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Dr. Rainer Freudenthaler is an academic staff member and researcher at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) and the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim. He holds a PhD from the University of Mannheim (2021), focusing on online media debates surrounding Germany’s refugee policy. His research emphasizes democratic public spheres, online media dynamics, and automated content analysis, particularly examining bias in news media regarding ethnic and religious minorities.
Education:
- Bachelor’s in Media Economics (Stuttgart Media University)
- Master’s in Media and Communication Studies (University of Mannheim)
- PhD in Media and Communication Studies (University of Mannheim, 2021)
Research Interests:
- Democratic public sphere conditions and online counterpublics
- Role of traditional vs. alternative media in societal discourse
- Automated content analysis methodologies
- Racial and cultural bias in journalistic reporting
Key Project Collaboration: Implicit and Explicit Racism in News and Social Media with Prof. Wessler, Dr. Müller, Dr. Chan, and Katharina Ludwig, applying machine learning to analyze media bias.
Publications focus on media analysis methodologies, political communication dynamics, and online discourse patterns, with recent work emphasizing synthetic news corpora validation and toxic online engagement trends.
Methodological Expertise: Automated content analysis, machine learning applications in media studies, and computational social science techniques.
