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Employment (6)

University of Fribourg: Fribourg, Freiburg, CH

2024-02-01 to present | Professor (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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Sina Blassnig

University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons: Chur, Graubünden, CH

2024-02-01 to present | Professor / Director (Institute for Digital Communication and Media Innovation)
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Swiss National Science Foundation: Bern, CH

2021-01 to 2024-12 | Co-Investigator / Operational Manager / Postdoc (Project "The Role of News Recommender Systems in High-Choice Information Environments" within the National Research Programme NRP 77 "Digital Transformation")
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University of Zurich: Zurich, CH

2020-01 to 2024-01 | Senior Research Associate (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2020-02 to 2020-07 | Lecturer (Institute of Communication and Media Studies (icmb))
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University of Zurich: Zurich, CH

2016-01 to 2019-12 | Research and Teaching Assistant / PhD candidate (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Zurich: Zurich, CH

2016-01 to 2019-12 | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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University of Zurich: Zurich, Zurich, CH

2013-09 to 2016-01 | Master of Arts (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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University of Zurich: Zurich, Zurich, CH

2009-09 to 2012-07 | Bachelor of Arts (Institute of Communication and Media Research)
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Professional activities (13)

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Kommunikation und Medienwissenschaft: Fribourg, CH

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International Communication Association: Washington, US

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European Communication Research and Education Association: Brussels, BE

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK): Mainz, DE

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Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SGKM): Fribourg, Fribourg, CH

2024-04 to present | Member of the Management Board
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Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS, Journal): Lugano, Ticino, CH

2024-04 to present | Co-Editor (Editorial Team)
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MEDem - Monitoring Electoral Democracy: Vienna, AT

2023-01 to present | National coordinator for Switzerland
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Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SGKM): Fribourg, CH

2022-04 to present | Chair of Political Communication division
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University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam, NL

2023-03 to 2023-07 | Visiting Researcher (Amsterdam School of Communication Research)
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University of Zurich: Zurich, CH

2019-09 to 2022-07 | Elected representative of the junior and mid-level faculty (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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International Communication Association: Washington, US

2020-05 to 2022-05 | Student and Early Career Representative (Political Communication Division)
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, IL

2019-06 to 2019-06 | Visiting Researcher (Department of Communication and Media Research)
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COST network IS1308 on “Populist Political Communication in Europe”: Trondheim, NO

2016-03 to 2018-12 | Substitute Member of Management Committee
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Funding (4)

The role of news media use and issue attitudes for populist voting in the 2023 Swiss Federal Election

2023 to 2024 | Grant
Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich (Zurich, CH)
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Digital Hate Speech in Switzerland: A Multi-Method Study on the Subjective and Objective Confrontation with Hate Speech in the Everyday Life of Swiss Internet Users

2022 to 2024 | Grant
Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM/BAKOM) (Bern, CH)
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Sina Blassnig

The Information Path to a Vote: Comparing Online Information Patterns of Young Voter Groups in Swiss Voting Campaigns

2021 to 2023 | Grant
Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich (Zurich, CH)
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Best Dissertation Award

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Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SGKM) (Zürich, CH)
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Works (27)

Selecting, avoiding, disconnecting: a focus group study of people’s strategies for dealing with information abundance in the contexts of news, entertainment, and personal communication

Information, Communication & Society
2025-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2358167
Contributors: Sophia C. Volk; Anne Schulz; Sina Blassnig; Sarah Marschlich; Minh Hao Nguyen; Nadine Strauß
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Digital media and digital media systems

2024-10-29 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4337/9781803929095.00021
Contributors: Laia Castro; Sina Blassnig
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Opportunity structures for user acceptance of news recommender systems (NRS): A multi-country survey study of relationships between individual-level factors and evaluations of NRS

New Media & Society
2024-07-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/14614448241263765
Part of ISSN: 1461-4448
Part of ISSN: 1461-7315
Contributors: Edina Strikovic; Sina Blassnig; Eliza Mitova; Aleksandra Urman; Frank Esser; Claes de Vreese
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User Perceptions of News Recommender Systems and Trust in Media Outlets: A Five-Country Study

Journalism Studies
2024-07-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2024.2364628
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Eliza Mitova; Edina Strikovic; Aleksandra Urman; Claes de Vreese; Anikó Hannák; Frank Esser
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A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems

Digital Journalism
2024-01-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2293933
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Edina Strikovic; Eliza Mitova; Aleksandra Urman; Anikó Hannák; Claes de Vreese; Frank Esser
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Exploring users’ desire for transparency and control in news recommender systems: A five-nation study

Journalism
2023-12-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/14648849231222099
Part of ISSN: 1464-8849
Part of ISSN: 1741-3001
Contributors: Eliza Mitova; Sina Blassnig; Edina Strikovic; Aleksandra Urman; Claes de Vreese; Frank Esser
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When Worlds Collide: Journalistic, Market, and Tech Logics in the Adoption of News Recommender Systems

Journalism Studies
2023-12-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2260504
Contributors: Eliza Mitova; Sina Blassnig; Edina Strikovic; Aleksandra Urman; Claes de Vreese; Frank Esser
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Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes

Media and Communication
2023-01-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6030
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Eliza Mitova; Nico Pfiffner; Michael V. Reiss
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News recommender systems: a programmatic research review

Annals of the International Communication Association
2023-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2022.2142149
Contributors: Eliza Mitova; Sina Blassnig; Edina Strikovic; Aleksandra Urman; Aniko Hannak; Claes H. de Vreese; Frank Esser
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Correction: Media systems in the digital age: An empirical comparison of 30 countries (Journal of Communication DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqab054)

Journal of Communication
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqac010
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2-s2.0-85143603272

Part of ISSN: 14602466 00219916
Contributors: Humprecht, E.; Herrero, L.C.; Blassnig, S.; Brüggemann, M.; Engesser, S.
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POPULISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA

The Populism Interviews: A Dialogue with Leading Experts
2022 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9781003250388-21
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2-s2.0-85153819597

ISBN: 9781000641967 9781032168104
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Populism and Social Media

2022-07-26 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003250388-21
Contributors: Sina Blassnig
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Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries

Journal of Communication
2022-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqab054
Part of ISSN: 0021-9916
Part of ISSN: 1460-2466
Contributors: Edda Humprecht; Laia Castro Herrero; Sina Blassnig; Michael Brüggemann; Sven Engesser
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The “Audience Logic” in Digital Journalism: An Exploration of Shifting News Logics Across Media Types and Time

Journalism Studies
2022-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2021.2000339
Part of ISSN: 1461-670X
Part of ISSN: 1469-9699
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Frank Esser
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Populist online communication: Interactions among politicians, journalists, and citizens (Dissertation summary)

Studies in Communication Sciences
2021-12-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2021.02.021
Contributors: Sina Blassnig
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Populist Online Communication – Interactions among Politicians, Journalists, and Citizens

2020 | Dissertation or Thesis
DOI: 10.5167/UZH-186001
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Event-, politics-, and audience-driven news: A comparison of populism in European media coverage in 2016 and 2017

Communicating Populism: Comparing Actor Perceptions, Media Coverage, and Effects on Citizens in Europe
2019 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9780429402067-7
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2-s2.0-85069187885

ISBN: 9780429687853 9781138392724
Contributors: Esser, F.; Stępińska, A.; Pekáček, O.; Seddone, A.; Papathanassopoulos, S.; Peicheva, D.; Milojevic, A.; Blassnig, S.; Engesser, S.
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Populism and Social Media Popularity

Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media
2019-12-09 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9780429466007-7
Part of ISBN: 9780429466007
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Nicole Ernst; Sven Engesser; Frank Esser
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Populist and Popular: An Experiment on the Drivers of User Reactions to Populist Posts on Facebook

Social Media + Society
2019-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/2056305119890062
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Dominique S. Wirz
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Hitting a Nerve: Populist News Articles Lead to More Frequent and More Populist Reader Comments

Political Communication
2019-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2019.1637980
Part of ISSN: 1058-4609
Part of ISSN: 1091-7675
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Sven Engesser; Nicole Ernst; Frank Esser
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Populism in Online Election Coverage

Journalism Studies
2019-06-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2018.1487802
Part of ISSN: 1461-670X
Part of ISSN: 1469-9699
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Nicole Ernst; Florin Büchel; Sven Engesser; Frank Esser
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Favorable Opportunity Structures for Populist Communication: Comparing Different Types of Politicians and Issues in Social Media, Television and the Press

The International Journal of Press/Politics
2019-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1940161218819430
Part of ISSN: 1940-1612
Part of ISSN: 1940-1620
Contributors: Nicole Ernst; Frank Esser; Sina Blassnig; Sven Engesser
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Populism and Informal Fallacies: An Analysis of Right-Wing Populist Rhetoric in Election Campaigns

Argumentation
2019-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10503-018-9461-2
Part of ISSN: 0920-427X
Part of ISSN: 1572-8374
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Florin Büchel; Nicole Ernst; Sven Engesser
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Dimensions, Speakers, and Targets

Communicating Populism
2019-03-14 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9780429402067-5
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Patricia Rodi; Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt; Kinga Adamczewska; Lilia Raycheva; Sven Engesser; Frank Esser
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Populists Prefer Social Media Over Talk Shows: An Analysis of Populist Messages and Stylistic Elements Across Six Countries

Social Media + Society
2019-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/2056305118823358
Part of ISSN: 2056-3051
Part of ISSN: 2056-3051
Contributors: Nicole Ernst; Sina Blassnig; Sven Engesser; Florin Büchel; Frank Esser
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Populist communication in talk shows and social media. A comparative content analysis in four countries

Studies in Communication | Media
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5771/2192-4007-2018-3-338
Part of ISSN: 2192-4007
Contributors: Sina Blassnig; Nicole Ernst; Florin Büchel; Sven Engesser
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Extreme parties and populism: an analysis of Facebook and Twitter across six countries

Information, Communication & Society
2017-09-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2017.1329333
Part of ISSN: 1369-118X
Part of ISSN: 1468-4462
Contributors: Nicole Ernst; Sven Engesser; Florin Büchel; Sina Blassnig; Frank Esser
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