Dr. Emilija Gagrčin is a Research Associate in Media and Communication Studies at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Teresa Naab. She completed her Ph.D. at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and the Free University of Berlin in 2023, where she examined political participation and citizenship norms in social media environments.
Dr. Gagrčin researches political media use, with a particular focus in how the social, normative, and infrastructural dimensions of digital political communication shape the norms and competencies essential for democratic societies. Her current interest is in the dual role of digital communication in strengthening and challenging citizens’ democratic resilience. In her research, Dr. Gagrčin employs a diverse set of qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews, content and discourse analyses, surveys, and social network analysis.
Dr. Emilija Gagrčin is affiliated with the Digital Political Inequality Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Weizenbaum Panel research group at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, and the ERC Projektgruppe PREPARE at the University of Bergen.
Emilija Gagrčin currently serves as Chair of the managing board of YECREA, the network for early-career scholars within the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Previously, she spent several years as the Early-Career Scholars Representative in the Management Team of ECREA's Political Communication Section. YECREA aims to give early-career scholars within ECREA a voice and provide young researchers with an international network.
Publications
- Gagrčin, E. & Moe, H. (2024). Defending democracy: Prioritizing the study of epistemic inequalities. Political Communication, 41(5), 870–876. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2377990
- Gagrčin, E., Naab, T. K. & Grub, M. F. (2024). Algorithmic media use and algorithm literacy: An integrative literature review. New Media & Society, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241291137
- Lane, D. S., Overbye-Thompson, H. & Gagrčin, E. (2024). The story of social media: Evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication : JCMC, 29(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad039
- Gagrčin, E. (2023). ‘Who, if not me?’ How political self-categorizations shape the meaning of political self-expression on social media as a citizenship norm. Information, Communication & Society : ICS, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2174792
- Gagrčin, E. & Butkowski, C. (2023). Out of sight, out of mind? Qualitative methods in political communication research. Political Communication Report, 27, 1–6.
- Gagrčin, E. & Milzner, M. (2023). “Intervening is a good thing but...”: The role of social norms in users' justifications of (non-) intervention against incivility. Social media + society : SM + S, 9(3), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231186561
- Gagrčin, E., Ohme, J., Buttgereit, L. & Grünewald, F. (2023). Datafication markers: Curation and user network effects on mobilization and polarization during elections. Media and Communication, 11(3), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i3.6641
- Gagrčin, E. & Porten-Cheé, P. (2023). Between individual and collective social effort: Vocabularies of informed citizenship in different information environments. International Journal of Communication : IJoC, 17, 1510–1529.
- Lane, D. S., Molina-Rogers, N. & Gagrčin, E. (2023). Worn out & tuned out: does politics fatigue on social media foster participatory inequality among Americans? Mass Communication and Society, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2289650
- Schaetz, N., Gagrčin, E., Toth, R. & Emmer, M. (2023). Algorithm dependency in platformized news use. New Media & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231193093
- Gagrčin, E. (2022). Your social ties, your personal public sphere, your responsibility: How users construe a sense of personal responsibility for intervention against uncivil comments on Facebook. New Media & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221117499
- Gagrčin, E., Porten-Cheé, P., Leißner, L., Emmer, M. & Jørring, L. (2022). What makes a good citizen online? The emergence of discursive citizenship norms in social media environments. Social media + society : SM + S, 8(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221084297