Andrich, Aliya

Aliya Andrich graduated the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) with a specialist degree in media and journalism. As a part of her exchange year (2013-2014), she participated in the international honours programme for advanced students in journalism and media studies at the Hogeschool Utrecht (the Netherlands) and the Danish School of Media and Journalism (Denmark). From 2016 to 2018 she pursued a master's degree in Media and Communication Science at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. Her master's thesis "Investigating Effects of Virtual Sun Movements and Mental Workload on Time Judgments In and After Virtual Reality" was devoted to the research on human factors and virtual reality.

During her studies, she worked as a research assistant with the Virtual Worlds and Digital Games research group with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Broll. Aliya Andrich supports Jun.-Prof. Dr. Emese Domahidi with research on digital media use and its implications on individuals and society.

I focus on the acquisition, processing, and transformation of large-scale unstructured data. My research involves programming and applying advanced computational methods, such as machine learning and deep learning, to identify patterns and biases in various fields, primarily political communication. I am skilled in statistical modeling, with a particular focus on longitudinal and time-series analysis. In addition, my research expertise extends to human-computer interaction, specifically examining how the design and use of computer technologies affect users' health and safety.

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9918-7535

Andrich, A., Bachl, M., & Domahidi, E. (2025). Do Women Write More About Women? The Impact of Journalist Gender on the Media Visibility of Female and Male Politicians. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 73(3). 386–403. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2025-3-386

Yu, J., Andrich, A., & Schindler, M. (2025). Two Decades of Gender Differences in Pornography Research Topics. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03175-6. 

Andrich, A. (2025). Beyond Neutrality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender, Party, and Media Visibility in the Tone of US Political Coverage. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251318187

Andrich, A., Weidner, F., & Broll, W. (2024). Tick-tock: Revisiting the Influence of Zeitgebers and Cognitive Load on Time Judgments during and after VR Immersion. Proceedings of Mensch Und Computer 2024, 360–369.https://doi.org/10.1145/3670653.3670667  

Andrich, A., Weidner, F., & Broll, W. (2023). Zeitgebers, Time Judgments, and VR: A Constructive Replication Study. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) (pp. 1-2). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct60411.2023.00007

Andrich, A., & Domahidi, E. (2023). Still facing the ‘paper ceiling’? Exploring gender differences in political news coverage of the last decade. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231215194

Andrich, A., Bachl, M., & Domahidi, E. (2023). Goodbye, Gender Stereotypes? Trait Attributions to Politicians in 11 Years of News Coverage. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221142248

Andrich, A., Bachl, M., & Domahidi, E. (2025, June 12–16). Do Women Write More About Women? Investigating the Impact of Journalist Gender on the Media Visibility of U.S. Politicians [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 75th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Stoll, A., Yu, J., Andrich, A., & Domahidi, E. (2025, June 12–16). Classification Bias of LLMs in Detecting Incivility Towards Female Politicians in German Social Media Discourse [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 75th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Andrich, A. (2024, September 24–27). Beyond neutrality: A longitudinal analysis of gender and party dynamics in the tone of US political media reporting [Paper presentation]. 10th ECREA European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Stoll, A., Yu, J., Andrich, A., & Domahidi, E. (2024, September 24–27). Incivility against female politicians on YouTube and X [Paper presentation]. 10th ECREA European Communication Conference, Ljubljana,

Andrich, A. (2024, September 18–20). Beyond Neutrality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender, Party, and Media Visibility in the Tone of US Political Coverage.Vortrag auf der Fachgruppentagung Methoden der DGPuK, Hamburg, Germany.

Stoll, A., Andrich, A., Yu, J., & Domahidi, E. (2024, September 18–20). Bias in LLM-Based Classification - Limits in Detecting Various Incivility Towards Female Politicians on Social Media. Vortrag auf der Fachgruppentagung Methoden der DGPuK, Hamburg, Germany.

Andrich, A. (2024). Beyond Neutrality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender and Party Dynamics in the Tone of US Political Media Reporting. 6th International Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (COMPTEXT), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Andrich, A., Domahidi, E., & Bachl, M. (2022, May 26–30). Goodbye, Gender Stereotypes. Measuring Candidate Trait Associations in 12 Years of News Coverage [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 72nd Annual Meeting, Paris, France.

Andrich, A., & Domahidi, E. (2022, May 26–30). Gender Differences in Political News: Examining Changes Over Time [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 72nd Annual Meeting, Paris, France.

Domahidi, E., & Andrich, A. (2022, May 26–30). Gender Bias against Female Politicians [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 72nd Annual Meeting, Paris, France.

Andrich, A., & Domahidi, E. (2021, April 7–9). Incompetent Hillary, Narcissistic Trump? Gender Stereotyping of Politicians on Facebook [Paper presentation]. Tri-national meeting for communication science (DACH21), Zurich, Switzerland.

Domahidi, E., & Iskenderova, A. (2020, March 10–12). Kommentare und Videos über Lügenpresse-Vorwürfe in YouTube [Paper presentation]. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft 65th Annual Meeting, Munich, Germany.

Iskenderova, A., & Domahidi, E. (2019, May 24–28). Bias in Algorithms and Algorithmic Filtering in Online Media: Systematic Review [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 69th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA.

Iskenderova, A., & Domahidi, E. (2018, December 5–7). Systematic Literature Review on Bias in Algorithmic Filtering [Symposium]. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. 2018: Bias and Discrimination, Cologne, Germany.