03.11.2026

IRex at Summer School on Digital Public Spheres in Vienna

Our research team in Vienna: Dr. Kilian Bühling and Mareike Stürenburg showcased their ongoing projects at this year’s Summer School on Digital Public Spheres

Our research team, led by Prof. Prof. Dr. Annett Heft and specializing in far-right extremism in the media and public spheres, participated in this year’s Summer School on Digital Public Spheres. Held from September 15–16, 2026, the event was hosted by the University of Vienna and organized by its Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)

Mareike Stürenburg presented her dissertation project about far-right discourses on the gaming platform Steam and far-right appropriations of gaming to expert discussants from the Universities of Bern, Vienna, Roskilde, Tübingen and the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. 

Dr. Kilian Buehling presented his planned postdoctoral research project about how resilience of political online information ecosystems is established across several online communication environments and platforms.