Curd Knüpfer
@curdknupfer.bsky.social
Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
We post so that others might learn from our mistakes...
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We post so that others might learn from our mistakes...
Haha. My academic mantra: "do good things and publicly complain about it"😅
Now... Onward to the next service to-do. Ugh! 🦸♂️😩
Now... Onward to the next service to-do. Ugh! 🦸♂️😩
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Haha. My academic mantra: "do good things and publicly complain about it"😅
Now... Onward to the next service to-do. Ugh! 🦸♂️😩
Now... Onward to the next service to-do. Ugh! 🦸♂️😩
(This mid-November tweet is an annual tradition of mine, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
(This mid-November tweet is an annual tradition of mine, btw.)
Reposted by Curd Knüpfer
It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
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Chapter 1+2 work pretty good and are interesting for students in interdisciplinary study programs (as far as I can tell) - www.wiley.com/en-gb/Platfo...
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age
<p>Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments fo...
www.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Chapter 1+2 work pretty good and are interesting for students in interdisciplinary study programs (as far as I can tell) - www.wiley.com/en-gb/Platfo...
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
Were they referring to the classic Bütz & Yūnicørn (1963) or the more recent Battz, Yoon & Kornes (2023)?
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Were they referring to the classic Bütz & Yūnicørn (1963) or the more recent Battz, Yoon & Kornes (2023)?
Yes! I sent you an email with the text.
Very annoying that this sits behind a paywall. Sorry about that!!
Very annoying that this sits behind a paywall. Sorry about that!!
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yes! I sent you an email with the text.
Very annoying that this sits behind a paywall. Sorry about that!!
Very annoying that this sits behind a paywall. Sorry about that!!
And there's also a very cool piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social where he argues that digital analytics hastened the GOP's radicalization.
Highly recommend! 👍⤵️
academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...
Highly recommend! 👍⤵️
academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...
Digital Death Spiral: How Analytics Hastened the Republican Party’s Descent into Trumpism
Abstract. This chapter discusses the role of analytics-based digital listening has played among surrogate organizations in the contemporary Republican Part
academic.oup.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
And there's also a very cool piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social where he argues that digital analytics hastened the GOP's radicalization.
Highly recommend! 👍⤵️
academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...
Highly recommend! 👍⤵️
academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...
I sort of make that argument (on the institutional level) in this theoretical piece:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Phantom Counter-Public: Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication
Public communication in liberal democracies faces a crisis, exacerbated by rapid technological changes in digital communication. Key factors include (1) fragmentation of informational commons, (2) pol...
link.springer.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I sort of make that argument (on the institutional level) in this theoretical piece:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The point of these is not "Time on Twitter->Radicalized Elites", but rather that certain forms of connectivity among *specific* elites (far-right Republicans) emerge, which also make these more visible as a network formation.
Always happy to say more about this work, if anyone is interested!
Always happy to say more about this work, if anyone is interested!
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The point of these is not "Time on Twitter->Radicalized Elites", but rather that certain forms of connectivity among *specific* elites (far-right Republicans) emerge, which also make these more visible as a network formation.
Always happy to say more about this work, if anyone is interested!
Always happy to say more about this work, if anyone is interested!
Another paper (not yet officially out but hopefully soon), where we show that various degrees of online connectivity are strongly associated with far-right issue uptake by partisan elites:
mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
mikecowburn.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Another paper (not yet officially out but hopefully soon), where we show that various degrees of online connectivity are strongly associated with far-right issue uptake by partisan elites:
mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...
We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
Fair! There is definitely a trajectory here that is much longer than the past days.
In fact, in one of the pieces I cite, we analyzed intra-CDU conflict along this very cleavage back in 2019:
Merz and Spahn versus the AKK Merkel factions.
Merz is doing what he understands he was elected to do...
In fact, in one of the pieces I cite, we analyzed intra-CDU conflict along this very cleavage back in 2019:
Merz and Spahn versus the AKK Merkel factions.
Merz is doing what he understands he was elected to do...
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Fair! There is definitely a trajectory here that is much longer than the past days.
In fact, in one of the pieces I cite, we analyzed intra-CDU conflict along this very cleavage back in 2019:
Merz and Spahn versus the AKK Merkel factions.
Merz is doing what he understands he was elected to do...
In fact, in one of the pieces I cite, we analyzed intra-CDU conflict along this very cleavage back in 2019:
Merz and Spahn versus the AKK Merkel factions.
Merz is doing what he understands he was elected to do...
Knüpfer, C.B., Bennett, W.L. and Klinger, U. (2025) “Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: ‘indexing by proxy’ in a German immigration debate,” Journal of Communication, p. jqaf008. doi.org/10.1093/joc/....
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate
Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Knüpfer, C.B., Bennett, W.L. and Klinger, U. (2025) “Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: ‘indexing by proxy’ in a German immigration debate,” Journal of Communication, p. jqaf008. doi.org/10.1093/joc/....