Dr. Emilija Gagrčin is a research associate at the chair of Professor Dr. Teresa Naab. Until December 2022, she was a research associate at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and a PhD candidate at the Free University of Berlin at the chair of Professor Dr. Martin Emmer. She studied political participation and citizenship norms in social media environments in her dissertation.
Her research focus is on political media use. In particular, she is interested in social, normative, and infrastructural aspects of digital political communication, such as on social media and messenger apps. She focuses on norms and competencies necessary for a democratic coexistence in networked societies.
Dr. Emilija Gagrčin is affiliated with the Digital Political Inequality Lab at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the Weizenbaum Panel research group at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin. She is also a representative of Early-Career Scholars in the management team of the Political Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Conference (ECREA).
Publications
- 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