The Fourth International Conference on Communication and Media Studies is excited to announce Lena Frischlich as a 2019 Plenary Speaker.

Lena Frischlich is leader of an interdisciplinary junior research group entitled “DemoRESILdigital: Democratic resilience in times of online-propaganda, fake news, fear and hate speech. Her research focuses on the staging and effects of online propaganda and communicative counter-strategies. She examines these topics by combining multiple-methods rooted in qualitative, quantitative, and computational communication research. She has been co-PI in several third-party projects including Propaganda 2.0, psychological effects of right-wing and Islamic extremist Internet propaganda, Videos against extremism: Counter-Narratives on Trial and Validation of the automated detection of social bots. Her work has been published in edited books, book chapters and the leading journals of the field.

View the preliminary schedule of sessions for the 2019 conference here.