Curd Knüpfer
@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
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
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Curd Knüpfer
@curdknupfer.bsky.social
· May 21
✨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.
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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.
🧵⤵️
Now that the 11th annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP2025 is over, I am back on European ground, & wanted to reiterate that it remains my favorite smaller conference.
So many interesting projects, so broad + international & yet so constructive + focused.
10/10!
So many interesting projects, so broad + international & yet so constructive + focused.
10/10!
Kicking off #IJPP25 with welcoming words by our Editor in Chief @taberez.bsky.social, followed by an excellent keynote by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on how the rise of illiberal public spheres forces us to reconsider normative assumptions in #polcomm. Focusing on publics, media trust, & disinfo.
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Now that the 11th annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP2025 is over, I am back on European ground, & wanted to reiterate that it remains my favorite smaller conference.
So many interesting projects, so broad + international & yet so constructive + focused.
10/10!
So many interesting projects, so broad + international & yet so constructive + focused.
10/10!
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not good
www.wired.com/story/senato...
www.wired.com/story/senato...
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
not good
www.wired.com/story/senato...
www.wired.com/story/senato...
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Nachreichen möchten wir außerdem ein Paper von @curdknupfer.bsky.social, Lance W. Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social zu Normalisierung durch überproportionale mediale Berichterstattung über disruptive politische Akteur*innen aufgrund eben dieser Disruptivität:
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate
Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Nachreichen möchten wir außerdem ein Paper von @curdknupfer.bsky.social, Lance W. Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social zu Normalisierung durch überproportionale mediale Berichterstattung über disruptive politische Akteur*innen aufgrund eben dieser Disruptivität:
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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#NeuesausderForschung
Gervais et al. untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen autoritärer Persönlichkeit und der Unterstützung politischer Gewalt; u.a. mit einem Fokus auf den Widerspruch zwischen autoritärer Unterwerfung und der Billigung von Gewalt gegen Autoritäten: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
Gervais et al. untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen autoritärer Persönlichkeit und der Unterstützung politischer Gewalt; u.a. mit einem Fokus auf den Widerspruch zwischen autoritärer Unterwerfung und der Billigung von Gewalt gegen Autoritäten: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
#NeuesausderForschung
Gervais et al. untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen autoritärer Persönlichkeit und der Unterstützung politischer Gewalt; u.a. mit einem Fokus auf den Widerspruch zwischen autoritärer Unterwerfung und der Billigung von Gewalt gegen Autoritäten: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
Gervais et al. untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen autoritärer Persönlichkeit und der Unterstützung politischer Gewalt; u.a. mit einem Fokus auf den Widerspruch zwischen autoritärer Unterwerfung und der Billigung von Gewalt gegen Autoritäten: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
Fantastic 1st day of conferencing at #IJPP2025. Lots of new faces, projects & ideas.
Topics:
International ✅
Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅
Politics ✅
@taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@polcomm.bsky.social
Topics:
International ✅
Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅
Politics ✅
@taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@polcomm.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Fantastic 1st day of conferencing at #IJPP2025. Lots of new faces, projects & ideas.
Topics:
International ✅
Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅
Politics ✅
@taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@polcomm.bsky.social
Topics:
International ✅
Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅
Politics ✅
@taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@polcomm.bsky.social
First panel of the day, focused on Campaigns and Identities.
With Dennis Steffan on
Visual Frame Building in Election Campaigns in 🇩🇪&🇰🇪
Then: Tetsuro Kobayashi, linking conspiratorial beliefs to collective efficacy, via social media engagement and deep search in 🇯🇵.
#IJPP2025 #IJPP25
With Dennis Steffan on
Visual Frame Building in Election Campaigns in 🇩🇪&🇰🇪
Then: Tetsuro Kobayashi, linking conspiratorial beliefs to collective efficacy, via social media engagement and deep search in 🇯🇵.
#IJPP2025 #IJPP25
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Kicking off #IJPP25 with welcoming words by our Editor in Chief @taberez.bsky.social, followed by an excellent keynote by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on how the rise of illiberal public spheres forces us to reconsider normative assumptions in #polcomm. Focusing on publics, media trust, & disinfo.
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Kicking off #IJPP25 with welcoming words by our Editor in Chief @taberez.bsky.social, followed by an excellent keynote by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on how the rise of illiberal public spheres forces us to reconsider normative assumptions in #polcomm. Focusing on publics, media trust, & disinfo.
In Singapore (1st time) for the annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP.
Only had about 90 minutes of free time to explore & snap some pre-golden hour pics at the tourist hotspots in China Town.📸
Have another half day off on Sat.
LMK if you have any must-sees/eats...
Only had about 90 minutes of free time to explore & snap some pre-golden hour pics at the tourist hotspots in China Town.📸
Have another half day off on Sat.
LMK if you have any must-sees/eats...
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In Singapore (1st time) for the annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP.
Only had about 90 minutes of free time to explore & snap some pre-golden hour pics at the tourist hotspots in China Town.📸
Have another half day off on Sat.
LMK if you have any must-sees/eats...
Only had about 90 minutes of free time to explore & snap some pre-golden hour pics at the tourist hotspots in China Town.📸
Have another half day off on Sat.
LMK if you have any must-sees/eats...
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The @ec.europa.eu 'Democracy Shield' plans have dropped.
The focus on free, independent media, fact-checking, literacy, election integrity etc make sense.
But: it needs to be acknowledged that many of these challenges are not from outside the EU only. Also from within.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The focus on free, independent media, fact-checking, literacy, election integrity etc make sense.
But: it needs to be acknowledged that many of these challenges are not from outside the EU only. Also from within.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for stronger and more resilient democracies
The Commission has presented today the European Democracy Shield, setting out a series of concrete measures to empower, protect, and promote strong and resilient democracies across the EU. An open civ...
ec.europa.eu
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The @ec.europa.eu 'Democracy Shield' plans have dropped.
The focus on free, independent media, fact-checking, literacy, election integrity etc make sense.
But: it needs to be acknowledged that many of these challenges are not from outside the EU only. Also from within.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The focus on free, independent media, fact-checking, literacy, election integrity etc make sense.
But: it needs to be acknowledged that many of these challenges are not from outside the EU only. Also from within.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Apparently, back in late Summer, some clown with my email/name volunteered for numerous review and writing tasks due at the end of this *very busy* month. 🤡😭
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Apparently, back in late Summer, some clown with my email/name volunteered for numerous review and writing tasks due at the end of this *very busy* month. 🤡😭
Nice work by these always excellent colleagues:
Embedding platform affordances within the contexts (and confines) of the media/political regimes in which they are used by various social movements.
Smart stuff!
Embedding platform affordances within the contexts (and confines) of the media/political regimes in which they are used by various social movements.
Smart stuff!
📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements
Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Nice work by these always excellent colleagues:
Embedding platform affordances within the contexts (and confines) of the media/political regimes in which they are used by various social movements.
Smart stuff!
Embedding platform affordances within the contexts (and confines) of the media/political regimes in which they are used by various social movements.
Smart stuff!
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Research by our own @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others proves that climate journalism truly matters.
Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)
Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)
How News Media, Climate Anxiety, and Trust Shape Pro-Climate Behaviour Across Eight Countries - Waqas Ejaz, Mary Sanford, Richard Fletcher, 2025
Despite the importance of climate news in shaping public engagement, little is known about how different types of media – mainstream and non-mainstream – relate...
journals.sagepub.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Research by our own @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others proves that climate journalism truly matters.
Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)
Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)
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It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .
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How Elon Musk boosts the British right.
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
How Elon Musk boosts the British right.
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Chapter 1+2 work pretty good and are interesting for students in interdisciplinary study programs (as far as I can tell) - www.wiley.com/en-gb/Platfo...
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age
<p>Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments fo...
www.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Chapter 1+2 work pretty good and are interesting for students in interdisciplinary study programs (as far as I can tell) - www.wiley.com/en-gb/Platfo...
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo
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Social science is so cool
We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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journals.sagepub.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Social science is so cool
This must be what it's like to be American when the World Cup is on.
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This must be what it's like to be American when the World Cup is on.
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Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
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🚨 Evergreen Post 🚨
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨 Evergreen Post 🚨
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
Made this meme, in celebration of passing my Danish language module 3.1. exam today. 🇩🇰🎶🫡
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Made this meme, in celebration of passing my Danish language module 3.1. exam today. 🇩🇰🎶🫡
I contributed some quotes citing our research to this @euobserver.com piece on the German center-right's relation to the far right.
🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar...
TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.
🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar...
TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.
Germany's Merz under pressure from CDU to abandon 'firewall' against AfD
As Germany prepares for five state elections next year, chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right CDU faces a dilemma over how to handle the surging influence and popularity of the far-right Alternativ...
euobserver.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I contributed some quotes citing our research to this @euobserver.com piece on the German center-right's relation to the far right.
🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar...
TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.
🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar...
TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.
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Why does the country think CBS News is biased?
Because the modern conservative movement has been pushing that narrative for the better part of 80 years!
Because the modern conservative movement has been pushing that narrative for the better part of 80 years!
new: Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, surprised senior staff at “60 Minutes” last week when she asked a provocative question —
Why does the country think you’re biased?
Inside Bari’s first two weeks, with Michael Grynbaum:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
Why does the country think you’re biased?
Inside Bari’s first two weeks, with Michael Grynbaum:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
Booking Big Guests and Irked by Leaks: Bari Weiss’s First Days at CBS
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Why does the country think CBS News is biased?
Because the modern conservative movement has been pushing that narrative for the better part of 80 years!
Because the modern conservative movement has been pushing that narrative for the better part of 80 years!
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New publication alert🔓🚨
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New publication alert🔓🚨
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.