Emelie Karlsson

About

Emelie Karlsson is a fifth-year doctoral student at the Department of Political Science, Uppsala University. In her dissertation, she examines the societal impact of digital election interference, particularly how media representations of such interference shape citizens' political attitudes. During her stay at the Weizenbaum Institute, she will focus on completing her dissertation and developing new project ideas.

Her academic background lies at the intersection of political communication, democracy research, and political attitude and behavior research. Empirically, she works with survey experiments and text analysis to investigate how digital technologies and media information dissemination influence attitudes such as trust and political polarization.

In addition to her work in Uppsala, she is affiliated with the Wallenberg Program for Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Software – Human and Society (WASP-HS), Sweden's largest initiative on the societal impact of AI. She was also part of the first cohort of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Computational Social Science (SIRCSS) and previously a visiting researcher at the CCL Lab at the University of Vienna.

Resewarch Group: Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda (01.10.-15.12.2025)