Dr. Shota Gelovani

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.