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New Scholarship – Representative disconnect and citizens’ satisfaction with democracy by Zsófia Papp

New publication – “When Populism Targets Europe: Anti‐EU Rhetoric and User Engagement in the Visegrád Countries”

New publication – “Weaponizing Wedge Issues: Strategies of Populism and Illiberalism in European Election Campaigning on Facebook”

PRiSMa at the ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference 2025

New Scholarship – The Impact of Individual Selection on News Exposure on Facebook by Krisztina Burai

New publication – “Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights from an Interview-Based Study” by Annamária Sebestyén

New Publication-“The Long-Range Character Assassination Machine: The Role of Megafon’s Astroturf Influencers in the 2022 Pro-Government Campaign in Hungary” by Márton Bene and Vanessza Juhász

New publication – “Will Popular Involvement Lead Us ‘Out of the Ashes’? The Viralization of Political Communication and its Normative Implications” by Márton Bene

PRiSMA Researchers Presenting on the Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association

New publication – “Go negative to be on the safe side! A 10-country investigation of the link between journalists’ negative framing and political actors’ strategic communication”

New publication – “False sense of security and a flurry of misplaced trust: the construction of trust in and by Facebook” by Balázs Bodó, Márton Bene and Zsolt Boda

New Publication – “Influential Politicians and Political Influencers: The Argument Analysis of Megafon’s Negative Campaign” 

Award-winning achievements at PRiSMA research group