
Dr. Florian Wintterlin
Department of Communications
Room: 222a
Bispinghof 9-14
D-48151 Münster
Phone: +49 251 83-24279
florian.wintterlin@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours
by appointment
Department of Communications
Room: 222a
Bispinghof 9-14
D-48151 Münster
Phone: +49 251 83-24279
florian.wintterlin@uni-muenster.de
by appointment
PropStop (05/2016 - 04/2019)
PropStop is a project funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) that aims at studying hidden propaganda disseminations via online media, in order to identify and prove accordant attempts. Throughout the project an interdisciplinary team of statisticians, communication scientists, IT-security researchers, journalists and IT-security companies works together. Besides a large-scale examination of propaganda characteristics online, huge quantities of public opinion statements in different areas of the digital public sphere will be analyzed for repeated semantic and technical patterns. The insights gained throughout the project will be used to enhance our detection of massive, hidden propaganda attacks, to develop technologies to identify these attacks, and to improve our abilities to verify propaganda attacks. Real-time simulations of massive hidden propaganda attacks will provide meaningful insights into the transdisciplinary applicability of the gained findings.
After finishing his studies in communication science and his doctoral thesis on the trustworthiness of social media sources as perceived by journalists in Münster, Florian Wintterlin joined the research division “online communication” at the Institute for Communication Studies in January 2018. He now works in a project on “recognition, proof and combating of covert propaganda attacks via online media”.
Apart from research on journalism, he also conducts studies in political communication and trust in news media. His specific interest lies in the perception of user-generated content as a source and the effects of social media on political trust.