Teaching
For students
This semester · Winter 2026/27
- Thesis seminar
Writing a BA or MA thesis with me: the thesis seminar runs every semester, in German.
Course times, registration, and enquiries: the chair’s teaching page at the University of Bamberg.
Open to everyone: the MA lecture Digital Media in Politics & Society as lecture notes, the Tech and Politics podcast, and a YouTube channel.
My teaching builds digital capacity in two focus areas: digital politics, and computational approaches to political science and economics.
The lectures lead from an introduction to digital politics in the BA to current research in the MA. The seminars cover AI and democracy, the digital transformation of politics, disinformation, and technology governance. In the research courses, students run their own empirical research projects. In interdisciplinary courses, students from the social sciences and computer science work together in mixed teams. I teach in English and German and supervise BA and MA theses.
My BA and MA lectures are becoming a textbook for Cambridge University Press, Digital Media in Politics and Society.
Courses by topic
Each course once, with the level, the language, the places, and the years I taught it, newest first. Syllabi where they are online.
The politics of AI
Adoption · Public opinion · Legitimacy
- Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
- Algorithms for Economics and Politics & Economics and Politics of Algorithms
The public arena
Public sphere · Platforms · News media
- Introduction to Digital Politics
- Digital Media in Politics & Society
- Digital Transformation of Society and Politics
- Digital Challenges to Institutions
- Communication and the Public Sphere
- Discursive Power
- The Impact of Technology on Political Communication: The Printing Press, Newspapers, Television and the Internet
Political competition
Parties · Campaigns · Elections
- Political Communication
- Political Psychology
- Political Communication in International Comparison
- The Internet in Political Communication
- Psychological Mechanisms of Political Communication
- Political Sociology
Governance
Regulation · Platforms · AI
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Other Digital Fakery
- Technology Governance
- Legal, Political and Social Impact of Digitalization
Methods
Measurement · Digital trace data · Computational social science
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Theory for Computational Social Science
- Introduction to Computational Social Science
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Introduction to Social Science Research Practice
Full record · every semester since winter 2009/10 · 88 courses at seven universities · eight workshops outside the university
- Winter 2026/27
- Thesis seminar
- Summer 2026
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
- Introduction to Digital Politics
- Winter 2025/26
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Media in Politics & Society
- Algorithms for Economics and Politics & Economics and Politics of Algorithms
- Summer 2025
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Other Digital Fakery
- Winter 2024/25
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Media in Politics & Society
- Algorithms for Economics and Politics & Economics and Politics of Algorithms
- Summer 2024
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Other Digital Fakery
- Winter 2023/24
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Media in Politics & Society
- Algorithms for Economics and Politics & Economics and Politics of Algorithms
- Summer 2023
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Theory for Computational Social Science
- Winter 2022/23
- Thesis seminar
- Summer 2022
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Media in Politics & Society
- Digital Transformation of Society and Politics
- Winter 2021/22
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Political Communication
- Digital Challenges to Institutions
- Summer 2021
- Thesis seminar
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Transformation of Society and Politics
- Technology Governance
- Winter 2020/21
- Communication and the Public Sphere
- Summer 2020
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Transformation of Society and Politics
- Discursive Power
- Winter 2019/20
- Interdisciplinary Research Project in Computational Social Science
- Digital Transformation of Society and Politics
- Legal, Political and Social Impact of Digitalization
- Summer 2019
- Digital Transformation of Society and Politics
- Introduction to Computational Social Science
- Winter 2018/19
- Theory for Computational Social Science
- Legal, Political and Social Impact of Digitalization
- The Impact of Technology on Political Communication: The Printing Press, Newspapers, Television and the Internet
- Summer 2018
- Political Psychology
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Winter 2017/18
- Legal, Political and Social Impact of Digitalization
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Political Communication in International Comparison
- Summer 2017
- The Impact of Technology on Political Communication: The Printing Press, Newspapers, Television and the Internet
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Winter 2016/17
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Political Communication in International Comparison
- Spring 2016
- Political Psychology
- The Internet in Political Communication
- Summer 2016
- Using Digital Trace Data in the Social Sciences
- Autumn 2015
- Introduction to Social Science Research Practice
- Psychological Mechanisms of Political Communication
- Spring 2015
- Introduction to Computational Social Science
- The Internet in Political Communication
- Autumn 2014
- Introduction to Social Science Research Practice
- Psychological Mechanisms of Political Communication
- Summer 2014
- Political Communication
- Political Sociology
- Winter 2013/14
- Political Communication
- Summer 2013
- Political Communication
- Winter 2012/13
- Political Communication
- Summer 2012
- Political Communication
- Winter 2011/12
- Political Communication
- Summer 2011
- Political Communication
- Winter 2010/11
- Political Communication
- Summer 2010
- Political Communication
- Political Sociology
- Winter 2009/10
- Political Communication
- Political Sociology
Outside the university
Hessische Akademie für politische Bildung
- Winter 2011/12
- Political Communication on the Internet
- Winter 2010/11
- Political communication online
- Twitter, Facebook, and Websites: The internet in campaigning
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
- Winter 2010/11
- Campaigning online
- Effects of the internet and social networking sites on education and politics
- Political communication online
- Winter 2009/10
- Modern communication on the internet
- Dialogue online!? Twitter and Co.