Jonas Kaiser
Jonas Kaiser is an Associate Researcher at HIIG, Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and DFG Research Fellow. His research is located at the intersection of digital and political communication. Jonas’ research interests are online extremism, public sphere theory, online misinformation, and digital methods.
He is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press on how the far-right in Germany and the United States is (ab)using the internet’s affordances. Jonas earned his PhD (Dr. phil.) at Zeppelin University for his thesis about climate change skepticism in Germany. His work has been published in journals like International Journal of Communication, Communication and the Public or Environmental Communication and has been featured in media outlets like Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times or BuzzFeed. He won the best paper award in the Environmental Communication division at ICA 2017. At HIIG he is looking into where and how scientific findings are being shared online.
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Kaiser, J., & Rauchfleisch, A. (2019). Integrating Concepts of Counterpublics into Generalised Public Sphere Frameworks: Contemporary Transformations in Radical Forms. Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. DOI: /10.1080/13183222.2018.1558676 Publication details
Kaiser, J. (2017). Public Spheres of Skepticism: Climate Skeptics’ Online Comments in the German Networked Public Sphere. International Journal of Communication, 11, 1661-1682. Publication details
Kaiser, J., Rauchfleisch, A., & Bourassa, N. (2017). Building Bridges with Breitbart: A Topic Model Analysis of Online Media Coverage During the US Presidential Election 2016. Proceedings of IAMCR 2017. Publication details
Kaiser, J. & Rhomberg, M. (2017). Bridging the Climate Divide? Assessing the IPCC’s Agenda Building Function in German News Media, Climate Blogosphere, and Comment Sections. Proceedings of ICA 2017. Publication details
Kaiser, J. & Puschmann, C. (2017). Alliance of antagonism: Counterpublics and polarization in online climate change communication. Communication and the Public, 1-17. Publication details
Other publications
Kaiser, J. (2018). Catching up with “Neuland”, Predictions for Journalism 2019. NiemanLab. Publication details
Kaiser, J. & Rauchfleisch, A. (2017). YouTubes Algorithmen sorgen dafür, dass AfD-Fans unter sich bleiben. Motherboard Vice. Publication details
Kaiser, J. (2017). Fake News: Der Lackmustest für die politische Öffentlichkeit. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Publication details
Fecher, B. & Kaiser, J. (2015). Collapsing Ivory Towers? A hyperlink analysis of the German academic blogosphere. The Impact Blog. Publication details
Lectures and presentations (10)
The road to hell is paved with good algorithms: Filter bubbles on YouTube in the United States and in Germany
In the heartland of climate skepticism: A hyperlink network analysis of German climate skeptics and the US right-wing
Written expert opinion at the Committee of Inquiry on “Algorithmic Discrimination and Algorithmic Radicalization” at the Thuringian State Parliament
Reddit’s up’s and down’s. Understanding the logic behind successful participative science communication on Reddit
The Dark Side of the Public Sphere: Right-Wing Counterpublics in the US Elections
Politics of Discourse: Fake News Controversy in Germany and how it solidifies in new institutional arrangements
The Dark Side of the Public Sphere: Right-Wing Counterpublics in the US Elections
The Right-Wing Web: Online counterpublics, dissent, and the case of the US election
Bots and Users
Assessing the IPCC’s Agenda Building Function in German News Media, Climate Blogosphere, and Comment Sections