Sandra Kero

Vita

Sandra Kero has been a research assistant and PhD candidate in the lab “Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes” of Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen since July 2024. She completed her Master’s degree in Media Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum from 2020-2022. In her master’s thesis, she examined the communication of female actors of the extreme right on the Instagram platform.
From 2023-2024 Sandra Kero worked as a consultant for science communication for the project Meinungsmonitor Künstliche Intelligenz [MeMo:KI] at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). Previously, she was a research assistant at the Media Research Methods Lab of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) at the (Social) Media Observatory and conducted research on right-wing extremist online communication.

Main research areas:

• Digital public spheres
• (Right-wing extremist) online communication
• Visual communication

Most recent publications:

• Kero, S. (2024). Young, Female and Extreme Right. The Narrative Communication of Female Actors on the Platform Instagram. In V. Clemens, A.-K. Grobe, H. Kehl, & D. Korte (Hrsg.), Politische Kommunikation im Wandel Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven vor dem Hintergrund von Wahlkampf, COVID-19 und Online-Diskursen (1. Auflage, S. 49–70). Shaker.
• Kero, S. (2023). Jung, weiblich und extrem rechts. Die narrative Kommunikation weiblicher Akteurinnen auf Instagram. easy social sciences, 69, 2836. https://doi.org/10.15464/EASY.2023.10
• Kero, S., & Schmitt, J. B. (2023). Narrativ, kreativ – immersiv? Das immersive Potenzial rechtsextremer Kommunikation in den sozialen Medien. Projekt Immersive Demokratie. https://www.metaverse-forschung.de/2023/11/09/narrativ-kreativ-immersiv-das-immersive-potenzial-rechtsextremer-kommunikation-in-den-sozialen-medien/
• Rau, J., Kero, S., Hofmann, V., Dinar, C., & Heldt, A. P. (2022). Rechtsextreme Online-Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten: Herausforderungen und Interventionsmöglichkeiten aus Sicht der Rechtsextremismus- und Platform-Governance-Forschung. Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institut. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.78072
• Eickelmann, J., Einwächter, S. G., Gregor, F. T., Hanstein, U., & Kero, S. (2022). Kamera an, Kamera aus? Ein Gespräch über Sichtbarkeiten in der Videostream-basierten Lehre. https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/18121