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Researcher Profile

Elena Broda

WP IV
PhD student
The Department of Journalism, Media and Communication
University of Gothenburg
Elena Broda is a PhD student at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg. Coming from a background in Political Science, her main research interests lay within the area of political communication. Her work centers around cognitive and emotive drivers of susceptibility to misinformation as well as its effects in terms of attitudinal development and polarization in relation to media use.

Selected Publications

Damstra, A., Boomgaarden, H. G., Broda, E., Lindgren, E., Strömbäck, J., Tsfati, Y., & Vliegenthart, R. (2021). What Does Fake Look Like? A Review of the Literature on Intentional Deception in the News and on Social Media. Journalism Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1979423