Talks

Keynote Speeches and Plenary Appearances

‘Visions of Political Participation in the Digital Age’. 20th anniversary conference of the Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, Germany, 23 October 2025.

‘How can political communication scholarship help us understand and address crises facing democracies?’. Plenary roundtable at the preconference of the Political Communication section of the American Political Science Association, Vancouver, Canada, 10 September 2025.

‘Democratic Ambivalence in Political Communication Research’. Annual meeting of the Political Communication Divisions of the Austrian, German, and Swiss Political Science Association, Innsbruck, Austria, 27 February 2025.

‘Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies’. International conference ‘Communication Power of Global Citizens and Politicians’, Paris (virtual), 8-9 June 2021.

‘Political Communication in 2020: Assessing the State of the Field’. Plenary of the Political Communication division at the virtual annual meeting of the International Communication Association, 20-26 April 2020.

‘Social Media and Political Participation in Comparative Perspective’. International conference ‘Internet et les nouvelles formes de participation politique’, Université de Lille, France, 28-29 March 2019.

‘Long Live Democracy?’, closing plenary panel with Kurt Barling, Helen Margetts, and Zizi Papacharissi. Internet, Politics and Policy 2018 conference, Oxford, UK, 20-21 September 2018.

‘Online Disinformation in Context: Media, Institutions, and Platforms’. International conference ‘Online Campaigning 2017: Fake News, Bots und Propaganda?’, Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, Germany, 23-24 November 2017.

‘Social Media and Political Engagement in Comparative Perspective’, international conference ‘La nueva comunicación y los procesos de movilización política: partidos, medios y ciudadanos’ [New communication and processes of political mobilization: Parties, media, and citizens], Universidad Internactional Menéndez Palayo, Valencia, Spain, 16-18 November 2016.

Invited Talks

‘Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies’. Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, UK, 27 April 2022.

‘Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies’. Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, Université de Montreal, Canada, 21 November 2021.

‘Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies’. Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway, 26 October 2021.

‘The Challenge of Simultaneously Studying the Effect of Content, Context, and User Features on News Sharing’ (with Damian Trilling). Alan Turing Institute Social Data Science Interest Group Seminar, 12 March 2021.

‘When Journalists Run for Office: The Effects of Journalist-Candidates on Citizens’ Trust, Populism, and Voting Behavior’. Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy, University of Washington, WA, USA, 20 January 2021.

“Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Confusion and Trust in News”. Stanford University Law School, CA, USA, 4 February 2020.

“Visual Misinformation in Global Perspective: Platforms, Devices, and Users”. Facebook Integrity Research Workshop, Facebook HQ, Menlo Park, CA, USA, 26-27 June 2019.

“News Sharing on Social Media: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Correction”. Alan Turing Institute workshop “Democracy Under Attack?”, University of Manchester, 26 April 2019.

‘Social Media and Political Participation in Comparative Perspective’. 6th International Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behavior, University of Milan, Italy, 9 July 2018.

‘Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing’. University of Liverpool, Department of Communication and Media, Liverpool, UK, 19 April 2018.

‘Social Media and Political Engagement’. Laval University, Fifth International Workshop on Political Communication, Quebec City, Canada, 22-23 April 2016.

‘Dual Screening the Political: Media Events, Social Media, and Citizen Engagement’. University of Oxford, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford, UK, 16 February 2016.

‘Social Media and Political Engagement: Old and New Puzzles’. University of California at Santa Barbara, Center for Information Technology and Society, Santa Barbara, USA, 3 November 2014.

‘What Happens on Twitter… Does Not Stay on Twitter. The Role of Social Media in Online and Offline Political Engagement’. University of Manchester, Institute for Social Change, Manchester, UK, 25 February 2014.

‘Comparing Internet Politics: Parties, Candidates, and Citizens in Seven Western Democracies (2006-2010)’. University of Oxford, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford, UK, 21 June 2011.

‘A Europe Wide Web? Online Campaigning in the Continent’. University of Oporto, Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Oporto, Portugal, 9 March 2011.

‘The 2010 Regional Elections in Italy: What Happened and what it Means’. Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2 June 2010.

Conference Participation

American Political Science Association annual meeting: 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

Association of Internet Researchers annual conference: 2022

European Consortium for Political Research general conference: 2007, 2016

International Communication Association annual meeting: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

International Journal of Press/Politics annual conference: 2015, 2017

International Political Science Association world congress: 2011, 2014

Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting: 2012

Internet, Politics, and Policy conference: 2010, 2011, 2018

Political Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association: 2013

Political Studies Association annual conference: 2016

Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group annual conference: 2016, 2025

Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) global conference: 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021