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• (mit Kreiss, Daniel & Mutsvairo, Bruce) Platforms, Power, and Politics: A model for an ever-changing field, ICA in Africa, 17 Nov 2023, Capetown. 
• (mit Cowburn, Mike & Larsson, Anders): Forever Campaigning on Social Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians, ECPR General Conference, 04-08 Sep 2023, Prague. 
• (mit Cowburn, Mike & Larsson, Anders): Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties and Politicians. ECREA Political Communication Conference, 31Aug-1Sep, 2023, Berlin. 
• Beaches, not coffee houses. Towards a new normative ideal for digital public spheres and citizenship. Conference on Responsible citizenship: communication, social and democratic transitions, 26-28 June, 2023, Paris. 
• (mit Rußmann, Uta & Koc-Michalska, Karolina): Personal, Private, Emotional? How Political Parties Use Personalization Strategies on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns, ICA Preconference Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, And Time, Toronto, 24.05.2023. 
• (mit Borucki, Isabelle & Gruber, Johannes B.): Fragmentation in Your Feed? What Citizens Saw on Facebook in the 2021 German Election Campaigns. ICA Annual Conference 2023, Toronto, 27.05.2023. 
• (mit Borucki, Isabelle & Gruber, Johannes B.): Fragmentation in Your Timeline: What voters saw on Facebook in the German 2021 election campaigns, ECREA Annual Conference 2022, Aarhus, October 19-22, 2022
• The Power of Code: Women and the Making of the Digital World, Behind Data and Algorithms – Actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies – Workshop, Malmö University, June 16, 2022
• (mit Karolina Koc-Michalska und Uta Rußmann) Are aggressive campaigns more successful? Negative campaigning, negative emotions, dramatization and populism in the EP election campaigns 2014-2019. International Communication Association ICA Annual Conference 2022, Paris, May 30, 2022
• Moving the Field of Political Communication Forward in Turbulent Times, ICA PolComm Section Roundtable, Paris, May 27, 2022
• Plattformen, Algorithmen - und soziale Kohäsion? Gastvortrag im Berlin University Alliance Cluster "Social Cohesion and Civil Society", April 28, 20222
• (mit Jakob Svensson) Where have all the women gone? Gender and the making of the digital world. Conference "Women in the Digital World", Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, April 21-22, 2022.
• (mit Karolina Koc-Michalska) Populism as Communication: Political Campaigning on Facebook. American Political Science Association APSA Jahrestagung, Seattle, 02.10.2021.
• (mit Karolina Koc-Michalska und Uta Rußmann) Populism on Facebook: An Analysis of Party Communication in the 2014 and 2019 EU Elections. IPSA Jahrestagung, 15.07.2021.
• (mit Karolina Koc-Michalska) Populism as Political Communication: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Comparison of Political Campaigning on Facebook. IPSA Jahrestagung, 11.07.2021.
• (mit Lance Bennett, Xixuan Zhang, Franziska Martini & Curd Knüpfer) From marginal groups to the mainstream: Networked disinformation and campaign dynamics in dissonant public spheres. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Politische Kommunikation DVPW/DGPuK, Berlin, 12.02.2021
• (mit Curd Knüpfer, Lance Bennett, Vadim Voskresenskii): Multi-stage information flows in hybrid media systems: How a new Indexing process converts disinformation into mainstream news. Fifth conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, Loughborough University; 15. -17. September 2019.
• (mit Karolina Koc Michalska): Populism as Communication: A Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Comparison of Election Campaigning on Facebook, ECREA political communication section interim conference, 12.-13. September 2019, Poznań, Polen.
• (mit Franziska Martini, Tobias Keller, Paul Samula): Social Bots and how to find them: New actors and new tools in political discourses on Twitter. ECREA political communication section interim conference, 12.-13. September 2019, Poznań, Polen.
• (mit Mike Schäfer, Tobias Keller & Daniela Mahl): Social bots in science communication: Bot prevalence and activity about ten science-related issues on Twitter. ICA Jahrestagung 2019, Washington, DC, 28.05.2019.
• (mit Franziska Martini, Tobias Keller, Paul Samula): Social Bots and how to find them:  Human-machine communication in political discourses on Twitter, ICA Jahrestagung, Preconference Human & Machine Interaction, Washington DC, 24.05.2019.
• (mit Tobias Keller, Franziska Martini, Paul Samula): Social Bots als Diskursteilnehmer: Eine vergleichende Perspektive, DGPuK Jahrestagung 9.-11. Mai 2019, Münster. 
• (mit Lance Bennett, Matthias Hoffmann, Curd Knüpfer, Franziska Martini, Paul Samula, Vadim Voskresenskii): Disinformation in dissonant public spheres: The case of the campaign against the UN Global Compact for Migration. Konferenz Transformation of the public sphere, 25.-26. April 2019, Hildesheim. 
• (mit Tobias Keller, Franziska Martini, Paul Samula): It's complicated: Methoden zur Identifizierung von Social Bots im Vergleich, DGPuK, FG Politische Kommunikation, Jahrestagung 2019, 7.-9. Februar 2019, Duisburg.
• Social media in the rise of the populist parties? 2017 election campaigns in France, Germany and Great Britain. Cut the Bullshit! Conference on Communication, Populism and Electoral choice in the new media environment. 22-23 Juni 2018, Cadenabbia, Italien.
• (mit Tobias Keller): Social bots in Germany’s 2017 national election campaign: Theoretical, empirical and methodological implications. ICA Annual Conference 2018: Voices, 24.-28. Mai 2018, Prag.
• (mit Tobias Keller): Social Bots vs. kollektive Selbstbestimmung? Empirische Erkenntnisse aus der Bundestagswahl 2017. 63. Jahrestagung der DGPuK, 9.-11. Mai 2018, Mannheim.
•  (mit Tobias Keller): Social bots in the public sphere: theoretical, empirical and methodological implications. ECREA Political Communication Section conference, 22.-23.11.2017, Zürich.
• (mit Christian Pentzold): Reading the powerful rhetorics of 'big data' in political discourse. ICA 2017 Pre-Conference 'Data and the Future of Critical Social Research', San Diego, 25.05.2017.
• Who's afraid of Facebook? Perceptions about Social Media in Europe, Vortrag am CITS, Center for Information Technology and Society, University of California Santa Barbara, 26.04.2017
• Panel: Political Campaigning Beyond Facebook and Twitter: Five European Perspectives, ECREA, Prag 2016. 
• (mit Jakob Svensson) The End of Media Logics? On Algorithms and Agency. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Digitale Kommunikation. 3.-5.11.2016.
• Der Aufstieg der Semi-Öffentlichkeit: Ein relationaler Zugang zur Transformation digitaler Kommunikation. Dresdner Symposium "Digitale Revolution in der Demokratie", 8.-9.9.2016.
• (mit Jakob Svensson) Algorithms, Big Data & the Role of Network Media Logic. ICA Konferenz 2016 Fukuoka, Japan, 13.06.2016. 
• Öffentlichkeit als Beziehung - eine relationale Perspektive, SGKM Jahrestagung 2016, Fribourg, 7.-9.04.2016. 
• Vom Tahrir-Platz bis zu Pegida: Urbane Bewegungen und Social Media. Workshop "Medien, Stadt, Bewegung: Medienwandel und kommunikative Figurationen des städtischen Lebens", Universität Bremen, 4.-5.12.2015.
• (mit Melanie Magin) Über Netzwerke und Forschungspraxis. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), Darmstadt, 15.05.2015.
• (mit Jakob Svensson) Network Media Logic and the Structural Changes of Political Communication – Some Conceptual Considerations. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Politik" der DGPuK, des Arbeitskreises "Politik und Kommunikation" der DVPW sowie der Fachgruppe "Politische Kommunikation" der SGKM; Düsseldorf, 19.-21.02.2015.
• Social media and political communication in Switzerland. ECREA 2014, Lissabon. 12.-15.11.2014.
• (mit Uta Rußmann) Who deliberates online? Conference „Civic political engagement and public spheres in the new digital era”,, Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po CEVIPOF, Paris 24.-27.06.2014.
• Beyond ‘Potential’: Swiss City Administrations and their Use of ICT for Participation. Conference “Smart Cities / e-Government”, Shanghai, China, 5.-07.06.2014.
• (mit Uta Rußmann): The Sociodemographics of Political Public Deliberation: How to measure deliberative quality among different user groups. ICA Conference Seattle, USA, 22.-26. Mai 2014.
• (mit Melanie Magin & Cornelia Wallner): Making Norms and Values Visible: Reflections on Media Policy Research, ICA Conference Seattle, USA, 22.-26. Mai 2014.
• (mit Stephan Rösli & Otfried Jarren): Citizen Participation and Political Online Communication: A Case for Qualitative Research Designs. ICA Preconference: Qualitative Political Communication Research. Seattle, USA, 22. Mai 2014.
• (mit Stephan Rösli & Otfried Jarren): Hype in the City? An Inventory of Participatory Online Communication in Swiss Cities. Workshop “Comparative Perspectives on Social Media in Political Communication”, Conference: Democratic Innovations, Democratic Crises: Is There a Connection? University of Oslo, Norwegen, 8.-9. Januar 2014.
• Party communication and perceptions about social media: between academic trends and political reality. ECREA Sektion Politische Kommunikation, Mailand, Italien, 19.-20.09.2013 
• (mit Jakob Svensson) The Emergence of a Network Media Logic in Political Communication: A Theoretical Approach, ECREA Political Communication Section, Mailand, Italien, 19-20 September 2013           
• "Social Media are Overestimated" - Political Parties, Communication Strategies and Electoral Campaigns, Jahrestagung der IAMCR 2013, 25.-29. Juni 2014 in Dublin, Irland.
• (mit Uta Rußmann) The Quality of Public Online Participation: How to measure participatory online communication among different user groups, Jahrestagung der IAMCR 2013, 25.-29. Juni 2014 in Dublin, Irland. 
• (mit Jakob Svensson) Network media logic - a theoretical challenge in mediatization studies, Mediatization and New Media. Internationaler Forschungsworkshop der ECREA TWG Mediatization. University of Copenhagen, Dänemark, 15.-16. März 2013.
• Ein Tweet macht noch keine Revolution: Ein analytischer Zugang zum Vergleich von Medienwandel und Medienstrukturen in Demokratisierungsprozessen. Workshop des Netzwerks Medienstrukturen in Jena, 19.-20. Oktober 2012.
• High Perceptions, Low Performance: Do Political Parties Fail on Social Media? ECREA 2012, Istanbul, Türkei, 24.-28.Oktober 2012. 
• Mastering the Art of Social Media: On Swiss Parties, the 2011 National Election and the Digital Challenges, ECPR Joint Sessions 2012, Workshop 20: Parties and Campaigning in the Digital Era, Antwerpen, Belgien, 10.-15. April 2012.
• Mediatisierung und die Ausdifferenzierung von Medienlogiken: Wie Social Media Schweizer Parteien herausfordern. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Politik" der DGPuK, des Arbeitskreises "Politik und Kommunikation" der DVPW sowie der Fachgruppe "Politische Kommunikation" der SGKM; Zürich; 9.-11. Februar 2012.
• Manufacturing Media Reforms: Towards a Model of Corporate Influence on Media Policy-Making, ICA 2011 Conference, Boston, USA, 26.-30. Mai 2011.
• Mediatization in the Age of Online Communication: Still a useful paradigm? ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop: After Mediatization: How Parties and Governments legitimize and communicate political action. St. Gallen, 12. -17. April 2011.
• The Limits of Media Power: Why Media Concentration Does Not Impede Fair Electoral Coverage, ECREA 2010 - 3rd European Communication Conference Transcultural Communication - Intercultural Comparisons, Hamburg, 12.-15. Oktober 2010.
• Regulating under Influence? Media Concentration and its Effects on Media Policy-Making, IAMCR-Conference Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change, Braga, Portugal, 18.-22. Juli 2010.
• Legalizing Community Communication: Mexican Community Radios and their Struggle for Participation and Participative Regulation, IAMCR-Conference Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change, Braga, Portugal, 18.-22. Juli 2010.
• Veto Players and the Regulation of Media Pluralism:  A New Paradigm for Media Policy Research? Workshop of the ECREA’s “Communication Law and Policy” Section: New Directions for Communication Policy Research, Zürich, 6.-7. November 2009.
• Media Pluralism between Market Mechanisms and Control: The German Divide, ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association), 2nd European Communications Conference, Barcelona, Spanien, 25.-29. November 2008.
• Challenging Media Power: The Emancipation of Media Policy in the Mexican Democratic Transition, ICA (International Communication Association) InterAmericas Council: Congress of the Americas II, Mexico City, 9.-11. Oktober 2008.
• Structural Media Pluralism in Germany: The Broadcast Sector, COST A 30 Konferenz, Sarajevo, Bosnien und Herzegowina, 5.-7.Juni 2008.
• Machiavellian Rule or Fourth Estate? Challenges and Strategies of Equilibrating Media Concentration in Mexico and Italy. International Summer School „Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour", Mailand, Italien, 2.-9. Juli 2007.
• Vom Betrug des Wahlbetrugs: Medienperformanz und die mexikanischen Wahlen 2006, Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation, Düsseldorf, 13.-15. April 2007.