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curdknupfer.bsky.social
Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark. Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties. Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
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Publication alert! In this new article, @mathildaakerlund.bsky.social and I investigate the right-wing disinformative construction of Sweden as the "rape capital" of the world. @polcomm.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨ The Phantom Counter-Public: Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication. doi.org/10.1007/978-... In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler. 🧵⤵️

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 8 days ago • 360 comments

OK, I'll bite. Who's Joe Biden?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Going to be in Berlin in 2 weeks, to speak about "The Logic of Connective Faction" ...a project I've been working on with @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social. Looking forward to see all my old friends & colleagues at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🫶

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Academic freedom in the Netherlands under pressure. New report from Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences @knaw-nl.bsky.social What is needed: 🚩 stronger freedom of research 🚩 less substantive government influence 🚩 support against intimidation and attacks www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

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🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Public media are feeling the pressure across many democratic systems. Like many public infrastructures (railway systems, health services), we mostly talk about them when we complain. It's worth remembering why they exist & keeping an eye on what will be left if they are dismantled.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Kleiner Appell in Anbetracht der Nachrichtenlage: Wenn jemand behauptet "sowas stärke die AfD", bitte immer die Rückfrage nach dem Kausalzusammenhang stellen. Etwa so: die Prämisse, dass etwas automatisch die AfD stärkt, stärkt die AfD, *weil* dies dazu führt, ihre Deutungsmuster zu übernehmen.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Zur AfD-Hochstufung durch den VS: Es gibt viel Unsinn und Strohmänner in der Debatte. Mal die üblichen Punkte: 👇

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

Today 80 years ago, Denmark was liberated from the Nazi regime. It is a long time ago. But the signs are still here. E.g, this bullet hole in a fence at Aarhus University from bombings that happened on Oct 31 in 1944. Those signs serve as a reminder in a time where autocracy is again rising.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I would add to this absolutely correct take that some in the CDU are responding to the same info environment as the AfD, while others are actually paying attention to what AfD networks are saying about them.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Why does the AfD's official designation as extremist matter ...from the perspective of political communication? Democratic institutions need clear defintions on which to act. In the basic language of frame theory, they can now move on from "problem definition" to "policy response."

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is pretty big news. Not unexpected. But it now sets the stage for testing how resilient the German Judiciary and Legislature can be in the face of extremist threats to its constitutional order...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Brace yourselves for "was Fukuyama right after all?" think pieces.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

You will not regret investing these two minutes of attention: Europe at its finest. 🫡🇪🇺🥲 (Sound on!)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 New Publication 🚨 w/Antonia Peißker & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social We extend a framework examining disinformation resilience in consolidated democracies to countries experiencing democratic backsliding, demonstrating the need to add civil society & institutional capture doi.org/10.34669/wi....

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Um... I'm genuinely baffled as to how this would get past an IRB? The researchers' response to criticism was, apparently, that the benefits outweigh any potential harms. Even *if* that were the case, that's... not how ethics work...?

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

I agree! & this seems like a good opportunity to draw attention to our working paper on "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites & Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics"...: bsky.app/profile/curd...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment