Ruta Kaskeleviciute is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna since August 2019. She studied journalism and communication science at the University of Vienna, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences (Helsinki, Finland) and University of Valencia (Spain). Her main research interests include media contents and effects, media psychology, political communication, and empirical methods.

Awards & Acknowledgements

• 2023, August
  Second Place Faculty Paper Award for the paper "'I stand up for us'. Muslims' feelings of stigmatization in response to terrorism on social media", Religion & Media Interest Group, AEJMC annual convention, Washington, D.C., USA. (co-authors: Helena Knupfer & Jörg Matthes).

• 2023, May
  ICA Top Student Poster Award for the paper "Femicides in the news: Effects of victims' and perpetrators' nationality on victim blaming and fear of victimization" (as a co-author of Phelia Weiß, Helena Knupfer, & Jörg Matthes).

• 2023, May
  Top Poster Award for the paper "Femicides in the news: Effects of victims' and perpetrators' nationality on victim blaming and fear of victimization", Journalism Studies Division (as a co-author of Phelia Weiß, Helena Knupfer, & Jörg Matthes).

• 2022, August
  First Place Faculty Paper Award for the paper "Silent sympathy: News attention, subtle support for far-right extremism, and negative attitudes toward Muslims", Religion & Media Interest Group, AEJMC annual convention, Detroit, USA (as a co-author of Helena Knupfer & Jörg Matthes).

• 2021, August
  First Place Faculty Paper Award for the paper "Who says 'Muslims are not terrorists'? News differentiation, Muslim vs. non-Muslim sources, and attitudes toward Muslims", Religion & Media Interest Group, (virtual) AEJMC annual convention (co-authors: Helena Knupfer & Jörg Matthes).

• 2020, August
  Top 2 Paper Award for the paper "'They are amongst us': News about terror, perceptions of sleeper terrorists, and negative stereotypes toward Muslims", Religion & Media Interest Group, (virtual) AEJMC annual convention (co-author: Jörg Matthes).