Carolin-Theresa Ziemer

Carolin-Theresa Ziemer is a communication scientist at the Institute of Communication Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Ziemer's research addresses disinformation and misinformation, with work examining how social identity shapes susceptibility to pro-Kremlin strategic narratives, particularly among Germans of Russian descent in East Germany. Other areas of inquiry include inoculation as a counter-disinformation strategy, media exposure, and public disagreement with scientific expertise, as illustrated by work on pandemic denial during COVID-19. Ziemer has also contributed theoretical work on zone-flooding and public confusion, drawing on signal detection theory to model how information environments affect belief formation.