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Overview

Yannis Theocharis is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research focuses primarily within the social sciences, with a notable emphasis on communication and political science. The scholar's work encompasses several subfields including communication, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, artificial intelligence, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Theocharis's contributions are strongly associated with themes around social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, electoral systems and political participation, media studies and communication, opinion dynamics and social influence, as well as media influence and politics.

Several recent papers authored by Theocharis illustrate this range of interests and topics. These include:

  • Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries, 2021, Digital Journalism
  • Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries, 2021, New Media & Society
  • The Dynamics of Political Incivility on Twitter, 2020, SAGE Open
  • Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement, 2022, West European Politics
  • Navigating High-Choice European Political Information Environments: a Comparative Analysis of News User Profiles and Political Knowledge, 2021, The International Journal of Press/Politics

Theocharis frequently publishes in journals such as The International Journal of Press/Politics, Political Communication, Digital Journalism, European Journal of Political Research, and Information Communication & Society. These venues reflect the scholar's focus on media and political communication research.

In collaboration, Theocharis works often with co-authors including Karolina Koç-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Frank Esser, David Nicolas Hopmann, and Václav Štětka, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Using Twitter to mobilize protest action: online mobilization patterns and action repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados, and Aganaktismenoi movements

    Yannis Theocharis;Will Lowe;Jan W. van Deth;Gema García-Albacete

  • From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media And Democracy

    Joshua A. Tucker;Yannis Theocharis;Margaret E. Roberts;Pablo Barberá

  • The continuous expansion of citizen participation: a new taxonomy ‡

    Yannis Theocharis;Jan W. van Deth

  • The Conceptualization of Digitally Networked Participation

    Yannis Theocharis

  • Young People, Digital Media, and Engagement: A Meta-Analysis of Research:

    Shelley Boulianne;Yannis Theocharis

  • Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament

    Paul Nulty;Yannis Theocharis;Sebastian Adrian Popa;Olivier Parnet

  • A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates

    Yannis Theocharis;Pablo Barberá;Zoltán Fazekas;Sebastian Adrian Popa

  • Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries

    Peter Van Aelst;Fanni Toth;Laia Castro;Laia Castro;Václav Štětka

  • Does Facebook increase political participation? Evidence from a field experiment

    Yannis Theocharis;Will Lowe

  • Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries:

    Yannis Theocharis;Ana Cardenal;Soyeon Jin;Toril Aalberg

  • Young people, political participation and online postmaterialism in Greece

    Yannis Theocharis

  • Cuts, Tweets, Solidarity and Mobilisation: How the Internet Shaped the Student Occupations

    Yannis Theocharis

  • Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement

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  • The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network

    Yannis Theocharis

  • Stimulating citizenship or expanding entertainment? The effect of Facebook on adolescent participation

    Yannis Theocharis;Ellen Quintelier

  • Political Participation in a Changing World: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Citizen Engagement

    Yannis Theocharis;Jan W. van Deth

  • The Dynamics of Political Incivility on Twitter

    Yannis Theocharis;Pablo Barberá;Zoltán Fazekas;Sebastian Adrian Popa

  • Tweeting alone? An analysis of bridging and bonding social capital in online networks

    Javier Sajuria;Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson;David Hudson;Niheer Dasandi

  • Online Political Engagement, Facebook, and Personality Traits

    Ellen Quintelier;Yannis Theocharis

  • Political Participation in a Changing World

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  • Digitally Networked Participation and Lifestyle Politics as New Modes of Political Participation

    Yannis Theocharis;Joost de Moor;Jan W. van Deth

  • Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

    Yannis Theocharis;Andreas Jungherr

  • Elite-public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign

    Zoltán Fazekas;Sebastian Adrian Popa;Sebastian Adrian Popa;Hermann Schmitt;Hermann Schmitt;Pablo Barberá

  • The empiricist’s challenge: Asking meaningful questions in political science in the age of big data

    Andreas Jungherr;Yannis Theocharis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan W. van Deth
Jan W. van Deth University of Mannheim
Andreas Jungherr
Andreas Jungherr University of Bamberg
Hermann Schmitt
Hermann Schmitt University of Mannheim
Marc Hooghe
Marc Hooghe KU Leuven
Joshua A. Tucker
Joshua A. Tucker New York University
Kenneth Benoit
Kenneth Benoit Singapore Management University
Shelley Boulianne
Shelley Boulianne Mount Royal University

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