The EAHP Board, elected for three-year terms, oversees the association’s activities. Comprising directors responsible for core functions, it meets regularly to implement strategic goals. Supported by EAHP staff, the Board controls finances, coordinates congress organization, and ensures compliance with statutes and codes of conduct.
Affiliation
University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Country
Denmark
Current position
Dr. Lena Frischlich is an Associate Professor at and the Vice-Director of the Interdisciplinary Digital Democracy Centre at the University of Southern Denmark.
Education
Associate Prof. Dr. Frischlich studied psychology at the University of Cologne. She obtained her Diploma in Psychology in 2010. She completed her PhD in Social and Media Psychology at the same University in 2016. Between 2016 and 2017 she did her Postdoc in Digital Communication at the University of Muenster before starting her own junior research group “DemoRESILdigital: Democratic resilience in times of online propaganda, fake news, fear and hate speech” in 2018. From 2020-2021 and in 2023 she served as an interim Professor for Communication at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
Research area
Associate Prof. Dr. Frischlich’s research focuses on digital communication and the changing digital landscape. In particular, she studies how the digitization offers new opportunity structures for the staging of online propaganda and related phenomena (e.g., conspiracy narratives, disinformation, hate speech), leading to new effects of manipulation-oriented communication while, at the same time, the digitalisation also offers new possibilities for fostering democratic resilience. She studies these questions from an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective, combining quantitative, qualitative, and computational measures.
Conflict of interest
None