Sophie Lecheler#
| Membership Number: | 6222 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://polcom.univie.ac.at |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Full Professor (Political Communication) at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2014 - 2016 Associate Professor (Political Communication & Journalism; tenured) Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR Department of Communication Science
- 2010 - 2014 Assistant Professor (Political Communication; tenured), Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2013 - 2014 Research Fellow (Marie Curie Intra-European-Fellowship), Department of Government, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Framing
- Experimental research
- Digital news journalism
- Political journalism
- Social media
- Emotion in politics
- News processing
- Political communication
- Public sphere
Honours and Awards
- 2021 - 2025 Grant for the project “Transparent Automated Content Moderation”, PI together with co-PI Allan Hanbury (TU Wien). WWTF Digital Humanism 2020 Call
- 2021 - 2024 Grant for Scientific Programme Coordination (SPC) within programme on “Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age”. NORFACE Network
- 2021 - 2024 Grant for the Marie Curie IF project “Fabricating Twitter: Social media narratives, political dissidence, and false information in Iran”. European Commission
- 2020 - 2024 Grant for the Project “DATADRIVEN: Data-driven campaigns: intended and unintended consequences for democracy”, Co-PI with Sanne Kruikemeier a.o.. NORFACE Network
- 2011 Kyoon Hur Dissertation Award, Mass Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA), for dissertation “Framing Politics”
- 2010 ASCoR Baschwitz PhD Candidate Article of the Year Award, Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ASCoR, Universiteit van Amsterdam, for “Issue Importance as a Moderator of Framing Effects”, Communication Research.
