Very proud of this new paper on (the difficulty of...) encouraging more equal participation in online political discourse – an evergreen problem that's only becoming more important as users self-select into new platforms ;)

Lisa Oswald@lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

My article, Labor vs. Big Business, is out! it's about efforts of companies like Uber to reform gig worker laws and voter cue-taking from unions and business. TLDR; progressive voters trust union cues to substitute for policy information link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-025-10010-0

Such a pleasure to join with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social on this project! Preprint out now!

Lisa Oswald@lfoswaldo.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Excited to share our new preprint “A Collective Field Experiment Disentangling Participation in Online Political Discussions” – osf.io/preprints/so...

Currently in FirstView: In “What Would You Say? Estimating Causal Effects of Social Context on Political Expression,” @small-schulz.bsky.social develops a method for estimating social influence over political expression. He uses an experiment to estimate respondents’ lexical ideology.

1/ My first sole-authored paper just out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 🎉 I develop & validate a survey method for estimating political self-censorship and preference falsification in the mass public… 🧵 bit.ly/4j2BPNY

Excited to share my new #JEPS paper with @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social introducing ReChat, a research tool for live-text interaction studies! Makes it easy to embed live chats in surveys, opening new possibilities for research on social interaction. Check it out! 🧵👇 #AcademicSky #PoliSciSky #PoliSky

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2y ago

#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social - Introducing ReChat: A Lab-in-the-Cloud for Text Discussions - cup.org/4gFUahQ - @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social & @small-schulz.bsky.social #FirstView #JEPS