Our new book (Element) "Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality" is out! Free for a time: tinyurl.com/mgdpi26 Handy video trailer: vimeo.com/1203556992 + summary thread 👇 So fun to collab w/ Emilija Gagrčin & @yqpan.bsky.social - Big thxs to @snsoroka.bsky.social & team! @polcomm.bsky.social

Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality

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A new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵

Knight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight Foundation

For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...

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🎉 Congratulations to the Center’s 2026 - 2027 class of fellows! This cohort’s research examines topics such as the role of AI in civic education, fostering cross-partisan community and protecting academic freedom. Learn about their projects: buff.ly/03L58ah

New in Comm Research! We find political identity threats on SM are messy to assess, but may help explain the unique experiences & behavior of partisans in digital media 1/4 @yifeiw1.bsky.social & Alcides Velasquez tinyurl.com/smidthreats

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @hcr-journal.bsky.social, I show how endorsements of entertainment media from ingroup members, particularly inpartisans, affect exposure intentions, with differential effects across racial lines. #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies 🧵

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

It's Election Day! The @cccr.bsky.social has been working hard to share research-based evidence about elections in the U.S. & how information relates to attitudes about elections, as well as public-facing work promoting voter turnout & citizen knowledge about the choices they face. Some examples: 1)

🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote about the Swift endorsement, with a political science/communication angle. How does her endorsement matter? And how do celebrity endorsements in 2024 differ from the past? Special thanks to @jessfeez.bsky.social for speaking with me about this! abcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...

How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris could change the election end game

Taylor Swift’s fans largely lean Democratic, but her support of Kamala Harris could boost engagement.

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Wonder how social media moderators as gatekeepers decide what content is political? Come see my talk today at 2pm in Franklin 12, part of @polcomm.bsky.social session on The Limits of Free Expression on Social Media! #APSA2024

Jetlagged and up early at #APSA2024? Or just really eager to get thia conference started? Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications!

Just in time for #APSA2024, here’s Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, co-edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Available now at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...

For the night crew: I've written my first post for my substack, GENDER GAP. I took a small bite out of a big topic for my first post, writing about the gender gap in social media use. Hope you'll check it out: open.substack.com/pub/meredith...

TikTok, Reddit, and gender gaps in media ecosystems

Gender gaps in media use are a pretty new phenomenon.

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In their #JMPSpecialIssue article, Musa Malik, Sungbin Youk (Ewha Womans University, Seoul) and René Weber (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) provide initial evidence of the linkages between moral content and the saliency of audiences' expressed moral understanding. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....

Heading to #APSA24 in Philly? Call for travel grants from the Information, Technology, and Politics section. Apply thru survey link below. Applications will be evaluated based on need & the section's commitment to increasing diversity & inclusion. Due Aug. 16. unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our book "The Power Of Us" is on a huge sale today: It's only $7.54 for hardcover + $8.96 for the audiobook If you ever wanted a deal, now is the time to buy it: www.amazon.com/Power-Harnes...

Four headlines from The Post: prediction, prognostication, and the show plus reporters writing about themselves. No stakes here, nothing to inform the electorate.

Happy to be included in this virtual special issue with some other great scholarship on gender and presidential elections!

Politics & Gender@politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 2y ago

In light of Kamala Harris's historic presidential bid 🇺🇸, we are ungating✨three✨of our virtual special issue collections! Collection #3 on Women, Gender, & 🇺🇸 Presidential Elections cambridge.org/core/journal... Articles are open access until the end of Sept 2024 📰

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

🚨Coming soon from Routledge: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...

Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication

Race and ethnicity are increasingly central to our lived experiences of politics, yet they are often absent from studies of urgent questions in contemporary political communication. This volume respon...

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I rarely donate to federal campaigns anymore since the marginal impact of that same money is much higher for downballot campaigns. I made an exception for Harris today, & this is why

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you’re thinking of giving, give tonight. The timing tells a story of enthusiasm that’s important for the world to see in dollars and cents

1. we must say with one voice that political violence is unacceptable and wrong 2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more

✨NEW ARTICLE✨ out in Political Communication by Matthias Hoffmann & me: Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks We trace sequences of climate frames in the AfD's digital networks. #polcomm #commsky #polisky OPEN ACCESS here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks

In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...

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Did you know that the Pew Research Centre lets you download their datasets? www.pewresearch.org/download-dat... For you R nerds, there is also an R package you can use

Download Datasets

Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. See this post for more information on how to use

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🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)

🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...

New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals. These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status. osf.io/preprints/ps...

De Keersmaecker et al find: political MODERATES are more knowledgeable about politics than centrists or extremists. 45 nation study. That aligns with my personal experience discussing politics with people. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How use of online platforms–like Facebook, Instagram or TikTok–differs among some U.S. demographic groups. YouTube Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter(X) Reddit BeReal Ages Household income Education Urban Suburban Rural Rep/Lean Rep Dem/Lean Dem source: Pew

John Sands@iohn.bsky.social · 3y ago