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Adrian Rauchfleisch is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University.
His research focuses on politics, technology, and journalism across Asia, Europe, and the United States. He studies how the internet, social media, platform algorithms, and artificial intelligence affect journalism, politics, and society.
In 2026, he received the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan.
He is currently Principal Investigator of the National Science and Technology Council’s International Outstanding Young Scholars project (國際年輕傑出學者研究計畫), Global Perspectives on AI: Assessing Public Discourse, Opinion, and Big Tech’s Role.
His work has been published in Political Communication, New Media & Society, Political Behavior, Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Communication Research, Government Information Quarterly, Telematics and Informatics, Information, Communication & Society, among other outlets.
He is an Associate Editor of EPJ Data Science and serves on the editorial boards of New Media & Society, Communication Theory, The International Journal of Press/Politics, and Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.
He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Zurich.
Featured articles
- Andreas Jungherr, Adrian Rauchfleisch, and Alexander Wuttke (2026). Artificial intelligence in election campaigns: Perceptions, penalties, and implications. Political Communication.
- Adrian Rauchfleisch, Joshua Philip Suarez, Nikka Marie Sales, and Andreas Jungherr (2025). Winning and losing with Artificial Intelligence: What public discourse about ChatGPT tells us about how societies make sense of technological change. Telematics and Informatics.
- Adrian Rauchfleisch, Andreas Jungherr, and Alexander Wuttke (2025). Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the US and Taiwan. Telecommunications Policy.
- Andreas Jungherr and Adrian Rauchfleisch (2025). Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide. Government Information Quarterly.
- Adrian Rauchfleisch, Daniel Vogler, and Gabriele de Seta (2025). Deepfakes or synthetic media? The effect of euphemisms for labeling technology on risk and benefit perceptions. Social Media + Society.