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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

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

Fri, 06 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. Feb. 2022
Political Analysis
Jan Zilinsky co-authored the publication "Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy" in Political Analysis.

Do, 20.01.2022
Dennik N published Jan Zilinsky’s op-ed about content moderation on social media platforms

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

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

Wed., 1. Sep. 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"

Thu., 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