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Members of the Political Communication Research Group study the interaction between political elites, media, and citizens. We are specifically interested in understanding how and under which conditions political elites communicate with citizens, what role media organizations and journalists play in the political communication process, and how citizens engage with political communication across various platforms. We use a variety of qualitative, quantitative, and computational social research methods to develop and test theories that help understand the quality of political communication in democracies today.

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17.11.2025
 

Andrea Wiesner successfully defended her thesis titled "Drawing Lines in Gray Areas: Toward Feasible, Accepted, and Effective Content Moderation".
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15.10.2025
 

Dominik Hokamp, pre-doc in the research groups ‘Political Communication’ and the ‘Journalism Studies Center', took up his position as spokesperson in...
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06.10.2025
 

Claire Roney and Daniel Wiesner together with Andreas A. Riedl and Jakob-Moritz Eberl published their new article "Rally and Recalibrate: Political...
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01.10.2025
 

Lena Pohlmann joined the POLCOM Team as a PhD candidate in the Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism. Welcome!
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26.09.2025
 

Andrea Wiesner published her new article "Tackling (misleading) incivility online: a user-centric evaluation of different comment moderation...
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25.09.2025
 

Dominika Betakova and Sophie Lecheler together with Hajo Boomgaarden published their new article "The Role of Choice Architecture in Mitigating News...
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28.07.2025
 

Hannah Greber and Sophie Lecheler together with Svenja Schäfer and Lea Gorski published their new article "Solutions that Move Us? The Role of...
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23.06.2025
 

Andrea Stockinger was awarded the Top Student Paper Award of ICA's Communication & Technology Division (CAT) at the 75th Annual Conference of the...
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22.04.2025
 

Members of the POLCOM Research group are taking part in the 7th International COMPTEXT Conference on April 24-26 in Vienna.
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10.03.2025
 

We are excited to welcome Puck Guldemond as a visiting researcher in our POLCOM Team in Vienna!
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04.06.2025
 

Members of the Political Communication Research Group will share their latest research findings at the 75rd Annual ICA Conference in Denver, CO.

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28.01.2025
 

Hossein Kermani published his new book "Twitter Activism in Iran: Social Media and Democracy in Authoritarian Regimes".

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