Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise

About

Stephanie Geise is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the ZeMKI, University of Bremen, where she represents the Department of Political Communication & Innovative Research Methods. With the question of how multimodal media messages - e.g. classic news or social media posts - influence political thinking and action, she investigates the media effects of visual and multimodal communication in political contexts. She was chair of the Visual Communication section of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) and leads the research project “Remixing Multimodal News Reception” founded by the German Research Association (DFG).

As an expert in experimental research and computational observational methods, she heads the DFG-funded methods network "Potentials and Challenges of Computational Communication Science using the Example of Online Protest". She was chair of the Visual Communication section of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies. She has written, co-authored and edited seven books. Her work has been published in high-ranked journals such as Communication Theory, New Media and Society or Computational Communication Research. 

Research Unit: Research Synthesis (28.09.-31.10.2026)