Regula Hänggli Fricker
Prof. Dr.
regula.haenggli@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 8396
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6327-6408
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Professor,
Department of Communication and Media Research
PER 21 bu. F329
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Regula Hänggli is professor in political communication at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her work deals with (digital) democracy, public debates, opinion formation, and the origin of dialogue. Before she came to Fribourg, she was a professor at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). She was also member of a temporary federal expert group addressing the digital transformation of our society.
Hänggli holds a PhD and an M.A. in Political Science (major subject), and Economics (minor subject) from the University of Bern. Her research interests include political communication in a comparative perspective, institutional reforms, and societal impact of technological change.
During fall term 2018, Hänggli was a visiting scholar at the ETH in Zurich. Before coming to Fribourg, she was an assistant professor at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). In 2008/ 2009 Hänggli was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University, Evanston/USA visiting Prof. Dr. James Druckman. In 2004, she studied 1 semester at the University of Bergen (Norway).
Research and publications
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Publications
25 publications
Improving City Life via Legitimate and Participatory Policy-making: A Data-driven Approach in Switzerland
Evangelos Pournaras, Thomas Samuel Wellings, Sirjoni Majumdar, Regula Haenggli Fricker, (11.7.2023) | ConferenceWho speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (2023) | Journal articleBad guy or good guy? The framing of an imam
Studies in Communication Sciences (2022) | Journal articleCrowd Sensing and Living Lab Outdoor Experimentation Made Easy
IEEE Pervasive Computing (2022) | Journal articleEthics of Smart Cities: Towards Value-Sensitive Design and Co-Evolving City Life
Sustainability (2021) | Journal articleHuman-centered Democratic Innovations with Digital and Participatory Elements
Regula Hänggli and Evangelos Pournaras and Dirk Helbing, DG.O2021: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: ACM (9.6.2021) | ConferenceThe Best of Both Worlds: Context-Powered Word Embedding Combinations for Longitudinal Text Analysis
Laura Rettig and Regula Hanggli and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data): IEEE (10.12.2020) | ConferenceThe Origin of Dialogue in the News Media
Hänggli, Regula (Palgrave, 2019), ISBN: 9783030265823 | BookDebating Unemployment Policy: Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe
Bernhard, Laurent and Fossati, Flavia and Hänggli, Regula and Kriesi, Hanspeter (Cambridge University Press, 2019), ISBN: 9781108497510 | BookWho Holds Populist Attitudes? Evidence from Switzerland
Swiss Political Science Review (2018) | Journal article