Dr Yannis Theocharis

Project director
Yannis [dot] Theocharis [at] mzes [dot] uni-mannheim [dot] de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2852
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2845
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:213
68159  Mannheim

Research Interests

  • political participation
  • internet & politics
  • contentious politics
  • social media
  • social capital

Projects

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance

B1.14
Social Media Networks and the Relationships between Citizens and Politics

Publications

Journal Articles

Theocharis, Yannis (In Press): The Contribution of Websites and Blogs to the Students' Protest Communication Tactics During the 2010 UK University Occupations. Information, Communication & Society. more
Quintelier, Ellen, and Yannis Theocharis (2013): Online Political Engagement, Facebook and Personality Traits. Social Science Computer Review, 31, issue 3, p. 280-290. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2013): Social Media Politics en democratie: een reactie op Henry Milner (Social Media Politics and Democracy: A Response to Henry Milner). Res Publica, 55, p. 116-120. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2013): The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 10, issue 1, p. 35-56. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2012): Cuts, Tweets, Solidarity and Mobilisation: How the Internet Shaped the Student Occupations. Parliamentary Affairs, 65, issue 1, p. 162-194. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2011): The influence of Postmaterialist Orientations on Young British People’s Offline and Online Political Participation. Representation, 47, issue 4, p. 435-455. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2011): Young People, Political Participation and Online Postmaterialism in Greece. New Media & Society, 13, issue 2, p. 203-223. more

Conference Presentations

Albacete, Gema García, Yannis Theocharis, William E. M. Lowe and Jan W. van Deth (2013): Social Media Mobilisation as a Prompt for Offline Participation? Analysing Occupy Wall Street Twitterers’ Offline Engagement with the Movement. [ECPR Joint Sessions, 'Collective Action Online: Theories and Methods' Workshop, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Theocharis, Yannis, William E. M. Lowe, Jan W. van Deth and Gema García Albacete (2013): Using Twitter to Mobilise Protest Action: Transnational Online Mobilisation Patterns and Action Repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados and Aganaktismenoi Movements. [ECPR Joint Sessions, 'The Transnational Dimension of Protest: From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street' Workshop, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2012): Networks of Action and Social Capital. [TEDxAthens, Athens, November 23rd to November 24th, 2012] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Ellen Quintelier (2012): Personality and Online Political Participation. [XXII World Congress of International Political Science Association (IPSA), Madrid, July 08th to July 12th, 2012] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Gema García Albacete (2012): Social Media and Political Mobilisation: A Comparison of the Occupation Movements in Spain, Greece and the US. [XXII World Congress of International Political Science Association (IPSA), Madrid, July 08th to July 12th, 2012] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2010): Cybercultural Values and Extra-institutional Political Engagement in Britain. [Annual Political Studies Association Conference, Edinburgh, March 29th to April 01st, 2010] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2009): Political Activism, Cultural Change and the Internet: Results from Greece. [European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Lisbon, April 15th to April 19th, 2009] more