CONFERENCE TALKS

2026Slopmaxxing: Vibes, Memes und die Ästhetik generativer Ko-Kreation — Opening keynote with Elena Pilipets · DGPuK Visual Communication, Klagenfurt

2026Slopmaxxing: How AI content is reshaping the feed — Synthetic Social Media workshop, CRC Media of Cooperation, Siegen

2026Synthetische Propaganda — 71st DGPuK Annual Conference

2026Synthetische Propaganda — MOTRA Conference

2025This is Fine: Forschen im digitalen Dauerfeuer — Symposium on meme research, LMU Munich

2025Vibes, TikTok edits, and audio memes — DigiMeet (bidt, CAIS, HBI, Weizenbaum Institute)

2025Malicious earworms and useful memes — Sounds of Fascism, University of Bonn

2025Synthetische Propaganda — GfM Annual Conference, Paderborn

2025AfD TikTok guerrilla: Participatory propaganda in the platform era — DGPuK / DVPW / SGKM, Innsbruck

2024Dancing in uniform — with Tom Divon · AoIR, Sheffield

2024Digital disinformation resilience among German elites — with Vief & Stöcker · MISDOOM, Münster

2024Dancing in uniform — Social Media & Society, London

2023Hijacking #Pride — with Boberg et al. · MISDOOM, Amsterdam

2023Counter-measures urgently needed — with Vief & Stöcker · MISDOOM, Amsterdam

2023Audio memes, earworms, and the sound of disinformation — with Tom Divon · GfM Memes in der Popkultur, Frankfurt

2023The sound of disinformation — with Tom Divon · AoIR, Philadelphia

2023The sound of disinformation — with Tom Divon · ICA, Toronto

2022TikTok in der Jugendmedienforschung — DGPuK Media Education

2016How to rapid prototype your very own VR journalism experience — with Linda Rath-Wiggins · ICIDS, Los Angeles

KEYNOTES & INVITED TALKS

2026It feels harmless: Synthetic propaganda and the postdigital condition — SCRIPTS Forum, Berlin

2026Brainrot & TikTok — University of Bonn

2026Rechtsextreme Memes — Paderborn University

2026My vibe is better than yours — UdK Berlin

2026TikTok – Politische Plattform zwischen Protest und Propaganda — with Britta Hartmann · Bonn Talks, University of Bonn

2025Malicious earworms: Digital methods for sonic social media — Keynote with Marloes Geboers · Digital Methods Summer School, Amsterdam

2025Synthetische Propaganda — HAW Hamburg

2025(Memetische) Kommunikationsstrategien auf TikTok — TH Köln

2024Post-truth cultures & thirst trap propaganda — University of Alberta, Edmonton

2024TikTok-Narrative – Historisch-politische Bildung im digitalen Raum — PH Zürich

2024Politische Kommunikation auf TikTok — TH Köln

2024TikTok im Zeitalter von Desinformation und Propaganda — FH Südwestfalen, Soest

2023Memes, moods & manipulation — JGU Mainz

2023Klimajournalismus und Storytelling auf TikTok — Hochschule Darmstadt

2023TikTok and political communication — FH Graubünden

2021TikTok-Storytelling im Kontext der Geschichtswissenschaft — Ruhr University Bochum

2021TikTok – Digitale Bühne und Lernraum — University of Cologne

2021What journalism can learn from TikTok — Aga Khan University, Nairobi

2015Newsgames — Freie Universität Berlin

2014Spiel des Lebens — University of Wuppertal

2014Wargames: Serious Games im Konflikt — with Martin Ganteföhr · Cologne Game Lab

2014Digital literacy skills — with Guy Degen · Hertie School, Berlin

2013Erzählen in und mit Videospielen — University of Cologne

2013Drohnenjournalismus — DW Akademie, Bonn

TRANSFER: POLICY, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

2026From content to condition: Postdigital propaganda and the limits of situational awareness — JRC, European Commission, Brussels

2025Synthetic propaganda – Generative AI and the future of political communication — EU DisinfoLab

2025Understanding TikTok as digital science communication — BMBF National Conference on IT Security Research

2025Memes as modern soft-propaganda tools — Political Tech Summit, Berlin

2025TikTok als Werkzeug der Wissenschaftskommunikation — Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin

2025Expert hearing — Enquete Commission, State Parliament Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

2024Desinformation & Propaganda auf TikTok — German Federal Foreign Office

2024Postdigital propaganda on TikTok — U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

2024TikTok and the 2024 European elections in Germany — FEPS, Brussels

2024Propaganda, Desinformation und der Kampf um den Narrativ — GTAZ NRW / State Criminal Police Office NRW

2024TikTok in the era of propaganda & disinformation — EU DisinfoLab

2024Bekämpfungsansätze Propaganda und Desinformation — German Police University

2023Der Sound der Desinformation — with Tom Divon · Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

2023Eher nein – Das Wissen über Desinformation in Schlüsselpositionen — with Vief & Stöcker · Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

2022Identifying disinformation on TikTok — European Observatory of Online Hate

2022Schluss mit lustig: TikTok als Plattform für politische Kommunikation — Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing

2022WarTok – TikTok und der Krieg in der Ukraine — Keynote · Medientage Mitteldeutschland, Leipzig