Research Interests

political communication, social media

Selected Publications

Bene, M., Magin, M., Haßler, J., Russmann, U., Lilleker, D., Kruschinski, S., ... & Balaban, D. (2025). 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, 30(1), 100-121.

Goyanes, M., & Bene, M. (2024). News Surveillance and Democracy: The Effect of News Negativity and Political Trust on Intentional News Avoidance. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 36(4), edae061.

Burai, K., Solti, Á., & Bene, M. (2024). Feel local, post local: An ethnographic investigation of a social media-based local public. New Media & Society, 14614448241262988.

Bene, M. (2023). Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections. New media & Society, 25(7), 1708-1727.

Bene, M., Ceron, A., Fenoll, V., Haßler, J., Kruschinski, S., Larsson, A. O., ... & Wurst, A. K. (2022). Keep them engaged! Investigating the effects of self-centered social media communication style on user engagement in 12 European countries. Political Communication, 39(4), 429-453. 

Kruschinski, S., & Bene, M. (2022). In varietate concordia?! Political parties’ digital political marketing in the 2019 European Parliament election campaign. European Union Politics, 23(1), 43-65.

Research Projects

2020-2024 – Networked locality​ (NKFIH FK_135189)

PRiSMa - Political Representation in the Age of Social Media (MTA-LENDÜLET kutatócsoport)