72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference

Sat, 28. Mai 2022

Three members of the team presented articles at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Paris. Soyeon Jin presented her paper “Revisiting the Influence of Media Salience: Anti-Immigrant Sentiments, Motivation to Control Prejudice, and Stability of Attitudes” in the panel "Immigrant Acculturation, Intergenerational (Non)accommodation, and Health" and Shota Gelovani presented the paper "Cross-Country Effect of Social Media Use on Ethnocentrism: Evidence from Three Western Democracies." he wrote together with Yannis Theocharis, Karolina Koc-Michalska, and Bruce Bimber in the panel "Mediating Narratives and Imaginaries of Migrants: Ethnicity and Race in Communication".  The article is currently under review by the Political Communication journal. Yannis Theocharis coauthored for additional articles presented in the conference. "How Healthy Political Discussions Invigorate Online Participation: Evidence From 17 European Countries" (Castro et al.) in the panel "Political incivility and participation". "Structural Changes and Online Political Campaigning: A Comparison of the 2014 and 2019
European Parliament Elections" (Stier, Popa, Theocharis) in the panel "Evolution of Digital Election Campaigning". "The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries" (Zoizner et al.)in the panel "Selective and Cross-Cutting Exposure in Times of COVID-19" und "Selective and Cross-Cutting Exposure in Times of COVID-19" (Matthes et al.) in the panel "Selective and Cross-Cutting Exposure in Times of COVID-19".

4th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2022

Fri, 06 May 2022

Two members of the team presented articles at the 4th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2022 in Dublin. Soyeon Jin presented her article "My Post is on The News! The Reciprocal Relationship among Public Discourse, Media Agenda-Setting, and Public Disputes" in the panel "Social Media and Public Discourse" and Shota Gelovani presented the article "Methodologic and Theoretical Approaches to Studying Citizen-Produced Political Text" in the panel "Social Media and Rhetoric". 

Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries

New Media & Society 
Sat., 09 October 2021

Prof. Theocharis, Soyeon and colleagues have published a new paper: "Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries".

Revisiting norms of citizenship in times of democratic change

Politics
Tue., 27 July 2021

Prof. Theocharis and colleagues have published a new paper: "Revisiting norms of citizenship in times of democratic change".