Conferences

Selected conference papers (since 2016)

  • Agnieszka Stępińska: Polish journalism: a profession in transition? Seminar: “Changing patterns in journalistic roles and performance in V4 Countries”, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, February 5-6, 2016.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska: Journalistic Role Perception and Performance in Poland. Seminar: “Changing patterns in journalistic roles and performance in V4 Countries”, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, February 5-6, 2016.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Journalism Students in Poland, IAMCR 2016 Conference, Leicester, UK, July 27-30, 2016.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Who wants to be a journalist?! Journalism students’ motivations in a comparative perspective, 6th European Communication Conference ECREA, Prague, November 9-12, 2016.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Agnieszka Hess, Dorota Piontek, Media visibility and (new) media activity of populist political actors in Poland, ICA, San Diego, May 25-29,2017.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Polish Political Journalism: Studies on Role Perception and Performance. ECREA’s Political Communication Section Interim Conference. Political Communication in Times of Crisis: New Challenges, Trends & Possibilities, Zurich, November 22-23, 2017.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Susana Salgado, Game of Thrones or House of Cards? Framing parliamentary elections in the news media. WAPOR, Lisbon, July 15-17, 2017.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, The social media in the Polish elections in 2014-2015: a key to success? Konferencja: NOPSA, Odense, August 8-11, 2017.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, ‘Talking to the people’ – How populist movements are changing political communication and the need for its regulation. ODIHR Expert Roundtable “Toothless Regulators? Political Party Regulation in Times of Growing Populism“, OSCE/ODIHR – Warsaw, November 4, 2017.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, (Political) context matters: Journalistic role performance in Poland in 2012-2017. 7th European Communication Conference, ECREA, Lugano, October 31 – November 3, 2018.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Populism by and through the media in Poland. Konferencja Global Perspectives on populism and the media. Central European University, Budapest, May 22-23, 2018.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Context Matters: Populist Political Communication in the Election and Non-election Periods, 68th International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, May 24-28, 2018.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabo, Between reporting and interpreting: journalistic voice in the news media. 68th International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, May 24-28, 2018.
  • Session on Focusing communication research on the next European Elections (International Workshop promoted by AssoComPol and Jean Monnet Project “Vote for Europe -2019”) podczas konferencji: Themes and leaders beyond ideologies Conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication (AssoComPol), Perugia, University of Perugia, December 13-15, 2018.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Agnieszka Hess, Dorota Piontek, Media power(less) over populism: The case of Poland; 69th International Communication Association Annual Conference, Washington, May 23-29, 2019.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, References to religion in the Polish populist discourse in the news media; Pre-Conference Media and Global Populism; 69th International Communication Association Annual Conference, Washington, May 22, 2019.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Kinga Adamczewska, Who Covers Populism: Types of populism in the Content of the News Media, ECREA Political Communication Interim Conference, Poznań, Septeber 12-13, 2019.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Populists on Europe: A comparative content analysis of populist political communication on Facebook during the 2019 European Parliamentary elections, Convegno 2019 La comunicazione politica nell’ecosistema dei media digitali Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica (AssoComPol) Università degli studi di Milano, December 12-14, 2019.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Democracy at the crossroads. Opening roundtable session at the Congress of the Polish Political Science Association, Wrocław, September 19, 2022.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Stanyer, J., Hopmann, D. N., Halagiera, D., Terren, L., Gehle, L. (…) Schemer, C., Elite perceptions of threats to the political information environment across five European countries, ECREA 2022 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-22, 2022.
  • Hopmann, D. N., Stępińska, A., Stanyer, J., Halagiera, D., Terren, L., Cardenal, A.S. (…) Meltzer, C.E., A qualitative examination of citizens’ political media diets across generations in five European countries, ECREA 2022 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-22, 2022.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, They are divided, and we are divided: A study on the Polish journalists’ perceptions of political polarization, ICA conference, Paris, May 25-31, 2022.
  • Hopmann, D. N., Stępińska, A., Stanyer, J., Halagiera, D., Terren, L., Cardenal, A.S. (…) Meltzer, C.E., A qualitative examination of citizens’ political media diets across generations in five European countries, ECREA 2022 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-22, 2022.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Democracy at the crossroads. Opening roundtable session at the Congress of the Polish Political Science Association, Wrocław, Poland, September 19, 2022.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Stanyer, J., Hopmann, D. N., Halagiera, D., Terren, L., Gehle, L. (…) Schemer, C., Elite perceptions of threats to the political information environment across five European countries, ECREA 2022 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-22, 2022.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, They are divided, and we are divided: A study on the Polish journalists’ perceptions of political polarization, ICA conference, Paris, May 25-31, 2022.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Elite perceptions of threats to the political information environment across European Democracies: Different countries, shared perceptions?”, NORFACE GOVERNANCE THREATPIE-DATADRIVEN projects on “Data, Media, and Democracy Building,” Split, March 1-3, 2023.
  • Agnieszka Stępińska, Information and mis/disinformation flow on the war in Ukraine: Polish citizens’ perceptions and evaluations of the media performance, ECREA 10th European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, September 24-27, 2024.

Selected lectures

  • Journalistic Role Perception and Performance in Poland, Université Paris 8, France, May 22-27, 2016.
  • Empirical studies on journalistic role perception and performance, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, May 2-8, 2016.
  • Journalistic Role Perception and Performance, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, May 2-8, 2016.
  • Populism by, through, and according to the media – keynote speech at the International Conference on Populism in National and Global Media, November 24-25, 2023, Vilnius University, Lithuania.