Paul Pressmann

Vita

Paul Pressmann has been a research assistant and doctoral student in the “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” lab under Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann since February 2024. There he supports the BMBF-funded project “Informed by Influencers? (INDI)”, which combines computationals methods (app tracking, automated content analysis) and mobile surveys (MESM) to investigate science communication on social networks on climate policy issues.

Previously, he completed his B.A. in Journalism and Cultural Anthropology and his M.A. in Communication (specializing in Communication & Media Research) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. There he worked as a student assistant on various projects (including audience fragmentation and automated hate speech detection) and most recently supported the “Computational Communication Science” department under Prof. Dr. Michael Scharkow.

Research interests

• Hate Speech & digital civil courage
• Computational Social Sciences
• Personalization effects through algorithmic recommendation systems
• Political communication
• Science communication

Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)

• Distinguishing Person-Specific from Situation-Specific Variation in Media Use: A Meta-Analysis. Communication Research
  https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502241262664

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1271-4429