Emilija Gagrčin was a YECREA representative of the Political Communication Section before becoming a member of the YECREA management team.
She completed her PhD in Political Communication in 2023 at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and is currently an assistant professor at University of Bremen. Before that, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen.
She researches political media use, with a particular focus in how the social, normative, and infrastructural dimensions of digital political communication shape the norms and competencies essential for democratic societies. Her current interest is in the dual role of digital communication in strengthening and challenging citizens’ democratic resilience.
Emilija is also affiliated with the Digital Political Inequality Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) and the Weizenbaum Panel research group at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin (Germany), and the ERC Projektgruppe PREPARE at the University of Bergen (Norway).