📣 Reminder: 26 days left! Submit an extended abstract for the special issue: "Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment" 📌 Extended abstracts due August 31, 2026 📝 Full papers due March 2027 Learn more: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp...

Call for Papers 2026 - Special Issue

Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment Guest Editors: Ye Sun | City University of Hong Kong Ben

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seems super important for how we make sense of this going forward

SocArXivBot@socarxivbot.bsky.social · 6d ago

Changing Partisanship Contributes Significantly to Rising Affective Polarization: Evidence from a Decomposition of Panel Data: https://osf.io/rvtsf

Now Out on FirstView: Beyond Single-Shot Designs: Repeated Treatments, Affective Polarization, and Democratic Norms

Beyond Single-Shot Designs: Repeated Treatments, Affective Polarization, and Democratic Norms | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core

Beyond Single-Shot Designs: Repeated Treatments, Affective Polarization, and Democratic Norms

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A large field experiment found that platforms can dramatically reduce exposure to repeat untrustworthy sources, but doing so did not produce measurable changes in users' beliefs or attitudes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Untrustworthy sources on Facebook and Instagram in 2020: Concentrated exposure but no attitudinal effects

Reducing exposure to untrustworthy sources on Facebook/Instagram had no measurable effects on attitudes, even for heavy consumers.

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1 month left to submit. send us your extended abstracts by Aug 31

Ben Lyons@benlyons.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 Special Issue @hcr-journal.bsky.social cfp 🚨: Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment Guest eds @yesuncomm.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social & me Extended abstracts due Aug. 31 More info: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp...

One month left to submit! HCR Special Issue on "Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment". Open to research papers 📊 and short commentaries 💬

Adrian Meier@adrianmeier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who is the "audience" in comm research today? 📣 New HCR special issue — revisiting audience in a transforming media environment, co-edited by @benlyons.bsky.social, @yesuncomm.bsky.social, and me. 🔗 Full CFP: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp... 🗓️ Extended abstracts due August 31, 2026

I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement

Article: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026

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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PrejudiceResearch Important new meta-analysis by Friehs et al on longitudinal intergroup contact relations www.nature.com/articles/s44... Traditional CLPM find longitudinal effects. Methods that parse between- from within-person effects find mostly between-person

A comparative multi-method re-analysis of the longitudinal evidence for causal intergroup contact effects on attitudes - Communications Psychology

Re-analysis of 31 published longitudinal datasets shows that intergroup contact improves outgroup attitudes only in traditional CLPM models. Recent alternatives (FF-CLPM, RI-CLPM) find no signifi...

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data viz is my passion

Why do arguments often change people’s beliefs without changing their attitudes? In a new APSR with @scottclifford.bsky.social and @patrickpliu.bsky.social, we point to belief relevance: arguments are more persuasive when they grapple with the idiosyncratic reasons people hold their political views.

New from my outstanding coauthors @dowonkim.bsky.social and @glciampaglia.com et al.

Do Won Kim@dowonkim.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ Excited to share our new paper: Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization We find that political conversations reduce polarization most when they challenge what people expect about partisan boundaries. 🧵 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.15901 #polisky

In our Elements we demonstrate using survey experiments and observational data from five countries that democratic backsliding is rarely, if ever, ethnically neutral, and that citizens are much more open to tolerating anti-democratic actions against ethnic minorities.

Across two national samples, worries about social media, AI, and modernity load on a single anti-technology factor (alpha=.85). Who is the most anti-technology? Conspiracy thinking is the strongest correlate by far, stronger than loneliness or partisanship.

How should we conceptualize political interest? In POQ, Laffineur et al. demonstrate that political interest and disinterest are distinct social identities through a newly developed methodological approach. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Doing research on identity and thinking about how to assess messages at scale? @adamsaffer.bsky.social, Jianing Li, and I developed the PersonaLex computational classifier to assist research on social identity. Accessible. Transparent. Scalable. Grounded in research and theory. 🔗 bit.ly/PersonaLex

The authors (led by @williambrady.bsky.social) concluded that "reducing the influence of extreme users can curb algorithmic distortions without diminishing user experience." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Redesigning algorithms to intervene on social norm misperceptions during a national election - Nature

Engagement-based feeds amplify intergroup, moralized, emotional (IME) and toxic content relative to reverse-chronological feeds, and a diversified extremity algorithm reduces exposure to IME and toxic...

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So affective polarization has a causal impact on interpersonal relations & democratic attitudes, but its effects depend on political context. @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social spearheaded study & paper👏 with @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social @hayleekelsall.bsky.social @jonaslinde.bsky.social Dahlberg & me.

Does affective polarization itself actually threaten democracy? Recent experiments from the US suggest maybe not. In our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social paper, we revisit this question comparatively with a survey experiment in 9 democracies (18,000 respondents). #polisky

Call for Papers - Human Communication Research We're now accepting submissions for a special issue: "Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment" Extended abstract deadline: August 31, 2026 Full details: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp...

Call for Papers 2026 - Special Issue

Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment Guest Editors: Ye Sun | City University of Hong Kong Ben

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Who is the "audience" in comm research today? 📣 New HCR special issue — revisiting audience for a transforming media environment, co-edited by @benlyons.bsky.social, @adrianmeier.bsky.social, and me. 🔗 Full CFP: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp... 🗓️ Extended abstracts due August 31, 2026

Who is the "audience" in comm research today? 📣 New HCR special issue — revisiting audience in a transforming media environment, co-edited by @benlyons.bsky.social, @yesuncomm.bsky.social, and me. 🔗 Full CFP: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp... 🗓️ Extended abstracts due August 31, 2026

Call for Papers 2026 - Special Issue

Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment Guest Editors: Ye Sun | City University of Hong Kong Ben

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🚨 Special Issue @hcr-journal.bsky.social cfp 🚨: Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment Guest eds @yesuncomm.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social & me Extended abstracts due Aug. 31 More info: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/sp...

Call for Papers 2026 - Special Issue

Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment Guest Editors: Ye Sun | City University of Hong Kong Ben

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".... differences, however, attenuate substantially once we account for online activity, suggesting that disparities in exposure reflect differences in browsing intensity more than demographic characteristics alone."

soodoku@soodoku.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Honored to be among this @carnegie.org cohort. The fellowship will support my research on how the partisan loyalty of older adults and institutional distrust among younger adults create different paths to polarization, with the goal of developing age-specific solutions. #CarnegieFellows

Andrew Carnegie Foundation@carnegie.org · 3mo ago

Announcing the 2026 Andrew #CarnegieFellows! Selected from a record 381 nominations, 24 fellows will each receive $200K to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more: www.carnegie.org/news/article... #Polarization #Research

Announcing the 2026 Andrew #CarnegieFellows! Selected from a record 381 nominations, 24 fellows will each receive $200K to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more: www.carnegie.org/news/article... #Polarization #Research

24 Scholars Awarded Research Fellowships to Understand and Reduce Political Polarization | Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York announces nearly $5 million in grants to the 2026 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows

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WOW!!! The 2026 Carnegie Fellows have been announced and what a LIST! Some of my absolute FAVES to read& cite! Huge congrats to @wzcmarsh.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @benlyons.bsky.social Kristin Lunz Trujillo @chriswarshaw.bsky.social Stuart Soroka etc. etc.! www.carnegie.org/awards/andre...

2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program | Carnegie Corporation of New York

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New paper led by @hnxue.bsky.social : "#MakeBeefGreatAgain: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Early #MAHA Discourse" arxiv.org/html/2604.23...

🚨 New in @science.org: CDC communication undermines trust in vaccines Link to the publication: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I’m excited to share this paper, which I wrote together with @schneali.bsky.social, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @laulilleholt.bsky.social (1/5)

What predicts pro-MLM attitudes in a nationally representative US sample? TikTok use, not demographics, not politics. Presenting "Platformed Persuasion" w/ Margaret Tait at #MPSA2026, Health Comms panel, Fri April 24 5:10 PM. Stop by if this sounds interesting to you - would love to connect!

PaCSS (Politics and Computational Social Science) is back! APSA preconference at BU joint with Political Communication, deadline for submission is May 8. Should be great! cssi.umass.edu/pacss2026