Welcome!

My name is Dr. Anna Sophie Kümpel, and I am a Full Professor of Communication at the Department of Media and Communication at LMU Munich, where I lead the research unit on media uses and effects.

Most of my recent projects deal with the use, dissemination, and perception of news and political information in algorithmically curated online environments, especially social media. Furthermore, I am interested in research on incivility and hate speech, particularly in questions of why users resort to incivility and what influences their perceptions of uncivil online communication. I consider myself to be an advocate for mixed methods research and routinely combine quantitative and qualitative designs to address my research questions. Also, I am very interested in questions related to Open Science and all the ways that can help us to make our research as transparent and accessible as possible.