About

Andreas Jungherr is Professor of Political Science, esp. Digital Transformation, at the University of Bamberg and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) in Munich. He is Associate Editor of Political Communication.

He studies how digital media and artificial intelligence change politics and society, and how societies govern them. His research covers the public arena, political competition, governance, and methods; his current focus is the politics of AI.

His books are Digital Transformations of the Public Arena (with Ralph Schroeder, Cambridge University Press, 2022), Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy (with Gonzalo Rivero and Daniel Gayo-Avello, Cambridge University Press, 2020), Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data (Springer, 2015), and Das Internet in Wahlkämpfen (with Harald Schoen, Springer VS, 2013). Two more books for Cambridge University Press are in preparation: The Politics of AI and the textbook Digital Media in Politics and Society.

He provides advice and evidence to institutions that govern digital media and AI, among them the European Commission, the Federal Constitutional Court, and OSCE/ODIHR, and is regularly quoted in German and international media.

Before Bamberg, he was Professor of Communication Science at the University of Jena and Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Bamberg in 2014; his dissertation won the Best Dissertation Award of the American Political Science Association’s Information Technology and Politics Section.