Stay informed about the latest developments, research findings, publications, academic achievements, and events from the Political Communication Research Group at the University of Vienna. This News page highlights recent team accomplishments, peer-reviewed outputs, conference presentations, doctoral milestones, and key research updates on media, politics, and society from our Vienna-based research group.
Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at the 11th European Communication Conference in Brno and the ECPR General Conference in…
Melanie Haberl and Sophie Lecheler together with their co-authors published their new article "Double Adaptation: Negotiating Closeness and Managing…
Hossein Kermani together with his co-authors published their new study "Hashtag activism and its enemies: a discursive analysis of suppressing…
Sophie Lecheler and co-authors published their new article "Google as Journalists’ Invisible Research Assistant? The Impact of Algorithmically-Driven…
Daniel Wiesner was awarded the Top Student Paper Award of the Political Communication Division at the 76th Annual ICA Conference in Cape Town, South…
We are thrilled to announce that the article “I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption”,…
Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at the 76th ICA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at the Kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Tage der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für…
Melanie Haberl, Dominik Hokamp, Sophie Lecheler and Co-Authors published their new paper (In)visible bonds: Towards a dynamic conceptualisation of…
