Many colleagues from our institute are represented with research contributions at the annual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) from september 8th to 11th, 2026. The conference with this year's main topic Shifting Grounds will be held in Brno, Czech Republic. Our colleagues will present the following papers at the conference:

• Sabine Reich & Marko Bachl: Sexism as a normative cue: How target and gender shape reactions to sexist comments in online political discussions 
• Marko Bachl & Elena Link: Online health activities remain socially and economically stratified: Evidence from the German Microcensus 
• Steffen Göths: Theories for a shifting world and how to construct them
• Steffen Göths & Florian Priming: Technogarchy: Towards a Critical Theory of AI, Ideology, and the Knowledge Order
• Elisabeth Gerling & Juliana Raupp: Digital health in practice: A multi-stakeholder survey on organisational roles and responsibilities 
• Christina Haritos & Margreth Lünenborg: “Through the eyes of a stranger.” Contradicting journalistic epistemology in German immigrant society
• Zeynep Altundag: Critical integrative resilience and selective visibility: Social media practices, belonging, and critique among postmigrant youth of Turkish origin in Germany
• Julian Maitra & Daniel Gräßer: Negativity pays – even for public service media: Engagement and sentiment patterns of news posts and user comments on TikTok
• Daniel Gräßer: A bouquet of ideas for the way forward? State support for (private) media in Germany
• Anna Litvinenko: Understanding without Agreeing: DemoSlam as a Contextual Intervention for Depolarization in Germany
• Carola Richter & Anna Litvinenko: Navigating Exile in Germany: How Home-Country Contexts Shape Journalistic Practice
• Tamer Farag & Anna Litvinenko: Comparing Digital Activist Publics in Authoritarian Regimes
• Mirco Liefke-Biegel & Katja Schupp: Between values and logics: public service journalism in the age of platform-oriented content creation - the case of “funk"
• Lukas Benedikt Hoffmann, Katharina Genz & Martin Emmer: Measuring framing using large language models: Evidence from refugee reporting
• Franziska Malik & Julia Lück-Benz: Reception of tradwife content: How naturalized gender beliefs shape the evaluation of tradwife content on social media
• Julia Lück-Benz & Solveig Schroth: Meta Coverage in News Reporting on UN-Climate Change Conferences
• Annabella Backes, Ana Makhashvili & Margreth Lünenborg: Between trans joy and trans-antagonism: Affective contestations around Germany’s self-determination act on TikTok
• Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens: Entertainment television as a site of memory politics: The case of the Intervision Song Contest 2025
• Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens, Susanne Eichner & Eylem Yanardagoglu: Repositioning public service television in a post-migrant society
• Kilian Buehling, Heidi Schulze, Simon Greipl, Julian Hohner, Pablo Jost & Annett Heft: Classifying far-right ideology based on digital trace data: A systematic literature review
• Djamila Heß, Lukas Benedikt Hoffmann & Irina Lock: Framing climate migration across borders: A comparative analysis of news coverage in seven countries
• Tamer Farag, Christoph Neuberger, Sonja Kretzschmar & Annika Sehl: To support or not to support: A framing analysis of the Lebanese media coverage of Hezbollah’s 2023-2024 supportive war with Hamas against Israel