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Prof. Dr. Marc Ziegele

Former Research Fellow

About

Marc Ziegele was born in 1985 and studied Media Management at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz after completing his high school education. He earned his doctorate there in 2015 with a dissertation titled “The Discussion Value of Online News".

Following various roles at the University of Mainz and a research stay at the University of Texas at Austin, Marc Ziegele became a W1 Professor of Political Online Communication at the Department of Social Sciences at Heinrich Heine University in 2018. There, he also led the junior research group “Deliberative Discussions in the Social Web,” funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.

His research focuses on political communication, online deliberation, participation, incivility, hate speech, and community management. He also explores how digitalization is changing citizens’ trust in public institutions and examines the role of voice assistants in everyday life.

At the Weizenbaum Institute, he collaborated with Christian Strippel on research into norm-violating communication and contributed to a systematic literature review on concepts of disrespectful and demeaning language on the internet.

Research Unit: Methods Lab (02.01. - 31.01.2025)

Contact

Organisation
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Department of Social Sciences

Fields of Research

  • Deliberation
  • Incivility
  • Media Trust
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Community Management