Sabina Mihelj
@sabinamihelj.bsky.social
Professor of Media & Cultural Analysis @ Loughborough University, UK - media & the politics of culture - nationalism - illiberalism - Cold War culture
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Scenes from a wild, wet, windy, wonderful Welsh weekend with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Scenes from a wild, wet, windy, wonderful Welsh weekend with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
As democracy crumbles and authoritarianism gains ground around the world, digital media are increasingly being blamed for driving these developments. However, as I and @vstetka.bsky.social argue in a recent piece for Le Monde, the role of digital media in these developments is often exaggerated.
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
As democracy crumbles and authoritarianism gains ground around the world, digital media are increasingly being blamed for driving these developments. However, as I and @vstetka.bsky.social argue in a recent piece for Le Monde, the role of digital media in these developments is often exaggerated.
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Congratulations to @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and @vstetka.bsky.social for winning this prestigious award!
🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
The Illiberal Public Sphere
This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Congratulations to @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and @vstetka.bsky.social for winning this prestigious award!
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🚨New article written by Vera Tolz, @stevhutch.bsky.social, @vitalykaz.bsky.social, and Sofia Tipaldou, published in @icahdq.bsky.social - "Disinformation as Process: Modelling the Lifecycle of Disinformation". @uomsalc.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🚨New article written by Vera Tolz, @stevhutch.bsky.social, @vitalykaz.bsky.social, and Sofia Tipaldou, published in @icahdq.bsky.social - "Disinformation as Process: Modelling the Lifecycle of Disinformation". @uomsalc.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social
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🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
The Illiberal Public Sphere
This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
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Truly honoured by this award for our book with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social🙏 Many thanks to APSA @apsaitp.bsky.social, as well as to almost 20k people who have accessed the book online so far! #illiberalism
🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
📚 Best Book
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧵
The Illiberal Public Sphere
This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Truly honoured by this award for our book with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social🙏 Many thanks to APSA @apsaitp.bsky.social, as well as to almost 20k people who have accessed the book online so far! #illiberalism
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If you missed yesterday's presentation by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on their new book, The Illiberal Public Sphere, the full recording is now available on our YouTube!
youtu.be/ySHWGIbuB9U
youtu.be/ySHWGIbuB9U
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
YouTube video by Illiberalism Studies Program
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April 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you missed yesterday's presentation by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on their new book, The Illiberal Public Sphere, the full recording is now available on our YouTube!
youtu.be/ySHWGIbuB9U
youtu.be/ySHWGIbuB9U
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It was a real pleasure to talk about our book with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social to such an engaged audience. Many thanks to Marlene Laruelle and @jchrobie.bsky.social for having us!
If you missed yesterday's presentation by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on their new book, The Illiberal Public Sphere, the full recording is now available on our YouTube!
youtu.be/ySHWGIbuB9U
youtu.be/ySHWGIbuB9U
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
YouTube video by Illiberalism Studies Program
youtu.be
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It was a real pleasure to talk about our book with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social to such an engaged audience. Many thanks to Marlene Laruelle and @jchrobie.bsky.social for having us!
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Strategic narratives between global influence and local
appropriation: China’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in
Serbia
New study by Ana Stojiljković & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
appropriation: China’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in
Serbia
New study by Ana Stojiljković & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Strategic narratives between global influence and local
appropriation: China’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in
Serbia
New study by Ana Stojiljković & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
appropriation: China’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in
Serbia
New study by Ana Stojiljković & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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We're looking forward to this online event next week!
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies with @vstetka.bsky.social & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
🗓️ April 2, 2025
🕑 12:00-13:00 EDT
📍Online (Zoom)
Register here to join: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies with @vstetka.bsky.social & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
🗓️ April 2, 2025
🕑 12:00-13:00 EDT
📍Online (Zoom)
Register here to join: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
Join us for an online presentation of a new book by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social: The Illiberal Public Sphere Media in Polarized Societies!
Hear about increasing #illiberalism, #polarization, and declining trust in mass media in CEE
Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
Hear about increasing #illiberalism, #polarization, and declining trust in mass media in CEE
Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
March 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We're looking forward to this online event next week!
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies with @vstetka.bsky.social & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
🗓️ April 2, 2025
🕑 12:00-13:00 EDT
📍Online (Zoom)
Register here to join: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies with @vstetka.bsky.social & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
🗓️ April 2, 2025
🕑 12:00-13:00 EDT
📍Online (Zoom)
Register here to join: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
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An amazing @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social Collaborative PhD @lborouniversity.bsky.social: "Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood". Sadly due to funding, now only available to Home fee status applicants. Deadline 23/04 @ 11am: tinyurl.com/mr4582zh
PhD Studentship: Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Discover a PhD Studentship: Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
An amazing @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social Collaborative PhD @lborouniversity.bsky.social: "Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood". Sadly due to funding, now only available to Home fee status applicants. Deadline 23/04 @ 11am: tinyurl.com/mr4582zh
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Join us for an online presentation of a new book by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social: The Illiberal Public Sphere Media in Polarized Societies!
Hear about increasing #illiberalism, #polarization, and declining trust in mass media in CEE
Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
Hear about increasing #illiberalism, #polarization, and declining trust in mass media in CEE
Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
March 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Join us for an online presentation of a new book by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social: The Illiberal Public Sphere Media in Polarized Societies!
Hear about increasing #illiberalism, #polarization, and declining trust in mass media in CEE
Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
Hear about increasing #illiberalism, #polarization, and declining trust in mass media in CEE
Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6f82rd
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We thought the skies were too hazy for a good #sunset but the colours were wonderful just after the sun disappeared - @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and I watched with a cuppa at Beacon Hill #Loughborough
March 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We thought the skies were too hazy for a good #sunset but the colours were wonderful just after the sun disappeared - @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and I watched with a cuppa at Beacon Hill #Loughborough
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🎉 Delighted to learn I have been awarded funding for comparative, mixed-methods research on Russian #disinformation in Poland, Romania & Serbia, with Fanni Toth @durhamuniversity.bsky.social as Co-I, & in collaboration with @m-deceit.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @stevehutchings.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🎉 Delighted to learn I have been awarded funding for comparative, mixed-methods research on Russian #disinformation in Poland, Romania & Serbia, with Fanni Toth @durhamuniversity.bsky.social as Co-I, & in collaboration with @m-deceit.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @stevehutchings.bsky.social
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Deadline approaching soon for this unique PhD studentship, supervised by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and myself, in collaboration with @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social - if you are interested in researching disinformation in the #Baltics, #Afghanistan or #Libya, do apply by 24 February!
📣 We have a fully funded #PhD place available at the Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social at Loughborough University, in collaboration with BBC Media Action and supported by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP.
February 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Deadline approaching soon for this unique PhD studentship, supervised by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and myself, in collaboration with @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social - if you are interested in researching disinformation in the #Baltics, #Afghanistan or #Libya, do apply by 24 February!
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Back in #Leicestershire for a chilly but beautiful hazy #sunset at the Beacon with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social ❄️
February 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Back in #Leicestershire for a chilly but beautiful hazy #sunset at the Beacon with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social ❄️
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"Wonderfully structured and accessible, it appeals not only to
scholars but also to the broader democratic public grappling with the question: 'What on earth is happening to democracy?'”
Delighted to read such a nice review of our book! @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
scholars but also to the broader democratic public grappling with the question: 'What on earth is happening to democracy?'”
Delighted to read such a nice review of our book! @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Wonderfully structured and accessible, it appeals not only to
scholars but also to the broader democratic public grappling with the question: 'What on earth is happening to democracy?'”
Delighted to read such a nice review of our book! @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
scholars but also to the broader democratic public grappling with the question: 'What on earth is happening to democracy?'”
Delighted to read such a nice review of our book! @sabinamihelj.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Three stages of a liberal public sphere being replaced by an #illiberal one. Very useful framework from @vstetka.bsky.social & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social - all we see happening in the US fits. Q = how to win the struggle against it? Needs creativity and will: www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
www.ssoar.info
February 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Three stages of a liberal public sphere being replaced by an #illiberal one. Very useful framework from @vstetka.bsky.social & @sabinamihelj.bsky.social - all we see happening in the US fits. Q = how to win the struggle against it? Needs creativity and will: www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
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Still 3 week to apply for this unique PhD studentship at our Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social, in collaboration with #BBC @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social - if you are interested in researching disinformation in the #Baltics, #Afghanistan or #Libya, we would love to hear from you!
📣 We have a fully funded #PhD place available at the Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social at Loughborough University, in collaboration with BBC Media Action and supported by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP.
February 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Still 3 week to apply for this unique PhD studentship at our Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social, in collaboration with #BBC @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social - if you are interested in researching disinformation in the #Baltics, #Afghanistan or #Libya, we would love to hear from you!
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Great opportunity for PhD candidates interesting in studying Russian disinformation in the Baltics, Afghanistan or Libya.
📣 We have a fully funded #PhD place available at the Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social at Loughborough University, in collaboration with BBC Media Action and supported by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP.
January 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Great opportunity for PhD candidates interesting in studying Russian disinformation in the Baltics, Afghanistan or Libya.
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Excited to advertise a new (post-)doctoral position in my team at Uni Passau in a new @bidt.bsky.social-funded project on "Authoritarian AI: How LLMs Align with Russia's Propaganda". Looking forward to all types of applications! shorturl.at/vc43x
shorturl.at
December 6, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Excited to advertise a new (post-)doctoral position in my team at Uni Passau in a new @bidt.bsky.social-funded project on "Authoritarian AI: How LLMs Align with Russia's Propaganda". Looking forward to all types of applications! shorturl.at/vc43x
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Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
January 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
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Delighted to hear that our panel proposal with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on "Communicating illiberalism: new approaches to the role of media in the erosion of liberal democracy" was accepted for the @icajsd.bsky.social conference in Denver! 🏔 @newsprof1.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Delighted to hear that our panel proposal with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on "Communicating illiberalism: new approaches to the role of media in the erosion of liberal democracy" was accepted for the @icajsd.bsky.social conference in Denver! 🏔 @newsprof1.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
📣 We have a fully funded #PhD place available at the Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social at Loughborough University, in collaboration with BBC Media Action and supported by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP.
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
📣 We have a fully funded #PhD place available at the Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social at Loughborough University, in collaboration with BBC Media Action and supported by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP.
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Great to see this issue of the Political Communication Report out, with a contribution by myself and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on the #illberal challenges to political communication - thanks a lot to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for bringing it all together! politicalcommunication.org/article/stet...
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Great to see this issue of the Political Communication Report out, with a contribution by myself and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on the #illberal challenges to political communication - thanks a lot to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for bringing it all together! politicalcommunication.org/article/stet...