2023

3 December 2023

It started snowing. Everything is a bit too much right now. Spent the weekend in Antwerp to see Hannah Diamond and Mechatok in solid concrete. It was cold and good. A couple of weeks ago i saw Morrissey in New York, i did not see Chloe Sevigny but i just ordered a skateboard with her teenage portrait from the American skateboard company Fucking Awesome. Started to rewatch old Epicly Later'd episodes on YouTube. Went to see the Niagara Falls. Spent to much time in trains that were always running late. Twitter is a mess. I need new glasses.

Selected Conferences

ICA 23 (Toronto) The Sound of Disinformation: TikTok, Computational Propaganda and The Invasion of Ukraine as part of a panel discussion on "Video-as-data in computational communication: Toward a mixed-method pathway”, Computational Methods Division, Panel Chair: Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Yingdan Lu (Stanford University)AoIR 23 (Philadelphia) The Sound of Disinformation: TikTok, Computational Propaganda and The Invasion of Ukraine as part of a panel discussion on “WarTok: Networked Soundscapes of Memetic Warfare”, Panel Chair: Elena Pilipets (University of Siegen); Marloes Geboers (University of Amsterdam)MISDOOM 23 (Amsterdam) "No idea..." – What do German economy and journalism elites know about digital disinformation characteristics? Nils Vief, Marcus Boesch, Christian Stöcker und als Autor Hijacking #Pride: How right-wing actors in Germany tried to piggyback on the pride-movement to spread patriotic and anti-queer narratives on TikTok Svenja Boberg, Said Unger, Marcus Boesch, Johanna Klapproth, Christian Stöcker, Thorsten Quandt

PublicationsBösch, M. (2023). Alternative TikTok Tactics: How the German Right-Wing Populist Party AfD Plays the Platform. In: Pérez Rastrilla, L., Sapag M., P., Recio García, A. (eds) Fast Politics. The Language of Politics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8

Bösch, M. (2023). Lernen mit – und über – TikTok, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, bpb.de

TeachingHauptseminar: TikTok und Desinformationen: Audio Memes, Computational Propaganda und Synthetic Media an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Institut für Film-, Theater-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian TedjasukmanaSelected Lectures

TikTok and Political Communication an der FH Graubünden, Master Digital Communication and Creative Media Practice

The Sound of Disinformation, Zentrum für Analyse und Forschung Wissenschaftskonferenz, VerfassungsschutzTikTok & Political Communication, Berlin Forum on Political Communication, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Impulsvortrag im Rahmen des Workshops zu Desinformation auf dem Kongresses „Demokratie unter Druck. Die Gesellschaft und die Zeitenwende", Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat

Klimajournalismus und Storytelling auf TikTok, Hochschule Darmstadt

Desinformation Memes on TikTok, Memes in der Popkultur: Plattformen, Prozesse, Praktiken, Universität FrankfurtPress

Vanity Fair (US), Teen Vogue (US), Vice (US), BBC, Insider (US), Spiegel, NDR, RBB, WDR, Die Welt, FAZ, Stern, SRF, Focus, dpa, Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Funk: DIE DA OBEN!, RTL, profil, BR24, Die Zeit