Computational Political Communication: Theory, Applications, and Interdisciplinary Challenges

This edited volume focuses on the use of Computational Communication Science (CCS) to address key questions in political communication, highlighting methodological innovations and the theoretical, practical, and institutional challenges in the field. Topics include clickbaiting, propaganda, political polarization, and media framing.

Yannis Theocharis holds the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests are in political behavior, political communication, harmful speech and content moderation and computational social science. He is a core member of the Munich Data Science Institute and director of the Content Moderation Lab at the TUM Think Tank.

Andreas Jungherr holds the Chair for Political Science, especially Digital Transformation at the University of Bamberg. His research interests include the effects of digital technology on society, political communication, and computational social science. He is the author of Retooling Politics: How Digital Media is Shaping Democracy (with Gonzalo Rivero and Daniel Gayo-Avello, 2020) and Digital Transformations of the Public Arena (with Ralph Schroeder, 2022).