Studentische Hilfskraft

Is our shared information space degrading? Researching disinformation, deepfakes, and AI slop, my work looks at what synthetic content does to trust, public debate, and the platforms we rely on, whether through targeted deception or sheer scale. The two often blur: mass-produced AI content shifts what reads as normal, and that gives deliberate manipulation somewhere to hide.

To deepen our research and start giving answers, I am looking for a student assistant (Hiwi) to join our research group on Digital Democracy & Participation at the FZI in Berlin. Jonas Fegert and I are interested in one of two profiles. The first is literature and concepts: reading the current research, coding and sorting sources, sharpening definitions, and writing. The second is data and empirics: collecting platform and social media data, building processing pipelines, and running statistical analysis (panel data, text-as-data, image analysis) in R or Python.

What matters most is curiosity about AI-generated content and its effect on public life, along with the drive to dig into it. A background in Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) is great, but most adjacent fields work too (political science, media and communication studies, sociology, computer science)!

Full posting here: https://karriere.fzi.de/Vacancies/1244/Description/1