Media, Movements and Politics

@m2p-antwerp.bsky.social

M²P is a research group at Universiteit Antwerpen. We focus on four key areas: political communication, representation, social movements, public opinion & elections. https://t.co/fFr0cSK5UV

🗳️📷 Do Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) make young voters more politically literate? Our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social study with & @jokematthieu.bsky.social & Stefaan Walgrave finds they boost ideological knowledge, more than previously documented. 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge

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🆕 But are they learning? 🧑‍🎓 @lcjacobs89.bsky.social, @jokematthieu.bsky.social & Stefaan Walgrave use a randomised experiment in Belgium to see whether VAAs are improving young people's political literacy, aligning #Policy and choice, and even equalising ideological knowledge buff.ly/doPYaEK

Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge

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Vandaag reikte het FWO de ‘Vlaamse Nobelprijzen’ uit. Stefaan Walgrave werd als eerste politicoloog ooit bekroond met de Ernest-John Solvayprijs 2025. De prijs werd uitgereikt in BOZAR door koning Filip. Een prachtige erkenning voor Stefaan én voor de politieke wetenschap. Proficiat!

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Vandaag stond M²P op de Dag van de Wetenschap met CSI: Critical Source Investigation. Honderden bezoekers doken met ons in deepfakes, games, sociale-mediavalstrikken en echt factcheck-werk. Merci aan iedereen die langskwam én aan ons topteam vrijwilligers! 👊 Een paar sfeerfoto’s hieronder. #dvdw2025

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How Vlaams Belang Radicalises in the Shadows In an interview for @lesoir.be, I discuss how, after its June 2024 “non-victory”, Vlaams Belang is losing media visibility and radicalising further as mainstream parties adopt stricter asylum policies. 🔗 (FR) www.lesoir.be/692510/artic...

Comment le Vlaams Belang se radicalise dans l’ombre

Toujours dans le creux de la vague après sa « non-victoire » de juin dernier, le parti flamand d’extrême droite ne parvient pas à se replacer au-devant de l’actualité. Malgré son poids électoral consé...

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📣 SAVE THE DATE State of the Federation 🗓️ 6 Feb 2026 | 📍UAntwerp ‪@uantwerpenfsw.bsky.social‬ The 13th edition of this annual polsci conference — hosted by ABSP & ‪@vpw-politicologie.bsky.social‬ — brings together scholars from across subfields to explore Belgium’s polity, politics & policy‪

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Marine Le Pen was just convicted and cannot participate in the next French presidential elections. 🇫🇷 But what are the electoral effects of prosecuting anti-immigration politicians? Some prior evidence (specifically on hate speech prosecution, important nuance) 👇

📚📣 NEW BOOK ALERT! In a pivotal election year, marked by populist leaders and "post-truth" politics, how can we make sense of it all? How does it influence voters and democracy? My latest book explores these critical questions. Get your copy here: www.routledge.com/Towards-a-Ne... #AcademicSky

Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth

This book reconceptualises the idea of “post-truth”. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing on examples such as Trump, War on Terror, anti-vaccina...

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Closing off 2024 with the best Christmas present, my first publication! 🎉 Darian Harff, Desirée Schmuck, and I investigated if young people accept misinformation claims on the nutritional value of food products made by health content creators on social media. Here's what we found:

Vandaag duiding in De Morgen over het doorbreken van het cordon sanitaire in Brecht & Izegem (naast de absolute meerderheid in Ninove, de coalitie in Ranst). Nationaal staat het cordon nog stevig, lokaal is meer mogelijk, en dat zal Van Grieken extra in de verf zetten www.demorgen.be/politiek/en-...

En de winnaar van de lokale verkiezingen is... dan toch Tom Van Grieken

Na Ninove en Ranst volgen Brecht en Izegem. Vlaanderen maakt de lokale doorbraak van uiterst rechts mee. Tom Van Grieken heeft zijn promomateriaal beet.

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