Michaela Forrai
Michaela Forrai is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna and a member of the Vienna Media Change and Innovation Lab (VMCI). In her dissertation, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Desirée Schmuck, she focuses on young people’s interactions with communicative artificial intelligence agents (e.g., ChatGPT and Replika) and how this relates to their well-being. Further research interests generally concern the areas of media change and media innovation, media psychology, and health communication, such as (social) media use and well-being/mental health/suicide prevention.