Kerria Drüppel, M.A.
Research Associate
Kerria Drüppel has been a research associate at the department since April 2024. As part of her doctoral studies, she focuses on news use in algorithmic curated media environments. The main focus is on the rolge of engagement behavior and algorithmic content curation for individual news consumption.
Prior to this role she worked as a student research assistant at the Computational Digital Psychology Team in the Interchange Forum „Reflecting Intelligent Systems for Diversity, Demography, and Democracy (IRIS3D)“ at the University of Stuttgart. She earned her Master's degree in "Communication Management and Analysis" (M.A.) at the University of Hohenheim, where her thesis focused on news content on TikTok. Earlier, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Science (B.A.) at the University of Hohenheim as well.
Together with Prof. Trepte she teaches the bachelor’s courses "Einführung in Forschungsmethoden" and "Medienpsychologie Profilfach Teil B" as well as the master's courses "Behavior Change".
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