Regula Hänggli Fricker

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 regula.haenggli@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 8396
 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6327-6408

Professor
Department of Communication and Media Research

PER 21 bu. F329
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
PER 21, F329
+41 26 300 8396

Biography

Regula Hänggli has been Professor of Political Communication at the University of Fribourg since 2013. Her work focuses on democracy, technology (including AI) and media, innovation in democracy, legitimation, voting methods in decision making process, public debates, opinion formation, and the origins of dialogue in the news media. Before joining Fribourg, she was a professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). She also served on a temporary expert group of the Swiss federal government examining the digital transformation of our society.

Hänggli holds a doctorate from the University of Zurich and a licentiate degree from the University of Bern, with a major in political science and a minor in economics. Her research interests include political communication from a comparative perspective, institutional reforms, and democracy.

In the autumn semester of 2023, Hänggli visited the TdLab at ETH Zurich. In the autumn semester of 2018, she was a visiting scholar with the COSS (Computational Social Science) initiative at ETH Zurich. Before joining Fribourg, she was an assistant professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). In 2008–2009, she was a visiting scholar working with Professor James Druckman at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA. In 2004, she spent one semester studying at the University of Bergen in Norway.

 

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