About me
Resume
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.
Publications
Pradel, F. (2021). Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? The Joint Effect of Party Identity, Gender Identity and Elections. Political Communication, 38(4), 447–478. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1793846
Pradel, F., & Sattler, S. (2020). Memories of a Death Threat: Negative Consequences of Unconscious Thoughts About a Terrorist Attack on Attitudes Towards Alcohol. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 003022282098493. https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222820984935
Mertens, A., Pradel, F., Rozyjumayeva, A., & Wäckerle, J. (2019). As the Tweet, so the Reply?: Gender Bias in Digital Communication with Politicians. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci ’19, 193–201. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292522.3326013
Gieck, R., Kinnunen, H.-M., Li, Y., Moghaddam, M., Pradel, F., Gloor, P. A., Paasivaara, M., & Zylka, M. P. (2016). Cultural Differences in the Understanding of History on Wikipedia. In M. P. Zylka, H. Fuehres, A. Fronzetti Colladon, & P. A. Gloor (Hrsg.), Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation (S. 3–12). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42697-6_1
Franzi is interested in supervising thesis in the following topics:
- Biases in Political Communication (Gender Bias, Intergroup Bias)
- Political Information Seeking
- Incivility and Hate Speech
- Political Attacks
- Misinformation
- Emotions in Political Communication