Marc Ziegele

Marc Ziegele (PhD, University of Mainz) is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He leads various projects that investigate the potentials of human and AI-assisted interventions for increasing the quality of political online discussions. His research on journalism, online user discussions, and media trust has been published in international journals, such as the Journal of Communication and Communication Research. Due to his persistent commitment to a better discussion culture online, one journalist affectionately gave him the name "Dr. Troll".