Marcus Bösch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4438103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Bösch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Bösch |
| SIGNATURE | BOSCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2093-8138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
TikTok Edits, Vibes, Audio Memes: Participatory Propaganda in the 2025 German Federal Election Campaign
This article examines how participatory propaganda operated on TikTok during the 2025 German federal election, focusing on how platform-specific vernaculars—TikTok edits, vibes, and audio memes—reshaped campaign communication. The study analyzes over 1,200 videos from official party and candidate accounts, alongside party-aligned fan videos, edits, and reused pro-party sounds to capture participatory diffusion. Participatory propaganda is concept…
Ambient Amplification: Attention Hijacking and Social Media Propaganda
Over the last decade, the rise of memetic media in combination with multimodal platform environments have radically transformed our experience of digital culture. On TikTok, gestures and sounds go viral. Twitter (X) @tags operate as bonding tools and ignite ‘supercharged’ critical publics. Coordinated link-sharing and attention-hijacking drive cross-platform engagement. Narratives promoted by state institutions become part of the global digital c…
Features of disinformation: An expert interview study on the perception of disinformation among political, governmental, media and business elites in Germany
Synthetic disinformation detection among German information elites – Strategies in politics, administration, journalism, and business
Since the technology for generating synthetic media content became available to a wider audience in 2022, the social and communication sciences face the urgent question of how these technologies can be used to spread disinformation and how well recipients are equipped to deal with this risk. Research so far has focused primarily on the phenomenon of deepfakes, which mostly refers to visual media generated or modified by artificial intelligence. M…
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine
TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation about the war in Ukraine. During the initial three months after the Russian invasion in February 2022, videos under the hashtag #Ukraine garnered 36.9 billion views, with individual videos scaling up to 88 million views. Beyond the traditional methods of spreading misleading information through images and text, the medium of sound has emerged as a novel, pl…
Wartok: Networked Soundscapes of Memetic Warfare
This panel investigates the networked soundscapes of memetic warfare on TikTok, a platform crucial in mediating the ongoing war in Ukraine since February 2022. Introduced to the public as a unique form of war programming during the first week of Russia's full-scale military invasion (Mobilio 2022), WarTok—a portmanteau of ‘TikTok’ and ‘war’—signifies "the war of super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones" (Friedmann 2022). Producing …
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine
TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation about the war in Ukraine. During the initial three months after the Russian invasion in February 2022, videos under the hashtag #Ukraine garnered 36.9 billion views, with individual videos scaling up to 88 million views. Beyond the traditional methods of spreading misleading information through images and text, the medium of sound has emerged as a novel, pl…
Wartok: Networked Soundscapes of Memetic Warfare
This panel investigates the networked soundscapes of memetic warfare on TikTok, a platform crucial in mediating the ongoing war in Ukraine since February 2022. Introduced to the public as a unique form of war programming during the first week of Russia's full-scale military invasion (Mobilio 2022), WarTok—a portmanteau of ‘TikTok’ and ‘war’—signifies "the war of super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones" (Friedmann 2022). Producing …
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine
TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation about the war in Ukraine. During the initial three months after the Russian invasion in February 2022, videos under the hashtag #Ukraine garnered 36.9 billion views, with individual videos scaling up to 88 million views. Beyond the traditional methods of spreading misleading information through images and text, the medium of sound has emerged as a novel, pl…
Ambient Amplification: Attention Hijacking and Social Media Propaganda
Over the last decade, the rise of memetic media in combination with multimodal platform environments have radically transformed our experience of digital culture. On TikTok, gestures and sounds go viral. Twitter (X) @tags operate as bonding tools and ignite ‘supercharged’ critical publics. Coordinated link-sharing and attention-hijacking drive cross-platform engagement. Narratives promoted by state institutions become part of the global digital c…
Features of disinformation: An expert interview study on the perception of disinformation among political, governmental, media and business elites in Germany
Synthetic disinformation detection among German information elites – Strategies in politics, administration, journalism, and business
Since the technology for generating synthetic media content became available to a wider audience in 2022, the social and communication sciences face the urgent question of how these technologies can be used to spread disinformation and how well recipients are equipped to deal with this risk. Research so far has focused primarily on the phenomenon of deepfakes, which mostly refers to visual media generated or modified by artificial intelligence. M…
TikTok Edits, Vibes, Audio Memes: Participatory Propaganda in the 2025 German Federal Election Campaign
This article examines how participatory propaganda operated on TikTok during the 2025 German federal election, focusing on how platform-specific vernaculars—TikTok edits, vibes, and audio memes—reshaped campaign communication. The study analyzes over 1,200 videos from official party and candidate accounts, alongside party-aligned fan videos, edits, and reused pro-party sounds to capture participatory diffusion. Participatory propaganda is concept…
Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Disinformation (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · German (2 works) · Internet privacy (2 works) · Law (2 works)