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Laia Castro Herrero

I am a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Media Systems and Media Structures at University of Fribourg and a PhD student at the National Center of Competence in Research Democracy at University of Zürich. My primary areas of research include Comparative Political Communication, Media Bias, Media Use and Effects, Political Attitudes and Behavior, Media Systems and Media Structures. I have been student and project assistant at University of Zurich, and studied Political Science at University Pompeu Fabra (BA) and Political Communication and Marketing at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (MA). For more than seven years I have also worked as a political advisor and assistant at several Catalan institutions.

You can also see my cv in here and visit my profiles at Unifr, at NCCR Democracy, and at UniZürich.

Peer-reviewed articles

2017 The Virtue of Moderation:A Cross-National Analysis of Exposure to Cross-Cutting Information and Turnout.

(with Hopmann, D.N.)

Accepted for publication at International Journal of Public Opinion Research

2017 Rethinking Hallin and Mancini Beyond the West: An Analysis of Media Systems in Central and Eastern Europe

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(with Humprecht, E., Engesser, S., Brüggemann, M.,Büchel, F.)

Accepted for publication at International Journal of Communication

2016 Parties, Ideology, and News Media in Central- Eastern and Western Europe: A Comparison of Media Bias 20 Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain.

(with Hopmann, D.N., Engesser, S.)

East European Politics & Societies

2016 Building Empirical Typologies with QCA: Towards a Classification of Media Systems.

(with Büchel, F., Humprecht, E., Engesser, S., Brüggemann, M.)

The International Journal of Press/Politics

2014 Hallin and Mancini Revisited: Four Empirical Types of Western Media Systems.

(with Brüggemann, M., Engesser, S., Büchel, F., Humprecht, E.)

Journal of Communication

My coauthors

Michael Brüggemann

Florin Büchel

Sven Engesser

David Nicolas Hopmann

Teaching

Spring semester 2017 Seminar with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Media Industries: Between Culture and Commerce" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Fall semester 2016 Vorlesung with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Comparing Media Landscapes" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Spring semester 2016 Seminar with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Journalism in the 21st Century: Chronicle

of a Death Foretold?" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Fall semester 2015 Vorlesung with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Comparing Media Landscapes" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Spring semester 2015 Vorlesung with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Media Systems & Media Structures" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Fall semester 2014 Seminar with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Mr. Gates Isn't Calling the Shots Anymore: The Influence of News Organizations and Routines on Journalism" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Spring semester 2014 Vorlesung with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Media Systems & Media Structures" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Fall semester 2013 Seminar with Prof. Manuel Puppis "Media Crisis - Policy Solutions?" (Master Degree, University of Fribourg)

Activities and Memberships

Member of ICA

Member of ECREA

Member of SGKM

Member of GISME

Member of Political Scientists Association of Catalonia

Reviewer for International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Communication, Media and Communication, Studies in Communication Sciences, the Political Communication Section of ECREA, ICA and SGKM.

Other interests

Playing piano, reading drama, watching TV series

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