Agnieszka Stępińska
Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
Adam Mickiewicz University
ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 5
Room: 154
61-614 Poznań
Contact
e-mail: agnieszka.stepinska@amu.edu.pl
Agnieszka Stępińska
Agnieszka Stępińska, PhD hab., is a Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. In a term of 2024-2028, she will serve as the vice dean for projects and international cooperation.
Her main areas of research are political communication and journalism studies. She has conducted international comparative studies employing quantitative and qualitative methods.
She is the author of more than 130 papers and book chapters on political marketing, political communication, journalism, and media content.
She participated in several international research projects, including “Foreign News on TV” (2009 – 2013) and “Global Journalist of the 21st Century” (2012). She led a research group studying “Media Coverage of the Polish EU Presidency” (2010-2013) and led another team contributing to the international project “Journalistic Role Performance around the Globe” (2012-2015). She acted as a vice-chair of work group 2 in COST Action IS1308 on “Populist Political Communication in Europe” (2014-2018).
She was involved in the NORFACE project: “THREATPIE: The Threats and Potentials of a Changing Political Information Environment” (2020-2023). She also leads a national team working on populist political communication in Poland and another one contributing to the “Journalistic Role Performance” project (2019-2022).
She chairs the Political Communication Section at the European Communication Research and Education Association and is a member of the Network of European Political Communication Scholars (NEPOCS).
Currently, she is involved in the COST Action (CA21129) “What are Opinions? Integrating Theory and Methods for Automatically Analyzing Opinionated Communication” (OPINION). She serves as chair of WG1 (THEORY).
She is the executive editor of the Central European Journal of Communication and a member of the editorial board of the Central European Political Studies.
