Stephanie Geise uses innovative methods to research how people perceive and process political media content via images and texts. The focus is on the question of how multimodal media messages – for example, classic news or social media posts – affect political thought and action.

Stephanie Geise received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Hohenheim on the reception of election advertising. In 2015, she obtained the Venia Legendi for media and communication studies at the University of Erfurt. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Texas at Austin before leading two research projects on media effects on political participation at WWU Münster.

At ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen, her research focus is also on innovative methods, political communication, and media effects. Here she also coordinates a DFG-funded network that reflects and further develops computational methods for the analysis of online protest.