Tobias Rohrbach

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 tobias.rohrbach@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 8373
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0151-1377

Biography

Digital journalism, AI in newsrooms, media trust, conspiracy theories and misinformation, algorithmic curation and bias, digital and political representation of minoritized groups, political psychology

I am an assistant professor of digital journalism. My teaching and research focus on the role of journalistic processes in news creation, dissemination, and its impact on audiences. Much of his work focuses on the intersection of journalism, algorithms, and social justice. Do journalistic and algorithmic gatekeeping processes prevent barriers for minoritized groups to access positions of political decision-making? How do audiences perceive and evaluate (biases in) visual information in online landscape? How can  journalism contribute to mitigate the dissemination of digital misinformation?

I specialize in mixed methods designs combining a wide range of methodological approaches, including observational and experimental designs, qualitative analysis, as well as computational methods and algorithm audits.

I completed my trilingual studies at the University of Fribourg and then continued to do a joint PhD in communication research and political science in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam while completing a Master of Advanced Studies in Data Science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern, with a 1.5 years visiting fellowship at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

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