Selected Keynotes

Chadwick, A. (2026). What is Gone and What Remains in the Research on Digital Engagement? Closing Keynote, Culture and Computation Lab What is Critical Media Studies? Lecture Series, University of Luxembourg, Belval, May 27.

Chadwick, A. (2023). Where Next? Mainstreaming the Future of Communication Research. Keynote. Futuring Outside the Box: New Dynamics in Media, Communication and Sociology PhD Researcher Conference, University of Leicester, UK, June 15.

Chadwick, A. (2020). Toward a Richer Understanding of the Problem of Indeterminacy in Digital Culture. Keynote. Communication Sciences Doctoral Winter School, Universidade Nova de Lisbon, Portugal, February 7.

Chadwick, A. (2019). Social Media and the New Crisis of Public Communication, or, What Might a Culture of Indeterminacy Online Look Like? And What Might be its Long-term Implications? Keynote. Future of Journalism Biannual Conference, Cardiff University, UK, September 12–13.

Chadwick, A. (2018). Social Media and the Future of Democracy. Keynote. UK Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, November 8–9.

Chadwick, A. (2018). Social Media and the Future of Democracy. Keynote. International Journal of Press/Politics Annual Conference. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University, UK, October 10–12.

Chadwick, A. (2017). Turning Celebrity Capital into Political Capital Using Social Media and Mainstream Media: the Case of Donald Trump. Keynote. Italian Political Communication Association Annual Conference, Rome, Italy, December 14–16.

Chadwick, A. (2017). Donald Trump, the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign, and the Intensification of the Hybrid Media System. Keynote. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference, University of Tartu, Estonia, October 18–21.

Chadwick, A. (2017). Donald Trump, the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign, and the Intensification of the Hybrid Media System. Keynote. Political Communication in Uncertain Times: Digital Technologies, Citizen Participation and Open Governance, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, September 7–8.

Chadwick, A. (2016). They're Parties, But Not as We Have Known Them: Digital Media and (Dis)organizational Renewal. Keynote. Cyberparty: Popular Politics in Digital Times, King’s College London, UK, May 13.

Chadwick, A. (2016). Media, Engagement, and Political Power Today: Rebalancing the Information-Action Ratio. Keynote. Finnish Association of Media and Communication Studies Biannual Conference, Helsinki, Finland, April 8–9.

Chadwick, A. (2015). The Digital Republic Didn’t Happen, But the News Isn’t All Bad: New Communicative Resources for Citizen Engagement. Keynote. Admirável Mundo Novo: O Futuro Chegou Cedo Demais?/Brave New World: Has the Future Arrived Too Soon? organized by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, held at the Casa da Música, Porto, Portgual, June 12.

Chadwick, A. (2014). Campaigning and Activism in the Hybrid Media System. III Encuentro Internacional de Comunicación Política de ACOP, Bilbao, Spain, July 17–19.

Chadwick, A. (2014). The New Public Sphere in Flow: Media Hybridity and Political Power. New Trends in the Public Sphere, part of the programme on Social Media and the New Public Sphere: Consequences for Citizenship and Democracy/VERDIKT, Institute for Social Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway June 10–11.

Chadwick, A. (2013). The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power. The Carleton University Annual Attallah Lecture, held at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada, March 7.

Selected Recent

Chadwick, A. (2025). What is Gone and What Remains in the Research on Digital Engagement? American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, September 11–14.

Chadwick, A. (2023). Trust, Vulnerability, and Online Misinformation: Notes of Cautious Optimism from a Longitudinal Qualitative Study. Social Media and Health Research Network, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK. December 14.

Chadwick, A., Hall, N-A., & Vaccari, C. (2023). Misinformation Rules!? Could “Group Rules” Clean Up Online Personal Messaging? American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, USA, August 31–September 3.

Chadwick, A. (2023). Seeing is Deceiving: Deepfakes. Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham, UK, June 11, 2023.

Chadwick, A., Hall, N-A., & Vaccari, C. (2023). Misinformation Rules!? Could “Group Rules” Reduce Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging? International Communication Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 25–29.

Hall, N-A., Chadwick, A. & Vaccari, C (2022). ‘I would always be careful about what I receive’: Online Misinformation, Epistemic norms, and Social Distinction. Media Sociology Symposium of the Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 4.

Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C. & Hall, N-A. (2022). What People Talk About When They Talk About Misinformation on Private Social Media. International Communication Association Annual Meeting, Paris, May 26-30.

Chadwick, A. (2022). Breaking Democracy: Lies, Deception and Disinformation. Gresham College Lecture, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London. May 5.

Vaccari, C., Chadwick, A. & Kaiser, J. (2021). The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle and Online, September 28-October 3.
— Winner, Best Conference Paper, American Political Science Association Information Technology and Politics Section.

Chadwick, A. (2021). Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK: Crisis Communication, Misinformation, and Public Good in the Hybrid Media System. American Political Science Association Political Communication Section Annual Preconference, Seattle and Online, September 29.

Chadwick, A. (2021). Ideological Infrastructures of Meaning, Disinformation, and Online Civic Culture…Or… The Importance of Political Network Norms. 3rd Weizenbaum Conference: Democracy in Flux: Order, Dynamics and Voices in Digital Public Spheres. Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, June 17–18.

Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., & Kaiser, J. (2021). The Amplification of Exaggerated and False News on Social Media: The Roles of Platform Use, Motivations, Affect, and Ideology. International Communication Association Annual Meeting (Online due to Covid-19 pandemic), May 27–31.

Chadwick, A. and Stanyer, J. (2021). Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Misinformation and Disinformation: Toward a Holistic Framework for Analysis. International Communication Association Annual Meeting (Online due to Covid-19 pandemic), May 27–31.

Chadwick, A. (2021). Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK. Covid, Communication and Culture: Research Insights and Policy Solutions. Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University, May 12.

Chadwick, A. and Stanyer, J. (2020). Deception: An Awkward Problem for Political Communication. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Online due to Covid-19 pandemic), September 10–13.

Chadwick, A. (2020). Discussant: Deepfakes in the 2020 Presidential Election: Detecting New Attempts at Deception. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Online due to Covid-19 pandemic), September 10–13.

Chadwick, A. (2020). Aspects of the New Media Culture of Indeterminacy: Key Challenges for Communication Research. University of Michigan, USA, February 13.

Chadwick, A. (2019). Misinformation and Trust. Presentation to the UK Cabinet Office. August 7.

Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C. and O’Loughlin, B. (2018). Do Tabloids Poison the Well of Social Media? Explaining Democratically-Dysfunctional News Sharing. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 30–September 2.

Chadwick, A. (2018). Thinking About the Role of Social Media in the Formation of Public Opinion. “Big Questions in Political Communication Research” Panel, International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, May 24–28.

Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C. and O’Loughlin, B. (2018). Do Tabloids Poison the Well of Social Media? Explaining Democratically-Dysfunctional News Sharing. International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, May 24–28.

Chadwick, A. (2018). Social Media Platforms: A Crisis of Democracy? International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, May 24–28.

Chadwick, A. (2017). Cyber Populism: Are Social Media Damaging Democracy? Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London (with Philip N. Howard).

Chadwick, A., & Vaccari, C. (2017). Hybrid Political Media Events, Dual Screening, and Citizen Engagement: Findings from a Large-Scale Project Combining Social Media Data and Panel Surveys. Cross-National Perspectives on Digital Democracy Conference, Stanford University/Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Rome, April 6–7.

Chadwick, A. (2016). The Hybrid Media System Approach to Political Communication: Power, Systems, and Media Logics. Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria, April 25.

Selected Video

Banner photo: Picasso as Superman, Luxembourg City, by Thomas Iser (?). Photo by me, May 2026.