Edda Humprecht


Edda Humprecht is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich and is currently leading a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on resilience to online disinformation in comparative perspective.

She specializes in international comparative research on digital journalism and digital political communication, with a focus on social media and the digital transformation of media systems. Her work has won numerous awards and been published in the field’s leading journals, including the Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, and Digital Journalism.

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