New paper in IJPP📗 How does right-wing alternative media use affect political anxiety and anger as well as trust in political institutions? Drawing from 3 survey waves, RW alt. media use was positively related to anger. In turn, anger negatively affected pol. trust. OA: doi.org/10.1177/1940... 1/5

📢 Publication 📢 Matthes, @andreasnanz.bsky.social, Stubenvoll, and @rutakaskeleviciute.bsky.social found positive associations between social media, political expression, and participation at the between, but not within-person, level. 👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261430387

📢 New in HCR by @janadreston.bsky.social and @andreasnanz.bsky.social: Both intentional search and accidental exposure to election info on social media boost political knowledge—but don’t improve vote-choice alignment. Intentional seekers just feel more confident. Read: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

Incidental and intentional exposure in a mock election setting on social media: effects on subjective and objective political knowledge and aligned voting

Abstract. As political campaigns increasingly use social media to reach voters, scholars debate whether users actually acquire election-related knowledge o

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🎓 Top Student-Led Paper 🎓 @janadreston.bsky.social & @andreasnanz.bsky.social 📄 Incidental Exposure in a Mock Election Setting on Social Media: Effects on Subjective and Objective Political Knowledge and Aligned Voting

Read-only for raw data is great advice. Also, an intuitive structure for subdirectories is important. But raw data as *.pdf seems a bit... impractical? Are reviewers and (future) readers then supposed to parse your data from a PDF? This sounds a bit error-prone to me (or I don't get it)

Charlotte Pennington 🌻@drcpennington.bsky.social · last yr.

Some really good advice here from the Open Science Framework (@cos.io) on organizing files. I particularly like the recommendation to make raw data 'readme' so it can't be accidentally altered or mixed. help.osf.io/article/147-...

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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ONLINE FIRST! This article by @andreasnanz.bsky.social and colleagues investigate how crucial political predispositions as well as how perceptions of content characteristics predict the two levels of incidental exposure to #news. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scanning vs. Thorough Processing the News: Antecedents of First- and Second-Level Incidental Exposure and the Role of the Relevance Appraisal

The Internet and particularly social media offer opportunities for exposure to political information even when individuals were not looking for such information. This phenomenon is called incidenta...

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#OutNow in #iCS Nanz and Matthes examine how incidental exposure to political information on social media impacts users’ political knowledge and sense of political efficacy. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Feeling informed or being informed about politics? Effects of first- and second-level incidental exposure on political surveillance knowledge and internal political efficacy

Uninformed participation might be a threat to the functioning of democracies. Scholars have pointed out the discrepancy that social media use is positively associated with political engagement but,...

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New paper on incidental exposure (IE) w. @rutakaskeleviciute.bsky.social, Stubenvoll, and Matthes in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social📝 We investigated how pol. predispositions (interest and news avoidance) as well as perceptions of content relate to first- and second-level IE. doi.org/10.1080/2167...

New blog post on #MediationAnalysis (MA), which is widely misunderstood and overused in #CommunicationResearch and #Psychology. I made mistakes using MA myself, and no one should be blamed. But it's important to discuss flaws, esp. as MA has become so popular. www.raffaelheiss.com/post/mediation

Why We Should Stop Using Mediation Analysis

"Imagine that a medical research group were to conduct an experimental test of a new drug for dementia, and use mediation analysis…”

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New paper on incidental exposure (IE) in @icsjournal.bsky.social 📝 We investigated how first- (scanning of IE content) and second-level IE (thorough processing) relate to internal pol. efficacy and pol. surveillance knowledge (w. a 3W survey during 2021 GER election 🗳️). doi.org/10.1080/1369...

📢 Publication 📢 Jörg Matthes, @alonzoizner.bsky.social, @andreasnanz.bsky.social, @1864.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, & Selina Noetzel report findings from a 17-country survey about incidental pol news exposure & both online and offline pol participation. 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1080/2167...

The Relationship Between Incidental News Exposure and Political Participation: A Cross-Country, Multilevel Analysis

In the modern, networked information environment, incidental exposure (IE) to political news is often theorized to benefit democracy, particularly by fueling political participation. Using cross-na...

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ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This study by Jörg Matthes, @alonzoizner.bsky.social, @andreasnanz.bsky.social et al. examines incidental political news exposure, revealing how its effects on participation depend on engagement levels and the quality of democracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Relationship Between Incidental News Exposure and Political Participation: A Cross-Country, Multilevel Analysis

In the modern, networked information environment, incidental exposure (IE) to political news is often theorized to benefit democracy, particularly by fueling political participation. Using cross-na...

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