Nicolas Hubé

Nicolas Hubé is Full-Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Lorraine (Metz, France) and Director General of the CIERA, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study and Research on Germany. He holds an MA in Political Science and a PhD in Political Science. He has taught courses at the European University Viadrina in Germany, at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium, the University of Turin (Italy) and the University of Montréal (Canada). Hubé has received several fellowships and worked, among others, at the European University Viadrina (Germany) and the Centre Marc Bloch, in Berlin. He participated in several international research projects, including EU FP7 projects, a COST project, a French-German ANR-DFG project, and has led several research projects funded by French institutions. He was member of DEMOS - Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe, a collaborative H2020 Research & Innovation project, coordinating the French team. Hubé has about 140 academic publications, one third of which are in English. His research focuses on comparative politics, journalism practices and comparative political communication. Hubé has been researching the roots of political legitimacy (and especially the role played by political communication and journalism) in national and European public sphere, and media literacy education. He has published on European public opinion and on populism.

Academic expertise

Political science, populism, democratic governance, political communication, political journalism

Topic for press interviews

European populism, the role of emotions in politics and journalism, the role of media literacy education in democratic societies, fake news and journalism

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