communication Association (GCA)
Reviewer for serveral journals (including New Media & Society, Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Studies in Communication Sciences)
Reviewer for ICA (journalism & political communication devisions)
Reviewer for ECREA (political communication devision)
Member of the International Communications Association (ICA), European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SGKM), Member of German Communication Association (DGPuK)
Research Grants & Awards
| 2017 | "Best Paper Award" received from the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research for Paper "New Types of Online News Media? A Typology Approach using QCA". |
| 2014 | Dissertation Award 2014 received from the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research. |
| 2013 | Mobility grant received from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a research stay at NYU, USA. |
| 2013 | "Best Panel Award of the Year" received from the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (together with Nina Busch, Brigitte Hofstetter, Samuel Studer, Marko Kovic). |
| 2012 | Research grant for PhD project "Comparing Online News Under Different Market Conditions: A Cross-National Study of News Performance", Swiss National Science Foundation (together with Frank Esser). |
| 2012 | Summer school grant, Swiss National Science Foundation. |
| 2011–today | Additional smaller travel grants. Grant providers include Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Science. |