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Ross Dahlke@rossdahlke.bsky.social · 3d ago

My MA student, Huang, and I find 16% of US adults report using Polymarket. Use is higher among those with lower incomes and less education, but similar across political parties. In both parties, use is correlated with lower civic knowledge and certain anti-democratic attitudes:

Key findings from a survey of U.S. adults about Polymarket. Any use was reported by 15.7%; 11.2% used it a moderate amount or more. Use was higher among Democrats (16.8%) and Republicans (18.0%) than Independents (10.8%); adults under 50 (about 23%) than older adults (6.5–7.0%); and Black (30.4%) and Hispanic respondents (20.1%) than White respondents (11.4%). Use declined as income and education rose and was somewhat higher among men than women. Users had varied demographic profiles. Compared with nonusers, users scored lower on a basic civics question and were more accepting of some forms of political rule-breaking and limits on debate or speech. These patterns generally appeared within each party. Image description Six grouped bar charts show self-reported Polymarket use by age, income, gender, education, party, and race and ethnicity. “Any use” was reported by 23.0% of ages 18–29, 23.5% of ages 30–49, 6.5% of ages 50–64, and 7.0% of ages 65-plus. Use declined from 19.9% among households earning under $50,000 to 9.4% among those earning $150,000 or more, and from 19.6% among adults with a high-school education or less to 12.8% among those with a four-year or postgraduate degree. Rates were 17.7% for men and 14.2% for women; 16.8% for Democrats, 10.8% for Independents, and 18.0% for Republicans; and 11.4% for White, 30.4% for Black, and 20.1% for Hispanic respondents. Image description Six grouped bar charts show self-reported Polymarket use by age, income, gender, education, party, and race and ethnicity. “Any use” was reported by 23.0% of ages 18–29, 23.5% of ages 30–49, 6.5% of ages 50–64, and 7.0% of ages 65-plus. Use declined from 19.9% among households earning under $50,000 to 9.4% among those earning $150,000 or more, and from 19.6% among adults with a high-school education or less to 12.8% among those with a four-year or postgraduate degree. Rates were 17.7% for men and 14.2% for women; 16.8% for Democrats, 10.8% for Independents, and 18.0% for Republicans; and 11.4% for White, 30.4% for Black, and 20.1% for Hispanic respondents. Image description Six grouped bar charts show self-reported Polymarket use by age, income, gender, education, party, and race and ethnicity. “Any use” was reported by 23.0% of ages 18–29, 23.5% of ages 30–49, 6.5% of ages 50–64, and 7.0% of ages 65-plus. Use declined from 19.9% among households earning under $50,000 to 9.4% among those earning $150,000 or more, and from 19.6% among adults with a high-school education or less to 12.8% among those with a four-year or postgraduate degree. Rates were 17.7% for men and 14.2% for women; 16.8% for Democrats, 10.8% for Independents, and 18.0% for Republicans; and 11.4% for White, 30.4% for Black, and 20.1% for Hispanic respondents.
Becca Lewis@beccalew.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cannot believe I got to work with such an incredible group of scholars on a topic that I care so deeply about! Check out our new article on the political economy of Alex Jones, wherein we find that his presentation and topic choices predicted his merch sales. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Style and substance on The Alex Jones Show predict InfoWars sales: a multi-modal analysis of a media empire

Alex Jones, a prominent conspiracy theorist, has garnered substantial influence and wealth through his InfoWars media empire, which includes The Alex Jones Show and InfoWars.com. This study leverag...

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A.J. Bauer@ajbauer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oh man, I've been waiting so long for this to be out in the world! This is an incredible study. Must read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Style and substance on The Alex Jones Show predict InfoWars sales: a multi-modal analysis of a media empire

Alex Jones, a prominent conspiracy theorist, has garnered substantial influence and wealth through his InfoWars media empire, which includes The Alex Jones Show and InfoWars.com. This study leverag...

tandfonline.com

Ross Dahlke@rossdahlke.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thanks to UW IT for inviting me to present my Polymarket data collection pipeline at Google Cloud Platform Research Day. Pipeline enabled by cloud computing: $40B in volume, 500M trades, and 1.25M comments with continuous collection. Preprints and public datasets coming soon!

Via this pipeline we have collected $37.8B in trading volume Electoral prediction markets: a quantitative description Two scatter plots showing the relationship between trades and comments. R = 0.28
Felix M. Simon@felixsimon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interesting postdoc position on AI and journalism with @tomasdodds.bsky.social and the @publictechmedialab.bsky.social at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Tomas is a good egg, so do apply 🥚 wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...

Postdoctoral Researcher - Public Media Tech Lab

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Job Category: Employees in Training Emplo...

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Jo(sephine) Lukito@jolukito.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨 Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections - Josephine Lukito, Maggie Macdonald, Bin Chen, Megan A. Brown, Stephen Prochaska, Yunkang ...

In this multi-platform, comparative study, we analyze social media messages from political candidates (N = 1,517) running for Congress during the 2022 U.S. Midt...

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