Englisches Seminar

Mara Precoma, M.A.

Research Fellow

Contact

mara.precomaspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
Phone: (+49) (0)7071 29-76707
Office Hours: per e-mail appointment
Room: 557
Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen

Mara Precoma is a PhD candidate in Media Studies and a research fellow at the American Studies Department at the University of Tübingen. She studied Interdisciplinary American Studies at the University of Tübingen and the University of Washington, Seattle, and received a Master of Arts in Social Sciences as part of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg and FLACSO Argentina in 2021. Currently, she is responsible for the project administration of the CHANSE-funded collaborative research project “Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories” (REDACT), and conducts research for the German subproject. In her PhD project, tentatively titled “Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in German-Language Online Environments,” she investigates the discursive constitution of conspiracy theories on German-language alternative news websites with a focus on conspiracist knowledge configurations concerning climate and the environment, immigration and multiculturalism as well as gender and sexuality.

Academic Career

since 2022
PhD Candidate

University of Tübingen

2021
Master of Arts in Social Sciences

the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg and FLACSO Argentina

REDACT-Project


The CHANSE-funded project "Researching Europe, Digitilisation and Conspiracy Theory (REDACT)" analyzes how digitalization shapes the form, content, and consequences of conspiracy theories, including online sociality and offline actions and effects. Rather than see digitalisation as a process that has universal outcomes, or conspiracy theories as the same over space and time, REDACT considers online conspiracy theories and counter-publics in different European regions (Western Europe, Central Europe, the Baltics, and the Balkans) in order to make robust and nuanced recommendations about conspiracy theories — a particularly durable form of mis- and disinformation — for policy makers, media regulators, fact-checking and extremism-monitoring organisations, as well as the internet companies themselves.

Research Interests

"Everything is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in German-Language Online Environments" (working title, PhD thesis)

Workshops and political education

  • Teamerin der Berghof Foundation. Durchführung von Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts #vrschwrng an Schulen in Baden-Württemberg, 2023-heute.
  • "Verschwörungstheorien“. Vortrag und Workshop im Rahmen der Demokratiekonferenz der Partnerschaft für Demokratie in Ostfildern, 16.11.2023.

Teaching

Summer Semester 2022