➥  Manual and automated content analysis
➥  Experimental research
➥  Political communication

Sebastian is a predoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna and is also part of the H2020 project OPTED (Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies: A European research infrastructure), led by Hajo Boomgaarden. His research interest include manual and automated quantitative content analysis, experimental research, and political communication. He gained his Master's degree from the University of Vienna in 2018 with a thesis investigating the influence of political ideology on the susceptibility to fake news.