About the workshops
The Political Communication Workshop is intended to draw together students and faculty working in political communication and political psychology at the University of Michigan. The workshop takes the form of several invited guest lectures, working on topics of broad interest in political communication.
Coordinators:
Faculty Coordinator: Yanna Krupnikov
GraduateStudent Coordinators: Brianna Zichettella and Audrey Halversen
For additional information, please contact Yanna Krupnikov, Audrey Halversen or Brianna Zichettella.
Fall 2025
The Political Communication Working Group will meet on the following Fridays at 9 a.m. in ISR (Thompson) Room 4443. If you are interested in presenting an in-progress project on political communication or would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact one of the coordinators.
Fall 2025 Lab Dates:
Oct 3
Oct 17
Oct 24
Nov 7
Nov 14
Location
Events are held at the Institute for Social Research.
This group also organizes weekly lab meetings, involving faculty and students. Labs are held on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 12:20 at the Institute for Social Research.
Sponsors
Rackham Graduate School
Center for Political Studies (CPS)
Department of Political Science
Department of Communication and Media
Past events in this series
Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy
Feb. 16, 2024: Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis)
The Character of Connection: Platform Affordances and Democratic Outcomes
Nov. 3, 2023: Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University
Social Media as Public Opinion in the News: Production, Attributes, and Effects
March 29, 2019: Shannon McGregor, University of Utah
From news encounters to news engagement: Assessing the potential of “incidental” news exposure on social media
March 22, 2019: Anna Kümpel (LMU Munich)
The Politics of Deciding What’s News and How to Report It: Three Survey Experiments on American Journalists
October 19, 2018: Michael Wagner, University of Wisconsin
Workshop will take place from 1:30pm – 3:00pm in ISR 6080
Expression, Amplification, and Contention: Communication Mediation in a New Media Ecology
September 22, 2017: Dhavan Shah, University of Wisconsin
Workshop will take place from 11am – 12:30pm in ISR 6080
Media Exposure Measures: Still an Embarrassment for the Discipline?
October 6, 2017: Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
Workshop will take place from 2pm-3:30pm in ISR 6050
News and Democracy in the Era of Trump
February 10, 2017: Regina Lawrence (Oregon)
Less than Meets the Eye? The Effects of Casualty News on Domestic Support for America’s Wars
October 14, 2016: Scott Althaus
Democratic Accountability for Some
October 2, 2015: Kevin Arcenaux
Campaigning Online: Web Display Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaign
November 20, 2015: Sunshine Hillygus
No Need to Watch: How the Effects of Partisan Media Can Spread via Inter-Personal Discussions
January 22, 2016: Jamie Druckman
Do Campaigns Matter? Stability, Competition, & Counterfactuals
January 16, 2015: Lynn Vavreck, UCLA
Fear and Loathing in Party Politics
November 14, 2014: Shanto Iyengar, Stanford