Visiting Period: 15 June – 7 July 2024
Rita Gsenger is a research associate in the Research Group “Norm Setting and Decision-Making Processes”. She is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at Free University Berlin under Prof. Dr. Christoph Neuberger. Her research focuses on issues of platform regulation, content moderation, evidence-based regulation, and the structural background of disinformation and conspiracy theories, as well as their countermeasures.
Rita Gsenger studied cultural and social anthropology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. This was followed by an MA in Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck and an MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna, both with distinction. In addition, Rita Gsenger was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from 2018-2021. Since May 2021 she was a research associate in the research group “Frameworks for Data Markets” at the Weizenbaum Institute and since September 2022 she is part of the research group “Standard Setting and Decision Processes”.
She won the Best Paper Award at HICSS 2023 for the paper “German Federal Election on Social Media: Analyzing Electoral Risks Created by Twitter and Facebook” and gave a presentation on funding conspiracy theories at re:publica 2023.