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Overview

Hans-Jörg Trenz is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research lies primarily in the social sciences, with a strong focus on political science and international relations, communication, and sociology. Trenz has contributed significantly across these fields, producing 46 publications, including 21 in political science and international relations and 14 in communication.

Their work addresses a variety of prominent topics, including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Hans-Jörg Trenz has published recent research articles which include:

  • "Brexit as 'politics of division': social media campaigning after the referendum," 2021, in Social Movement Studies
  • "Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators," 2021, in Media Culture & Society
  • "Resilience of Public Spheres in a Global Health Crisis," 2021, in Javnost - The Public
  • "Same Same but Different? Gender Politics and (Trans-)National Value Contestation in Europe on Twitter," 2022, in Politics and Governance
  • "Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?", 2023, in Communication Theory

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Asimina Michailidou
  • Verena K. Brändle
  • Monika Eigmüller
  • Olga Eisele
  • Manlio Cinalli

Hans-Jörg Trenz has contributed to various publication venues repeatedly, particularly:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Movement Studies
  • Media Culture & Society
  • Javnost - The Public
  • Politics and Governance

In addition to journal articles, Trenz has published books with multiple publishers. Notably, there are several editions of "Democracy and the Public Sphere" released in 2023 by Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press. Earlier, a book titled "Citizens' Solidarity in Europe" was published in 2020 by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Media Coverage on European Governance Exploring the European Public Sphere in National Quality Newspapers

    Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • The Democratizing Dynamics of a European Public Sphere Towards a Theory of Democratic Functionalism

    Hans-Jörg Trenz;Klaus Eder

  • The Politicization of Europe: Contesting the Constitution in the Mass Media

    Paul Statham;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Denouncing European integration Euroscepticism as polity contestation

    Pieter de Wilde;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Understanding the mechanisms of EU politicization: Lessons from the Eurozone crisis

    Paul Statham;Hans-Jörg Trenz;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Regieren in Europa jenseits öffentlicher Legitimation? Eine Untersuchung zur Rolle von politischer Öffentlichkeit in Europa

    Klaus Eder;Kai-Uwe Hellmann;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Contesting Europe: Exploring Euroscepticism in Online Media Coverage

    Hans-Jörg Trenz;Pieter de Wilde;Asimina Michailidou

  • ‘Quo vadis Europe?’ Quality newspapers struggling for European unity

    Hans Jörg Trenz

  • Converging on euroscepticism: Online polity contestation during European Parliament elections

    Pieter De Wilde;Asimina Michailidou;Hans Jörg Trenz

  • The EU's fledgling society: From deafening silence to critical voice in European constitution-making

    John Erik Fossum;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • The New Politics of European Civil Society

    Ulrike Liebert;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • How European Union Politicization can Emerge through Contestation: The Constitution Case†

    Paul Statham;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Media Morality and Visual Icons in the Age of Social Media: Alan Kurdi and the Emergence of an Impromptu Public of Moral Spectatorship

    Mette Mortensen;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Digital Media and The Return of The Representative Public Sphere

    Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • European civil society: Between participation, representation and discourse

    Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Mediatized representative politics in the European Union: towards audience democracy?

    Asimina Michailidou;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum

    Verena K. Brändle;Charlotte Galpin;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Measuring the Europeanisation of Public Communication: the Question of Standards

    Hans-jörg Trenz

  • Engaging with European Politics Through Twitter and Facebook: Participation Beyond the National?

    Michael Bossetta;Anamaria Dutceac Segesten;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Mediati(zi)ng EU politics: Online news coverage of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections

    Asimina Michailidou;Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • In Search of The European Public Sphere: Between Normative Overstretch and Empirical Disenchantment

    Hans-Jörg Trenz

  • Complex and dynamic integration processes in Europe: intra EU mobility and international migration in times of recession

    Hans-Jörg Trenz;Anna Triandafyllidou

  • Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators:

    Asimina Michailidou;Hans-Jörg Trenz

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Statham
Paul Statham University of Sussex
John Erik Fossum
John Erik Fossum University of Oslo
Ruud Koopmans
Ruud Koopmans Social Science Research Center Berlin
Anna Triandafyllidou
Anna Triandafyllidou Toronto Metropolitan University
Adrian Favell
Adrian Favell University College Cork
Maria T. Grasso
Maria T. Grasso Queen Mary University of London

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