PhD Student


piotr.marczynski@ulb.be

Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles

Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.214
Avenue Jeanne, 44 1050 Bruxelles

 
 

Bio

Piotr Marczyński is a PhD candidate at Universite Libre de Bruxelles working on the project Post-Truth and Political Parties, focusing on the elite use of conspiracy theories. His doctoral project investigates how often political parties use conspiratorial frames and why they do that. In his work, Piotr blends quantitative and qualitative methods to discern the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, focusing on conspiratorial identities' role in online far-right mobilization.

CV

  • 2023- : PhD candidate, Université libre de Bruxelles (Cevipol); Post-truth and Political Parties (funded by Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  • January 2021- June 2023: Research Assistant at the programme group 'Challenges of Democratic Representation’
  • 2021-2023: Research Master in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam


Areas of research

  • Political communication,
  • Digital politics,
  • Far-right,
  • Party politics,
  • Online communities,
  • Conspiracy theories,
  • Computational methods


 

Research

The ‘Post-truth and political parties’ (FNRS) project focuses on detecting conspiratorial discourse in political elites' social media communications.

Updated on October 16, 2024