Dr. Shota Gelovani

Academic Staff

University of Mannheim
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
B 6, 30–32 – Room 452
68159 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-2303
Fax: +49 621 181-1399
E-mail: gelovaniuni-mannheim.de

Consultation hour(s):
By appointment via E-Mail

Dr. Shota Gelovani is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in political communication, deliberation, and human-computer interaction. Between September 2023 and June 2024, he was a fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg, where he focused on the lack of democratic listening in online discussions and an AI-based experimental platform. His postdoctoral project lies at the intersection of normative democratic theories and artificial intelligence.
Before joining the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, he was a doctoral student at the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich. Dr. Gelovani holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Mannheim, where he was a DAAD scholarship holder.

Brüggemann, M., van Eck, C., Gelovani, S., Meyer, H., Muddiman, A., Pröschel, L. & Wessler, H. (2026). What kind of depolarization should we aim for? Making communication transformative. Political Communication, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2617224
Gelovani, S. (2025). Tilting at Windmills Opportunistically: The Case of Georgian Far Right. Nationalities Papers, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2025.10086
Gelovani, S., Theocharis, Y., Koc-Michalska, K. & Bimber, B. (2025). Intergroup ethnocentrism and social media: evidence from three Western democracies. Information, Communication & Society : ICS, 28(4), 597–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2375259
Haraldsson, A., Gelovani, S., Scotto di Vettimo, M., Kalsnes, B. & Koc-Michalska, K. (2024). Citizen-produced political text: An interdisciplinary study of inequalities in research. Questions de Communication, 2024(46), 383–400. https://doi.org/10.4000/12yfj

Wessler, H., Esau, K. & Gelovani, S. (2025). Online-Öffentlichkeit(en). In W. Schweiger, K. Beck & V. Karnowski (eds.), Handbuch Online-Kommunikation (S. 1–22). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18017-1_24–1

Gelovani, S. (2023). Polarization on social media and beyond : a comparative study of how social media influence inter-group attitudes. [Doctoral dissertation, Technische Universität München].