Melanie Magin

About

Melanie Magin is Professor of Media Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany). Her research lies at the intersection of political communication, online communication (particularly social media), and comparative communication research.

She investigates the societal role and impact of both traditional and digital media, with a focus on the opportunities and risks they present.

She is a former Chair (2021–2022) and Vice Chair (2016–2021) of the Political Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Her research has been published in leading journals, including Political Communication, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Information, Communication & Society, New Media and Society, and Digital Journalism. In 2024, she was awarded the status of an Excellent Teaching Practitioner at NTNU. Since 2025, she has been Head of Education at the Department of Sociology and Political Science.

Academic Education

2011 PhD (Dr. phil.), Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Department of Communication, Germany
Thesis: "Campaign Coverage in a Cross-National and Longitudinal Perspective. A Comparison of German and Austrian Elite Newspapers (1949-2006)"
2005 Master (Magistra Artium), JGU Mainz, Germany
Thesis: "Families in German Daily Soaps"
2000-05 Master studies in Communication Science, Sociology, and Book Science, JGU Mainz, Germany

Professional Career

Since 2021 Professor of Media Sociology, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU
2019-21 Associate Professor of Media Sociology, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU
2017-19 Postdoctoral Fellow of Media Sociology, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU
2012-17 Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin), Department of Communication, JGU Mainz
2011-12 Research Associate, Department of Communication, JGU Mainz
2006-11 Research Associate and PhD Student, Commission of Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2005-06 Research Associate, Department of Communication, JGU Mainz
2005 Internship at TNS Emnid, Political and Social Research, Bielefeld
1999-2000 Voluntary Year of Social Service at the Caritas Children’s Village St. Anton, Riedenberg

Awards

2024 Longlisted for the Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2023-24 as one of the top 6 papers in Journalism Studies (with B. Stark, O. Jandura, L. Udris, A. Riedl, M. Klein, M. Eisenegger, R. Kösters & B. Hofstetter Furrer)
2022 Shortlisted for the 2021 Digital Journalism Outstanding Article as one of the top 6 articles (with S. Geiß, P. Jürgens & B. Stark)
2022 Top Faculty Award, received from ICA’s Journalism Studies Division (with R. Kösters, O. Jandura, B. Stark, L. Udris, M. Klein, A. Riedl & R. Weiß)
2019 Award for the Best Journal Article in a German-language journal in Communication Studies 2018 (first place), received from the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Germany (with S. Geiß, B. Stark & P. Jürgens)
2017 Best Abstract Award, received from ECREA’s Political Communication Section (with P. Jürgens & B. Stark)
2016 Award for the Best Journal Article in Communication Studies in a German-language journal 2015 (second place), received from the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Germany (with M. Steiner, D. Heinbach, S. Bosold, A. Pieper, E.-M. Felka & B. Stark)
2012 Advancement Award Media Research of the Austrian Newspaper Association (VÖZ) (Best Dissertation Award), Austria
2012 Advancement Award of the Dr Maria Schaumayer Foundation (Best Dissertation Award), Austria
2006 Award for an outstanding Master thesis, received from the Department of Communication, JGU Mainz, Germany
2006 Award for the best Master thesis combining theory and practice, received from the Alumni Foundation Mainz, Germany
2005 Scholarship for excellent master candidates, received from JGU Mainz, Germany

Membership of Scientific Associations and Networks

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA); German Communication Association (DGPuK); Norwegian Media Researcher Association (Norsk Medieforskerlag); Austrian Communication Association (ÖGK); POLKOM – Centre for Studies of Political Communication, Norway; Section Media and Communication Sociology of the German Sociological Association; Network Media Structures

Institutional Responsibilities (External), Selection

2025- Associate Editor, Norsk medietidsskrift
2024- Editorial Board Member, Political Communication
2023- Member of the National Academic Council for Media Studies, Norway
2023- Assessor for the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN)
2020- Board Member of POLKOM/POLCOM (Centre for the Study of Political Communication), Norway
2019- Editorial Board Member, Media and Communication
2021-25 Board member of the Norwegian Media Researcher Association (Norsk medieforskerlag), 2023-25 also treasurer
2019-23 Deputy member of the National Academic Council for Media Studies, Norway
2021-22 Chair of ECREA's Political Communication Section
2016-22 Vice chair of ECREA's Political Communication Section
2012-16 Representative of the YECREA (Young ECREA) in ECREA’s Political Communication Section
2011-15 Representative of Young Scholars in the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
2010-11 Spokesperson of NapoKo (Network of Young Scholars in Political Communication)

Institutional Responsibilities (Internal), Selection

2025-29 Head of Education, NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2021-29 Head of the master program in Media, Communication and Information Technology, NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2021-29 Member of the education committee, NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Science
Since 2019 Member of the program advice committee on the bachelor program in Media Science, NTNU, Department of Art and Media Studies
2021-25 Deputy representative for permanent academic staff in the Department Board, NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2022 Member of the committee for periodic evaluation of the bachelor program in Media Science, NTNU, Department of Art and Media Studies
2018, 2020 Substitute head of the master program in Media, Communication and Information Technology (6 months each), NTNU, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2014-17 Member of the Campus TV Board, JGU Mainz
2012-16 Vice Officer for Equal Opportunities, Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports, JGU Mainz
2012-13 Member of the Advisory Board of the Alumni Foundation Mainz

Organization of Events

2022 Co-organizer of the virtual 2 day-ECREA Early Career Scholars Workshop “Advancing Concepts and Methods in Political Communication” (with C. Monzer, E. Gagrčin, A. Stępińska & J. Ohme)
2021 Member of the Conference Committee of the ECREA Political Communication Conference 2021 “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty”, Bucharest, Romania (virtual; with N. Corbu, A. Schuck & V. Štětka)
2020/21 Program chair of ECREA’s Political Communication Section for the European Communication Conference 2020/postponed to 2021, Braga, Portugal (virtual)
2019 Member of the Conference Committee of the ECREA Political Communication Conference 2019 “Transforming Communication – Old and New Borders”, Poznan, Poland (with A. Stępińska, A. Schuck & V. Štětka)
2019 Co-Organizer of an international workshop on Automated Content Analysis, NTNU, Trondheim (with T. Aalberg, K. Dyrstad & P. Maurer)
2015 Organizer of YECREA-sponsored workshop: “How to Successfully Publish in Peer-Reviewed Journals”. Odense, Denmark
2013 Member of the Conference Committee of the 58th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Mainz, Germany
2013 Organizer of a series of events for students’ information on jobs, Department of Communication, JGU Mainz (with V. Granow & P. Schneiders)
2012 Host of the 1st Bi-Annual Conference of Young Scholars of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Mainz, Germany (with S. Geiß, A. Schnauber & P. Weichselbaum, University of Mainz, & S. Engesser, University of Zurich)
2010 Host of the 12th Annual Conference of the Methods Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) on “Methodological challenges of comparative research”, Vienna, Austria (with B. Stark)
2010 Host of the 2nd NapoKo Colloquium for Young Scholars in Political Communication, Vienna, Austria (with O. Gruber)

Research

Research Interests

Political communication (with a special focus on political news coverage and election campaigning)
Comparative communication research (cross-national and longitudinal comparisons)
Content analysis (quantitative & qualitative)
Media performance
Media systems and media structures
Online communication (with a special focus on social media and search engines)

Research Groups at NTNU

Research Projects (Selection)

Continuity and Change in Campaign Communication in Austria Since 1966 (CAMPCOM) (2007-11)

CampCom aims to investigate continuity and change in the roles played by the news media and political parties in Austrian campaign communication in a long-term perspective.

Publications

How Political Issues Shape Social Media Campaigns for National Elections

The 10 articles in this issue reveal diverse approaches to issue-based political communication on social media, emphasizing the significance of comparative research in this field.

Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election. Informing, Interacting with, and Mobilising Voters

This book investigates how political parties from 12 European countries used Facebook to inform, interact with and mobilise voters at the 2019 European Parliament election.

Demokratie braucht Medien [Democracy Needs Media]

Free and independent media are the foundation of the functioning of democracy. The volume critically examines the changing role of the media in the political system and the relationship between media and politics.

Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization

In the recent past, social media has become a central channel and means for political and societal mobilization. The thematic issue highlights the multifaceted nature and scholarly fruitfulness of mobilization as an independent concept.

Media Performance in Times of Media Change

Media performance is constitutive for functioning democracies. The thematic issue critically discusses the situation regarding media performance in the age of digitalisation from different perspectives.

Are Algorithms a Threat to Democracy? The Rise of Intermediaries: A Challenge for Public Discourse

A healthy democracy needs informed citizens. A diversity of viewpoints is considered a core democratic value. With the increasing importance of intermediaries, the question arises whether algorithmic news curation is a threat to democracy.

In press:

Magin, M. (in press). Jay G. Blumler, The Fourth Age of Political Communication. In Haßler, J. & Oehmer-Pedrazzi, F. (Eds.), Schlüsselwerke der politischen Kommunikation. [Key works in political communication.] Springer.

Magin, M. (in press). Jay G. Blumler & Dennis Kavanagh, The Third Age of Political Communication. In Haßler, J. & Oehmer-Pedrazzi, F. (Eds.), Schlüsselwerke der politischen Kommunikation. [Key works in political communication.] Springer.

Magin, M. (in press). Personality Politics as Strategic Political Communication: Toward a Conceptual Framework. In K. Gattermann & M. C. Lobo (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Personality Politics. Oxford University Press.

Magin, M. & Geiß, S. (in press). A double-edged sword: Social media’s ambivalent role in contemporary political communication. In B. García Orosa, R. Rivas de Roca, A. Quián, S. Perez Seijo, A. I. Rodríguez Vázquez, N. P. Presa,T. Forja Pena & B. Gutiérrez (Eds.), Reimagining the Public Sphere: Hybrid Journalism, AI, and Alternative Social Networks Influencing Truth and Public Perception. Springer.

Publications since 2017 displayed below.

Google Scholar (including publications until 2017)

2026

Bergh, Johannes; Haugsgjerd, Atle Hennum; Hesstvedt, Stine; Karlsen, Rune; Magin, Melanie. (2026) Konflikt og mobilisering: En ny fase i norsk politikk?.
Academic chapter
Geiss, Stefan; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Karlsen, Rune; Magin, Melanie; Aalberg, Toril; Hesstvedt, Stine. (2026) Medieeffekter og stemmegivning: Hvordan påvirket mediene velgerne?.
Academic chapter
Tønnesen, Hedvig; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Aalberg, Toril. (2026) Medievalgkampen 2025 : En studie av dagsorden, partiomtale og politisk balanse.
Academic chapter
Hassler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie. (2026) Online Election Campaigning in Modern Democracies.
Academic chapter
Paulke, Hanna; Kruschinski, Simon; Bene, Márton; Hassler, Jörg; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren; Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta. (2026) Does Negativity Pay Off? The Impact of Political Party Attributes on the Use and Performance of Negative Campaigning in Digital Political Advertising. Social science computer review
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Vulcano, Rossella; Nostitz, Felix-Christopher Von; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Gattermann, Katjana; Alonso-Muñoz, Laura; Balaban, Delia Cristina; Baranowski, Paweł; Burai, Krisztina. (2026) Faces of Europe: Structural Drivers of Visual Personalization in Political Parties’ Facebook Campaigns. Media and Communication
Academic article
Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Kannasto, Elisa; Hopmann, David Nicolas. (2026) Populist communication and extremist narratives as strategic messaging: A comparative analysis of Nordic political parties on Facebook. Nordicom Review
Academic article
Riedl, Andreas; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jandura, Olaf; Stark, Birgit. (2026) Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms. Political Communication
Academic article
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie. (2026) The Mediatization Experience. An experiential learning simulation on mediatization of politics.
Academic chapter

2025

Magin, Melanie. (2025) News Media Quality.
Encyclopedia chapter
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Valgkamp i Norge – sett med tyske øyne.
Popular science chapter
Solverson, Elizabeth Jean; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2025) The Complexity of Contemporary Citizenship: A Typology of Citizenship Orientations Among Norwegian Digital Natives. Social Media + Society
Academic article
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Russmann, Uta; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Pawel; Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Kruschinski, Simon; Lappas, Georgios; Machado, Sara. (2025) Weaponizing Wedge Issues: Strategies of Populism and Illiberalism in European Election Campaigning on Facebook. Media and Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea; Kösters, Raphael; Jandura, Olaf; Weiß, Ralph; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards; Klein, Miriam; Riedl, Andreas. (2025) Viewpoint Diversity, Balance, Deliberativeness: Assessing the Media Performance of Migration Coverage Multi-Dimensionally Based on Deliberative Democratic Theories. Mass Communication & Society
Academic article

2024

Magin, Melanie; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli; Tønnesen, Hedvig. (2024) What makes the difference? Social media platforms and party characteristics as contextual factors for political parties’ use of populist political communication. Nordicom Review
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea; Hassler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli. (2024) Walking the line of the double bind - A cross-country comparison on women and men politicians’ self-presentations on social media. Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2024) Bursting the belief in filter bubbles: A single-class activity to enhance critical thinking on algorithmic personalization. Communication Teacher
Academic article
Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg. (2024) Political Issues in Social Media Campaigns for National Elections: A Plea for Comparative Research. Politics and Governance
Academic article
Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli. (2024) Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms. New Media & Society
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli; Tønnesen, Hedvig. (2024) Tapestries of Topics: Factors Affecting the Issue Diversity of Political Parties’ Social Media Campaigns. Politics and Governance
Academic article
Hakel, Katja; Magin, Melanie. (2024) The impact of professional development training on faculty’s integration of universal design for learning in daily teaching practices. International Journal of Inclusive Education
Academic article
Baranowski, Paweł; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta; Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren. (2024) Patterns of negative campaigning during the 2019 European election: Political parties' Facebook posts and users' sharing behaviour across twelve countries.
Academic chapter
Stegmann, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2024) On the relationship between political campaigning and echo chambers.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2024) Student ownership of learning through course design: The example of an undergraduate political communication course. Communication Teacher
Academic article

2023

Klein, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Riedl, Andreas; Udris, Linards; Stark, Birgit. (2023) From News Softening to Social News Softening: Comparing Patterns of Political News Coverage on Different (Social) Media Channels in Germany and Switzerland. Digital Journalism
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea; Stark, Birgit; Jandura, Olaf; Udris, Linards; Riedl, Andreas; Klein, Miriam; Eisenegger, Mark; Kösters, Raphael; Furrer, Brigitte Hofstetter. (2023) Seeing the Whole Picture. Towards a Multi-perspective Approach to News Content Diversity based on Liberal and Deliberative Models of Democracy. Journalism Studies
Academic article
Udris, Linards; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Jandura, Olaf; Riedl, Andreas; Klein, Miriam; Furrer, Brigitte Hofstetter; Guix, Ricard Parilla. (2023) Vielfalt in den Nachrichten. Ein Vergleich digitaler und analoger Angebote von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien und Tageszeitungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
Academic article
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta. (2023) Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization. Cogitatio
Research report
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Rußmann, Uta. (2023) Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media. Media and Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2023) Review of F. Oehmer-Pedrazzi, S. H. Kessler, E. Humprecht, K. Sommer & L. Castro Herrero (Eds.), Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Standardized Content Analysis in Communication Research. Publizistik (2023). Published online ahead of print. Publizistik
Book review
Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg; Rußmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Jackson, Daniel; Fenoll, Vicente; Farkas, Xenia; Baranowski, Pawel. (2023) Populism in Context: A Cross-Country Investigation of the Facebook Usage of Populist Appeals During the 2019 European Parliament Elections. The International Journal of Press/Politics
Academic article
Tønnesen, Hedvig; Bene, Márton; Hassler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Skogerbø, Eli; Wurst, Anna-katharina. (2023) Between anger and love: A multi-level study on the impact of policy issues on user reactions in national election campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway. New Media & Society
Academic article
Karlberg, Anne-Maren; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Health vs privacy. How Norwegian public authorities and news media framed the newly developed digital contact tracing app “Smittestopp” under the Covid-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Communication
Academic article

2022

Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Paweł; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta. (2022) The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe: Users’ Engagement With Parties’ European‐Focused Facebook Posts. Politics and Governance
Academic article
Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-Katharina. (2022) Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries. Political Communication
Academic article
Stegmann, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2022) Filter Bubbles.
Encyclopedia chapter
Baranowski, Paweł; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta; Haβler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Márton, Bene; Ceron, Andrea; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren. (2022) Patterns of Negative Campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political Parties’ Facebook Posts and Users’ Sharing Behaviour across Twelve Countries. Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP)
Academic article
Stegmann, Daniel; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2022) Echo Chambers.
Encyclopedia chapter
Pröll, Franziska; Magin, Melanie. (2022) Framing Feminicides—A Quantitative Content Analysis of News Stories in Four Colombian Newspapers. Journalism and Media
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2022) (Non-)Representativeness of Social Media Data.
Encyclopedia chapter
Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Schlosser, Katharina. (2022) Missed opportunity to connect with European citizens? Europarties’ communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign. Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)
Academic article

2021

Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Fenoll, Vicente. (2021) Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election. Palgrave Macmillan
Anthology
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Baranowski, Pawel; Bene, Márton; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Fenoll, Vicente; Kruschinski, Simon; Maurer, Peter. (2021) Reaching out to the Europeans. Political parties’ Facebook strategies of issue ownership and the second-order character of European Election campaigns.
Academic chapter
Rußmann, Uta; Haßler, Jörg; Fenoll, Vicente; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Social media as a campaigning tool in European Parliament elections. Theoretical considerations and state of research.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Steiner, Miriam; Häuptli, Andrea; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards. (2021) Is Facebook driving tabloidization? A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg. (2021) Information Greater than Mobilisation Greater than Interaction. Contours of a Pan-European Style of Social Media Campaigning.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Vigen, Marius Grefstad. (2021) When Nothing Happened but Much Changed: How Political Parties in Ireland Used Facebook in the 2019 EP Election Campaign.
Academic chapter
Stark, Birgit; Rußmann, Uta; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Warum die Demokratie die Medien braucht.
Academic chapter
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2021) Maßlos überschätzt. Ein Überblick über theoretische Annahmen und empirische Befunde zu Filterblasen und Echokammern.
Academic chapter
Tønnesen, Hedvig; Reutter, Lisa Marie; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Når alt vi gjør registreres og systematiseres: Stordata i hverdagen.
Popular science chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2021) Hva skjer når algoritmene personaliseres: Fanges vi av filterbobler og ekkokamre?.
Popular science chapter
Geise, Stephanie; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Riesmeyer, Claudia; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina; Sehl, Annika; Wallner, Cornelia. (2021) The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014). Mass Communication & Society
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2021) Kvantitativ innholdsanalyse: fra problemstilling til gjennomført analyse.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2021) Politischer Parallelismus.
Academic chapter
Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta. (2021) Campaigning for Strasbourg on Facebook. Introduction to a 12-country Comparison on Parties’ Facebook Campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament Election.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Hopmann, David Nicolas. (2021) A day off during the 2019 Folketing election campaign. Political parties’ use of Facebook in the European Parliament election in Denmark.
Academic chapter
Geise, Stephanie; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Riesmeyer, Claudia; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina; Sehl, Annika; Wallner, Cornelia. (2021) Wie normativ ist die Kommunikationswissenschaft? Ein inhaltsanalytischer Vergleich deutscher und US-amerikanischer Fachzeitschriftenaufsätze. Publizistik
Academic article
Åm, Heidrun; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Bruk av andres forskning.
Non-fiction chapter
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2021) Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda. The International Journal of Press/Politics
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2021) Wahlberichterstattung.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Stark, Birgit. (2021) Demokratie braucht Medien. Springer
Anthology
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2021) Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression. Digital Journalism
Academic article

2020

Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2020) More Relevant Today Than Ever: Past, Present and Future of Media Performance Research. Media and Communication
Editorial
Stark, Birgit; Stegmann, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2020) Are Algorithms a Threat to Democracy? The Rise of Intermediaries: A Challenge for Public Discourse. AlgorithmWatch
Research report
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2020) Meinungsbildung in und mit sozialen Medien.
Non-fiction chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2020) Boulevardisierung.
Non-fiction chapter
Grøtan, Tor Olav; Fiskvik, Jannicke; Haro, Peter Halland; Auran, Per Gunnar; Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Karlsen, Geir Hågen; Magin, Melanie; Brandtzæg, Petter Bae. (2020) På leting etter utenlandsk informasjonspåvirkning En analyse av det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 2019 (Rapport på oppdrag fra Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet). SINTEF Digital
Research report
Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2020) Media Performance in Times of Media Change. Thematic Issue. Cogitatio
Research report
Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Geiss, Stefan. (2020) Seek and you shall find? A content analysis on the diversity of five search engines’ results on political queries. Information, Communication & Society
Academic article

2019

Magin, Melanie. (2019) Review of D. Bertel, J. Himmelsbach, C. Krakovsky, B. Metzler, A. Riedl & L. Möller (Eds.), Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Beiträge zur ersten under-docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation. [Young Perspectives on Participation in History and Present. Contributions to the first under-docs Conference on Communication.] (danzig & unfried, 2016). Medien Journal
Book review
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2019) Neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit durch Informationsintermediäre: Wie Google, Facebook & Co. Medien und Politik verändern.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2019) Review of D. Bertel, J. Himmelsbach, C. Krakovsky, B. Metzler, A. Riedl & L. Möller (Eds.), Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Beiträge zur ersten under-docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation. Medien Journal
Book review
Magin, Melanie; Steiner, Miriam; Stark, Birgit. (2019) Suche im Netz – einseitige oder vielfältige Informationsquelle? Eine Inhaltsanalyse der politischen Informationsvielfalt von Suchmaschinenergebnissen. Media Perspektiven
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2019) Beyond Time and Space: The Impact of Autonomy from Politics and Commercialization Pressure on Mediatization in German and Austrian Newspapers—A Multilevel Approach. Political Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Maurer, Peter. (2019) Beat Journalism and Reporting.
Encyclopedia chapter
Grøtan, Tor Olav; Fiskvik, Jannicke; Haro, Peter Halland; Auran, Per Gunnar; Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Karlsen, Geir Hågen; Magin, Melanie; Brandtzæg, Petter Bae. (2019) På leting etter utenlandsk informasjonspåvirkning. En analyse av det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 2019. SINTEF Digital
Research report
Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2019) Uneasy Bedfellows. Comparing the Diversity of German Public Service News on Television and on Facebook. Digital Journalism
Academic article
Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2019) Aus Versehen informiert? Facebooks Bedeutung für die Nachrichtennutzung nebenbei – eine Mehrmethoden-Analyse.
Academic chapter
Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2019) Two Half-Truths Make a Whole? On Bias in Self-reports and Tracking Data. Social science computer review
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2019) Schweigespirale oder Echokammer? Zum Einfluss sozialer Medien auf die Artikulationsbereitschaft in der Migrationsdebatte.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2019) Elite versus Popular Press.
Encyclopedia chapter

2018

Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2018) »Common meeting ground« in Gefahr? Selektionslogiken politischer Informationsquellen und ihr Einfluss auf die Fragmentierung individueller Themenhorizonte. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2018) Review of M. B. von Rimscha, S. Studer & M. Puppis (eds.), Methodische Zugänge zur Erforschung von Medienstrukturen, Medienorganisationen und Medienstrategien. Publizistik
Book review
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2018) Politische Meinungsbildung im Netz: Die Rolle der Informationsintermediäre. UFITA - Archiv für Medienrecht und Medienwissenschaft
Academic article

2017

Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2017) Ganz meine Meinung? Informationsintermediäre und Meinungsbildung – Eine Mehrmethodenstudie am Beispiel von Facebook. Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westalen (LfM)
Academic monograph

Journal publications

Paulke, Hanna; Kruschinski, Simon; Bene, Márton; Hassler, Jörg; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren; Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta. (2026) Does Negativity Pay Off? The Impact of Political Party Attributes on the Use and Performance of Negative Campaigning in Digital Political Advertising. Social science computer review
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Vulcano, Rossella; Nostitz, Felix-Christopher Von; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Gattermann, Katjana; Alonso-Muñoz, Laura; Balaban, Delia Cristina; Baranowski, Paweł; Burai, Krisztina. (2026) Faces of Europe: Structural Drivers of Visual Personalization in Political Parties’ Facebook Campaigns. Media and Communication
Academic article
Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Kannasto, Elisa; Hopmann, David Nicolas. (2026) Populist communication and extremist narratives as strategic messaging: A comparative analysis of Nordic political parties on Facebook. Nordicom Review
Academic article
Riedl, Andreas; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jandura, Olaf; Stark, Birgit. (2026) Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms. Political Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2019) Review of D. Bertel, J. Himmelsbach, C. Krakovsky, B. Metzler, A. Riedl & L. Möller (Eds.), Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Beiträge zur ersten under-docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation. [Young Perspectives on Participation in History and Present. Contributions to the first under-docs Conference on Communication.] (danzig & unfried, 2016). Medien Journal
Book review
Klein, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Riedl, Andreas; Udris, Linards; Stark, Birgit. (2023) From News Softening to Social News Softening: Comparing Patterns of Political News Coverage on Different (Social) Media Channels in Germany and Switzerland. Digital Journalism
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea; Stark, Birgit; Jandura, Olaf; Udris, Linards; Riedl, Andreas; Klein, Miriam; Eisenegger, Mark; Kösters, Raphael; Furrer, Brigitte Hofstetter. (2023) Seeing the Whole Picture. Towards a Multi-perspective Approach to News Content Diversity based on Liberal and Deliberative Models of Democracy. Journalism Studies
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2019) Review of D. Bertel, J. Himmelsbach, C. Krakovsky, B. Metzler, A. Riedl & L. Möller (Eds.), Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Beiträge zur ersten under-docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation. Medien Journal
Book review
Magin, Melanie; Steiner, Miriam; Stark, Birgit. (2019) Suche im Netz – einseitige oder vielfältige Informationsquelle? Eine Inhaltsanalyse der politischen Informationsvielfalt von Suchmaschinenergebnissen. Media Perspektiven
Academic article
Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Paweł; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta. (2022) The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe: Users’ Engagement With Parties’ European‐Focused Facebook Posts. Politics and Governance
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli; Tønnesen, Hedvig. (2024) What makes the difference? Social media platforms and party characteristics as contextual factors for political parties’ use of populist political communication. Nordicom Review
Academic article
Solverson, Elizabeth Jean; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2025) The Complexity of Contemporary Citizenship: A Typology of Citizenship Orientations Among Norwegian Digital Natives. Social Media + Society
Academic article
Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-Katharina. (2022) Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries. Political Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2019) Beyond Time and Space: The Impact of Autonomy from Politics and Commercialization Pressure on Mediatization in German and Austrian Newspapers—A Multilevel Approach. Political Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2020) More Relevant Today Than Ever: Past, Present and Future of Media Performance Research. Media and Communication
Editorial
Magin, Melanie Andrea; Hassler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli. (2024) Walking the line of the double bind - A cross-country comparison on women and men politicians’ self-presentations on social media. Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Academic article
Baranowski, Paweł; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta; Haβler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Márton, Bene; Ceron, Andrea; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren. (2022) Patterns of Negative Campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political Parties’ Facebook Posts and Users’ Sharing Behaviour across Twelve Countries. Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP)
Academic article
Pröll, Franziska; Magin, Melanie. (2022) Framing Feminicides—A Quantitative Content Analysis of News Stories in Four Colombian Newspapers. Journalism and Media
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2024) Bursting the belief in filter bubbles: A single-class activity to enhance critical thinking on algorithmic personalization. Communication Teacher
Academic article
Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg. (2024) Political Issues in Social Media Campaigns for National Elections: A Plea for Comparative Research. Politics and Governance
Academic article
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Russmann, Uta; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Pawel; Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Kruschinski, Simon; Lappas, Georgios; Machado, Sara. (2025) Weaponizing Wedge Issues: Strategies of Populism and Illiberalism in European Election Campaigning on Facebook. Media and Communication
Academic article
Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli. (2024) Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms. New Media & Society
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea; Kösters, Raphael; Jandura, Olaf; Weiß, Ralph; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards; Klein, Miriam; Riedl, Andreas. (2025) Viewpoint Diversity, Balance, Deliberativeness: Assessing the Media Performance of Migration Coverage Multi-Dimensionally Based on Deliberative Democratic Theories. Mass Communication & Society
Academic article
Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Geiss, Stefan. (2020) Seek and you shall find? A content analysis on the diversity of five search engines’ results on political queries. Information, Communication & Society
Academic article
Udris, Linards; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Jandura, Olaf; Riedl, Andreas; Klein, Miriam; Furrer, Brigitte Hofstetter; Guix, Ricard Parilla. (2023) Vielfalt in den Nachrichten. Ein Vergleich digitaler und analoger Angebote von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien und Tageszeitungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli; Tønnesen, Hedvig. (2024) Tapestries of Topics: Factors Affecting the Issue Diversity of Political Parties’ Social Media Campaigns. Politics and Governance
Academic article
Hakel, Katja; Magin, Melanie. (2024) The impact of professional development training on faculty’s integration of universal design for learning in daily teaching practices. International Journal of Inclusive Education
Academic article
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Rußmann, Uta. (2023) Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media. Media and Communication
Academic article
Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2023) Review of F. Oehmer-Pedrazzi, S. H. Kessler, E. Humprecht, K. Sommer & L. Castro Herrero (Eds.), Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Standardized Content Analysis in Communication Research. Publizistik (2023). Published online ahead of print. Publizistik
Book review
Geise, Stephanie; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Riesmeyer, Claudia; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina; Sehl, Annika; Wallner, Cornelia. (2021) The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014). Mass Communication & Society
Academic article
Geise, Stephanie; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Riesmeyer, Claudia; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina; Sehl, Annika; Wallner, Cornelia. (2021) Wie normativ ist die Kommunikationswissenschaft? Ein inhaltsanalytischer Vergleich deutscher und US-amerikanischer Fachzeitschriftenaufsätze. Publizistik
Academic article
Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg; Rußmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Jackson, Daniel; Fenoll, Vicente; Farkas, Xenia; Baranowski, Pawel. (2023) Populism in Context: A Cross-Country Investigation of the Facebook Usage of Populist Appeals During the 2019 European Parliament Elections. The International Journal of Press/Politics
Academic article
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2021) Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda. The International Journal of Press/Politics
Academic article
Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Schlosser, Katharina. (2022) Missed opportunity to connect with European citizens? Europarties’ communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign. Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)
Academic article
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2018) »Common meeting ground« in Gefahr? Selektionslogiken politischer Informationsquellen und ihr Einfluss auf die Fragmentierung individueller Themenhorizonte. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
Academic article
Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2019) Uneasy Bedfellows. Comparing the Diversity of German Public Service News on Television and on Facebook. Digital Journalism
Academic article
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2021) Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression. Digital Journalism
Academic article
Tønnesen, Hedvig; Bene, Márton; Hassler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Skogerbø, Eli; Wurst, Anna-katharina. (2023) Between anger and love: A multi-level study on the impact of policy issues on user reactions in national election campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway. New Media & Society
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2018) Review of M. B. von Rimscha, S. Studer & M. Puppis (eds.), Methodische Zugänge zur Erforschung von Medienstrukturen, Medienorganisationen und Medienstrategien. Publizistik
Book review
Karlberg, Anne-Maren; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Health vs privacy. How Norwegian public authorities and news media framed the newly developed digital contact tracing app “Smittestopp” under the Covid-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Communication
Academic article
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2018) Politische Meinungsbildung im Netz: Die Rolle der Informationsintermediäre. UFITA - Archiv für Medienrecht und Medienwissenschaft
Academic article
Magin, Melanie. (2024) Student ownership of learning through course design: The example of an undergraduate political communication course. Communication Teacher
Academic article
Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2019) Two Half-Truths Make a Whole? On Bias in Self-reports and Tracking Data. Social science computer review
Academic article

Books

Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Fenoll, Vicente. (2021) Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election. Palgrave Macmillan
Anthology
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2017) Ganz meine Meinung? Informationsintermediäre und Meinungsbildung – Eine Mehrmethodenstudie am Beispiel von Facebook. Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westalen (LfM)
Academic monograph
Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Stark, Birgit. (2021) Demokratie braucht Medien. Springer
Anthology

Part of book/report

Bergh, Johannes; Haugsgjerd, Atle Hennum; Hesstvedt, Stine; Karlsen, Rune; Magin, Melanie. (2026) Konflikt og mobilisering: En ny fase i norsk politikk?.
Academic chapter
Geiss, Stefan; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Karlsen, Rune; Magin, Melanie; Aalberg, Toril; Hesstvedt, Stine. (2026) Medieeffekter og stemmegivning: Hvordan påvirket mediene velgerne?.
Academic chapter
Tønnesen, Hedvig; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Aalberg, Toril. (2026) Medievalgkampen 2025 : En studie av dagsorden, partiomtale og politisk balanse.
Academic chapter
Hassler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie. (2026) Online Election Campaigning in Modern Democracies.
Academic chapter
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie. (2026) The Mediatization Experience. An experiential learning simulation on mediatization of politics.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2025) News Media Quality.
Encyclopedia chapter
Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Valgkamp i Norge – sett med tyske øyne.
Popular science chapter
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2019) Neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit durch Informationsintermediäre: Wie Google, Facebook & Co. Medien und Politik verändern.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Maurer, Peter. (2019) Beat Journalism and Reporting.
Encyclopedia chapter
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2020) Meinungsbildung in und mit sozialen Medien.
Non-fiction chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2020) Boulevardisierung.
Non-fiction chapter
Stegmann, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2022) Filter Bubbles.
Encyclopedia chapter
Stegmann, Daniel; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2022) Echo Chambers.
Encyclopedia chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2022) (Non-)Representativeness of Social Media Data.
Encyclopedia chapter
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Baranowski, Pawel; Bene, Márton; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Fenoll, Vicente; Kruschinski, Simon; Maurer, Peter. (2021) Reaching out to the Europeans. Political parties’ Facebook strategies of issue ownership and the second-order character of European Election campaigns.
Academic chapter
Rußmann, Uta; Haßler, Jörg; Fenoll, Vicente; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Social media as a campaigning tool in European Parliament elections. Theoretical considerations and state of research.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Steiner, Miriam; Häuptli, Andrea; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards. (2021) Is Facebook driving tabloidization? A cross-channel comparison of two German newspapers.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg. (2021) Information Greater than Mobilisation Greater than Interaction. Contours of a Pan-European Style of Social Media Campaigning.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Vigen, Marius Grefstad. (2021) When Nothing Happened but Much Changed: How Political Parties in Ireland Used Facebook in the 2019 EP Election Campaign.
Academic chapter
Stark, Birgit; Rußmann, Uta; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Warum die Demokratie die Medien braucht.
Academic chapter
Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2021) Maßlos überschätzt. Ein Überblick über theoretische Annahmen und empirische Befunde zu Filterblasen und Echokammern.
Academic chapter
Tønnesen, Hedvig; Reutter, Lisa Marie; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Når alt vi gjør registreres og systematiseres: Stordata i hverdagen.
Popular science chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2021) Hva skjer når algoritmene personaliseres: Fanges vi av filterbobler og ekkokamre?.
Popular science chapter
Baranowski, Paweł; Kruschinski, Simon; Russmann, Uta; Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren. (2024) Patterns of negative campaigning during the 2019 European election: Political parties' Facebook posts and users' sharing behaviour across twelve countries.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2021) Kvantitativ innholdsanalyse: fra problemstilling til gjennomført analyse.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2021) Politischer Parallelismus.
Academic chapter
Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta. (2021) Campaigning for Strasbourg on Facebook. Introduction to a 12-country Comparison on Parties’ Facebook Campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament Election.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Hopmann, David Nicolas. (2021) A day off during the 2019 Folketing election campaign. Political parties’ use of Facebook in the European Parliament election in Denmark.
Academic chapter
Åm, Heidrun; Magin, Melanie. (2021) Bruk av andres forskning.
Non-fiction chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2021) Wahlberichterstattung.
Academic chapter
Stegmann, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2024) On the relationship between political campaigning and echo chambers.
Academic chapter
Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2019) Aus Versehen informiert? Facebooks Bedeutung für die Nachrichtennutzung nebenbei – eine Mehrmethoden-Analyse.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2019) Schweigespirale oder Echokammer? Zum Einfluss sozialer Medien auf die Artikulationsbereitschaft in der Migrationsdebatte.
Academic chapter
Magin, Melanie. (2019) Elite versus Popular Press.
Encyclopedia chapter

Report

Stark, Birgit; Stegmann, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2020) Are Algorithms a Threat to Democracy? The Rise of Intermediaries: A Challenge for Public Discourse. AlgorithmWatch
Research report
Grøtan, Tor Olav; Fiskvik, Jannicke; Haro, Peter Halland; Auran, Per Gunnar; Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Karlsen, Geir Hågen; Magin, Melanie; Brandtzæg, Petter Bae. (2020) På leting etter utenlandsk informasjonspåvirkning En analyse av det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 2019 (Rapport på oppdrag fra Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet). SINTEF Digital
Research report
Grøtan, Tor Olav; Fiskvik, Jannicke; Haro, Peter Halland; Auran, Per Gunnar; Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Karlsen, Geir Hågen; Magin, Melanie; Brandtzæg, Petter Bae. (2019) På leting etter utenlandsk informasjonspåvirkning. En analyse av det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 2019. SINTEF Digital
Research report
Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2020) Media Performance in Times of Media Change. Thematic Issue. Cogitatio
Research report
Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta. (2023) Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization. Cogitatio
Research report

Teaching

Courses

Since 2024 excellent teaching practitioner at NTNU.

Main teaching areas

Political communication – media sociology – online communication and digitalization – comparative research – communication history – media systems and media structures – methods (with a special focus on content analysis)

Major institutional responsibilities related to teaching (selection)

2023- Member of the National Academic Council for Media Studies, Norway
2021-25 Head of the master program in Media, Communication and Information Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2021-25 Member of the education committee, NTNU, Trondheim, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2019- Member of the program advice committee on the bachelor program in Media Science, NTNU, Trondheim, Department of Art and Media Studies
2018, 2020 Substitute head of the master program in Media, Communication and Information Technology (6 months each), NTNU, Trondheim, Department of Sociology and Political Science
2019-23 Deputy member of the National Academic Council for Media Studies, Norway

Courses taught so far

BA level

SOS1006 - Media Sociology (NTNU)
SOS2009 - Media and Society (NTNU)
Political Communication (JGU Mainz)
New Media/Online Communication (JGU Mainz)
Selected Questions on Media Structures, Media History and Media Law (JGU Mainz)
Media Policy (JGU Mainz)
Journalism Studies (JGU Mainz)

MA level

SOS3520 - Modern Media and Digitalization (NTNU)
MKI3001 - Media and Communication Theory (NTNU)
MKI3901 - Master's Thesis in Media, Communication and Information Technology (NTNU)
SOS3606 - Social Media (NTNU)
POL3802 - Experts in Teamwork (EiT): "Mediatization of Society" (NTNU)
Media and Internationalization (JGU Mainz)
Current Research Questions in Communication Studies (JGU Mainz)
Thematic Master Seminar: "Comparing Campaign Communication" (JGU Mainz)

PhD level

SOS8533 - Social Media and Digitalization (NTNU)
SOS8527 - Social Media (NTNU)

Higher Education Pedagogy

UNIPED Module: “Læringsverktøy i utforskende undervisning / Educational Tools in Inquiry-based Teaching” (NTNU, with D. Matre & G. Apjok, taught twice a year since spring 2025)

Supervision

Information for master students

I can supervise master theses on a broad range of topics within and beyond my own research areas. Methodologically, I have a focus on quantitative research, but I’m also experienced with qualitative research and have supervised a lot of bachelor and master theses which used qualitative methods. I can supervise theses written in English as well as in Norwegian.

My supervision of master theses combines individual supervision meetings with group supervision. In group supervision (about every third week), we discuss common problems and questions that the master candidates are facing, and the master candidates provide feedback to each other (e.g. on texts they have written, on their measuring instruments…) and get feedback from me. I expect that the students whom I supervise take part in the group supervision meetings.

If you are interested in having me as your master supervisor, please take contact.

PhD candidates supervised
Hedvig Tønnesen (NTNU, as main supervisor; successfully completed 2026)
Political parties, platforms, and communication logics: A mixed-methods study of electoral campaigning on social media

Sina Özdemir (NTNU, as co-supervisor; successfully completed 2024)
EU executives on Twitter: appealing to popular legitimacy beliefs with public communication on social media

Elizabeth Jean Solverson (Nord University, as co-supervisor; successfully completed 2026)
Distributed Citizenship in Sociotechnical Contexts: Insights From Young Adults’ Political Engagement on Social Media

MA theses supervised until 2026 (at NTNU, JGU Mainz, and FU Berlin): 45

BA theses supervised until 2026 (at NTNU and JGU Mainz): 46

Outreach

Hva er splittelsen og konspirasjonsteoriene i ferd med å gjøre med USA? En podcast med J. L. Bailey, A. Dyrendal og M. Magin

Med stadig større forskjell på fattig og rik, gror konspirasjonsteoriene godt. Hva er splittelsen og konspirasjonsteoriene i ferd med å gjøre med USA? NTNU podcast "De store spørsmålene".

Webinar: Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media

This webinar analyzed the main findings of the issue "Analyzing Citizen Engagement with European Politics Through Social Media", published in the journal Politics and Governance.

Hva synes studentene? Et nytt spørreskjema som metode for studentevalueringer

Presentasjon ved NTNU Læringsfestivalen 2024, Trondheim.

“Many shades of red”: Trondheim etter Ottervik-epoken

Vil lokalvalget i 2023 endelig føre til et politisk skifte i Trondheim?

Flått er ikke flott. Hva er propaganda og hvordan påvirker det oss?

NRK pønsj (NRK P3) fra 25.2.2025: I krigen mellom Russland og Ukraina er det propaganda på begge sider, så hvordan skiller vi løgn fra virkelighet?

Webinar: Turn Learning into a Game: Experiential Learning Through Immersive Simulations

We present an immersive, experiential-learning-based simulation in which students experienced processes of public opinion formation "firsthand". This resulted in deeper understanding of the interaction between communication, power, and public attention.

2026

Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2026) Splittende saker som våpen: Populisme og illiberalisme som kommunikasjons-strategier i EU-valget. Visit by the president of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions at NTNU
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2026) Sosiale medier – samfunnsrolle og innflytelse på eldre. Medlemsmøte
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2026) Populisme i feeden. Fagsamtale
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2026) Kunstig intelligens i arbeidslivet: Erfaringer fra en praksisnær heldags workshop for mediestudenter. NTNU Læringsfestivalen
Lecture

Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan. (2026) Turn Learning into a Game: Experiential Learning Through Immersive Simulations. Utdanningssnakk
Interview

Ågård, Iris Jakobsen; Magin, Melanie. (2026) En av tre unge sliter med å følge nyhetene: – Det blir for mye.
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2026) Splittende saker som våpen: Populisme og illiberalisme som kommunikasjonsstrategier i EU-valget. Besøk av MDG ved NTNU
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Gattermann, Katjana; Nostitz, Felix-Christopher von; Alonso-Muñoz, Laura; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Pawel; Burai, Krisztina; Cachia, Jean-Claude; Dezelan, Tomaz. (2026) Faces of Europe: How structural factors shape visual personalization. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: "Communication and Inequality in Context"
Conference lecture

Paulke, Hanna; Kruschinski, Simon; Bene, Márton; Haßler, Jörg; Lilleker, Darren; Jackson, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta. (2026) Does Negativity Pay Off? The Impact of Political Party Attributes on the Use and Performance of Negative Campaigning in Digital Political Advertising. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: "Communication and Inequalities in Context"
Interview

Düring, Malin von; Bardal, Marit; Moe, Espen; Bailey, Jennifer L.; Magin, Melanie. (2026) Får flere til å måpe: - Et nytt lavmål.
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2026) Fra trykkpresse til TikTok: Hvordan sikrer vi demokratisk motstandskraft i algoritmenes tidsalder?. Trøndelagsmøtet 2026

2025

Lecture

Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Pawel; Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Kruschinski, Simon; Lappas, Georgios; Machado, Sara. (2025) Weaponizing Wedge Issues: A Comparative Content Analysis of Political Parties’ Populist and Illiberal Communication Strategies on Facebook During the 2024 European Election. POLKOM mandag
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2025) Forskningsgruppa “Elections, Values and Political Communication (EVPOC)". Dekanmøte
Interview

Brandslet, Steinar; Finseraas, Henning; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Dette synes nordmenn om demokrati, falske nyheter og Trump.
Interview

Tilseth, T. O.; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Hver tredje ungdom bruker KI som politisk rådgiver.
Interview

Brandslet, Steinar; Finseraas, Henning; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Dette synes nordmenn om demokrati, falske nyheter og Trump.
Interview

Glørstad, Venke; Magin, Melanie; Finseraas, Henning. (2025) Ny forskning: Flere mener det er greit at politikerne bryter loven.
Interview

Brandslet, Steinar; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Politikk på Facebook: – Populistiske partier velger splittende saker med vilje.
Interview

Brandslet, Steinar; Magin, Melanie. (2025) – Populistiske partier velger splittende saker med vilje.
Interview

Killingbergtrø, S. T.; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Bruker Tiktok for å nå unge: – Sier jo lite om politikken deres.
Interview

Norum, Anders Christian; Abrahamsen, Nina; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Dropper TV for nytt fenomen: – Vi ser ikke på det.
Interview

Falch, Øistein; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Kan feilinformasjon påvirke valget?.
Other presentation

Andresen, Nils August; Skårderud, Jo; Magin, Melanie; Tiltnes, Andrea Hegdahl. (2025) Hva skjer når sosiale medier erstatter vanlige medier?. Stockmanndagene 2025
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Kannasto, Elisa; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Magin, Melanie. (2025) ”It’s grim up north” - Hybrid Extremism and Political Polarization in Danish, Swedish, and Finnish Political Party Facebook Groups: A Comparative Analysi. ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference
Lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2025) The Power of Expression: Free Speech and Media Power. ISFiT 2025: Power
Contribution to radio or TV

Magin, Melanie; Henning, Bang; Sindre, Reinholt. (2025) Flått er ikke flott. Hva er propaganda og hvordan påvirker det oss?.
Conference lecture

Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Kannasto, Elisa; Larsson, Anders Olof; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2025) Populist and extremist narratives on political parties’ Facebook pages during the 2024 European Election campaign in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Nordmedia 2025
Conference lecture

Riedl, Andreas; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Stark, Birgit; Jandura, Olaf. (2025) Left-Leaning, Left-Lensed? Effects of Journalists' Political Orientation on Bias in News Reporting. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Salem, Saladin. (2025) Ein Tweet von Musk entscheidet noch keine Wahl.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Mathiesen, Anlov Peter. (2025) Dette er rådene til studenter og forelesere i den kunstige intelligensens tid.
Conference lecture

Russmann, Uta; Gërguri, Dren; Gonçalves, Isabella; Vicuña, Percy Peña; Sanchez, Adriana Rodriguez; Novotná, Martina; Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Kruschinski, Simon; Bene, Márton; David, Yossi. (2025) Visual communication in 24 countries: The influence of symbols and visual gestures on user engagement. 75th Annual ICA Conference “ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research”
Interview

Løvland, Elena Bulai; Magin, Melanie. (2025) Vil gjøre som på TV.
Lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2025) Stortingsvalg i urolige tider: Hvilken betydning har sosiale medier for partienes valgkampstrategier? Hva skiller Norden fra andre europeiske land?. Besøk av VG-ledelsen
Lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2025) Inquiry-based learning. Workshop on teaching in higher education
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli. (2025) Preaching Through the Converted? Assessing the drivers of political engagement across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Paper seminar organized by the Norwegian National Election Study
Conference lecture

Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Kannasto, Elisa; Hopmann, David Nicolas. (2025) “It’s grim up north” – Hybrid Extremism and Political Polarization in Danish, Swedish, and Finnish Political Party Facebook Groups: A Comparative Analysis. ECREA Political Communication Section Conference 2025 “Bridging the gap. Connecting approaches, methods and scholars”
Conference lecture

Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Russmann, Uta; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Pawel; Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Kruschinski, Simon; Lappas, Georgios; Machado, Sara. (2025) Weaponizing Wedge Issues: A Comparative Content Analysis of Political Parties’ Populist and Illiberal Communication Strategies on Facebook During the 2024 European Election. ECREA Political Communication Section Conference 2025 “Bridging the gap. Connecting approaches, methods and scholars”
Conference lecture

Jensen, Jakob Lina; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Kannasto, Elisa; Hopmann, David Nicolas. (2025) Populist and extremist narratives on political parties’ Facebook pages during the 2024 European Election campaign in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. NordMedia 2025
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Christensen, Siri B.; Nævdal, Even. (2025) «Gutta» vil påvirke høstens valg: –⁠ Vi tar det veldig alvorlig.
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2025) «Gutta» inviterer partiledere til debatt for å påvirke valget.

2024

Contribution to radio or TV

Magin, Melanie. (2024) Interview at NRK news.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; NTB, Journalist. (2024) Flere leser saker om Ukraina enn Gaza.
Conference lecture

Skogerbø, Eli; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Hassler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof. (2024) Walking the Line of the Double Bind: Women and Men Politicians’ Gendered Self-Presentations on Social Media – A Comparison Between Germany and Norway. 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli. (2024) Calls to (What Kind of?) Action: Political Actors’ Strategies on Three Social Media Platforms. 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Conference lecture

Rivas-de-Roca, Rubén; Magin, Melanie; Jandura, Olaf; Bröckerbaum, Henrik. (2024) Reporting speakers in local media: A comparative study of the news content diversity in Norway, Spain and the UK. XXX Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Periodística
Interview

Opheim, Aagot; Hågensen, Ingeborg; Magin, Melanie. (2024) Aldersgrense på sosiale medier: - Høyere enn 13 år blir å dra det for langt.
Interview

Aasmundssen, Jakob Semb; Magin, Melanie. (2024) Palestina var vinneren under årets viktigste influenserkåring. En trend, ifølge professor.
Lecture

Magin, Melanie; Moe, Erling; Moen, Jostein; Tunstad, Hege. (2024) Paneldebatt: "Politisk kommunikasjon i et polarisert samfunn". Fagdag
Interview

Saue, Ole Alexander; Magin, Melanie. (2024) Ukraina-saker leses langt mer enn Gaza-saker: - Overraskende.
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Skogerbø, Eli. (2024) Preaching Through the Converted? Assessing the drivers of political engagement across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Norsk medieforskarkonferanse
Conference lecture

Riedl, Andreas; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jandura, Olaf; Stark, Birgit. (2024) Do journalists’ ideologies translate into partisan reporting? The limits of bias and the limits of countermechanisms. ECREA 2024 - 10th European Communication Conference "Communication & social (dis)order"
Interview

Magin, Melanie; NTB, Norsk telegrambyrå. (2024) Flere leser saker om Ukraina enn Gaza.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli; Tønnesen, Hedvig. (2024) Tapestries of topics: Factors affecting the issue diversity of political parties’ social media campaigns. POLKOM-mandag
Lecture

Magin, Melanie; Goldberg, Andreas Christian; Geiss, Stefan. (2024) Hva synes studentene? Et nytt spørreskjema som metode for studentevalueringer. NTNU Læringsfestivalen 2024
Conference poster

Magin, Melanie. (2024) “The spiral of inquiry” – et praktisk verktøy for systematisk, langsiktig utvikling av studieprogram. NTNU Læringsfestivalen 2024
Lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2024) Fremme studentenes eierskap til læring ved å gi dem medansvar for emnedesign. NTNU Læringsfestivalen digital 2024

2023

Conference lecture

Tønnesen, Hedvig; Bene, Márton; Haßler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli; Wurst, Anna-katharina. (2023) Between Anger and Love. A Multi-Level Study on the Impact of Policy Issues on User Reactions in National Election Campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway. ICA 2023
Conference lecture

Tønnesen, Hedvig; Bene, Márton; Haßler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli; Wurst, Anna-Katharina. (2023) A Three-Country Study on the Impact of Policy Issues on Facebook Reactions. APSA - American Political Science Association
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli. (2023) Who’s afraid of populism? The strategic use of populist communication by Norwegian parties on social media during the 2021 election campaign. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2023 “Navigating the Noise: Effective Communication for Solving Political Problems”
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli. (2023) Informing, mobilizing and interacting – A cross-platform study of parties on social media during the 2021 Norwegian elections. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2023 “Navigating the Noise: Effective Communication for Solving Political Problems”
Conference lecture

Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie Andrea; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli. (2023) Shaped by gender stereotypes? Comparing the election campaigns on Facebook and Instagram by female and male top politicians in Norway and Germany. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2023 “Navigating the Noise: Effective Communication for Solving Political Problems”
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Sætaberget, Astrid Lie; Ekern, Ingrid; Rye, Johan Fredrik. (2023) Kunstig intelligens fører til at eksamen må endres: – Vi trenger en ny diskusjon om vurderingsformer.
Feature article

Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2023) Tre spørsmål om metodeutvikling.
Interview

Wildermuth, Janina; Magin, Melanie. (2023) A look into tomorrow’s media landscape: – I remember thinking the fax machine was changing the world.
Lecture

Magin, Melanie; Hakel, Katja. (2023) Universell utforming av undervisning og vurdering – hva skal til for å få det realisert?. Læringsfestivalen digital
Conference lecture

Riedl, Andreas; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jandura, Olaf. (2023) Leftist Coverage From Leftist Journalists? Effects of journalists' political orientation on neutrality, partisan source selection and value frames. POLKOM-konferansen 2023
Interview

Johnsen, Nora; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Israel går i strupen på supermodell: – Vi ser deg.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea; Skogerbø, Eli; Larsson, Anders Olof; Hassler, Jörg. (2023) Shaped by gender stereotypes? Comparing the election campaigns on Facebook and Instagram by female and male top politicians in Norway and Germany. NordMedia Conference 2023
Lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea; Vestberg, Nina Elisabeth Lager. (2023) Rundebord: Hva betyr arbeidslivsrelevans i disiplinfagene i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap?. Læringsfestivalen 2023
Lecture

Magin, Melanie Andrea. (2023) Hvordan stimulere studentenes forståelse av forholdet mellom teori og empiri?. Læringsfestivalen 2023
Interview

Flatjord, Nora Garnes; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Synnøve er redd for at sensur av ord vil føre til tabu.
Interview

Vigerust, Christian Hayes; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Nyheter på Tiktok – manipulert eller opplyst?.
Lecture

Hakel, Katja; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Inkluderende læringsmiljø. Hva skal til for en systematisk implementering i fagmiljøer ved NTNU?. NTNU Læringsnettverk
Interview

Hunnestad, Maja; Magin, Melanie. (2023) Krever våpenhvile på sosiale medier: – Det er bedre å si noe, enn ikke å si noe.
Interview

Gaustad, Dina Stieng; Magin, Melanie. (2023) På Tiktok bruker titusenvis en gammel svensk sang for å vise støtte til Palestina.

2022

Conference lecture

Tønnesen, Hedvig; Bene, Márton; Haßler, Jörg; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Skogerbø, Eli; Wurst, Anna-katharina. (2022) Between anger and love: Comparing citizen engagement with party posts during election campaigns across three countries. The 8th conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics
Conference lecture

Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg; Rußmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Jackson, Daniel; Fenoll, Vicente; Farkas, Xenia; Baranowski, Pawel. (2022) Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 European Parliament elections. #AoIR2022 Conference “De-colonising the Internet”
Contribution to radio or TV

Bailey, Jennifer L.; Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Magin, Melanie. (2022) Hva er splittelsen og konspirasjonsteoriene i ferd med å gjøre med USA? En podcast med J. L. Bailey, A. Dyrendal og M. Magin.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Meldal, Ida Roald. (2022) Etter ny TikTok-trend strømmer ungdommer til butikken: – Folk er desperate etter å få tak i det.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Nævdal, Even. (2022) Hanna skjønte ikke hvorfor alle ville ha varen. Så kjøpte hun det selv: – Genialt.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli. (2022) Norwegian parties’ and party leaders’ issue ownership on Facebook and Instagram in the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election campaign. Norsk medieforskerkonferanse 2022
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Nilsen, Maja Mathilde. (2022) Hacket på Instagram: − Alt ble borte.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Bjørkeng, Per Kristian; Støyva, Andreas Brattåker. (2022) Nå blir Facebook-feeden din helt ny: – Kopierer Tiktok.
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Magin, Melanie; Skogerbø, Eli. (2022) Parties, platforms and prioritizations – Party use of social media during the 2021 Norwegian elections. Norsk medieforskerkonferanse 2022
Conference lecture

Bene, Márton; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg; Rußmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Jackson, Daniel; Fenoll, Vicente; Farkas, Xenia; Baranowski, Pawel. (2022) Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 European Parliament elections. 72nd Annual ICA Conference “One World, One Network”
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Kösters, Raphael; Jandura, Olaf; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards; Klein, Miriam; Riedl, Andreas; Weiß, Ralph. (2022) Diverse Core, Unbalanced Fringes: Assessing the Performance of German News Media when Covering Migration. 2nd Annual ICA Conference “One World, One Network”
Contribution to radio or TV

de Wilde, Pieter; Seibicke, Helena; Magin, Melanie; Moylan, Tom. (2022) Webinar: Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Skogerbø, Eli. (2022) Who’s afraid of populism? The use of populist communication by parties and politicians on Facebook and Instagram during the 2021 Norwegian election campaign. Symposium "Democracy and Digital Disintegration: Actors, Platforms, Citizens"
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Andersen, Elise Rønnevig. (2022) Disse bildene provoserer russiske militær-influensere: Kaller egne soldater idioter.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Musjél, E.. (2022) Sensurerer sosiale medier: – Mer utfordrende å holde seg oppdatert.
Interview

Jakobsen, Amalie Nygård; Magin, Melanie. (2022) Fikk fire millioner nye følgere på ett døgn: – Som en naturkatastrofe.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Opheim, B.. (2022) Har hatt en «magisk sommer» uten sosiale medier.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Drægni, Ingvill. (2022) Særlig ett tankemønster preger nordmenn nå. Her er ekspertenes råd.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Nodland, Sondre Andreas Wedøe. (2022) Krigen i Ukraina: Advarer foreldre: - Skremmende enkel tilgang.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Aarvåg, Kari-Anne. (2022) Krig på Tiktok: – Noen i klassen forteller at de har sett ting de angrer på at de har sett.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Engvik, Inga Vinje. (2022) Slik kan sosiale medier påvirke krigen i Ukraina.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Onstad, Martine. (2022) Kjendiskatt fikk familien i trygghet.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Johansen-Desjardin, Anette. (2022) Deler oppskrifter på molotovcocktailer i sosiale medier: – Problematisk, sier some-ekspert.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Nesset, Jørgen Bae. (2022) «Ukrainian Reaper» og «Ghost of Kyiv»: Har fått legendestatus på få dager.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Larsson, Anders Olof; Skogerbø, Eli. (2022) Issue ownership in the 2021 Norwegian election: parties and candidates on Facebook and Instagram. ECREA 2022 - 9th European Communication Conference
Conference lecture

Russmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Bene, Márton; Farkas, Xenia; Haßler, Jörg; Jackson, Daniel; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Veneti, Anastasia. (2022) Liking, sharing or commenting – how different imagery evoke different audience responses on Facebook during elections. ECREA 2022 - 9th European Communication Conference
Conference lecture

Larsson, Anders Olof; Tønnesen, Hedvig; Magin, Melanie; Skogerbø, Eli. (2022) Prioritizing platforms – detailing party engagement efforts during the 2021 Norwegian elections. ECREA 2022 - 9th European Communication Conference, Preconference on “Digital Election Campaigning Worldwide”

2021

Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2021) Social media and disinformation (“fake news”). Workshop at ISFiT – The International Student Festival in Trondheim
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2021) Participation in panel discussion on Polarization. Sosiologifestival 2021
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Brandslet, Steinar. (2021) Sosiale medier betyr mindre enn fryktet.
Interview

Mathisen, Georg; Magin, Melanie. (2021) De som stenges ute fra sosiale medier, blir enda mer ekstreme.
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2021) Participation in panel discussion on the documentary “The social dilemma”. Panel discussion on the documentary “The social dilemma”
Conference lecture

Udris, Linards; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Riedl, Andreas; Steiner, Miriam; Hasebrink, Uwe; Parrilla, Ricard G.; Hofstetter, Brigitte; Eisenegger, Mark; Jandura, Olaf. (2021) Contribution to diversity? A comparative analysis of different notions of diversity in public service media and the press in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Three-Country Conference on Communication Science “#Communication #(R)evolution. Changing Communication in a Digital Society”
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Steiner, Miriam; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards; Häuptli, Andrea. (2021) Is Facebook driving tabloidization? A comparison of two German newspapers. Three-Country Conference on Communication Science “#Communication #(R)evolution. Changing Communication in a Digital Society”
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton; Haßler, Jörg; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Baranowski, Pawel; Rußmann, Uta; Farkas, Xenia; Jackson, Daniel; Fenoll, Vicente. (2021) Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 EP elections. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2021 “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty”
Conference lecture

Haßler, Jörg; Wurst, Anna-katharina; Schlosser, Katharina; Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton; Rußmann, Uta; Fenoll, Vicente. (2021) The same tool for different tasks? Facebook campaign strategies during the 2019 European Parliament election campaign. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2021 “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty”
Conference lecture

Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Schlosser, Katharina; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Rußmann, Uta; Fenoll, Vicente; Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton. (2021) “I have a clear mandate from my political family”. A cross-national quantitative content analysis of Facebook posts of European and national parties in the 2019 European election campaigns. Three-Country Conference on Communication Science “#Communication #(R)evolution. Changing Communication in a Digital Society”
Conference lecture

Bene, Márton; Balaban, Delia; Baranowski, Pawel; Haßler, Jörg; Jackson, Daniel; Kruschinski, Simon; Magin, Melanie; Rußmann, Uta. (2021) The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe. Users’ engagement with parties’ European-focused Facebook posts during the 2019 EP election. Workshop “Analyzing Citizen Engagement with European Politics through Social Media”
Conference lecture

Rußmann, Uta; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg; Baranowski, Pawel; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Farkas, Xenia; Fenoll, Vicente; Jürgens, Pascal; Kruschinski, Simon. (2021) “Populists” communication on Facebook during the 2019 EP Elections. Protagoras symposium “Europe facing populists in power: communication strategies and practices”
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Stehle, Anja. (2021) Mal wieder die Lottozahlen ausgewürfelt?“ Im Wahljahr ringen Deutschlands Demoskopen hart um die Deutungshoheit.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Hattrem, Hanne; Sævereid, Harald. (2021) Utestengt etter Kongress-opptøyene: Dette er Parler-appen.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Olsen, E. S.. (2021) Det er vanskelig å ikke like det Twitter gjør nå. Natt til torsdag ble president Donald Trump utestengt fra sine sosiale medier etter opprøret i Washington.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Steiner, Miriam; Riedl, Andreas; Hofstetter, Brigitte. (2021) Vielfalt ist nicht gleich Vielfalt. Ein Plädoyer für die multidimensionale Messung von Medienqualität. Three-Country Conference on Communication Science “#Communication #(R)evolution. Changing Communication in a Digital Society”
Conference lecture

Udris, Linards; Eisenegger, Mark; Häuptli, Andrea; Hofstetter, Brigitte; Jandura, Olaf; Magin, Melanie; Riedl, Andreas; Stark, Birgit; Steiner, Miriam. (2021) Contribution to diversity? A comparative analysis of different notions of diversity in public service media and the press in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. PMR/RIPE@2021 conference
Conference lecture

Jandura, Olaf; Riedl, Andreas; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Udris, Linards. (2021) Wer kommt wo zu Wort? Zur gesellschaftlichen Repräsentationsleistung analoger und digitaler Medienangebote in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Workshop of the Network Media Structures “Medien und Demokratie im Zeichen der Digitalisierung”
Conference lecture

Kruschinski, Simon; Baranowski, Pawel; Rußmann, Uta; Haßler, Jörg; Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Lilleker, Darren; Jackson, Daniel. (2021) Patterns of Negative Campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political Parties’ Facebook Posts and Users’ Sharing Behavior across Twelve Countries. 71st Annual ICA Conference “Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice”
Conference lecture

Bene, Márton; Haßler, Jörg; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Baranowski, Pawel; Rußmann, Uta; Farkas, Xenia; Jackson, Daniel; Magin, Melanie; Fenoll, Vicente. (2021) Populism in context. A cross-country investigation of the Facebook usage of populist appeals during the 2019 EP elections. Second Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Eisenegger, Mark; Häuptli, Andrea; Hofstetter, Brigitte; Kösters, Raphael; Riedl, Andreas; Stark, Birgit; Steiner, Miriam; Udris, Linards; Weiß, Ralph. (2021) Seeing the whole picture. Dimensions of media diversity in German, Austrian, and Swiss news media. 8th European Communication Conference “Communication and trust: building safe, sustainable and promising futures”
Conference lecture

Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Haßler, Jörg; Schlosser, Katharina; Magin, Melanie. (2021) What parties and users care about. Issue ownership and shareworthiness in the EP Campaign 2019. 8th European Communication Conference “Communication and trust: building safe, sustainable and promising futures”
Conference lecture

Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Lilleker, Darren. (2021) Engaging Users Through Information or Critique? "Likes" and "shares" for parties on Facebook during the 2019 European Election campaign. Weizenbaum Conference 2021 "Democracy in Flux: Order, Dynamics and Voices in Digital Public Spheres"
Conference lecture

Kruschinski, Simon; Haßler, Jörg; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Fenoll, Vicente; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-Katharina. (2021) Keep them engaged! A 12-country investigation of content features provoking user engagement on parties’ Facebook posts in the 2019 European Elections. The virtual 71st Annual ICA Conference

2020

Conference lecture

Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Haßler, Jörg; Fenoll, Vicente; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Magin, Melanie; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-katharina. (2020) Likes, shares, comments. ECPR 2020 Virtual Conference
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Bekkestad, Oda Karlsen. (2020) Ole Kristian (31) har jobbet i Godset i flere år – nå vet han ikke om han orker mer: – En urovekkende utvikling.
Conference lecture

Geise, Stephanie; Königslöw, Katharina Kleinen-von; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Riesmeyer, Claudia; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina; Sehl, Annika. (2020) The normativity of communication and its subfields: A content analysis on normative claims in peer-reviewed journal articles (1970-2014). 70th Annual ICA Conference “Open Communication”
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Wallum, Stian. (2020) Denne gjengen med hvite konservative menn vil knekke Trump – med alle midler.
Conference lecture

Geiss, Stefan; Monzer, Cristina; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2020) Opinion Formation Is More Than Persuasion – Measuring Depth of Opinion Formation and Tracking Opinion Formation Processes: Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Validation. 70th Annual ICA Conference “Open Communication”
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Bjørnerem, Håvard. (2020) Trump vs. Corona.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Velo, Pål. (2020) Skaper egen domstol. Høyprofilerte kjennere skal fra nå av bestemme over Facebooks retningslinjer.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2020) Endangering the Common Core? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda. 2020 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference
Conference lecture

Haßler, Jörg; Baranowski, Pawel; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Fenoll, Vicente; Jackson, Dan; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Lilleker, Darren; Magin, Melanie. (2020) Really a European Populist Zeitgeist? How populists used Facebook posts and ads for campaigning across 11 countries in the European Election Campaign 2019. Workshop European Elections 2019
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Haeming, Anne. (2020) Was Wahlumfragen wollen, können, sollen. Welche Auswirkungen die Debatte um die Qualität der Demoskopie auf das deutsche Superwahljahr 2021 hat.
Conference lecture

Haßler, Jörg; Schlosser, Katharina; Wurst, Anna-katharina; Magin, Melanie; Kruschinski, Simon. (2020) Facebook als alternative Öffentlichkeit für Deutschland. Wie die AfD Facebook im Europawahlkampf nutzte. Annual Conference of the Communication and Policy Section and the Computer Mediated Communciation Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), and the Political Communication Section of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Sc.
Conference lecture

Geise, Stephanie; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Riesmeyer, Claudia; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina; Sehl, Annika; Wallner, Cornelia. (2020) Wie normativ ist die Kommunikationswissenschaft? Ein inhaltsanalytischer Vergleich deutscher und internationaler Fachzeitschriftenaufsätze. 65th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) “#Medien #Mensch #Gesellschaft”
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2020) Sosiale medier kan gi feil inntrykk av hva de fleste i Norge mener om klimaendringer.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Beckhaug, Anette; Kvaale, Vegard Kristiansen. (2020) Dette er tomme trusler. Donald Trump er rasende på Twitter og truer med å stenge sosiale medier. Kan få store konsekvenser, sier norske eksperter.
Conference lecture

Rußmann, Uta; Baranowski, Pawel; Kruschinski, Simon; Ceron, Andrea; Jackson, Daniel; Lilleker, Darren; Magin, Melanie; Bene, Márton. (2020) European Patterns of Negative Campaigning? Going Negative in the 2019 European Election Campaign. 14th ECPR General Conference
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Dahl, Ingvill Dybfest; Hattrem, Hanne. (2020) Eksperter om Trumps presidentordre: Ny lov vil gi flom av søksmål mot sosiale medier.
Conference lecture

Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Monzer, Cristina. (2020) Strategisches Wählen im Blindflug? Stört Social Media-Nutzung die Güte subjektiver Wahlvorhersagen und was heißt das für die Wahlentscheidung?. 65th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) “#Medien #Mensch #Gesellschaft”
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Aspen, Janne Grete. (2020) Jaktar på ein syndebukk.

2019

Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2019) The European Election 2019 in Austria. On the influence of situational factors on the election outcome. Congress on European Elections 2019: Populism & Euroscepticism
Lecture

Magin, Melanie. (2019) Fake News, Disinformation and the Role of Social Media. The Big Challenge Science Festival
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Leirfall, Ingvild Eide. (2019) Vil avgrensa tidsbruken din på sosiale medium: – Det hadde vore heilt krise!.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Johansen, Martine. (2019) Iselin Guttormsen: Refser Instagram – Maktmisbruk. “Bloggerne”-profilen tar et kraftig oppgjør med bildedelingstjenesten.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Johansen, Martine. (2019) Iselin Guttormsen: Refser Instagram - Jeg er så forbanna.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Lea, Mathilde. (2019) Facebook stoppet Syria-bilde.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Hem, Mikkel. (2019) Tvitret seg ut av alkohelvetet.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Knipperud, Tone. (2019) Fersk spørreundersøkelse: 6 av 10 vil ikke “like og dele”.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Kvitrud, Marie. (2019) Nå er det denne poseringen som gjelder i sosiale medier.
Conference lecture

Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2019) Leave the Field to the Extremes? Why Moderates Refrain from Political Discussions on Facebook. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2017 “Transforming Communication – Old and New Borders”
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Steiner, Miriam; Stark, Birgit. (2019) A Matter of Sources. A Content Analysis of the Political Information Diversity of Search Engine Results. ECREA Political Communication Conference 2017 “Transforming Communication – Old and New Borders”
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Aalberg, Toril; Brandslet, Steinar. (2019) How to defend yourself against fake news.
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Baranowski, Pawel; Bene, Márton; Ceron, Andrea; Fenoll, Vicente; Haßler, Jörg; Jackson, Dan; Kruschinski, Simon; Larsson, Anders Olof; Lilleker, Darren. (2019) How political parties tried to produce participation in the European Election Campaign 2019 - A comparative content analysis of parties’ Facebook campaigns in 12 countries. The production of participation in the digital world
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Aalberg, Toril; Brandslet, Steinar. (2019) Sånn forsvarer du deg mot falske nyheter.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Drabløs, Øystein Tronsli; Jor, Brage Lie; Moen, Ellen Karin. (2019) Roste Instagram etter å ha mistet 40.000 følgere – var en teknisk glipp.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Nøttveit, Andrea Rygg. (2019) Yngre politikarar vert mest utsette for hat og trugslar.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Sjølie, Tonje Ruud. (2019) Marielle (28) følte det var vanskelig å komme i kontakt med nye folk. Nå hjelper hun ensomme jenter i hele Norge med det samme problemet.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Aadland, Ida Johanne. (2019) Kva skjer når avisene stenger kommentarfelta sine?.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Simonsen, May-Helen. (2019) SV-politiker mottar mye netthets. Dette er hva ekspertene sier:.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Ulriksen, Marit. (2019) Å slette hårreisende kommentarer om enkeltpersoner gjør meg ikke til en nazi-propagandaminister.
Interview

Magin, Melanie; Birkeland, Malene. (2019) Møt instamødrene: Likes betyr alt.

2018

Conference lecture

Riesmeyer, Claudia; Zillich, Arne; Geise, Stephanie; Königslöw, Katharina Kleinen-von; Klinger, Ulrike; Magin, Melanie; Müller, Kathrin Friederike; Nitsch, Cordula; Rothenberger, Liane; Schumann, Christina. (2018) Wie normativ ist die Kommunikationswissenschaft? Sollensvorstellungen in internationalen und deutschen Fachzeitschriftenaufsätzen (1970-2014). 63th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
Conference lecture

Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2018) Aus Versehen informiert? Facebooks Bedeutung für die Nachrichtennutzung nebenbei – eine Mehrmethoden-Analyse. Annual Conference of the Media Reception and Effects Section of the German Communication Association
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2018) “Common meeting ground” in Gefahr? Zum Einfluss personalisierter Online-Informationsquellen auf die Fragmentierung der Publikumsagenda. 63th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
Conference lecture

Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2018) A Spiral of Silence in the Echo Chamber? Symmetric and Asymmetric Mobilization of Opinion Camps in the Debate on the Refugee Crisis. The 1st Scandinavian Audience Oriented Political Communication Workshop
Conference lecture

Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2018) Algorithmische Selektion im Meinungsbildungsprozess zur “Flüchtlingskrise“. Einflüsse auf die Artikulationsbereitschaft. Annual Conference of the Media Reception and Effects Section of the German Communication Association
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2018) How Facebook, Google & Co. Changed Journalism. A New Look at Kurt Imhof’s “New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere”. Workshop on Digitalization and Social Life: Theories, Concepts, Methods
Conference lecture

Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie. (2018) News diversity between push and pull, online and offline. 68th ICA Annual Conference “Voices”
Conference lecture

Magin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2018) Endangering the Common Meeting Ground? How Personalized Online Information Sources Influence the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda. 7th European Communication Conference “Centres and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation"
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2018) Ett av Sveriges mikropartier har eksplodert på Facebook.
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2018) En ny mediehverdag.
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2018) Oppførselen din i sosiale medier kan gi konsekvenser på jobb. Her er åtte «regler» du bør følge. Slik kan din oppførsel i sosiale medier gjøre at du mister respekt på jobb.
Conference lecture

Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2018) How to Start a Spiral of Silence: Asymmetric Mobilization of Opinion Camps on Facebook. Preconference to the 68th ICA Annual Conference on “Refugees, Religious Threats, and Political Radicalization: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives”
Conference lecture

Steiner, Miriam; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2018) Seek and you shall find? A content analysis on the diversity of five search engines’ results on political queries. 68th ICA Annual Conference “Voices”
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2018) Derfor velger mange å slette Facebook og andre sosiale medier.
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2018) Er memes helsefarlig?.
Conference lecture

Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg. (2018) Gender Constellations Moderate the Escalation of Conflict in Political Talk Shows. 7th European Communication Conference “Centres and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation“
Interview

Magin, Melanie. (2018) Hedrer feministdrap.
Conference lecture

Stark, Birgit; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal. (2018) Nur ein Mythos? Was wir wirklich über Filterblasen und Echokammern wissen – und was nicht. Media Symposium 2017 “The Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere – Historical Perspectives, Models and Consequences”

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Melanie Magin

Melanie Magin

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The Norwegian National Election Study of 2025 & 2029 (2025-32)

Digital Election Campaigning Worldwide (DigiWorld) (2021-)

Campaigning for Strasbourg (CamforS) (2019-)

International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2027 (2025-30)

Media Performance and Democracy (2018-22)

Continuity and Change in Campaign Communication in Austria Since 1966 (CAMPCOM) (2007-11)

Publications

How Political Issues Shape Social Media Campaigns for National Elections

Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election. Informing, Interacting with, and Mobilising Voters

Demokratie braucht Medien [Democracy Needs Media]

Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization

Media Performance in Times of Media Change

Are Algorithms a Threat to Democracy? The Rise of Intermediaries: A Challenge for Public Discourse

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Hva er splittelsen og konspirasjonsteoriene i ferd med å gjøre med USA? En podcast med J. L. Bailey, A. Dyrendal og M. Magin

Webinar: Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media

Hva synes studentene? Et nytt spørreskjema som metode for studentevalueringer

“Many shades of red”: Trondheim etter Ottervik-epoken

Flått er ikke flott. Hva er propaganda og hvordan påvirker det oss?

Webinar: Turn Learning into a Game: Experiential Learning Through Immersive Simulations

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