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Vita

Simon Kruschinski ist Senior Researcher für Plattformdaten und Computational Social Science bei GESIS in Köln und Leiter eines DFG-Forschungsprojektes zur Wirkung von digitaler politischer Werbung auf Einstellungen, Wissen und Partizipation. Zuvor forschte und lehrte er von 2022 bis 2025 als Postdoktorand und Projektmitarbeiter am Arbeitsbereich für Politische Kommunikation des Instituts für Publizistik an der Universität Mainz. Dort promovierte er auch von 2015 bis 2022 zum Einsatz und zur Wirkung von politischem Microtargeting in europäischen Wahlkämpfen.   

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Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Meltzer, Christine E., Pablo Jost, Christian Schemer, Simon Kruschinski, and Marcus Maurer. 2025. "How (Gendered) Media Portrayals of Refugees Affect Attitudes Toward Immigration. The Moderating Role of Political Ideology." Political Communication 42 (5): 882-900. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2472765.

Haßler, Jörg, Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Pohl, and Simon Kruschinski. 2024. "A Consistent Picture? Issue‐Based Campaigning on Facebook During the 2021 German Federal Election Campaign." Politics and Governance (12): . doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8150.

Kruschinski, Simon, Márton Bene, Jörg Haßler, Uta Rußmann, Darren Lilleker, Delia Balaban, Pawel Baranowski, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, and Dan Jackson. 2024. "Divisive, Negative, and Populist?! An Empirical Analysis of European Populist and Mainstream Parties’ Use of Digital Political Advertisements." International Journal of Communication 18: 5518-5539. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21509/4860.

Reinemann, Carsten, Marcus Maurer, Simon Kruschinski, and Pablo Jost. 2024. "The Quality of COVID-19 Coverage: Investigating Relevance and Viewpoint Diversity in German Mainstream and Alternative Media." Journalism Studies 6 (25): 681-702. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2024.2326642.

Votta, Fabio, Simon Kruschinski, Mads Hove, Natali Helberger, Tom Dobber, and Claes de Vreese. 2024. "Who Does(n't) Target You? Mapping the Worldwide Usage of Online Political Microtargeting." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (4): . doi: https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2024.010.

Dogruel, Leyla, Simon Kruschinski, Pablo Jost, and Pascal Jürgens. 2023. "Distribution and Reception of Conspiracy Theories and Mobilization Calls on Telegram. Combining Evidence from a Content Analysis and Survey During the Pandemic." Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 3-4 (71): 230-247. doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634x-2023-3-4-230.

Braun, Maike, Laura Heintz, Simon Kruschinski, Sabine Trepte, and Michael Scharkow. 2023. "Gender diversity at academic conferences—the case of the International Communication Association." Journal of Communication 6 (73): 601-615. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad032.

Maurer, Marcus, Pablo Jost, Simon Kruschinski, and Jörg Haßler. 2023. "Inkonsistent einseitig: Die Medienberichterstattung über Geflüchtete 2015–2020." Publizistik 1 (68): 13-35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-022-00769-1.

Kruschinski, Simon. 2023. "Löffler, Natascha: Datenbasierte Kommunikation von Parteien und Vertrauen. Theoretische Einordnung und empirische Erfassung auf der Meso- und Mikro-Ebene.: Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2022. 383 Seiten. Preis: € 69,99. Dissertationsschrift Universität Münster.." Publizistik 2-3 (68): 405-407. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-023-00798-4.

Bene, Márton, Melanie Magin, Jörg Haßler, Uta Russmann, Darren Lilleker, Simon Kruschinski, Daniel Jackson, Vicente Fenoll, Xénia Farkas, Paweł Baranowski, and Delia Balaban. 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 1 (30): 100-121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612231196158.

Kefford, Glenn, Katharine Dommett, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, Sara Bannerman, Tom Dobber, Simon Kruschinski, Sanne Kruikemeier, and Erica Rzepecki. 2022. "Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption: Evidence from six advanced democracies." Party Politics 3 (29): 448-462. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688221084039.

Maurer, Marcus, Pablo Jost, Marlene Schaaf, Michael Sülflow, and Simon Kruschinski. 2022. "How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media: Deliberate Provocations, Scandalizing Media Coverage, and Public Awareness for the Alternative for Germany (Afd)." The International Journal of Press/Politics 4 (28): 747-769. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211072692.

Jost, Pablo, Simon Kruschinski, Michael Sülflow, Jörg Haßler, and Marcus Maurer. 2022. "Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived." Policy & Internet 2 (15): 204-222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.333.

Bene, Márton, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, Melanie Magin, Katharina Schlosser, and Anna-Katharina Wurst. 2022. "Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries." Political Communication 4 (39): 429-453. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2022.2042435.

Maurer, Marcus, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, and Pablo Jost. 2022. "Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK." Communications 2 (47): 219-240. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2020-0016.

Maurer, Marcus, Carsten Reinemann, and Simon Kruschinski. 2022. "Medien über die Corona-Pandemie: Eine kritische Analyse." Journal für politische Bildung 3 (12): 40-45. doi: https://doi.org/10.46499/1930.2469.

Wurst, Anna-Katharina, Vicente Fenoll, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Melanie Magin, Uta Rußmann, and Katharina Schlosser. 2022. "Missed opportunity to connect with European citizens? Europarties’ communication on Facebook during the 2019 European election campaign." Studies in Communication Sciences 1 (22): . doi: https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2022.01.3053.

Baranowski, Paweł, Simon Kruschinski, Uta Russmann, Jörg Haßler, Melanie Magin, Bene Márton, Andrea Ceron, Daniel Jackson, and Darren Lilleker. 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 4 (20): 375-392. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2022.2115598.

Kruschinski, Simon, Jörg Haßler, Pablo Jost, and Michael Sülflow. 2022. "Posting or Advertising? How Political Parties Adapt Their Messaging Strategies to Facebook’s Organic and Paid Media Affordances." Journal of Political Marketing 1 (24): 35-55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15377857.2022.2110352.

Bene, Márton, Melanie Magin, Daniel Jackson, Darren Lilleker, Delia Balaban, Paweł Baranowski, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, and Uta Russmann. 2022. "The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe: Users’ Engagement With Parties’ European-Focused Facebook Posts." Politics and Governance 1 (10): 108-120. doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v10i1.4700.

Kruschinski, Simon, and Márton Bene. 2021. "In varietate concordia?! Political parties’ digital political marketing in the 2019 European Parliament election campaign." European Union Politics 1 (23): 43-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165211040728.

Haller, André, and Simon Kruschinski. 2020. "Politisches Microtargeting. Eine normative Analyse von datenbasierten Strategien gezielter Wähler_innenansprache." Communicatio Socialis 4 (53): 519-530. doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2020-4-519.

Maurer, Marcus, Pablo Jost, Jörg Haßler, and Simon Kruschinski. 2018. "Auf den Spuren der Lügenpresse: Zur Richtigkeit und Ausgewogenheit der Medienberichterstattung in der „Flüchtlingskrise“." Publizistik 1 (64): 15-35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-018-00466-y.

Kruschinski, Simon, and Jörg Haßler. 2017. "Die Instrumentalisierung partizipativer Öffentlichkeit durch die AfD bei der rheinland-pfälzischen Landtagswahl 2016." MedienJournal 2 (41 ): 97-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.60764/MEDIENJOURNAL-31Z4-2Y66.

Kruschinski, Simon, and André Haller. 2017. "Restrictions on data-driven political micro-targeting in Germany." Internet Policy Review 4 (6): . doi: https://doi.org/10.14763/2017.4.780.

Geise, Stephanie, Patrick Rössler, and Simon Kruschinski. 2016. "Automatisierte Analyse medialer Bildinhalte. Potenziale, Grenzen, methodischtechnischer Status Quo und zukünftige Herausforderungen – eine Bestandsaufnahme." Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 2 (64): 244-269. doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634x-2016-2-244.

Beitrag im Sammelwerk

Kruschinski, Simon. 2025. "Canvassing." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, edited by Alessandro Nai, Max Grömping, and Dominique Wirz, 170-174. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301447.vol1.00048.

Paulke, Hanna, and Simon Kruschinski. 2025. "Digital Political Advertising in European Parliament Elections: Spending and Reach of Social Media Advertisements by Political Parties in 27 EU Countries." In The 2024 European Parliament Elections: A Turn to the Right in the Shadow of War, edited by Michael Kaeding, Manuel Müller, and Alexander Hoppe, The Future of Europe, 253-269. Cham: Springer. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89455-8_24.

Paulke, Hanna, and Simon Kruschinski. 2025. "Digitale politische Werbung bei Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament: Ausgaben und Reichweite von Social-Media-Anzeigen politischer Parteien in 27 EU-Ländern." In Die Europawahl 2024, edited by Michael Kaeding, Manuel Müller, and Alexander Hoppe, 321-343. Cham: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96049-9_24.

Dommett, Kate, and Simon Kruschinski. 2024. "Data-driven campaigning." In The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning, edited by Darren G. Lilleker, Daniel Jackson, Bente Kalsnes, Claudia Mellado, Filippo Trevisan, and Anastasia Veneti, 199-212. Routledge. doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333326-18.

Kruschinski, Simon, Pablo Jost, Leyla Dogruel, and Pascal Jürgens. 2024. "Verbreitung und Rezeption von Verschwörungstheorien und Mobilisierungsaufrufen auf Telegram während der Coronapandemie." In Tagungsband der Wissenschaftskonferenz 2023 des Zentrums für Analyse und Forschung am Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz , edited by Zentrum für Analyse und Forschung am Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, 116-129. Wiesbaden: Verfassungsschutz.

Kruschinski, Simon, Maria Deichmann, David Haun, and Nina Steinfeltz. 2023. "Inhaltsleere oder informative TV-Formate?! Eine empirische Analyse zu den Themen und Kommunikationsstrategien bei den TV-Triellen der Bundestagswahl 2021." In Die (Massen-) Medien im Wahlkampf, edited by Christina Holtz-Bacha, 263-291. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38967-3_10.

Haller, André, Simon Kruschinski, Jay Günther, Sven Michelberger, Maik Uhlich, and Lena Thoß. 2023. "Willst du uns im Wahlkampf unterstützen? Bitte bestätige deine E-Mail-Adresse.: Eine empirische Analyse zur Nutzung und den Ziele des E-Mail-Marketings der Parteien im Bundestagswahlkampf 2021." In Digitale Wahlkämpfe, 101-120. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39008-2_7.

Lilleker, Darren G., Márton Bene, Delia Cristina Balaban, Vicente Fenoll, and Simon Kruschinski. 2022. "Populism, Its Prevalence, and Its Negative Influence on Democratic Institutions." In Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy , edited by Dolors Palau-Sampio, Guillermo López García, and Laura Iannelli, 153-170. IGI Global. doi: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8057-8.ch009.

Schlosser, Katharina, Anna-Katharina Wurst, Jörg Haßler, and Simon Kruschinski. 2021. "European Issues, but National Campaigning of German Parties." In Political Campaigning and Communication, edited by Jörg Haßler, Melanie Magin, Uta Russmann, and Vicente Fenoll, 103-117. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_7.

Bene, Márton, and Simon Kruschinski. 2021. "Political Advertising on Facebook." In Political Campaigning and Communication, edited by Jörg Haßler, Melanie Magin, Uta Russmann, and Vicente Fenoll, 283-299. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_18.

Kruschinski, Simon, and Marcus Maurer. 2021. "Rezeption und Wirkung des politischen Journalismus." In Handbuch Politischer Journalismus, edited by Marlis Prinzing, and Roger Blum, 676-691. Köln: Herbert von Halem.

Haßler, Jörg, Melanie Magin, Uta Russmann, Paweł Baranowski, Márton Bene, Katharina Schlosser, Anna-Katharina Wurst, Vicente Fenoll, Simon Kruschinski, and Peter Maurer. 2020. "Reaching Out to the Europeans. Political Parties’ Facebook Strategies of Issue Ownership and the Second-Order Character of European Election Campaigns." In Europawahlkampf 2019, edited by Christina Holtz-Bacha, 87-113. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31472-9_3.

Kruschinski, Simon, Pascal Jürgens, Birgit Stark, Marcus Maurer, and Christian Schemer. 2019. "In Search of the Known Unknows – The Methodological Challenges in Developing a Heuristic Multi-Feature Framework for Detecting Social Bot Behavior on Facebook." In Methoden und Forschungslogik der Kommunikationswissenschaft: Dynamische Prozesse der öffentlichen Kommunikation – Methodische Herausforderungen , edited by Philipp Müller, Stefan Geiss, Christian Schemer, Teresa Naab, and Christina Peter, 15, 103-146. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.

Haßler, Jörg, and Simon Kruschinski. 2019. "Vernetzte Kampagne?! Die Verbindung von Offline- und Online- Wahlkampf im Wahljahr 2017 am Beispiel der Mobilisierungskampagnen von CDU und SPD." In Die (Massen-)Medien im Wahlkampf, edited by Christina Holtz-Bacha, 73-95. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24824-6_4.

Kruschinski, Simon, and André Haller. 2018. "Back to the roots?! Der datengestützte Tür-zu-Tür-Wahlkampf in politischen Wahlkampagnen." In Strategische Politische Kommunikation im digitalen Wandel, edited by Michael Oswald, and Michael Johann, 289-317. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20860-8_13.

Monographie

Kruschinski, Simon, Pablo Jost, Hannah Fecher, and Tobias Scherer. 2025. Künstliche Intelligenz in politischen Kampagnen. Akzeptanz, Wahrnehmung und Wirkung. Frankfurt am Main: Otto-Brenner-Stiftung. https://www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_data/stiftung/02_Wissenschaftsportal/03_Publikationen/AP75_KI_Kampagnen.pdf.

Dommett, Kate, Glenn Kefford, and Simon Kruschinski. 2024. Data-Driven Campaigning and Political Parties: Five Advanced Democracies Compared. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197570227.001.0001.

Arbeits- und Diskussionspapier

Votta, Fabio, Simon Kruschinski, Tom Dobber, Andrea Ceron, Linnea Sandberg, Mads Fuglsang Hove, Ruth Dassonneville, Benjamin Guinaudeau, Jan Zilinsky, and James P. Cross. 2025. United in Diversity, Divided by Algorithms? Ad Delivery Algorithms in the 2024 European Parliament elections. OSF Preprints. doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RZQM6.

Kruschinski, Simon, Hannah Fecher, and Martin Fuchs. 2025. Wie findet man als Partei die beste Kampagnen-Agentur? Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. https://www.kas.de/de/web/politische-bildung/politsnack/detail/-/content/wie-findet-man-als-partei-die-beste-kampagnen-agentur.

Maurer, Marcus, Simon Kruschinski, and Pablo Jost. 2024. Fehlt da was? Perspektivenvielfalt in den öffentlich-rechtlichen Nachrichtenformaten.. Berlin: Stiftung Mercator. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377721606_Fehlt_da_was_Perspektivenvielfalt_in_den_offentlich-rechtlichen_Nachrichtenformaten.

Maurer, Marcus, Carsten Reinemann, and Simon Kruschinski. 2021. Einseitig, unkritisch, regierungsnah? Eine empirische Studie zur Qualität der journalistischen Berichterstattung über die Corona-Pandemie. Rudolf Augstein Stiftung.. doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18680.11524.

Maurer, Marcus, Pablo Jost, Simon Kruschinski, and Jörg Haßler. 2021. Fünf Jahre Medienberichterstattung über Flucht und Migration. Berlin: Stiftung Mercator. doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30003.96807.

Konferenzbeitrag

Drüppel, Kerria, Ruben Renz, Simon Kruschinski, Hanna Paulke, Marcus Maurer, and Sabine Trepte. 2026. "A linkage study on Instagram user engagement with news content: Work in progress." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2026-06-04.

Kruschinski, Simon, Marcus Maurer, Tilman Beck, Shakib Yazdani, and Iryna Gurevych. 2026. "Consensus and Conflict in Crisis: Opinion Dynamics on COVID-19 Measures Across Societal Groups on X." 71st Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Dortmund, 2026-03-18.

Márton, Bene, Gábor Illés, Uta Russmann, Pawel Baranowski, Jörg Haßler, Linda Bos, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, Alena Pospíšil Macková, and Anamaria Dutceac Segesten. 2026. "Constructing representation: Political actors’ representative style on Facebook during European and national election campaigns." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2025-06-04.

Paulke, Hanna, Simon Kruschinski, Marcus Maurer, Ruben Renz, and Sabine Trepte. 2026. "Curated to the fit? An in-app tracking study of exposure, ideological distribution, and attention to political advertisements on social networking platforms during the 2024 European Parliament election in Germany. ." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2026-06-04.

Paulke, Hanna, Simon Kruschinski, Bene Márton, Jörg Haßler, Darren G. Lilleker, Daniel Jackson, Melanie Magin, and Uta Russmann. 2026. "Does negativity pay off? The impact of political party attributes on the use and performance of negative campaigning in digital political advertising." 76. Annual Conference der International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2025-06-04.

Kruschinski, Simon, and Fabio Votta. 2026. "Efficiency tool or manipulation machine? The use, transparency, and communication strategies of visual generative AI on social media in the 2025 German federal election." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2026-06-04.

Votta, Fabio, Ella van Vloten, and Simon Kruschinski. 2026. "Hype or New Reality? A Systematic Empirical Analysis of Visual Generative AI Practices in the 2025 Dutch Election Campaign. ." Etmaal conference , 2026-02-05.

Drüppel, Kerria, Ruben Renz, Sabine Trepte, Hanna Paulke, Simon Kruschinski, and Marcus Maurer. 2026. "Liken, Teilen, Kommentieren: Eine Linkage-Studie zur Interaktion mit Nachrichteninhalten und deren Zusammenhang mit Nachrichtenkontakten auf Instagram.." Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Politik und Kommunikation, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 2026-02-04.

Kruschinski, Simon, Pablo Jost, Marcus Maurer, and Carsten Reinemann. 2026. "Pandemic news posting and user engagement: Exploring content characteristics of news media articles triggering posting and user engagement on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2026-06-04.

Fecher, Hannah, Tobias Scherer, Pablo Jost, and Simon Kruschinski. 2026. "Perceived risks and preferred rules: Public views on AI use in political communication. ." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2026-06-04.

Renz, Ruben, Sabine Trepte, Simon Kruschinski, Hanna Paulke, and Marcus Maurer. 2026. "Perception and Evaluation of Political Online Microtargeting: A Qualitative, Situational Study Using Think-Aloud Protocols and Large Language Model-Assisted Analysis.." 71st Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Dortmund, 2026-03-18.

Paulke, Hanna, Simon Kruschinski, Marcus Maurer, Ruben Renz, and Sabine Trepte. 2026. "Personalisierte politische Werbung auf Social Media: Eine In-App-Tracking-Studie zur Exposition, ideologischen Ausspielung und Rezeption während des Europawahlkampfs 2024.." Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Politik und Kommunikation, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 2026-02-04.

Renz, Ruben, Simon Kruschinski, Hanna Paulke, Marcus Maurer, and Sabine Trepte. 2026. "The perception and congruence of political microtargeting in the 2024 European elections: An in situ qualitative study." 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa, 2026-06-04.

Paulke, Hanna, Simon Kruschinski, Marcus Maurer, Ruben Renz, and Sabine Trepte. 2026. "Versteckt und getrackt: Ausspielung und Rezeption digitaler politische Werbung in personalisierten Informationsumgebungen.." 71st Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Dortmund, 2026-03-18.

Kruschinski, Simon, and Fabio Votta. 2025. " Synthetic Advantage? Generative AI as a Tool of Party Equalization or Normalization during the 2025 German Parliamentary Election.." Digital Democracy Workshop 2025, Zurich, Swizerland., 2025-11-13.

Haßler, Jörg, Anna-Katharina Wurst, and Simon Kruschinski. 2025. "Alternative mit Substanz?! Eine Analyse der Wirksamkeit der Issue Stealing-Strategie in der digitalen Wahlkampfkommunikation.." Annual Conference of Fachgruppen „Kommunikation und Politik“ (DGPuK), „AK Politik und Kommunikation“ (DVPW) und „Politische Kommunikation“ (SGKM), 2025-02-26.

Kruschinski, Simon, Tilman Beck, Shakib Yazdani, Marcus Maurer, and Iryna Gurevych. 2025. "Consensus and Conflict in Crisis: Opinion Dynamics on COVID-19 Measures Across Societal Groups on X.." ECREA Political Communication Section Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 2025-09-04.

Bene, Márton, Pawel Baranowski, Linda Bos, Andreu Casero-Ripollés, Andrea Ceron, Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Tamara Grechanaya, Jörg Haßler, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, and Uta Russmann. 2025. "Constructing representation: A comparative analysis of political actors’ claims on Facebook during European and national election campaigns. ." 28th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association (IPSA), Seoul, 2025-08-26.

Votta, Fabio, Simon Kruschinski, Tom Dobber, Andrea Ceron, Linn Sandberg, Mads Fuglsang Hove, Ruth Dassonneville, Benjamin Guinaudeau, Jan Zilinsky, James P. Cross, Christina Gahn, Márton Bene, and Claes de Vreese. 2025. "Examining Ad Delivery Algorithms in the 2024 EP elections. United in Diversity, Divided by Algorithms: Ad Delivery Algorithms in the 2024 European Parliament Elections.." Joint Sessions of Workshops des European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Prag, Czech Republic, 2025-05-20.

Fecher, Hannah, Tobias Scherer, Pablo Jost, and Simon Kruschinski. 2025. "Navigating Innovation and Control: Public Perceptions of Risks and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Political Communication.." ECREA Political Communication Section Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 2025-09-04.

Gahn, Christina, and Simon Kruschinski. 2025. "Parties’ opportunities for targeting issue messages in campaigns. ." 121st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, 2025-09-11.

Kruschinski, Simon, Marcus Maurer, Tilman Beck, Shakib Yazdani, and Iryna Gurevych. 2025. "Sind Meinungsäußerungen auf Twitter/X ein Indikator für die öffentliche Meinung? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der Bewertung der Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Covid19-Pandemie. ." Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Methoden der Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Salzgitter, 2025-09-17.

Votta, Fabio, Simon Kruschinski, Mads Fuglsang Hove, and Jennifer Stromer-Galley. 2025. "The perceived voter in practice: When US campaigns mobilize or persuade. ." 121st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, 2025-09-11.

Paulke, Hanna, Simon Kruschinski, Marcus Maurer, Ruben Renz, and Sabine Trepte. 2025. "Uncovering Exposure to Political Online Microtargeting: Which users were reached during the 2024 European Election on Facebook and Instagram?" ECREA Political Communication Section Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 2025-09-04.

Votta, Fabio, Simon Kruschinski, Mads Fuglsang Hove, Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Márton Bene, Christina Gahn, Linnea Sandberg, Jan Zilinsky, Claes de Vreese, James P. Cross, Ruth Dassonneville, Tom Dobber, and Benjamin Guinaudeau. 2025. "United in Diversity, Divided by Algorithms? A Cross-National Examination of the Role of Ad Delivery Algorithms for Political Advertising during the 2024 European Parliament Elections.." 74. Annual Conference der International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, USA, 2025-06-12.

Kruschinski, Simon, Uta Rußmann, Darren G. Lilleker, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Melanie Magin, and Márton Bene. 2025. "Visual communication in 25 countries: The influence of symbols and visual gestures on user engagement.." 74. Annual Conference der International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, USA, 2025-06-12.