My research is about visual political communication on social media.
I am a postdoc research fellow at the Department of Sociology, working within the DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research. I have a PhD in political science (Corvinus University of Budapest, 2022), and my main research interests center on visual politics – visual political communication on social media, with a special focus on disinformation, populism, and personalization.
Farkas, X. (2023). Visual political communication research: A literature review from 2012 to 2022. Journal of Visual Political Communication, 10(2), 95–126.
Farkas, X., Jackson, D., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Russmann, U., & Veneti, A. (2022). Strikingly similar: Comparing visual political communication of populist and non-populist parties across 28 countries. European Journal of Communication, 026732312210822.
Farkas, X., & Bene, M. (2021). Images, Politicians, and Social Media: Patterns and Effects of Politicians’ Image-Based Political Communication Strategies on Social Media. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(1), 119–142.
Farkas, X., Burai, K., & Bene, M. (2024). Shocking Experience: How Politicians’ Issue Strategies Are Shaped by an External Shock During Campaigns. Politics and Governance, 12, 1–18.