Max Hänska’s work focuses on social media and the coordination of collective action with a special emphasis on the Arab Uprisings, and the possibility of social media facilitating a bottom-up European Public Sphere. A further research focus centres on normative questions in the communications field, about which he is currently finalising a monograph provisionally entitled “Technologies against Domination: A guide to communications and what we owe each other” which is due to be published by Routledge in the Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics series. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics, and work as a software product manager in Berlin.

Selected publications

• Hänska, M., & Bauchowitz, S. (2019). Can social media facilitate a European public sphere? Transnational communication and the Europeanization of Twitter during the Eurozone crisis. Social Media + Society, 5(3), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119854686

• Hänska, M. (2019). Normative Analysis in the Communications Field: Why We Should Distinguish Communicative Means and Ends of Justice. Journal of Information Policy, 9, 14–36. https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.9.2019.0014

• Hänska, M., & Bauchowitz, S. (2018). #ThisIsACoup: The Emergence of an Anti-Austerity Hashtag across Europe's Twittersphere. In L. Basu, S. Schifferes & S. Knowles (eds.), The Media and Austerity: Comparative Perspectives (p. 248–61). Routledge.

• Hänska, M. (2016). Networked communication and the Arab Spring: Linking broadcast and social media. New Media & Society, 18(1), 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814538634

• Hänska, M., & Shapour, R. (2013). Who's Reporting the Protests? Converging practices of citizen journalists and two BBC World Service newsrooms, rom Iran's election protests to the Arab uprisings. Journalism Studies, 14(1), 29–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2012.657908