About me

Franziska Pradel-Sınacı works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Digital Governance at the HfP/TU Munich. Prior to this position, she worked as a doctoral researcher at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne (2018-2021). She wrote her thesis in political science on "Biased political information in search engines and their effects." Her research interests include online political communication, especially investigating biases on online platforms and their effects on political attitudes, computational social science, and experiments.

Franzi is interested in supervising thesis in the following topics:

1. Biases in Political Communication (Gender Bias, Intergroup Bias)
2. Political Information Seeking
3. Incivility and Hate Speech
4. Political Attacks
5. Misinformation
6. Emotions in Political Communication