(After clicking on the titles, you’ll find a brief blog summary of each study’s content)
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
