Digital disruption and disinformation: challenges to institutional legitimacy and trustworthiness (DiDis)
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DiDis: The project
The project "Digital disruption and disinformation: challenges to institutional legitimacy and trustworthiness" systematically examines the repercussions of digital induced information disruption for political institutions, their trustworthiness and legitimacy. This project will empirically analyze these questions regarding four dimensions of information (provision, acquisition, dissemination, and accuracy). It will expand knowledge on the disruption of the digital public sphere and on the impact of this disruption on the institutional dimension of democracy.
Principal Investigators

Professorin
NameMs Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer
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Besucheradresse:
von-Gerber-Bau, GER/245 Bergstraße 53
01069 Dresden
Deutschland
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Office hours:
Mittwoch, 9–10 Uhr, Büro GER/245. Anmeldung ist nicht nötig.

Vodafone Chair TUD
NameMr Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fettweis
Mobile Communication Systems
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Employees
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Research Associate
NameMs Sophie Noack M.A.
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Publications
2025
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Security, Privacy, and Resilience Controls for the 6G End-to-End System Developed in Hexa-X-II , 3 Jun 2025, 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit). Poznan, Poland, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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The Role of Oscillator Phase Noise in Maximizing Transceiver Energy Efficiency , 2025, 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
2024
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Internet Control and Disinformation Across Regime Types During and After the Covid‐19 Crisis , 18 Nov 2024, In: Politics and Governance. 12, 21 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Conceptualizing Disruption: Political Science , 7 Aug 2024, In: Insights into Disruption. 1, 1Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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The international order and autocratization , May 2024, The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. Croissant, A. & Tomini, L. (eds.). 1 ed., Routledge, London, p. 239-250Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
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Toward an AI-Enabled Connected Industry: AGV Communication and Sensor Measurement Datasets , Apr 2024, In: IEEE communications magazine. 62, 4, p. 90-95, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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On the Timing Synchronization for Receivers with Temporally Oversampled 1-bit Quantization , 19 Mar 2024, WSA 2024 – Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Smart Antennas. Uhle, T. (ed.). IEEE, p. 38-44, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Measuring democracy: capturing waves of democratization and autocratization , 12 Jan 2024, Handbook on Measuring Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 288-303, 16 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
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System-oriented Learning: An Efficient DNN Learning Approach for Koopman Bilinear Representation with Control , 2024Research output: Contribution to conferences > Paper
2023
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Communication and democratic erosion: The rise of illiberal public spheres , Dec 2023, In: European Journal of CommunicationResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article