A presentation by Ulrike Klinger (Freie Universität Berlin). This event is part of the Digital Governance Research Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Digital Governance and the Data Science Lab.
The presentation traces a radical right-wing protest campaign against the UN Global Compact for Migration, which shook the political landscape in Europe in fall 2018. A dynamic network analysis of the Twitter discourse over a period of five months illustrates the role of parties, "alternative" radical media and hyperactive users who generated loud minorities and "dark participation“. The analysis shows how political protest mobilization works beyond and outside of traditional mass media.
Ulrike Klinger is Professor for Political Theory and Digital Democracy at the European New School of Digital Studies at European University Viadrina and an associated researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin. After receiving her PhD (best dissertation award by the German Political Science Association 2011), she worked as a Post-Doc at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, was a visiting scholar at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, the University of California at Santa Barbara and visiting professor at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. Her research focuses on digital public spheres, political communication and digital technologies.
