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
Huge thanks again to @taberez.bsky.social and his fantastic team at the National University Singapore! 👏
Thanks for the hospitality and all your efforts! I know it was a lot of work and I am very grateful you made this happen. ❤️
Thanks for the hospitality and all your efforts! I know it was a lot of work and I am very grateful you made this happen. ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Huge thanks again to @taberez.bsky.social and his fantastic team at the National University Singapore! 👏
Thanks for the hospitality and all your efforts! I know it was a lot of work and I am very grateful you made this happen. ❤️
Thanks for the hospitality and all your efforts! I know it was a lot of work and I am very grateful you made this happen. ❤️
Our third co-panelist, @alice-hamilton.bsky.social (Wageningen University), with highly interesting experimental work across 🇪🇺 countries, investigating the effects of accusations of disinformation. Super interesting dynamics between the right-wing and far right!
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Our third co-panelist, @alice-hamilton.bsky.social (Wageningen University), with highly interesting experimental work across 🇪🇺 countries, investigating the effects of accusations of disinformation. Super interesting dynamics between the right-wing and far right!
Here's my fellow panelist @ehabrasul.bsky.social (NUS)
presenting cutting edge work on "How Perceptions of Misinformation and Disinformation Influence News Consumption across Traditional Media, Social Media, and AI"
Very cool stuff! Part of a larger project. One to watch!
presenting cutting edge work on "How Perceptions of Misinformation and Disinformation Influence News Consumption across Traditional Media, Social Media, and AI"
Very cool stuff! Part of a larger project. One to watch!
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Here's my fellow panelist @ehabrasul.bsky.social (NUS)
presenting cutting edge work on "How Perceptions of Misinformation and Disinformation Influence News Consumption across Traditional Media, Social Media, and AI"
Very cool stuff! Part of a larger project. One to watch!
presenting cutting edge work on "How Perceptions of Misinformation and Disinformation Influence News Consumption across Traditional Media, Social Media, and AI"
Very cool stuff! Part of a larger project. One to watch!
Day 2 of #IJPP2025:
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Day 2 of #IJPP2025:
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
Excellent presentation and lively discussion about "Strategic Legalism and Journalistic Agency under Security Governance" by Saira Ali (Adelaide University), focused on journalists in 🇵🇰.
#IJPP2025
#IJPP2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Excellent presentation and lively discussion about "Strategic Legalism and Journalistic Agency under Security Governance" by Saira Ali (Adelaide University), focused on journalists in 🇵🇰.
#IJPP2025
#IJPP2025
Very impressive quantitative work by Yufan Guo & Longhan Wei (Chinese U of Hong Kong) on
"How the State Politicizes Everyday Language: A Computational Analysis of Discursive Shifts on Chinese Social Media"...using word embeddings in over 180.000.000 (!) posts from 🇨🇳Weibo over 10 years.
"How the State Politicizes Everyday Language: A Computational Analysis of Discursive Shifts on Chinese Social Media"...using word embeddings in over 180.000.000 (!) posts from 🇨🇳Weibo over 10 years.
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Very impressive quantitative work by Yufan Guo & Longhan Wei (Chinese U of Hong Kong) on
"How the State Politicizes Everyday Language: A Computational Analysis of Discursive Shifts on Chinese Social Media"...using word embeddings in over 180.000.000 (!) posts from 🇨🇳Weibo over 10 years.
"How the State Politicizes Everyday Language: A Computational Analysis of Discursive Shifts on Chinese Social Media"...using word embeddings in over 180.000.000 (!) posts from 🇨🇳Weibo over 10 years.
Next:
Dyotana Banerjee (Krea University) on...
Community Icons, New Media and the Politics of Caste Assertion in Gujarat, 🇮🇳
@cristinamonzer.bsky.social (UPenn) on...
Aligned identities, curated politics: How TikTok creators express partisan sorting 🇺🇸
Dyotana Banerjee (Krea University) on...
Community Icons, New Media and the Politics of Caste Assertion in Gujarat, 🇮🇳
@cristinamonzer.bsky.social (UPenn) on...
Aligned identities, curated politics: How TikTok creators express partisan sorting 🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Next:
Dyotana Banerjee (Krea University) on...
Community Icons, New Media and the Politics of Caste Assertion in Gujarat, 🇮🇳
@cristinamonzer.bsky.social (UPenn) on...
Aligned identities, curated politics: How TikTok creators express partisan sorting 🇺🇸
Dyotana Banerjee (Krea University) on...
Community Icons, New Media and the Politics of Caste Assertion in Gujarat, 🇮🇳
@cristinamonzer.bsky.social (UPenn) on...
Aligned identities, curated politics: How TikTok creators express partisan sorting 🇺🇸
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...
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. 🇩🇰🎶🫡
Among many other fun options, you could pull off a reverse ratatouille, by taking control of this inflatable rat!
October 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Among many other fun options, you could pull off a reverse ratatouille, by taking control of this inflatable rat!
Ganz so neu ist die Theorie dann aber auch nicht...
October 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Ganz so neu ist die Theorie dann aber auch nicht...
The Caldwell of 2009 would segregate European cities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflect...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflect...
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Caldwell of 2009 would segregate European cities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflect...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflect...
Excellent Op-ed by @pastpunditry.bsky.social, on the history of the censorious right.
What she observes here for the US also goes for other national contexts, where formations on the far right often self-depict & are seen as free-speech absolutists, when they're anything but...
What she observes here for the US also goes for other national contexts, where formations on the far right often self-depict & are seen as free-speech absolutists, when they're anything but...
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Excellent Op-ed by @pastpunditry.bsky.social, on the history of the censorious right.
What she observes here for the US also goes for other national contexts, where formations on the far right often self-depict & are seen as free-speech absolutists, when they're anything but...
What she observes here for the US also goes for other national contexts, where formations on the far right often self-depict & are seen as free-speech absolutists, when they're anything but...
I don't think it's a good idea to use "left-wing" or "right-wing" as categories to classify terrorism.
These terms stem from parliamentary politics & blur more than they reveal. More precise labels should be applied -- which would also lead to more meaningful comparative values.
These terms stem from parliamentary politics & blur more than they reveal. More precise labels should be applied -- which would also lead to more meaningful comparative values.
September 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I don't think it's a good idea to use "left-wing" or "right-wing" as categories to classify terrorism.
These terms stem from parliamentary politics & blur more than they reveal. More precise labels should be applied -- which would also lead to more meaningful comparative values.
These terms stem from parliamentary politics & blur more than they reveal. More precise labels should be applied -- which would also lead to more meaningful comparative values.
Hey #PolComm folks!
The #ICA26 @icahdq.bsky.social election for the PolComm Division @polcomm.bsky.social is now open.
There are fantastic candidates running for Vice Chair, Early Career Rep, & International Liaison.
Go read their statements & cast your votes! 🗳️
www.icahdq.org/surveys/?id=...
The #ICA26 @icahdq.bsky.social election for the PolComm Division @polcomm.bsky.social is now open.
There are fantastic candidates running for Vice Chair, Early Career Rep, & International Liaison.
Go read their statements & cast your votes! 🗳️
www.icahdq.org/surveys/?id=...
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Hey #PolComm folks!
The #ICA26 @icahdq.bsky.social election for the PolComm Division @polcomm.bsky.social is now open.
There are fantastic candidates running for Vice Chair, Early Career Rep, & International Liaison.
Go read their statements & cast your votes! 🗳️
www.icahdq.org/surveys/?id=...
The #ICA26 @icahdq.bsky.social election for the PolComm Division @polcomm.bsky.social is now open.
There are fantastic candidates running for Vice Chair, Early Career Rep, & International Liaison.
Go read their statements & cast your votes! 🗳️
www.icahdq.org/surveys/?id=...
I truly hate to say it, but I called it.
5 years ago.
5 years ago.
September 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I truly hate to say it, but I called it.
5 years ago.
5 years ago.
Periodic reminder that the discursive groundwork of some of today's policies has a long trajectory, often rooted in right-wing activism.
Here's a small study on the floating signifier of "antifa" from 2020.
www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
Here's a small study on the floating signifier of "antifa" from 2020.
www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Periodic reminder that the discursive groundwork of some of today's policies has a long trajectory, often rooted in right-wing activism.
Here's a small study on the floating signifier of "antifa" from 2020.
www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
Here's a small study on the floating signifier of "antifa" from 2020.
www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
Every one of these adds a new layer of Bluesky-iness! 😚👌
September 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Every one of these adds a new layer of Bluesky-iness! 😚👌
Whoever’s in charge of coercing me to open Duolingo -- I genuinely resent you and hope you have a terrible day.
September 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Whoever’s in charge of coercing me to open Duolingo -- I genuinely resent you and hope you have a terrible day.
A) Omfg 🤦♂️
B) what's with all the plants as props in portraits of far-right “contrarians"?
B) what's with all the plants as props in portraits of far-right “contrarians"?
September 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A) Omfg 🤦♂️
B) what's with all the plants as props in portraits of far-right “contrarians"?
B) what's with all the plants as props in portraits of far-right “contrarians"?