Citizens, Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations

About

Karolina Koc-Michalska is Professor at Audencia Business School and Affiliated Researcher at CEVIPOF Sciences Po Paris France and University of Silesia Poland. She studies the strategies of political actors in the online environment and citizens political engagement. She employs a comparative approach focusing on the United States and European countries.Darren Lilleker is Professor of Political Communication and Bournemouth University UK Co-Editor of the Journal of Visual Political Communication and Director of the Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research.Christian Baden is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the collaborative construction of meaning in dynamic political public debates with specific emphasis on the modeling and measurement of textual discourse. Damian Guzek is an associate professor in digital media and communication at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research is driven by questions related to media consumption and digital media religions and politics.Márton Bene (Ph.D.) is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). His research interests are in political communication social media and politics and political behavior.Larissa Doroshenko is Postdoctoral Teaching Associate at Northeastern University United States. Her research interests are centered on the effects of new media on political campaigning with a particular focus on the dark side of the Internet: populism nationalism and disinformation campaigns. Milo Gregor is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University. He is dealing with topics such as political communication and marketing propaganda disinformation and fake news.Marko M. Skoric is Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication City University of Hong Kong where he leads the Political Communication and Culture Research Cluster and acts as the Ph.D. Program Coordinator. His research interests are focused on new media and social change with a particular emphasis on the civic and political implications of digital technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Michigan and a B. Sc. in Psychology from the University College London.