Sophia Egbert
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PhD Candidate
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Sophia Egbert is a doctoral candidate under Prof. Dr. Juliane Lischka in the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies within the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. She is also a member of the team Audience Intelligence & Infrastructure at the news magazine DER SPIEGEL, where she works on product development. In her research, Ms Egbert focuses in particular on the automated recommendation of news content, combining academic research with industry practice.
Curriculum Vitae
| Seit 11/2023 | Doktorandin an der Professur für Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft, insbesondere Digitaler Journalismus, Universität Hamburg |
| 10/2020 - 09/2022 | M.A. Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement, Hochschule Macromedia Hamburg |
| 10/2016 - 08/2020 | B.A. Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Management, Hochschule Osnabrück |
Publikationen
Sophia Egbert and Henning Bumann (2026): Bridging Academia and Industry: A Collaborative Approach for Developing a Responsible News Recommender System. ACM Trans. Recomm. Syst. Just Accepted (February 2026). https://doi.org/10.1145/3797027
Sophia Egbert, Stefanie M. Störtebek, and Juliane A. Lischka (2026): To Explain or Not to Explain? An Empirical Investigation into Users’ Information Needs in News Recommender Systems and Its Impact on User Engagement. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 244–252. https://doi.org/10.1145/3774935.3806163
Sophia Egbert & Christian Rudeloff (2023): Employees as Corporate Influencers: Exploring the Impacts of Parasocial Interactions on Brand Equity and Brand Outcomes, International Journal of Strategic Communication: https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2023.2231922