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Chair of Digital Governance

Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis

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Beate Geiger-Heß
Dipl.-Oec. (Univ.)

Office: H.209
Phone: +49 (0)89 907793 380
E-Mail: beate.geiger-hess@tum.de

News

Tue., 21 November, 2023
A Workshop hostet by the Tum Think Tank and this chair covered topics ranging from TikTok's moderation controversies to the future of "free" speech in academia, offering insights and solutions for promoting healthier online discourse. For more click here.

Mon, 27 February, 2023
Yannis Theocharis speaks at the Alan Turing Institute London. Watch the video here.

Fri, 3 February 2023
Jan Zilinsky was interviewed for ZEIT ONLINE. The interviewer Christoph Drösser asks about a study regarding the Russian influence on the US presidential election 2016 via Twitter. The whole interview can be read here.

Mon., 9 January 2023
Jan Zilinsky is coauthor of the article "Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior" (Eady et al. 2023), which was published in nature communications on 09 Jan 2023.

Mon., 12 December 2022
Yannis and Spyros Kosmidis published a new article based on their research on toxicity and censorship on social media in the greek daily newspaper “Kathimerini”.
Read the article here.

Fri., 02 December 2022
The article published in the Monkey Cage section of the Washington Post, "Do Twitter users want Musk to censure or ban offensive or threatening posts? - That depends on which group the tweets are attacking, our research suggests" addresses research by Yannis Theocharis, Spyros Kosmidis, Franziska Pradel and Jan Zilinsky on attitudes towards regulation of offensive language online.

Mon., 29 November 2022
Soyeon Jin and Yannis Theocharis are coauthors of the article "Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels worries about COVID-19: a cross-country, multi-method investigation" (Matthes et al. 2022).

Fri., 7 Ocotober 2022
BR24 discusses Aiwanger's confrontational Twitter behavior and Yannis Theocharis contextualizes it. Read more here.

Mon., 26 September 2022
In an article by NiemanLab, Yannis Theocharis explains why uncivil posts in social media attract attention and how social media companies can prevent this.

Wed., 21 September 2022
The Washington Post (Monkey Cage section) published an article co-authored by Jan Zilinsky.

Thu., 8 September 2022
Yannis Theocharis is involved in a research project on non-transparent moderation procedures on social media platforms that is funded by the Max Planck Humboldt Research Award 2022.

Wed., 7 September 2022
Yannis Theocharis is coauthor of "The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries" (Zoizner et al.).
It was published September 4th in Political Communication.

Tue., 20 August 2022
Jan Zilinsky is coauthor of the paper "Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship"
He published the article together with Seo-Young Silvia Kim in "Political Behavior".

Sat., 28 May 2022
72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference (Paris)
Soyeon Jin, Shota Gelovani and Yannis Theocharis presented papers at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Paris. More details in the news section.

Fri., 6 May 2022
4th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2022 (Dublin, Ireland).
Soyeon Jin presented her article in the panel "Social Media and Public Discourse" and Shota Gelovani presented an article from him and colleagues in the panel "Social Media and Rhetoric".

Tue., 22 February 2022
Jan Zilinsky co-authored the publication "Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy" in Political Analysis.

Thur., 20 January 2022
Dennik N published Jan Zilinsky’s op-ed about content moderation on social media platforms

Sat., 09 October 2021
New Publication by Prof. Theocharis, Soyeon and colleagues: "Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries" in New Media & Society.

Fri., 1 October 2021
Jan Zilinsky joined the chair as a Postdoc. We are happy to have you, Jan!

Wed., 1 September 2021
Franziska Pradel is starting as a Postdoc at the Chair.
Welcome Franziska!

Tue., 27 July 2021
Politics
New Publication by Prof. Theocharis and colleagues: "Revisiting norms of citizenship in times of democratic change"

Wed., 21 July 2021
Digital Journalism
New Publication by Prof. Theocharis and colleagues: "Does a Crisis Change News Habits?"

Tue., 22 June 2021
The Council for European Studies (CES)
Presentation by Soyeon Jin on her working paper: "Ethic symbolitc boundaries contestedness, strength, and issue salience".

June 2021
European Parliament
Publication of the working paper on "AI and the Future of Democracy“ following the AIDA/INGE public hearing, in which Prof. Theocharis participated.

Wed., 19 May 2021
European Journal of Political Research
New Publication by Prof. Theocharis and colleagues: "Elite‐public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign"

Tue., 18 May 2021
Nieman Foundation at Harvard
The Nieman Lab write an article about a publication by Prof. Theocharis and colleagues.

Mon., 17 May 2021
International Communication Association (ICA 2021)
Prof. Yannis Theocharis and colleagues were awarded the Top Paper Award at the ICA 2021.

Wed., 12 May 2021
The International Journal of Press/Politics
New Publication by Prof. Theocharis and colleagues: "Navigating High-choice European Political Information Environments"

Mon., 26 April 2021
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
New Publication by Prof. Theocharis and de Moor: "Creative Participation and the Expansion of Political Engagement"

Thur., 15 April 2021
European Parliament AIDA
Prof. Yannis Theocharis speaks at the European Parliament’s “Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age” (AIDA) event “AI and the Future of Democracy”

Wed., 17 Februar 2021
The New York Times
Democracy Is Weakening Right in Front of Us
Prof. Theocharis is quoted on the role of social media in weakening democracy

Sun., 18 January 2021
Kathimerini
Νόμισμα με δύο όψεις (Every coin has two sides)
Article by Prof. Theocharis

Thu., 7 January 2021
Washington Post
This explains how social media can both weaken and strengthen democracy
Article by Prof. Theocharis and colleagues