Lena Frischlich

Dr. Lena Frischlich leads the junior research group DemoRESILdigital: Democratic Resilience in Times of Online Propaganda, Fake News, Fear- and Hate Speech at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster (WWU). She studied psychology at the University of Cologne, where she also received her doctorate in 2016. Her research examines the staging, reception and effects of propaganda and related phenomena and analyses ways of fostering democratic resilience in digital communication environments.