Benita Dederichs

Benita’s interests lie in film studies, international communication, and media effects. She used social network analysis to study how centrality, based on gender, differs across film genres. She studies how international publics perceive the hard and soft power of countries, and how China’s and Taiwan’s public diplomacy efforts are reported by US and German media. She uses traditional as well as computational approaches in her research. Her publications have been accepted at ICA (International Communication Association) conferences and the APSA (American Political Science Association) conference.