Media coverage
April 16, 2025
Verena Straub speaks about the politicization of memes in an interview with the team of the TU Dresden video series “Gute Frage”.
See the full video here (German language).
March 4, 2025
A new article about the work of the research project "Image Protests on Social Media" was published.
Click here for the article.
December 19, 2024
The “Dangerous Border” exhibition was honored as part of the “Active for Democracy and Tolerance” competition.
Read more about it here.
July 25, 2024
The DNN reported on the exhibition ‘Dangerous border’.
Click here for the article.
June 6, 2024
Tanja-Bianca Schmidt, curator of the exhibition “Dangerous Border”, was a guest at the radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur on June 6. In conversation with Massimo Maio she talked about images of European borders, theirs aesthetics and functionalities. Here is a link to the (German) feature.
May 25, 2024
On May 25, 2024, Verena Straub was a guest at the radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She talked about the memes that were posted on Social Media in reaction to the death of Iranian president Raisi. Listen to the (German) interview here.
April 1, 2024
The online blog ‘sprich!’ has published a text on the role of memes in political communication that is well worth reading. Alongside other meme experts, Verena Straub was also interviewed. If you want to take a ‘look into our memetic debate culture’, here is the link to the text by David Denne.
September 18, 2023
Moving Interview with our colleague Tomasz Kitlinski.
Tomasz (Tomek) Kitlinski on his work at the project and newly formed friendships.
January 27, 2023
Verena Straub in an interview with Ekaterina Bodyagina for SZ Jetzt and the Russian newspaper Holod.
Мемы — это тоже оружие войны. У кого они получаются лучше? И как распознать пропагандистский мем?
December 6, 2022
Verena Straub in an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German).
Wie Memes im Ukraine-Krieg politisch werden. (How memes become political in the Ukraine war.)
October 25, 2022
Verena Straub in an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German).
Protest und Propaganda im Netz - der Feldzug der Memes. (Protest and propaganda on the net - the campaign of memes.)
August 1, 2022
Verena Straub invited to the podcast "Behind Your Meme" Folge 4:
#DistractinglySexy - Memes und Sexismus
July 23, 2022
Verena Straub invited to the podcast "Behind Your Meme" Folge 1:
Zwischen Trump und Karens - Memes und politische Beteiligung
March 12, 2022
Interview by Anna Biselli from Netzpolitik.org with Kerstin Schankweiler and Verena Straub: "Every Meme can be politizied" (German only).
„Jedes Meme kann politisiert werden“
January 22, 2022
Radio Interview at RBB with Kerstin Schankweiler on the role of images in protests on social media (German only):
Die Rolle von Bildern bei Protesten in Sozialen Medien
Podcast episode from the "Affect and Colonialism Web Lab" with Verena Straub by Jonas Bens: