Last week, the HUN-REN Political Science Institute successfully concluded the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association. Several of our researchers presented their academic findings in the fields of political representation and political communication.
Gábor Illés introduced his latest study, ‘The authoritarian face of political representation’, and his research with Artúr Baranyai, ‘Fear, hope, and affective representation‘, while Márton Bene presented the findings of his and his colleagues’ new paper called ‘Go negative to be on the safe side! A 10-country investigation of the link between journalists’ negative framing and political actors’ strategic communication‘.
Krisztina Burai explained her and her colleagues’ research on ‘The negative and disruptive nature of social media-based local publicity: communities’ self-defence strategies’. Virág Bagi analyzed ‘the effects of introversion, conflict avoidance and social anxiety on local and national political social media activity and news consumption’ and Vanessza Juhász presented her latest study, ‘Influential Politicians and Political Influencers: The Argument Analysis of Megafon’s Negative Campaign’.
