Michael Vaughan received his PhD from the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and is now part of the Weizenbaum Institute's Research Group 15 as a postdoctoral researcher. His research interests include social movements, political participation, and the discursive dimension of mobilisation around issues of austerity and economic inequality.

Winter term 2021/22

• BA - Seminar 28632: Researching communication by far-right organisations

• Social movements
• Political participation
• Network analysis

Trenz, H.-J., Heft, A., Vaughan, M., & Pfetsch, B. (2020). Resilience of Public Spheres in a Global Health Crisis (Weizenbaum Series, 11). Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute. https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.ws/11

Vaughan, M. (2019). Talking about tax: the discursive distance between 38 Degrees and GetUp. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 17(2), 114–129. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1705220

Trevisan, F., Bello, B., Vaughan, M., & Vromen, A. (2019). Mobilizing personal narratives: The rise of digital “story banking” in U.S. grassroots advocacy. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 17(2), 146–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1705221

Vaughan, M. (2019). Scale shift in international tax justice: comparing the UK and Australia from 2008 to 2016. Social Movement Studies, 18(6), 735–753. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1607283

Vaughan, M. (2019). Same-Sex Marriage and Its Implications for Australian Democracy. In M. Evans, M. Grattan, & B. McCaffrie (Hg.), From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Halpin, D., Vromen, A., Vaughan, M., & Raissi, M. (2018). Online petitioning and politics: the development of Change.org in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science, 53(4), 428–445. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1499010

Vaughan, M., Vromen, A., & Martin, F. (2018). Engagement and interaction with online news: a case study of housing affordability discussions on Facebook. Media International Australia. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X18782998