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Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms.

DigiMoD — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:30:18 +0000

At the beginning of this year, Dr. Kilian Buehling, Prof. Dr. Annett Heft, and Xixuan Zhang (all from the Weizenbaum Institute and Freie Universität Berlin) published their paper Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms in New Media & Society. Their research explores how digital communication […]

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Which factors shape citizen-generated populism? A computational analysis of comment sections during COVID-19 in seven European countries

DigiMoD — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:56:00 +0000

Citizen-generated populist content is flourishing in the comments sections of online news. The factors that shape the extent of such populist communication from below are still under-researched. The recent publication of Daniel Thiele (Freie Universität Berlin & Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin) focuses on the COVID-19 crisis to examine how contextual and media-related factors are related to […]

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Right Topic, Right Source? Source Diversity and Balance in Right-Wing Alternative News Content Across Topics

DigiMoD — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:52:15 +0000

On February 11, 2024, the final version of the article titled “Right Topic, Right Source? Source Diversity and Balance in Right-Wing Alternative News Content Across Topics,” authored by Annett Heft (Freie University of Berlin/Weizenbaum Institute), Tim Ramsland, and Eva Mayerhöffer (both Roskilde University), was published by Taylor & Francis. The article investigates how right-wing alternative […]

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Politicization and Right-Wing Normalization on Youtube: A Topic-Based Analysis of the “Alternative Influence Network”

DigiMoD — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Curd Benjamin Knüpfer (Free University of Berlin), Carsten Schwemmer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich) and Annett Heft (Free University of Berlin/Weizenbaum Institute) published an article on the Politicization and Right-Wing Normalization on Youtube: A Topic-Based Analysis of the “Alternative Influence Network” in the International Journal of Communication. The study addresses a gap in current research on YouTube’s […]

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Challenges of and approaches to data collection across platforms and time: Conspiracy-related digital traces as examples of political contention.

DigiMoD — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:16:00 +0000

In today’s digital landscape, the proliferation of online platforms and the rapid evolution of communication technologies present unique challenges for researchers. A recent study by Dr. Annett Heft, Dr. Kilian Buehling, Xixuan Zhang, Dominik Schindler, and Miriam Milzner (2023) investigates these complexities, focusing on the collection of conspiracy-related communication data across various digital platforms. Published […]

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Jay Blumler Best Article Award 2022 for Annett Heft and Co-Authors

DigiMoD — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:30:29 +0000

Annett Heft, head of the research group Digitalization and the Transnational Public Sphere at the Weizenbaum Institut for the Networked Society and the Free University Berlin, together with co-authors Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt and Eva Mayerhöffer (Roskilde University), have been awarded The International Journal of Press/Politics Jay Blumler Best Article Award 2022 for their study […]

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Mobilization and support structures in radical right party networks

DigiMoD — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:03:00 +0000

Whether a radical right party is in opposition or in government significantly influences the digital communication of its actors and supporters. This is a central finding of the latest publication “Mobilization and support structures in radical right party networks. Digital political communication ecologies in the 2019 European parliament elections” by Annett Heft, Susanne Reinhardt and […]

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