Prof. Dr. Pablo Jost

since October 2023 Interim Professor "Empirical Communication Science" at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

September 2023 Research Fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin

February 2022 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: "Popularity Indicators in Political Communication Research".

since 2022 Co-founder and strategic advisor of the BAG »Gegen Hass im Netz«

since 2014 Research Associate at the Department of Political Communication at the Institute of Journalism at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2013 to 2014 Research Assistant at the Department of Empirical Methods in Communication Studies at the Institute of Communication Studies, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

2010 to 2013 Master's degree in Public Communication at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena

2007 to 2010 Bachelor's degree in Communication and Political Science (Bachelor of Arts) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

2003 to 2013 Working in advertising and public relations

Resarch Focus

Pablo Jost researches the impact of digitalization on the communication of political and social actors. His research interests include the representation of social controversies in the media as well as the communication of political actors and their adaptation to the changes in the digital media. His current research focuses on the communication of radical and extremist protest movements on digital platforms and its offline effects. Further, he explores the methodological challenges of identifying and classifying non-institutional actors on digital platforms..

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