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Newsletter • No. 2, July 2016
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The Call for papers containing more information will soon
be made available on the website of the COST Action.
Contact: Elena Negrea-Busuioc,
elena.negrea @
A short report from an
STSM visit
Nicoleta Corbu beneficiated last year from a Short Time
Scientific Mission at Ludwig-Maximilian Universität in Munich.
During her 3-week stay, she had several discussions with
the colleagues from LMU, Carsten Reinemann, Magdalena
Obermaier and Benjamin Krämer. Several ideas of future
research emerged during these meetings, such as a joint
research related to media populism, building scales for
measuring issue specific populist frames in media messages,
new ways of measuring effects of media populism. At the same
time, Nicoleta learnt how to use an online platform called Sosci
Survey tool, developed by a researcher at LMU, which helps
conducting online experiments. Other plans for the future
concerned the need to identify funding sources for research
in various countries, particularly in Romania and Germany.
The STSM was a great opportunity to develop the network of
dedicated scholars studying populist political communication
in Europe, by means of working and exchanging ideas with the
colleagues from Ludwig-Maximilian Universität.
The Odense meeting,
August 2015
The day ahead of the 2015 Political Communication
conference organized by the ECREA Political
Communication Section in Odense, Denmark, we had our
4th Joint MC Meeting and Working Group Meetings of our
COST Action IS1308, also in Odense, Denmark.
Forty-five participants had signed up for the meetings that
took place at the Centre for Journalism at the University
of Southern Denmark in Odense. After the MC Meeting
in the morning, we had both joint and separate working
group meetings throughout the day. A very productive day
ended in the afternoon at 1700. Later in the evening, those
participants who had signed up for it had a joint dinner at a
restaurant in downtown Odense. All in all the meetings in
Odense were a great success for all participants.
We are grateful for the financial and administrative support
by the hosting institution, the Centre for Journalism at the
Dept. of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark.
Without this support we could not have held the meetings
in Denmark.
4th COST meeting at The University of Southern Denmark, August 2015
ICA-preconference
“Populism in, by, and
against the media”
Three members of our Early Stage Researcher Think
Tank Benjamin Krämer, Nayla Fawzi and Sven Engesser,
organized a preconference at this year’s ICA Annual
Conference in Fukuoka. 25 scholars from around the
world attended the one-day conference which included
14 presentations. In the first panel, participants of the
COST-Action presented the results of a literature review
on populist communication in 24 European countries. The
second panel dealt with populism in the media. In the
third panel, studies focused on populism by the media and
political actors. And the presentations in the fourth panel
showed how populist actors use social media, for instance
to criticize the mainstream media. The conference ended
with a very fruitful discussion on the future of research on
populist communication. We want to thank the University of
Zurich which sponsored the conference.
ICA-preconference in Japan. From left: Carsten Reinemann, Frank Esser and
Benjamin Krämer