From 8–11 September 2025, the OppAttune Work Package 4 (Media, Machines, Mobilisations) team took part in the 10th EUGEO Congress in Vienna a major gathering of geographers and social scientists exploring how European societies are shaped through media, migration, and everyday life.
The conference provided a valuable opportunity for the WP4 researchers to present their latest findings on how extremist narratives move between digital and physical spaces, and how visual artefacts from graffiti and posters to memes and videos form part of the political atmosphere surrounding election periods.
Two presentations connected directly to OppAttune’s work on everyday extremism and attunement in public communication:
- Jullietta Stoencheva “Extremist discourse in hybrid public space: Insights from a multi-sited ethnographic study of the 2024 European Parliament Elections”
- Miriam Haselbacher and Ursula Reeger “From Graffiti to Memes and Vice Versa: Visual Artefacts Across Digital and Physical Spaces During Election Periods”
Both studies build on OppAttune’s commitment to understanding the relational dynamics of political expression how everyday acts of communication can escalate or limit extremist discourse. As described in the Visualisation Report of Emerging Extremist Narratives Across Europe (D4.1), WP4 situates media artefacts not as isolated messages but as part of wider ecosystems of belonging, opposition and democratic dialogue.
🔗 Learn more about the OppAttune project and its research on media, machines, and mobilisations: Media, Machines & Mobilisation – OppAttune
