Research projects

Research interests:

Journalism studies
Media content analysis
International communication
Intercultural communication
Political communication

Grants:

  • Grant the Priority Research Area FutureSoc under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University: “How to study public opinion in a digitalized world?” (2024-2025).
  • EU Horizon Europe framework programme, MORES: Moral Emotions in Politics: How they unite, how they divide (2024-2027).
  • NORFACE “Democratic governance in a turbulent age”, project THREATPIE: The Threats and Potentials of a Changing Political Information Environment” (2020-2024); grant agreement No 822166; National Science Centre, Poland grant no. 2019/01/Y/HS6/00034
  • “Populistyczny dyskurs polityczny w polskiej sferze publicznej” [Populist discourse in the Polish public sphere] – grant Ministry of Science and Higher Education no. 0131/NPRH4/H2b/83/2016 (2016-2020)
  • “Populistyczne komunikowanie polityczne: przekazy polityczne, relacje medialne i reakcje społeczne” [Populist political communication: political messages, media coverage, and social responses] – grant National Science Centre no. 2015/18/M/HS5/00080 (2016 – 2020)
  • EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme DEMOS: Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe (2018-2021).
  • Grant Social Science Research Council SHARENEWS: “Predicting the shareworthiness of ‘real’ and ‘fake’ news in Europe” (2019-2020).
  • “Changing patterns in journalistic roles and performance in V4 Countries” – Vysehrad Fundation – grant no. 21510023 (2016).
  • “Prezydencja Polski w Radzie Unii Europejskiej i Euro2012: rola wydarzeń medialnych w procesie kształtowania wizerunku państwa” [Polish Presidency in the EU Council and Euro2012: a role of media events in creating a country’s image] – National Science Centre – grant no. NN 116 614440 (2011-2013).
  • “Informacje zagraniczne w polskich telewizyjnych audycjach informacyjnych” [Foreign news in the Polish TV newscasts]. The Ministry of Science and Higher Eduction – grant no. NN 116 113534 (2008 – 2011).

International collaboration

  • “Global Journalist in the 21st Century” (2009) with David H. Weaver and Lars Willnat, Indiana University, Bloomington, US as leaders.
  • “The Conflict in Caucasus in Journalism: Political Analysis in News(papers) in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland, and Sweden”(2008 – 2009) – grant of the Foundation of Sanoma (Finland) with Heikki Heikkilä z Helsinki University as a leader.
  • “The Anti – Americanism Study” (2008) with Lars Willnat, Indiana University, Bloomington, US as a leader.
  • “Foreign News on TV”(2007 – 2011) with Akiba Cohen as a leader.
  • “Journalistic Role Performance Around the Globe” (1st wave: 2013 – 2019) with Claudia Mellado as a leader.
  • COST Action IS1308 „Populist Political Communication in Europe: Comprehending the Challenge of Mediated Political Populism for Democratic Politics (2014 – 2018): a vice-chair of WG2.
  • “Journalistic Role Performance” (2nd wave: 2020-2023) with Claudia Mellado as a leader.
  • COST Action (CA21129) What are Opinions? Integrating Theory and Methods for Automatically Analyzing Opinionated Communication (2023-2026): a chair of WG1.