Isabel Kusche

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY WITH FOCUS ON DIGITAL MEDIA

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Office: Feldkirchenstr. 21, Room: F21/01.45, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: isabel.kusche(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-3132
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour
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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Sociology with focus on digital media

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Isabel Kusche is interested in supervising doctoral students who wish to undertake research on political communication, digital media or democratic linkages between politicians and citizens. She supervises projects that are based on theoretical approaches and/or qualitative methods. Comparative projects are particularly welcome.

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// RESEARCH

Her research interests are the digital transformation of the public sphere, political microtargeting and other practices of digital campaigning, political polarization and the role of social media, political expectations and visions regarding artificial intelligence and other digital innovations.

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kusche, I. (2024). Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk. Journal of Risk Research, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2350720

Kusche, Isabel (2023): AI and/as risk. In: AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence, ed. By Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen. Bielefeld: transcript

Kusche, Isabel (2022): Private voting, public opinion and political uncertainty in the age of social media. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 51, S. 83–98

Kusche, Isabel (2020): The old in the new: Voter surveillance in political clientelism and datafied campaigning. In: Big Data and Society 7

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Professor Kusche's website at the Chair of Sociology with focus on digital media.

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