Negative Campaigning on Facebook in EU Elections, Cross-Platform Extremism, and Dissonant Public Spheres, with Prof. Ulrike Klinger
Social Media and Politics
English - July 02, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsGovernment Science Social Sciences social media social networks politics political science digital marketing media communication democracy facebook Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Prof. Ulrike Klinger, Professor for Digital Democracy at the European New School for Digital Studies at European University Viadrina, shares her latest research on negative campaigning on social media. We discuss some of the challenges in studying digital communication in the EU, as well as what explains a rise in negative campaigning across two European Parliament elections. Prof. Klinger also shares her research on the UN Global Compact for Migration, where extremist ideas from the Identitarian movement were picked up by the mainstream media. Lastly, we discuss Prof. Klinger's suggestions for increasing researcher data access ahead of the Digital Services Act.
Here are links to the studies discussed in the episode: