Dr. Regula Fricker

Biography

Regula Hänggli is a professor of political communication at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her work primarily focuses on digital democracy, public debates, and opinion formation, emphasizing the importance of origin dialogue in shaping democratic processes. Before coming to Fribourg, she was a professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). Hänggli is a member of a temporary federal expert group addressing the digital transformation of society. She holds a PhD in Political Science with a major in Political Science and a minor in Economics from the University of Bern. Her research interests encompass political communication from a comparative perspective, institutional reforms, and digital democracy. During the fall semester of 2023, she attended the TdLab at ETH Zurich, and in the fall semester of 2018, she was a guest researcher at the Computational Social Science (COSS) Initiative at ETH Zurich. Earlier in her career, Hänggli was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, working with Prof. Dr. James Druckman, and she also studied for a semester at the University of Bergen in Norway.

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