Dr. Pablo Jost is a communication scientist at the Institute for Journalism Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he completed his doctorate in 2022 on “Popularity indicators in political communication research”. He currently researches and teaches as a visiting professor at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research at the Hanover School of Music, Drama and Media. As co-founder and strategic advisor to the Federal Association for Countering Online Hate, he investigates the mobilization of radical and extremist protest movements on digital platforms and their offline effects. His research interests also include the media representation of social controversies, the communication of political actors and their adaptation to the conditions of digitalization.
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