(After clicking on the titles, you’ll find a brief blog summary of each study’s content)
Alena Pospíšil Macková, Lucie Čejková, Martina Novotná, Krisztina Burai, Paweł Baranowski, Michal Garaj (2025). When Populism Targets Europe: Anti-EU Rhetoric and User Engagement in the Visegrád Countries. Media and Communication, 13.
Jörg Haßler , Melanie Magin , Uta Russmann , Anna‐Katharina Wurst, Delia Cristina Balaban , Paweł Baranowski, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Simon Kruschinski, Georgios Lappas, Sara Machado, Martina Novotná, Silvia Marcos‐García , Ioannis Petridis, Anda Rožukalne, Annamária Sebestyén, and Felix‐Christopher von Nostitz (2025). Weaponizing Wedge Issues: Strategies of Populism and Illiberalism in European Election Campaigning on Facebook. Media and Communication.Volume 13
Sebestyén, A. (2025). Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study. Political Studies, Online first.
Bene, M., & Juhász, V. (2025). The Long-Range Character Assassination Machine: The Role of Megafon’s Astroturf Influencers in the 2022 Pro-Government Campaign in Hungary. American Behavioral Scientist, Online first.
Bene, M. (2025). Will Popular Involvement Lead Us ‘Out of the Ashes’? The Viralization of Political Communication and its Normative Implications. In: Coleman, S., Esser, F., Firmstone, J., Parry, K., Paterson, C. (eds) Public Communication in Freefall. Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler, 133-166, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Bene, M., & Farkas, X. (2025). Go negative to be on the safe side! A 10-country investigation of the link between journalists’ negative framing and political actors’ strategic communication. Journalism, online first.
Bodo, B., Bene, M., & Boda, Z. (2025). False sense of security and a flurry of misplaced trust: the construction of trust in and by Facebook. Information, Communication & Society, 1-20.
Juhász, V. (2025): Influenszer politikusok és politikai influenszerek. A Megafon negatív kampányának argumentatív vizsgálata a közösségi médiában. Politikatudományi Szemle, 34(1), 7-30.
Goyanes, M. & Bene, M. (2024) News Surveillance and Democracy: The Effect of News Negativity and Political Trust on Intentional News Avoidance, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 36(4), XX
