Professor of Political Communication & Journalism

Ulrike Klinger is Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam and an associated researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Before joining the Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR in February 2025, she was Professor of Political Theory and Digital Democracy at European University Viadrina (2020-2025) and Assistant Professor of Digital Communication at Freie Universität Berlin (2018-2020) in Germany. She received her PhD from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2010, and worked as a Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc) at the IKMZ – Department of Communication Science and Media Research at the University of Zurich (2009-2018). Her research focuses on social media in election campaigns, democracies and technology, and epistemic challenges in digital societies. German national newspaper Der Tagesspiegel counted her among the Top100 scholars in Berlin and Brandenburg in 2024, and she has been awarded several international fellowships, among them as Senior Fellow at the Thomas Mann House Los Angeles in 2024.

Keywords: Campaigns, Social Media, Disinformation, Algorithms, Visual communication

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