Franziska Wagner

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Deadline: 7 November 2025

🚀 I’ve recently joined Centro Nacional de IA as a postdoc and will soon be relocating to 🇨🇱 to start this exciting journey.
I’ll be working on the role of propaganda in elections, combining political communication and computational methods. If you're working on related issues, I’d be glad to connect.

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!

📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers

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🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

I believe it takes a village to do a PhD and I am greatly indebted to everyone who has been with me throughout these years.

I am extremely happy to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation. This would not have been possible without the years of supervision by @zsolt.bsky.social.
I am also very grateful for my panel @marikenvelden.bsky.social, Gábor Simonovits & @andrasbozoki.bsky.social

Journal Article: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition How does far right parties' parliamentary and governmental participation influence both their discourse and that of mainstream parties?

⚠️ New AUTHLIB journal article - open access ⚠️

❓How do illiberal far right parties influence discourse on immigration?

Franziska Wagner (CEU), Dean Schafer (@mississippistate.bsky.social, @ceudeminst.bsky.social) Mehmet Yavuz (CEU, Uni Salzburg) have the answers.

www.authlib.eu/journal-arti...

In the context of recent 🇩🇪 elections, but also negotiations in the 🇪🇺 parliament, we should remind ourselves that accommodation has never worked.

💡 Conservative mainstream parties often adopt far-right immigration rhetoric.
💡 Far-right parties soften their stance slightly in government but revert to radical positions afterward.
💡 This dynamic shifts the entire party system further to the right on immigration.

With a combination of word embeddings and dictionaries we create a liberal-illiberal scale and analyse 67 parties across eight European countries over 15 years.

We analyse how parliamentary and governmental participation of far-right parties influence both their own discourse and that of mainstream parties regarding immigration.

Opposition to Government and Back: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition | Article | Politics and Governance Franziska Wagner, Dean Schafer, Mehmet Yavuz

🚀 Publication Alert
Thrilled to share my latest article with @schaferd.bsky.social & @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social examining the impact of far-right parties on parliamentary discourse!
shorturl.at/s4t8P

New blog for @crexuio.bsky.social on the German election with a focus on the far right: I highlight AfD's successes throughout Germany, the country's declining east-west divide, and the reasons behind AfD's rise to second force in the German parliament:
www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

If you're looking to dive into CSS—whether you're just starting out or want to deepen your knowledge—this is an amazing opportunity! I highly recommend it. I took part a few years ago at @wzb.bsky.social and had an absolute blast! 🚀

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📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025.

Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 !

Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY

@lsemethodology.bsky.social

Keep on having the same experiences. I feel like it regressed immensely for coding in the last years.

First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀

In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.

Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Very happy to co-organize with @dafnoukos.bsky.social the 2nd Democratic Expeditions Workshop this September in Budapest at CEU-Democracy Institute

We’re looking for comparative studies of the far-right in Latin America and Europe

Proposals welcome here: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽‍♀️ (Social Programme preview)

Recently, our book on the Transformation of the Left in Europe came out

Open access tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6

A few interviews that summarize key findings:
🔉 Polisci No problem et al. podcast: tinyurl.com/54tvx3md
🔉 Swiss SD party podcast: tinyurl.com/ds4maabc
📖 SamPol Magazine: tinyurl.com/y93nd6cm

Conferences, 2025

🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09).

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!

📽️ If you wanna know more about our work on 🇪🇺 far right parties, Russia, and their mutual legitimation check out this panel. It also has great research and insights by Dorka Takácsy and @shekhovtsov.bsky.social. Many thanks to @gmfus.bsky.social and @danielhegedus.bsky.social for organising it. ⬇️

When you're presenting your third PhD paper at a conference, the end of PhD is (hopefully) close. Heartfelt thanks to @mtplk.bsky.social for organising the best panel with super interesting presentations of the conference and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social for being an amazing discussant.

📢 Join us next week to discuss the role of mutual legitimation among Russia and the European far right. 👇

Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky

🚨 New Article Alert 🚨
Some food for thought about cooperation of illiberal actors and mutual legitimation ⤵️

Russia and central European illiberal actors: mutual legitimation amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine Over the past 15 years, the relationship between illiberal European actors and Russia has become increasingly intertwined. Russia has cultivated these relationships, viewing illiberal actors as a m...

📕New open access AUTHLIB article

How do Russian, Austrian & Hungarian illiberals reference each other for self-legitimation?

@franziskawagner.bsky.social, Liliia Sablina & Bálint Mikola (CEU Democracy Institute, Central European University) explore the question.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....