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Daniel Kreiss

@dkreiss.bsky.social

Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.

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John Sands @iohn.bsky.social · 9h ago

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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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

The ruling also rests on a methodological error that would earn a failing grade in a graduate statistics course. The court treats race and party as competing explanations, as if controlling for one neutralizes the other. But for millions of American voters, race explains party affiliation.
The vast majority of Black Americans did not randomly sort into the Democratic Party.
Already trending blue since the New Deal, they were pushed fully into the Democratic Party by Barry Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act and Republicans' Southern Strategy over the decades since. To "control for partisanship" when assessing racial gerrymandering is to erase the very mechanism through which racism travels. Consider the analogy of a court ruling that a company didn't discriminate by gender in pay because, once you control for being a manager or executive-positions from which women were systematically excluded — the gap disappears. Or that if you exclude people with high blood pressure, then a high sodium diet appears to have no effect on your risk of stroke.

Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s wild that so many smart ppl have no political analysis. This is the analogue of declines in trust in journalism and medical professionals - they are the result of sustained political attacks.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo ago

American colleges and universities bear significant responsibility for plunging public trust in higher education, a Yale University committee suggested in a report released on Wednesday.

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories

Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New V-Dem data release dropped yesterday. For the first time, V-Dem identifies Trump-era United States as an autocratization episode. Here are 3 of V-Dem's indices for the full scope of U.S. constitutional history. Description of these indices in alt text.

Time series plot of Liberal Democracy Index, Electoral Democracy Index, and Electoral Component Index. These 3 indices reflect thick, medium, and thin definitions of democracy, respectively

LDI: The liberal principle of democracy emphasizes the importance of protecting individual and minority rights against the tyranny of the state and the tyranny of the majority. The liberal model takes a ~negative~ view of political power insofar as it judges the quality of democracy by the limits placed on government. This is achieved by constitutionally protected civil liberties, strong rule of law, an independent judiciary, and effective checks and balances that, together, limit the exercise of executive power. To make this a measure of liberal democracy, the index also takes the level of electoral democracy into account.

EDI: The electoral principle of democracy seeks to embody the core value of making rulers responsive to citizens, achieved through electoral competition for the electorate's approval under circumstances when suffrage is extensive; political and civil society organizations can operate freely; elections are clean and not marred by fraud or systematic irregularities; and elections affect the composition of the chief executive of the country. In between elections, there is freedom of expression and an independent media capable of presenting alternative views on matters of political relevance.

ECI: The electoral principle of democracy seeks to achieve responsiveness and accountability between leaders and citizens through the mechanism of competitive elections. This is presumed to be achieved when suffrage is extensive; political and civil society organizations can operate freely; elections are clean and not marred by fraud or systematic irregularities; and the chief executive of a country is selected directly or indirectly through elections.

martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New 📄 out in @icsjournal.bsky.social "Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety" Link: doi.org/10.1080/1369... Thread for more details 🔽

Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety

Dating apps enjoy some popularity among those looking for relationships, love, casual sexual encounters, and more. While platforms’ infrastructures provide affordances to mitigate safety concerns, ...

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is such an excellent book and a veritable who's-who of #PolComm scholarship, full of prescient observations on the role of journalism, data, race / social identities, and new forms of networked mobilization in the current state of US crisis... Put it on your syllabi/reading lists!

Daniel Kreiss@dkreiss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

As our government seeks to erase the truth of five years ago, I am deeply grateful for all those researchers whose words shine with such clarity in our Media and January 6th @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics

Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨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. 🧵

Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

That’s the second empirical study I’ve seen this week that does an excellent job w/ right-wing radicalizing discourse. The other is this study on anti-immigration in France which is fantastic (and I’m not only saying that b/c they cited my and @dkreiss.bsky.social’s work on “defensive publics”)

Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics

What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...

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Andrew Thompson @andrewifethompson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... A few takeaways...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Miriam Rabkin @miriam2024.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I wrote a piece about the tsunami of health #disinformation being supercharged by the #MAHA takeover of HHS, and interviewed @dkreiss.bsky.social for his perspective on information warfare #publichealth #medsky www.orangedems.com/disinformati... and www.orangedems.com/interview-da...

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 10mo ago

UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon. Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org www.wral.com/news/local/u...

UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group

UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Peddling polarization is very lucrative for universities.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 11mo ago

'“We actually had approached the university about what we perceived to be a problem of increasing polarization, that we viewed both at the society writ large, as well as at the campus, that people were avoiding productive conversations,” Alec Litowitz said.' "Polarization" is the problem, you say?

Clara Juarez Miro @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What a great way to start the week! My new article is now published in ‪‪@polcommjournal.bsky.social‬! 🎉 This study holds a special place for me, capturing the core of my dissertation. I am so excited to finally share this work. Check out the article here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/55HRJ...

“The People” Imagined, Felt, and Experienced by Populist Supporters: A Cross-National and Cross-Ideological Approach

“The people” is a central concept in populism, yet it remains unclear how those who identify with this community interpret it. Drawing on social identity theory and fandom studies, this study exami...

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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement

We examine how multi-platform digital environments influence intra-party dynamics within political organizations, focusing on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) as a paradigmatic case of extreme ...

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Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What a wonderful institution and honor to present in front of so many amazing scholars.

Taberez A. Neyazi@taberez.bsky.social · last yr.

Our 2nd Delhi School on Political Comm wrapped up with rich discussions & strong participation. Grateful to @dkreiss.bsky.social, plenary speakers, participants, mentors & partners for making it possible. Together, we’re building a vibrant Global South research space. #PolComm @polcomm.bsky.social

Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · last yr.

Hooray! The 31st Issue of the #PolComm Report is out! What a fantastic lineup @igoncalves.com was able to assemble for the topic of "Teaching PolComm" 🤩 Khadijah Costley White, @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli, Regina Cazzamatta, Matthew Powers, & @sangjung-kim.bsky.social (& her students).

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · last yr.

We are happy to share the newest issue of the Political Communication Report! 🎉 This issue brings together six contributions on teaching political communication and also features interviews with recent award winners. 🧵 Read the full issue here: politicalcommunication.org/issue/summer...

Spenser A. Warren @spenserawarren.bsky.social · last yr.

New article from John C. Stanko in Political Communication bridging IR and CP explores how populist autocrats use international status recognition to improve legitimacy at home. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dynamic Legitimation Theory and Populist Authoritarian Leaders: The Rhetorical Framing of International Status for Domestic Legitimacy

This article contributes to the literature on the use of strategic communication in authoritarian legitimacy by analyzing the rhetoric of populist authoritarian leaders. Dynamic legitimation theory...

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · last yr.

If you work in higher-ed, please read this interview with @dkreiss.bsky.social. I believe the types of public signals to the sector he points to here have direct ramifications beyond the US.

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · last yr.

Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme _the first of its kind!-that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First
Amendment.

Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social · last yr.

Big thanks to always smart & thoughtful friend & colleague @dkreiss.bsky.social for so clearly articulating how Trump’s attacks on Higher Ed harm this country. Read the full interview. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

How Public Attacks on Harvard Harm All of Higher Ed

The administration’s use of public channels to herald funding freezes and federal investigations tells of a coherent agenda to remake higher ed, according to one political scientist.

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · last yr.

The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here: academic.oup.com/book/60493

Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy

Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · last yr.

✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties” @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · last yr.

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Allie Kosterich, @adamsaffer.bsky.social, Matthew S. Weber, and @dkreiss.bsky.social introduces “network histories” as a method to analyze how prior relationships influence digital journalism’s people, teams, and organizations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism

This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relation...

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