Edda Humprecht

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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

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Selected Publications

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Humprecht, Edda ; Udris, Linards (2019). Long-Term Trends in News Content. In: Örnebrink, Henrik . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1-22.
Humprecht, Edda (2018). Where ‘fake news’ flourishes : a comparison across four Western democracies. Information, Communication and Society, 21:1-16.
Mathis, Thomas ; Humprecht, Edda (2018). Werden Leitmedien häufiger zitiert? Eine empirische Untersuchung von Schweizer Printmedien. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 66(1):41-57.
Humprecht, Edda ; Esser, Frank (2018). Diversity in Online News: On the importance of ownership types and media system types. Journalism Studies, 19(12):1825-1847.
Humprecht, Edda ; Esser, Frank (2018). Mapping digital journalism: Comparing 48 news websites from six countries. Journalism, 19(4):500-518.
Humprecht, Edda ; Esser, Frank (2017). A glass ceiling in the online age? Explaining the underrepresentation of women in online political news. European Journal of Communication, 32(5):439-456.
Humprecht, Edda (2017). Onlinenachrichten im „postfaktischen“ Zeitalter. http://de.ejo-online.eu/: Europäisches Journalismus-Observatorium (EJO).
Castro Herrero, Laia ; Humprecht, Edda ; Engesser, Sven ; Brüggemann, Michael ; Büchel, Florin (2017). Rethinking Hallin and Mancini beyond the west: an analysis of media systems in Central and Eastern Europe. International Journal of Communication, 11(27):4797-4823.
Büchel, Florin ; Humprecht, Edda ; Castro Herrero, Laia ; Engesser, Sven ; Brüggemann, Michael (2016). Building Empirical Typologies with QCA : Toward a Classification of Media Systems. International Journal of Press/Politics, 21(2):209-232.
Humprecht, Edda (2016). Shaping Online News Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brüggemann, Michael ; Humprecht, Edda ; Nielsen, Rasmus K ; Karppinen, Kari ; Cornia, Alessio ; Esser, Frank (2016). Framing the newspaper crisis : How debates on the state of the press are shaped in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Journalism Studies, 17(5):533-551.
Engesser, Sven ; Humprecht, Edda (2015). Frequency or skillfulness: How professional news media use Twitter in five Western countries. Journalism Studies, 16(4):513-529.
Brüggemann, Michael ; Engesser, Sven ; Büchel, Florin ; Humprecht, Edda ; Castro Herrero, Laia (2014). Hallin and Mancini revisited: Four empirical types of western media systems. Journal of Communication, 64(6):1037-1065.
Humprecht, Edda ; Büchel, Florin (2013). More of the same or marketplace of opinions? A cross-national comparison of diversity in online news reporting. International Journal of Press/Politics, 18(4):436-461.
Engesser, Sven ; Humprecht, Edda (2012). Journalism In 140 Characters. European Journalism Observatory. http://en.ejo.ch: European Journalism Observatory - EJO.
Esser, Frank ; Humprecht, Edda ; Büchel, Florin (2012). Political Communication in Switzerland. : Political Communication Report.
Brüggemann, Michael ; Esser, Frank ; Humprecht, Edda (2012). The Strategic Repertoire of Publishers in the Media Crisis: The “Five C” Scheme in Germany. Journalism Studies, 13(5-6):742-752.

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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)

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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.

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