📢 New publication in American Behavioral Scientistwith Vanessza Juhász about the role of Megafon, the astroturf influencer agency which played a key role in Fidesz's digital campaign strategy in the last Hungarian election campaign.

Blog summary about the findings below 👇

Are you attending #ICA25?
Are you curious to learn more about our algorithm audit study that we conducted in collaboration with 30 political parties during the 2024 European election?

@martonbene.bsky.social will be presenting it today!

🗓️ June 16
🕛 12:00–1:15 PM
📍 Aspen Ballroom (Grand 2)

Yesterday I kicked off #ica25 with a hike at the Flatirons. From today, the professional part of the conference starts!

It was a great honor to contribute to the edited volume reflecting on Jay Blumler’s legacy in today’s changing communication environment.

His work has had a profound impact on me since the beginning of my academic journey.

My theoretical chapter in the volume is summarized in the blog post below.

Celebrating the end of the academic year — just before conference season kicks off: #CEECOM starts tomorrow, and #ICA25 is coming up next week!

🆕 New pub co-authored w/ Xénia Farkas in Journalism on which campaign messages are more likely to be negatively framed by journalists.
💡 Findings: Negative messages are reported neutrally, while self-promotion is more often challenged.
📖 Blog summary here: tinyurl.com/574eppu5
📌Key takeaways in 👇1/8

New publication in Information, Communication & Society with Balázs Bodó and Zsolt Boda on how trust is constructed on social media!

🔗 Blog summary: prisma-rg.hu/new-publicat...

🧵 Key takeaways below

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Check out this great poster from @favstats.eu on our study of bias in how political ads are delivered!

My research group is excited to host international postdocs through this fellowship opportunity!

Argumentative fallacies outsourced to astroturf influencers?

New PRiSMa publication by Vanessza Juhász on the rhetorical strategies of pro-government influencers and political actors. The article is in Hungarian, but a brief overview is available here:
🔗 prisma-rg.hu/new-prisma-p...

What a wonderful feeling to finally close a book manuscript. It’s been a long journey—but it’s officially submitted! #NetworkedLocality #polcomm

We’ve just launched the Bluesky profile of our new research group—come follow us!

bsky.app/profile/pris...

You can also check out our website to learn more about who we are and what we do!

prisma-rg.hu

Thrilled to announce our new publication with Manuel Goyanes in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research! Using a two-wave Spanish survey, we examine how news avoidance connects with perceived news negativity and political trust. Details below! 👇1/7
academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

I'm thrilled to announce that as of Jan 1, I've been appointed as a professor at the HUN-REN, Institute for Pol. Science—becoming, to my knowledge, the youngest to hold this position in its history! I'm incredibly grateful for this milestone and for everyone who supported me along the way.

Our new OA article is published in NM&S led by H.Tønnesen and co-authored by &
@joerghassler.bsky.social, A. Larsson, M. Magin, E. Skogerbø and A-K. Wurst on how users emotionally react to policy issues in three countries, Norway, Germany and Hungary. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Details1/5

If you want to understand the political communication environment in Hungary, check out this very informative documentary (with English subtitles)

444.hu/2023/11/17/b...

🚨CALL FOR AUTHORS🚨

We are looking for authors willing to write a short entry (2.5k words) on the topics below for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication

Interested?

➡️ Reach out asap via email (a.nai@uva.nl)

Plz repost for N and diversity

@maxgroemping.bsky.social
@dswirz.bsky.social