I am Professor of Communication, Society and Social Media at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. My research interests lie at the intersection of political communication, digital media and society. I examine how social media platforms, algorithms and artificial intelligence shape political discourse, polarization and disinformation - particularly in debates on populism, migration, work and social security. Combining discourse analysis with corpus-based and computational methods, I am especially interested in how political actors, media and societal groups negotiate meaning and conflict in digital and transnational public spheres.