Karoline Helbig

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Karoline Helbig
Martina Sander-Blanck

Contact

karoline.helbig [at] wzb.eu
Weizenbaum-Institut
Hardenbergstraße 32
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Visiting Researcher of the Research Group

Karoline Helbig has been a doctoral student at the Weizenbaum-Institut in the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" since March 2018. She studied sociology with a focus on "Work, Welfare, Profession" and Mathematics at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. After that she worked as a research assistant at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg in the project "The Change of Liberal Democracy in the Age of Digitalization". Her research focuses, among other things, on deliberative democracy theory in the context of digital societies.

Selected Publications

(2021): Erfolgreiche Agenda-Setter. Influencer und ihr Potenzial politischer Einflussnahme. WZB-Mitteilungen (172, Online-Supplement); https://www.wzb.eu/de/publikationen/wzb-mitteilungen/polarisierung-und-gesellschaft/erfolgreiche-agenda-setter.

with Fleuß, Dannica (2020):
Measuring Nation States' Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation.
Political Studies; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719890817; Online first.

with Fleuß, Dannica und Schaal, Gary S. (2019):
Empirische Messung digitalisierter Demokratien.Erkenntnistheoretische Herausforderungen und eine wissenschaftstheoretische Antwort.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 60 (3), S. 461-486; DOI: 10.1007/s11615-019-00186-6

with Fleuß, Dannica, und Schaal, Gary S. (2018):
Four Parameters for Measuring Democratic Deliberation.Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and how to Respond.
Politics and Governance, 6 (1), S. 11-21; DOI: 10.17645/pag.v6i1.1199

(2018):
Der Einfluss von Algorithmen auf demokratische Deliberation.
In: Resa Mohabbat Kar/Basanta Thapa/Peter Parycek (Hg.): (Un)berechenbar?, S. 339-363. Internet: https://www.oeffentliche-it.de/unberechenbar

 

CV

Since 03/2018: Research Assistant ( doctoral student ) at the Weizenbaum-Institute for the Networked Society, Research Group 12 "Democracy and Digitalization".


09/2016-02/2017: Research Assistant at the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg in the project "The Change of Liberal Democracy in the Age of Digitalization" at the Chair of Political Science, esp. political theory (G. S. Schaal).