Department of Politics and IR Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2014

5.15 pm in FW101

‘What happens on Twitter… does not stay on Twitter: the role of social media in online and offline political engagement’

Cristian Vaccari

(Royal Holloway, University of London)

Cristian Vaccari joined Royal Holloway’s Department of Politics and International Relations in 2013 as a Lecturer in Politics. Cristian’s research explores political communication in comparative perspective, with a particular focus on digital media. He has taught at the University of Bologna and at New York University Florence, and is presently Principal Investigator of a three-year project investigating the role of social media by citizens and politicians in Germany, Italy and Britain. His most recent book is Digital Politics in Western Democracies: A Comparative Study (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), and his work has also been published in journals such as Political Communication, Party Politics, New Media and Society, French Politics and the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.

All welcome!