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Overview

Daniel Kreiss is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on the intersection of social media and politics, media studies, communication, and related subfields within the social sciences.

The scientist has contributed publications in several main fields of study including Social Sciences, with a notable emphasis on Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence as subfields.

Kreiss's work spans a variety of topics such as:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Populism and Right-Wing Movements
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Their recent papers include:

  • "A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms" (2023), published in New Media & Society
  • "Political Identity Ownership: Symbolic Contests to Represent Members of the Public" (2020), published in Social Media + Society

Kreiss has frequently collaborated with fellow researchers such as Shannon C. McGregor, Regina G. Lawrence, Sarah J. Jackson, Deen Freelon, and Alice Marwick. These collaborations reflect ongoing engagement with interdisciplinary perspectives in communication and political science.

The researcher has published in various venues, notably:

  • UNC Libraries
  • New Media & Society
  • Communication Theory
  • The International Journal of Press/Politics
  • Political Communication

In addition to journal articles, Kreiss has authored book publications with Cambridge University Press, including the title Power in Ideas (2021).

Best Publications

  • Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama

    Daniel Kreiss

  • Seizing the moment: The presidential campaigns’ use of Twitter during the 2012 electoral cycle

    Daniel Kreiss

  • Digitalization

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  • Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy

    Daniel Kreiss

  • In Their Own Words: Political Practitioner Accounts of Candidates, Audiences, Affordances, Genres, and Timing in Strategic Social Media Use

    Daniel Kreiss;Regina G. Lawrence;Shannon C. McGregor

  • Technology Firms Shape Political Communication: The Work of Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Google With Campaigns During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Cycle

    Daniel Kreiss;Shannon C. Mcgregor

  • Taking Our Country Back

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  • The limits of peer production: Some reminders from Max Weber for the network society

    Daniel Kreiss;Megan Finn;Fred Turner

  • False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right.

    Deen Freelon;Alice Marwick;Daniel Kreiss

  • Prototype Politics

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  • The “Arbiters of What Our Voters See”: Facebook and Google’s Struggle with Policy, Process, and Enforcement around Political Advertising

    Daniel Kreiss;Shannon C. Mcgregor

  • A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms

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  • Qualitative Political Communication| Introduction ~ The Role of Qualitative Methods in Political Communication Research: Past, Present, and Future

    David Karpf;Daniel Kreiss;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Matthew Powers

  • The Tech Industry Meets Presidential Politics: Explaining the Democratic Party’s Technological Advantage in Electoral Campaigning, 2004–2012

    Daniel Kreiss;Christopher Jasinski

  • Black Boxes as Capacities for and Constraints on Action: Electoral Politics, Journalism, and Devices of Representation

    C. W. Anderson;Daniel Kreiss

  • Occupying the Political: Occupy Wall Street, Collective Action, and the Rediscovery of Pragmatic Politics

    Daniel Kreiss;Zeynep Tufekci

  • Political Identity Ownership: Symbolic Contests to Represent Members of the Public:

    Daniel Kreiss;Regina G Lawrence;Shannon C McGregor

  • Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics

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  • Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation:

    Madhavi Reddi;Rachel Kuo;Daniel Kreiss

  • Trump Gave Them Hope: Studying the Strangers in Their Own Land

    Daniel Kreiss;Joshua O. Barker;Shannon Zenner

  • Platform transience: changes in Facebook’s policies, procedures, and affordances in global electoral politics

    Bridget Barrett;Daniel Kreiss

  • Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication: Explaining Innovations in U.S. Electoral Campaigning From 2004 to 2012

    Daniel Kreiss;Adam J. Saffer

  • The fragmenting of the civil sphere: How partisan identity shapes the moral evaluation of candidates and epistemology

    Daniel Kreiss

  • The Problem of Citizens: E-Democracy for Actually Existing Democracy

    Daniel Kreiss

  • Acting in the Public Sphere: The 2008 Obama Campaign's Strategic Use of New Media to Shape Narratives of the Presidential Race

    Daniel Kreiss

  • New Challenges to Political Privacy: Lessons from the First U.S. Presidential Race in the Web 2.0 Era

    Daniel Kreiss;Philip N. Howard

  • The Role of Qualitative Methods in Political Communication Research: Past, Present, and Future

    David Karpf;Daniel Kreiss;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Matthew Powers

  • Developing the “Good Citizen”: Digital Artifacts, Peer Networks, and Formal Organization During the 2003–2004 Howard Dean Campaign

    Daniel Kreiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Philip N. Howard
Philip N. Howard University of Oxford
Regina G. Lawrence
Regina G. Lawrence University of Oregon
Deen Freelon
Deen Freelon University of Pennsylvania
Alice E. Marwick
Alice E. Marwick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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