Ass.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr Viorela Dan

Focal points

• Political communication
• Journalism
• Strategic Communication
• Visual Communication
• Impact research

Research projects

• 2021 LMU Excellent | LMU Munich "Fake Videos in the Digital Era" (49,480 EUR)
• 2021 Center for Advanced Studies (CASLMU) "The effects of deepfakes on politics and society" (16,500 EUR)
• 2019-2021 Central Michigan University "Framing and journalistic roles in Chinese news" (4,000 EUR)
• 2019-2020 AEJMC Emerging Scholar Grant "Verbal-Visual Mismatch: The disclosure section of televised direct-to-consumer advertising and its effects on consumers" (EUR 3,000)
• 2017-2019 Strategic Partnership Initiative (Center for International Cooperation) "Informed Citizenship: How does the interaction of news images and words shape our understanding of social problems?" (EUR 17,000)
• 2016-2017 Funding line to strengthen inter-institutional research "Pharmaceutical companies: Advertising and protests" (EUR 10,000)

Research stays

• Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA (Sept. 2018)
• School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA (July-Oct. 2012, Aug.-Sept. 2013)

• Department of Communication, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway (Oct. 2009-June 2010)

Awards

• 2022 Top Faculty Paper Award (4th place) for "The Effects of Dog-Whistle Politics" (AEJMC)
• 2022 Three awards for excellent teaching (LMU Munich)
• 2021 Junior Researcher in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CASLMU)
• 2021 Top Faculty Paper Award (2nd place) for "Frames and Journalistic Roles in Chinese Reporting on HIV"(AEJMC)
• 2020 LMUexcellent (LMU Munich)
• 2020 Emerging Scholar Grant (AEJMC)
• 2018 ComSHER Article of the Year Award (2nd place) for A systematic review of frames in news reporting of health risks
• 2013 Promising Professor Award (AEJMC)
• 2012 Highly Commended Award (Emerald Literati Network)

Monographs and editorships

Dan, V., Rußmann, U., Schulz, A., & Müller, P. (2026, in preparation). Communication in election campaigns: Staggering changes or same old, same old? Special Issue in Media and Communication.

Dan, V. [VD1] (2018). Integrative framing analysis. Framing health through words and visuals.
Routledge.

Articles in scientific journals

Dan, V., & Coleman, R. (2024). 'I'll change my beliefs when I see it': Video fact checks outperform text fact checks in correcting misperceptions among those holding false or uncertain pre-existing beliefs. Communication Research.

Dan, V., & Arendt, F. (2024). Visuals as identity markers in political communication on social media: Evidence for effects of visual cues in liberals, but not in conservatives. Mass Communication and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2333404

Dan, V., & Mahlmeister, S. (2023). The boon and bane of covert advertising. Consumer perceptions of pharmaceutical companies' disease-awareness websites. European Journal of Health Communication, 4(3), 93-113. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2023.306

Dan, V. (2022). No change without some continuity: Evergreen health myths resurfacing during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated journalistic corrections. Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS), 22(1), 185-203. https://doi.org/10.24434/ j.scoms.2022.01.3067

Dan, V., & Dimitrova, D. V. (2022). Visuals' function in health risk reporting: Juxtaposing the academic conceptualisations with journalistic perceptions. Health, Risk & Society, 24(7-8), 354-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2133899

Ren, C., & Dan, V. (2022). Frames and journalistic roles in Chinese reporting on HIV: Insights from a content analysis and qualitative interviews focused on verbal and visual modalities. Journalism Studies, 23(11), 1327-1349. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2022.2084145

Dan, V. (2021). Learning from misinformation. An unconventional proposal for conceptualising corrections [Learning from misinformation. Fresh suggestions for correcting false and misleading claims]. Journalism Studies, 66(2), 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-021-00667-y

Dan, V., & Arendt, F. (2021). Visual cues to the hidden agenda: Investigating the effects of ideology-related visual subtle backdrop cues in political communication. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(1), 22-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/194016 1220936593

Dan, V., & Brosius, H.-B. (2021). The onset of habituation effects: Predicting fluctuations in news use during the COVID-19 pandemic by disease occurrence. European Journal of Health Communication, 2(3), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2021.303

Dan, V., & Dixon, G. N. (2021). Fighting the infodemic on two fronts: Reducing false beliefs without increasing polarisation. Science Communication, 43(5), 674-682. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470211020411

Dan, V., Paris, B., Donovan, J., Hameleers, M., Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., & von Sikorski, C. (2021). Visual mis- and disinformation, social media, and democracy. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(3), 641-664. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/ 10776990211035395

Dan, V., & Pauer, C. (2021). Empowered, handmaid, or rejector? The framing of low libido in women according to scholarly investigations of public communication. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1971356

Dan, V., & Rauter, D. (2021). Explanatory reporting in video format: Contrasting perceptions to those of conventional news. Journalism Practice, 15(7). https://doi.org/10.1080/ 17512786.2021.1966644

Dan, V., & Ren, C. (2021). Understanding variations in the framing of people living with HIV: A mixed-methods study of photos in Chinese news. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(1), 200-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990 20984762

Dan, V., Grabe, M. E., & Hale, B. J. (2020). Testing three measures of verbal-visual frame interplay in German news coverage of refugees and asylum seekers. International Journal of Communication, 14, 3843-3865.

Dan, V. (2018). Pharmaceutical sales force. An introduction to detailing and the responsibilities of pharmaceutical representatives [Detailing. An introduction to the responsibilities of pharmaceutical representatives]. Media Journal, 42(2), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.24989/medienjournal.v42i2.1718

Dan, V., & Raupp, J. (2018). A systematic review of frames in news reporting of health risks: Characteristics, construct consistency vs. name diversity, and the relationship of frames to framing functions. Health, Risk & Society, 20(5-6), 203-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2018.1522422

Dan, V., Osterheider, A., & Raupp, J. (2018). The diffusion of innovations in agricultural circles: An explorative study on alternative antimicrobial agents. Science Communication, 41(1), 3-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547018819159

Dan, V., & Iorgoveanu, A. (2013). Still on the beaten path: How gender impacted the coverage of male and female Romanian candidates for European office. International Journal of Press/Politics, 18(2), 208-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612124 73508

Dan, V., & Ihlen, Ø. (2011). Framing expertise. A cross-cultural analysis of success in framing contests. Journal of Communication Management, 15(4), 368-388. https://doi.org/ 10.1108/13632541111183352

Contributions to edited volumes and encyclopaedias

Engelmann, I., & Dan, V. (accepted). Gatekeeping and framing in journalistic news selection and construction. In A. Sehl & T. Hanitzsch (Eds.), Hanbuch Journalismusforschung.

Dan, V. (2022). Multimodality in journalism [Multimodality in journalism]. In M. Löffelholz & L. Rothenberger (Eds.), Handbuch Journalismustheorien [Handbook of journalism theories] (pp. 1-10). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32153-6_37-1

Dan, V. (2022). Pharmaceutical advertising. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0580

Dan, V. (2022). Pharmaceutical lobbying. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0581

Brosius, H.-B., & Dan, V. (2020). Framing in news journalism [News framing]. In T. Köhler (Ed.), Fake News, Framing, Fact-Checking (pp. 265-282). transcript.

Dan, V., Ihlen, Ø., & Raknes, K. (2019). Political public relations and strategic framing. Underlying mechanisms, success factors, and impact. In J. Strömbäck & S. Kiousis (Eds.), Political Public Relations. Concepts, Principles, and Applications (2nd ed., pp. 146-167). Routledge.

Dan, V. (2019). Audiences in the dark: Deception in pharmaceutical advertising through verbal-visual mismatches. In T. Docan-Morgan (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. Palgrave Macmillan.

Dan, V. (2019). Pharmakommunikation [The communication of pharmaceutical companies]. In C. Rossmann & M. R. Hastall (Eds.), Handbuch der Gesundheitskommunikation [Handbook of health communication]. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10948-6_9-1

Dan, V. (2018). Integrative framing analysis of television news. A methodological approach for the framing analysis of words and visuals. In P. D'Angelo (Ed.), Doing News Framing Analysis (pp. 191-220). Routledge.

Dan, V. (2018). Health risk information: Advantages and disadvantages of verbal, numerical, visual, and hybrid forms of presentation [Information about health risks: Advantages and disadvantages of verbal, numerical and visual forms of representation as well as of mixed forms]. In P. Stehr, D. Heinemeier, & C. Rossmann (Eds.), Evidence-based | evidence-informed health communication (pp. 127-141). Nomos.

Dan, V. (2018). Empirical and non-empirical methods. In J. Matthes, R. Potter, & C. S. Davis (Eds.), Wiley International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (pp. 623-625). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Dan, V. (2017). Forms of knowledge generation. Transdisciplinarity compared to mono-, multi- and interdisciplinarity [Forms of knowledge generation. Transdisciplinarity compared to mono-, multi- and interdisciplinarity]. In C. Lampert & M. Grimm (Eds.), Health communication as a transdisciplinary field of research (pp. 23-33). Nomos.

Dan, V. (2015). Patientengerichtete Werbung für verschreibungspflichtige Medikamente (DTCA) - Überblick und Forschungslücken [Direct-to-consumer Advertising for Pharmaceutical Products (DTCA) - a literature review and directions for future research]. In M. Schäfer, O. Quiring, C. Rossmann, M. Hastall, & E. Baumann (Eds.), Health communication in social change: opportunities and challenges (pp. 63-73). Nomos.

Raupp, J., & Dan, V. (2013). Impact research in strategic organisational communication. In W. Schweiger & A. Fahr (Eds.), Handbook of media impact research (pp. 353-367). VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18967-3_18

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Invited lectures

Dan. V. (2024). Election campaign in times of AI: Deepfakes vs. fact checks. Invited lecture in the lecture series "Mediale Meinungsbildung und Manipulation im Superwahljahr 2024", organised by the Department of Media, Society and Communication. 22 November 2024, Innsbruck, Austria.

Dan. V. (2024). Understanding the effects of AI-generated deepfakes. Invited lecture in the lecture series "Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence", organised by the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck. 11 December 2024, Innsbruck, Austria.

Dan, V., Piater, J., Rabitsch, A. (2023). Participation in the panel "Artificial Intelligence - Curse or Blessing?" at the Media Summit Lech. Lech, Austria.

Dan, V., Fasching-Kapfenberger, W., Fleisch, K., Schmid, V., Woltran, S. (2024). Participation in the panel "Artificial Intelligence and Society" at the event of the Austria Press Agency (APA) called "The Future of Fact Checking". 23 May 2024. https://apa.at/blog/the-future-of-fact-checking-nachlese/

Dan, V. (2024). US election campaign in times of AI: Deepfakes vs. fact checks. Invited lecture in the lecture series on the US elections 2024 called "US Politics Uncovered. Where is the USA heading?" organised by the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck and with the support of the Research Area EPoS "Economy, Politics & Society" at the University of Innsbruck. 21 November 2024, Innsbruck, Austria.

Dan, V. (2024). Media change from a visual perspective. Invited lecture at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research at LMU Munich. 17 January 2024. Munich, Germany.

Dan, V. (2023). Journalists' use and perception of visuals over time. Invited lecture at the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria.

Brennen, S., Dan, V., Powell, T., & Trilling, D. (2021). Participation in the panel "Visual Politics and the Global Pandemic" at the symposium of the International Journal of Press/Politics on Visual Politics. https://tinyurl.com/y272cezd

Dan, V. (2019). Modality interplay in political communication. Invited lecture at Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX, USA.

Dan, V. (2017). An introduction to integrative framing analysis Invited talk at Indiana University. Bloomington, IN, USA.

Dan, V. (2016). The importance of research collaborations with other disciplines and non-scientific actors from a communication studies perspective. Endnote at the Annual Conference of the Health Communication Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK). Hamburg, Germany.

Dan, V. (2016). Analysing multimodal health framing. Invited lecture at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. St. Louis, MO, USA.

Dan, V. (2014). Time management. How do I juggle it all? Invited lecture at the 2nd Young Journalists' Day of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK). Berlin, Germany.

Dan, V. (2014). Prescription drug advertising (DTCA) - A research overview. Invited lecture at the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria.

Dan, V. (2013). My approach to teaching. Invited lecture on the occasion of receiving the Promising Professor Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Washington, DC, USA.

Presentations at conferences

Dan, V. (2024, August). A systematic review of experimental research on visual framing and multimodal framing annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Philadelphia, PA.

Dan, V., & Coleman, R. (2023, August). Seeing an unlikely truth: Do video fact checks and "unlikely sources" facilitate belief correction? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Washington, DC.

Dan, V. (2023, May). Outsiders on centre stage. The potential of visuals and beats to explain the ideals-practice gap. Paper presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.*

Dan, V. (2022, September). Fact-checking in Germany. An interview study on audience perceptions, role perceptions, and the assessment of fact-checks' effectiveness. Paper presented at the joint annual meeting of the Journalism Division of the DGPuK and the Political Communication Divisions of the DGPuK, SGKM, and DVPW, Trier, Germany.

Dan, V. (2022, September). Political scandals, fabricated evidence, and journalistic fact-checking. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics. Loughborough, England.

Dan, V., & Hartmann, T. (2022, August). Embracing technological progress vs. dreading it. A three-country study of journalistic suggestions on how to respond to deepfakes. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Detroit, MI.

Dan, V., & Arendt, F. (2022, August). The effects of dog-whistle politics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Detroit, MI.

Dan, V., & Dimitrova, D. (2022, May). Visuals' function in health risk reporting: Juxtaposing the academic conceptualisation with journalistic perceptions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Dan, V., & Van Stee, S. (2022, May). Modality correspondence and visual complexity in prime-time direct-to-consumer ads for prescription drugs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Ren, C., & Dan, V. (2021). Frames and journalistic roles in Chinese reporting on HIV: Insights from a content analysis and qualitative interviews focused on the verbal and visual modalities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Dan, V. (2021). Decoding information disorders. Misinformation about the corona pandemic and journalistic denials [Deciphering information disorders. Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and journalistic corrections]. Paper presented at the Three-Country Conference of Communication Science of the DGPuK, ÖGK and SGKM.

Dan, V. (2021). Views of the virus: Representing and responding to a global pandemic. Response at the 71st annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA).

Dan, V., & Rauter, D. (2021). Explanatory journalism in video format does make all flowers bloom: evidence from a qualitative study contrasting effects to those of conventional reporting. Paper presented at the 71st annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA).

Dan, V., & Stee, S. V. (2021). The prevalence of design features known to hinder the processing of drug risks and side-effects: A content analysis of tv ads for prescription drugs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Dan, V., & Arendt, F. (2020). The effects of subtle backdrop cues in political images. Paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA).

Dan, V., & Pauer, C. (2020). Framing waned desire. A systematic review of studies on the social construction of female sexual dysfunction and lifestyle drugs/devices. Paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA)*.

Dan, V., Grabe, M. E., Hale, B. J., Raupp, J. (2019, May). Verbal-visual match: Introducing a new measure of audiovisual frame congruence. Paper presented at the 69th annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC.*

Dan, V. (2018, May). Framing in audiovisual news. Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the International Communication Association "Voices", 24-28 May 2018, Prague, Czech Republic.*

Dan, V. (2017, November). Evidence-informed presentation of health risk information: A comparison of advantages and disadvantages of verbal, numerical and visual forms of presentation. Paper presented at the second annual meeting of the der DGPuK-Division for Health Communication, Erfurt*.

Dan, V. (2017, November). The communication of pharmaceutical companies with medical staff. The difficulty of drawing the line between advertising and PR. Paper presented at the joint conference of the DGPuK-Divisions PR/Organisational Communication and Advertising, Vienna, Austria.

Dan, V., Hofer, L., & Lück, J. (2017, September). Methodological challenges for framing analyses of visual and verbal content in multimodal arrangements. Paper presented at the Pre-Conference "Grenzen und Perspektiven der Methodenentwicklung in der Kommunikationswissenschaft" to the DGPuK-Division Methodology in Communication, Mainz, Germany.

Dan, V. (2017d). Differences in health framing. An investigation into the role of target audiences' characteristics and the PSA type. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Chicago, IL.

Dan, V., Osterheider, A., & Raupp, J. (2017). The Role of Communication in Dealing with Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Paper presented at the ICA Pre-Conference Strategic Environmental Communication and Exploration of Research in Crisis, Risk and Disaster, San Diego, CA.

Dan, V. (2017c). To Allow, or to Prohibit? That is the question. User Comments and Health Campaigns. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego, CA.*

Dan, V. (2017b). Frame-Building in Health Communication. Differences in News Framing among the News/Photo Sources Used and between News Frames and Advocacy Frames. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego, CA.

Dan, V. (2017a). In Search of an Anchor Post for Framing. Paper presented at the Revitalising Concepts in Mass Communications Conference, Brussels, Belgium.

Dan, V. (2016b). The state of research on health issues. An analysis of scientific research in communication studies with regard to transdisciplinarity [Die Lage der Forschung über Gesundheitsthemen. An analysis of scientific research in communication studies with regard to transdisciplinarity]. Paper prepared for the annual conference of the Health Communication Division of the German Communication Association, Hamburg, Germany.

Dan, V., & Raupp, J. (2016a). On the Ever-growing Number of Frames in Health Communication Research: A Coping Strategy. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Minneapolis, MN. *

Dan, V. (2014). Direct-to-consumer Advertising for Pharmaceutical Products (DTCA) - a literature review [Patient-directed advertising for prescription drugs (DTCA) - overview and research gaps, in German]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Health Communication Interest Group of the German Communication Association, Mainz, Germany.

Dan, V., & Coleman, R. (2014). Coming down from the ivory tower: Visual frames of HIV/AIDS in the academic literature and broader society. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Seattle, WA. *

Dan, V., & Coleman, R. (2013). HIV/AIDS and recurrent frames as patterns of information in meaning-making: A systematic review of empirical studies. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Washington, DC. *

Dan, V., & Raupp, J. (2013). The role of framing in the verbal and visual reporting of health risks. An overview of previously identified frames and an empirical assessment of their occurrence. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Washington, DC. *

Dan, V., & Busert, L. (2013). People like you and me: how social marketing informed by visual communication research can change the views on HIV-positive people. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, London, UK. Panel: Best Student Papers Public Relations Division 2013.

Dan, V., & Raupp, J. (2012). Media framing of a health crisis. On the verbal-visual redundancy in the media coverage of the E.coli outbreak in Germany. Poster Presentation at the 4th European Communication Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

Dan, V., & Ihlen, Ø. (2011). Towards the Empirical Assessment of Complex Frames: A Method for Combining Analysis of Verbal and Visual Elements. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in Boston, USA, 26-30 May 2011.

Dan, V., & Ihlen, Ø. (2010). Framing expertise. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Success in Framing Contests. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA), Jyväskylä, Finland, 23-24 September 2010 *.

Dan, V., & Ihlen, Ø. (2010). Integrative Textual and Visual Framing Analysis in the Context of Globalisation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Hamburg, 12-15 October 2010.

Activities

since 2024 Reviewer for the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) - assessment of compliance with the IFCN Code of Principles (IFCN) by fact-checking initiatives

since 2024 Member of the Research Area EPoS "Economy, Politics & Society" at the University of Innsbruck

since 2023 Student representative of the degree programme "Media, Society & Communication" at the Department of Media, Society and Communication at the University of Innsbruck

since 2023 Engagement Editor of the journal "Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"

since 2023 Reviewer for the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) - assessment of compliance with the European Code of Standards for Independent Fact-Checking Organisations (EFCSN) by fact-checking initiatives

Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Health Communication since 2021

Member of the following professional organisations since 2011: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK), International Communication Association (ICA)

Since 2011, peer review activities for specialist journals, including Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Top Reviewer 2019), International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of Communication, Science Communication, conferences (in particular for the annual conferences of the AEJMC, DGPuK and the ICA) and third-party funding applications (Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF)

Organisation of conferences and workshops

2025 Annual conference 2025 of the specialist groups "Communication and Politics" (DGPuK), "AK Politics and Communication" (DVPW) and "Political Communication" (SGKM) on the topic "Election Campaign Communication: Completely Different or Everything the Same?" (with Uta Rußmann), 26 - 28 February 2025, Innsbruck, Austria.

2021 Lunch Talk at the Centre for Advanced Studies of the LMU Munich on the topic "Deepfakes: An Unprecedented Threat to Democracy?". May 2021, Munich, Germany.

2021 Workshop at the Center for Advanced Studies of the LMU Munich on "The reputational threat of scandalous deepfakes and their effects on voting intentions". May 2021, Munich, Germany.

2017 Workshop at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin on "Verbal and Visual Framing Analysis of TV News" (with Maria E. Grabe). July 2017, Berlin, Germany.