• All About Feelings? Emotional Appeals as Drivers of User Engagement With Facebook Posts 

      Bil-Jaruzelska, Anna; Monzer, Cristina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Political campaigns routinely appeal to citizens’ emotions, and there is evidence that such appeals influence political behaviour. Social media, an important arena through which political actors communicate with voters, ...
    • Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media 

      de Wilde, Pieter; Rasch, Astrid; Bossetta, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Contributions in this thematic issue focus explicitly on citizens and their online engagement with European politics. For social media research in the European Union, citizens remain an understudied actor type in comparison ...
    • A Bird’s Eye View: Supranational EU Actors on Twitter 

      Özdemir, Sina Furkan; Rauh, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Given the politicization of European integration, effective public communication by the European Union (EU) has gained importance. Especially for rather detached supranational executives, social media platforms offer unique ...
    • The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe: Users’ Engagement With Parties’ European‐Focused Facebook Posts 

      Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Paweł; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      It is an old concern in public and academic debates that people are not interested in European-level issues, and even European Parliamentary election campaigns, which are the main democratic tools of the European Union ...