Yannis Theocharis is Professor and Chair of Digital Governance at the Department of Governance, Technical University of Munich. After completing his studies in new media (LSE) and political science (UCL) in 2011, he held the positions of Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, and Professor of Innovative Methods in Media and Communication at the ZeMKI, University of Bremen.
Yannis’ work focuses on the effects of digital media on political participation, collective action and uncivil communication. His work has appeared in communication, political science, and interdisciplinary journals such as Political Communication, New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Communication, Journal of Democracy, European Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research, and Electoral Studies, among others. His book “Political Participation in a Changing World: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Citizen Engagement” was published recently by Routledge (2018). He is a member of New York University’s SMaPP Global group.
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