Campaigning for Strasbourg

About

CamforS is a scientific collaboration network of scientists at 12 European universities that aims at studying digital campaign strategies. Building upon a broad expertise in political communication research, CamforS focuses on how traditional and new political actors use social media (with a special focus on Facebook) to inform, interact with, and mobilize voters, as well as which target audiences they address during the European Election Campaign 2019.

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Team

CamforS Network Coordinators

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Data Manager

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Team Members

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Former CamforS Members

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Publications

Edited volume

Haßler, J., Magin, M., Rußmann, U., & Fenoll, V. (Eds.) (forthcoming).  Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Elections. Informing, Interacting with, and Mobilising Voters. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Journal articles

• Kruschinski, S., Bene, M., Haßler, J., Rußmann, U., Lilleker, D., Balaban, D. C., Baranowski, P., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., & Jackson, D. (2024). Divisive, negative, and populist?! An empirical analysis of European populist and mainstream parties’ use of digital political advertisements. International Journal of Communication, 18, 5518–5539. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21509

• Kruschinski, S. & Bene, M. (2022). In Varietate Concordia?! Political Parties’ Digital Political Marketing on Facebook across 28 Countries in the 2019 European Election Campaign. European Union Politics, 23(1), 43–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165211040728

• Farkas, X., Jackson, D., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Russmann, U. (2022). Strikingly Similar: Comparing Visual Political Communication of Populist and Non-Populist Parties Across 28 Countries. European Journal of Communication, 37(5), 545-562.

• Bene, M., Magin, M., Haßler, J., Russmann, U., Lilleker, D., Kruschinski, S., Jackson, D., Fenoll, V., Farkas, X., Baranowski, P., & Balaban, D. (2023). Populism in context: A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 European Parliament Elections. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612231196158 .

• Wurst, A.-K., Pohl, K., Haßler, J., & Jackson, D. (2023). Emojis in parties’ online communication during the 2019 European election campaign: Towards a typology of political emoji use. International Journal of Communication, 17, 4686–4706. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/20268/4259

• Ceron, A., Pagano, G., & Bordignon, M. (2022). Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2022.2157360
  

• Baranowski, P., Kruschinski, S., Russmann, U., Haßler, J., Magin, M., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Jackson, D., & Lilleker, D. (2022). Patterns of negative campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political parties’ Facebook posts and users‘ sharing behaviour across twelve countries. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, online first, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2022.2115598
  

• Wurst, A.-K., Fenoll, V., Haßler, J., Kruschinski, S., Magin, M., Rußmann, U., & Schlosser, K. (2022). Missed opportunity to connect with European citizens? Europarties’ communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign. Studies in Communication Sciences, 22(1), 165–184. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2022.01.3053
  
  
• Bene, M., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., Haßler, J., Kruschinski, S., Larsson, A. O., Magin, M., Schlosser, K. & Wurst, A.-K. (2022). Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries. Political Communication, 39(4), 429-453 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2022.2042435
  
  
• Bene, M., Magin, M., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., Balaban, D., Baranowski, P., Haßler, J., Kruschinski, S. & Russmann, U. (2022). The polyphonic sounds of Europe: Users‘ engagement with parties‘ European-focused Facebook posts. Politics and Governance, 10(1), 108–120. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v10i1.4700

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Book chapter

• Balaban, D. C., Stoica, M. S. & Mucundorfeanu, M. (2021). Romania: Internal Affairs Set the Agenda of the 2019 EP Election Campaign. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 187–200). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_12

• Baranowski, P. (2021). It Is Only a Drill: The 2019 EP Election Campaign on Facebook in Poland as a Testing Ground Before the Autumn Parliamentary Elections. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 169–185). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_11

• Bene, M., Farkas, X. & Burai, K. (2021). Same Strategy, but Different Content. Hungarian Parties’ Facebook Campaign During the 2019 EP Election. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 119–134). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_8

• Bene, M. & Kruschinski, S. (2021). Political Advertising on Facebook. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 283–299). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_18

• Ceron, A., Bordignon, M. & Pagano, G. (2021). The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A ‘Titanic’ Victory for Salvini’s League. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 151–168). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_10

• Fenoll, V. (2021). Spain and Facebook in the 2019 EP Election Campaign. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 201–215). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_13

• Fenoll, V., Haßler, J., Magin, M. & Russmann, U. (2021). Campaigning for Strasbourg on Facebook: Introduction to a 12-country comparison on parties‘ Facebook campaigns in the 2019 European parliament election. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 3–21). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Haßler, J., Wurst, A.-K. & Schlosser, K. (2021). Analysing European parliament election campaigns across 12 countries: A computer-enhanced content analysis approach. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 41–52). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Larsson, A. O. (2021). Sceptical Sweden: Right-Wingers Dominate, Traditional Campaigning Permeates During the 2019 EP Election. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 217–231). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_14

• Lilleker, D. G. & Balaban, D. C. (2021). Populism on Facebook. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 267–282). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_17

• Lilleker, D. G., Jackson, D. & Veneti, A. (2021). The UK: The Post-Brexit, Ghost Election. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 233–248). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_15

• Magin, M. & Hopmann, D. N. (2021). A Day Off During the 2019 Folketing Election Campaign: Political Parties’ Use of Facebook in the EP Election in Denmark. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 69–85). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_5

• Magin, M., Russmann, U., Fenoll, V. & Haßler, J. (2021). Information greater than mobilisation greater than interaction: Contours of a Pan-European style of social media campaigning. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 303–331). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Magin, M. & Vigen, M. G. (2021). When Nothing Happened but Much Changed: How Political Parties in Ireland Used Facebook in the 2019 EP Election Campaign. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 135–150). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_9

• Maurer, P. & Béllanger, S. (2021). France: Parties’ Communication Strategies After the 2017 Earthquake. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 87–102). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_6

• Russmann, U. (2021). With Greetings from Ibiza: The 2019 EP Election in Austria. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 55–68). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_4

• Russmann, U., Haßler, J., Fenoll, V. & Magin, M. (2021). Social media as a campaigning tool in elections: Theoretical considerations and state of research. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 23–39). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Schlosser, K., Wurst, A.-K., Haßler, J. & Kruschinski, S. (2021). European issues, but national campaigning of German parties. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 103–117). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Wurst, A.-K., Schlosser, K. & Haßler, J. (2021). European party groups: Transnational continuation or complement of European national parties? In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann & V. Fenoll (Hrsg.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election (S. 251–265). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Haßler, J., Magin, M., Rußmann, U., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Schlosser, K., Wurst, A.-K., Fenoll, V., Kruschinski, S., & Maurer, P. (2020). Reaching out to the Europeans. Political parties’ Facebook strategies of issue ownership and the second-order character of European Election campaigns. In C. Holtz-Bacha (Hrsg.),  Europawahlkampf 2019: Zur Rolle der Medien (pp. 87-113). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31472-9_3

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Presentations

• Pohl, K., Jost, P., Haßler, J., Wurst, A.-K., Bene, M., & Kruschinski, S. (2023). The Potentially Dangerous Connection Between Populist Parties, Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Angry Reactions. ECREA Political Communication Section Conference. Berlin, Germany.
  
  
• Bene, M., Magin, M., Haßler, J., Russmann, U., Lilleker, D., Kruschinski, S., Jackson, D., Fenoll, V., Farkas, X., Baranowski, P. & Balaban, D. (2022, November 2-5). Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 European Parliament elections [Conference Presentation].  #AoIR2022 Conference “De-colonising the Internet”, Dublin, Ireland.
  
  
• Russmann, U., Lilleker, D., Bene, M., Farkas, X., Haßler, J., Jackson, D., Kruschinski, S., Larsson, A. O., Magin, M. & Veneti, A. (2022, October 19-22). Liking, sharing or commenting – how different imagery evoke different audience responses on Facebook during elections [Accepted Conference presentation]. 9th ECREA’s European Communication Conference “Rethink Impact”, Aarhus, Denmark.
  
  
• Bene, M., Magin, M., Haßler, J., Rußmann, U., Lilleker, D., Kruschinski, S., Jackson, D., Fenoll, V., Farkas, X., Baranowski, P., & Balaban, D. (2022, May 26-30). Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 European Parliament elections [Conference presentation]. 72nd Annual Conference of the ICA, Paris, France.
  
  
• Wurst, A.-K., Schlosser, K., & Haßler, J. (2021, May 26-30). Emojis in campaign communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign [Conference presentation]. A72nd Annual Conference of the ICA, Paris, France.
  
  
• Maurer, P., Magin, M., Bene, M., Kruschinski, S., Haßler, J., Schlosser, K., & Wurst, A.-K. (2021, June 17-18). Engaging users through information or critique? “Likes” and “shares” for parties on Facebook during the 2019 European Election campaign [Conference presentation]. 3rd Weizenbaum Conference “Democracy in Flux. Order, Dynamics, and Voices in Digital Public Spheres. Berlin, Germany.
  
  
• Kruschinski, S., Haßler, J., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., Larsson, A. O., Magin, M., Schlosser, K., & Wurst, A.-K. (2021, May 27-31). Keep them engaged! A 12-country investigation of content features provoking user engagement on parties’ Facebook posts in the 2019 European Elections [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO,  United States (virtual).
  
  
• Kruschinski, S., Baranowski, P., Rußmann, U., Haßler, J., Magin, M., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Lilleker, D., & Jackson, D. (2021, May 27-31). Patterns of negative campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political parties’ Facebook posts and users’ sharing behavior across twelve Countries [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO, United States (virtual).
  
  
• Wurst, A.-K., Schlosser, K., Haßler, J., Kruschinski, S., Rußmann, U., Magin, M., & Fenoll, V. (2021, April 7-9). “I have a clear mandate from my political family”. A cross-national quantitative content analysis of Facebook posts of European and national parties in the 2019 European election campaigns [Conference presentation]. Three-Country Conference on Communication Science “#Communication #(R)evolution. Changing Communication in a Digital Society”. Zurich, Switzerland
  
  
• Haßler, J., Wurst, A.-K., Schlosser, K., Magin, M., Bene, M., Rußmann, U., & Fenoll, V. (2021, March 26-27). The same tool for different tasks? Facebook campaign strategies during the 2019 European Parliament election campaign [Conference presentation]. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2021 “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty”, Bucharest, Romania.
  
  
• Magin, M., Bene, M., Haßler, J., Lilleker, D., Kruschinski, S., Baranowski, P., Russmann, U., Farkas, X., Jackson, D., & Fenoll, V. (2021, March 26-27). Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 EP elections [Conference presentation]. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2021 “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty”, Bucharest, Romania.
  
  
• Schlosser, K., Wurst, A.-K., & Haßler, J. (2021, February 12). Europäische Identifikationsfiguren? Die Personalisierung der Wahlkampfkommunikation zur Europawahl 2019 [Conference presentation]. Annual conference of the political communication section of the DGPuK. Berlin, Germany (virtual).
  
  
• Russmann, U., Magin, M., Haßler, J., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Farkas, X., Fenoll, V., Jackson, D., Kruschinski, S., Larsson, A. O., Lilleker, D., Maurer, P., Schlosser, K., Veneti, A., & Wurst, A.-K. (2021, January 14-15). “Populists” communication on Facebook during the 2019 EP Elections. Protagoras symposium “Europe facing populists in power: communication strategies and practices”, Brussels, Belgium (virtual).
  
  
• Russmann, U., Baranowski, P., Kruschinski, S., Ceron, A., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., Magin, M., & Márton, B. (2020, August 26-28). European Patterns of Negative Campaigning? Going Negative in the 2019 European Election Campaign [Conference presentation]. 14th ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, Austria (virtual).
  
  
• Haßler, J., Schlosser, K., Wurst, A.-K., Magin, M., & Kruschinski, S. (2020, February 5-7). Facebook als alternative Öffentlichkeit für Deutschland. Wie die AfD Facebook im Europawahlkampf nutzte. [Facebook as an alternative public sphere for Germany? How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) used Facebook in the European Election Campaign] [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the Communication and Policy Section and the Computer Mediated Communciation Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), and the Political Communication Section of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Science (SGKM) “Desinformation, Populismus, “Lügenpresse” – Vertrauen und Glaubwürdigkeit in der politischen Kommunikation” [“Disinformation, populism, ‘lying press’ – trust and trustworthiness in political communication”], Mainz, Germany.
  
  
• Kruschinski, S., Bene, M., Haßler, J., Baranowski, P., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., Jackson, D., Larsson, A. O., Lilleker, D., Magin, M., Maurer, P., Rußmann, U., Schlosser, K., Veneti, A., & Wurst, A.-K. (2020, January 30). Really a European Populist Zeitgeist? How populists used Facebook posts and ads for campaigning across 11 countries in the European Election Campaign 2019. Workshop on the European Elections 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  
  
• Magin, M., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., Haßler, J., Jackson, D., Kruschinski, S., Larsson, A. O., Lilleker, D., Maurer, P., Rußmann, U., Schlosser, K., Veneti, A., & Wurst, A.-K. (2019, December 12-13). How political parties tried to produce participation in the European Election Campaign 2019 – a comparative content analysis of parties’ Facebook campaigns in 11 countries. Workshop on The Production of Participation in the Digital World, Trondheim, Norway.
  
  
• Haßler, J., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., Jackson, D., Kruschinski, S., Larsson,
  A. O., Lilleker, D., Magin, M., Maurer, P., Rußmann, U., & Schlosser, K. (2019, November 20-22). Campaigning for Strasbourg (CamforS) – a Cross-National Comparison of Campaign Mobilization in Social Media. Congress on European Elections 2019: Populism & Euroscepticism, Valencia, Spain.
  
  
• Magin, M. (2019, November 20-22). The European Election 2019 in Austria. On the influence of situational factorson the election outcome. Congress on European Elections 2019: Populism & Euroscepticism, Valencia, Spain.

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Panel

• Haßler, J. (2021, September 6-9). Campaigning for Strasbourg. A cross-national comparison of political parties’ Facebook campaigns in the 2019 European Elections. 8th European Communication Conference “Communication and trust: building safe, sustainable and promising futures”, Braga, Portugal.
  
  • Baranowski, P., Kruschinski, S., & Rußmann, U. (2021, September 6-9). Putting lipstick on a pig? Going negative in the 2019 European Election Campaign. 
  • Lilleker, D., Maurer, P., & Balaban, D. (2021, September 6-9). Populist election campaigning: assessing the spread and impact across 12 EU nations.
  • Veneti, A., Farkas, X., Jackson, D., & Bene, M. (2021, September 6-9). Visual elements of the 2019 EP campaign on party Facebook: a twelve-country comparative analysis.
  • Wurst, A.-K., Haßler, J., Schlosser, K. & Magin, M. (2021, September 6-9). What parties and users care about. Issue ownership and shareworthiness in the EP Campaign 2019.
  • Bene, M., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., & Larsson, A. O. (2021, September 6-9). Shared patterns: A cross-country investigation of user engagement with parties on Facebook.

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