Institute of Communication and Media Studies (icmb)

Current Research Projects

Swiss National Science Foundation

Algorithm audit of the impact of user- and system-side factors on web search bias in the context of federal popular votes in Switzerland (2023-2027) Mykola Makhortykh, Vihang Jumle, Maryna Sydorova, Victoria Vziatysheva

BAKOM, Foundations, University

Elections through the lens of Google Auditing web search results in the context of 2023 elections in Switzerland (2023-2025) Mykola Makhortykh, Tobias Rohrbach, Maryna Sydorova, Ani Baghumyan; BAKOM
Corporate newsrooms Exploring perceptions and experiences of newsroom structures in corporate contexts (2023-2024) Mykola Makhortykh, Tobias Rohrbach, Silke Adam; Corporate Newsroom
Algorithmic turn in Holocaust memory transmission: Challenges, opportunities, threats (2022-2026) Mykola Makhortykh; Alfred Landecker Foundation
Preparing the mainstream media for the next pandemic – when does mainstream media content foster belief in conspiracy theories? (2022 – 2024) Silke Adam, Chiara Valli, Mykola Makhortykh, Beatrice Eugster, Ernesto De Leon, Franziska Barbara Keller; MCID