Karoline Helbig

Karoline Helbig is a researcher working at the intersection of digital technology, democratic theory and sociology. She earned her doctorate in 2024 from Leibniz Universität Hannover, where her research examined the influence of dgital architectures on political communication and democracy. With an academic background in sociology, democratic theory and mathematics, she has contributed to several interdisciplinary research initiatives on the effects of digitisation on democratic processes, including work at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights as a Technology and Human Rights Fellow and within research groups at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and the Weizenbaum Institute.