Edda Humprecht

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Feb 2015 – Present	Senior research and teaching associate, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich (IKMZ) Parental leaves from Dec 2015 to March 2016 and from July 2018 to Dec 2018.
Aug 2013 – Jan 2014	Visiting scholar, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School, New York University, USA
Nov 2010 – Jan 2015	Research and teaching associate, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich (IKMZ)
2008 – 2010	Research assistant, Institute of Media and Communication Policy, Berlin, Germany
2006 – 2008	TV journalist

Education
Sept 2014	Ph.D. in Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
Jan 2011	Master’s degree in Political Communication and Media Research, Free University of Berlin
2009 – 2010	Studies in Political and Public Communication at CELSA, University of Paris Sorbonne, France
Apr 2007	Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication Science (Minor: Political Science), Free University of Berlin

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Teaching & Research Interests

digital journalism, news, digital political communication, cross-nationally comparative research

Current projects:

resilience to online disinformation (link to project website)
user comments on social media
comparing media systems

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Selected Publications

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Hellmüller, Lea; Lischka, Juliane A; Humprecht, Edda (2020). Shaping (non)-discursive social media spaces: cross-national typologies of news organizations’ heavy commenters. New Media & Society:Epub ahead of print.
Humprecht, Edda; Esser, Frank; Van Aelst, Peter (2020). Resilience to online disinformation: A framework for cross-national comparative research. International Journal of Press/Politics, 25(3):493-516.
Morosoli, Sophie; Humprecht, Edda; Staender, Anna; van Aelst, Peter; Esser, Frank (2020). Perceptions of disinformation, media coverage and government policy related to the Coronavirus – survey findings from six Western countries. Disinformation Project Reports 1, University of Zurich.
Humprecht, Edda; Hellmüller, Lea; Lischka, Juliane A (2020). Hostile emotions in news comments: A cross-national analysis of Facebook discussions. Social Media and Society:1-12.
Humprecht, Edda (2020). How do they debunk “fake news”? A cross-national comparison of transparency in fact checks. Digital Journalism, 8(3):310-327.
Trabattoni, Giacomo; Humprecht, Edda (2019). Für wie glaubwürdig hält das Publikum algorithmischen Journalismus? Ein Experiment. Zürich: dpi Publishing Service AG.
Humprecht, Edda (2019). Ownership of News Media. In: Vos, Tim; Hanusch, Volker; Dimitrakopoulou, D.; Geertsema-Sligh, M.; Sehl, A.. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 1-20.
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.

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Offices

2020-present. Editorial board member of Digital Journalism

2014-2019. PhD and PostDoc representative at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich

2013-2019. Chair of division Media Politics & Media Structures, Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM)

2015-2017. Jury member Herbert von Halem dissertation award, German Communication Association

2016. Member of the expert team “Revision of doctoral studies decree” at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich

2012-2016. Co-founder and chair of Young Scholars in Journalism Research (NoJoFo), German Communication Association

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Awards

2019	Best Abstract Award, ECREA Political Communication Section (w F. Esser and P. Van Aelst)
2017	Best Paper Award, Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research
2014	Dissertation Award 2014, Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research.
2013	Mobility grant, Swiss National Science Foundation for a research stay at NYU, USA
2013	Best Panel Award of the Year, Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research

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Teaching & Research Interests

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Teaching & Research Interests

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