April 2021

The DigiDeMo team Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Schlosser and Jörg Haßler together with Marc Jungblut, conducted a study on the Twitter communication of Fridays for Future in German-speaking countries and the impact of the Corona pandemic lockdown on their  digital communication strategy. Anna-Katharina Wurst presented results of our study at the digital conference DACH 21 – Three-Country Conference on Communication Science, 7 – 9 April 2021 in Zurich. The results show that the lockdown had a diminishing effect on the number of tweets, while hashtags and topics of tweets published during the lockdown indicated a more thematic discourse about the climate crisis. As the overall volume of tweets is largely driven by protest events, Fridays for Future sought to organize online-only events during the lockdown.

DigiDeMo just finished conducting an online survey with more than 1,000 participants focusing on political mobilization on social media sites.

DigiDeMo together with bidt presents this year’s colloquium of the Early Career Researchers Network Political Communication (NapoKo). Due to the pandamic the colloquium takes place as a digital conference from 26 November to 27 November 2020.

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