New paper with @adrauc.bsky.social and @ajungherr.bsky.social, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: How does the use of AI in government affect citizens’ sense of democratic control? Experimental evidence: greater efficiency can come with hidden legitimacy costs.

Teaching critical thinking: What evidence do you have to support your claim? How do you know that evidence is true? Have you considered the opposing evidence? How do you know that evidence is false?

Policy Bubbles: Collected Essays by @msmaor.bsky.social books.google.co.uk/books?id=gsH...

Policy Bubbles

This authoritative book explains the phenomenon of sustained policy overinvestment or overreaction over extended periods. These long-term patterns of policy overproduction, known as policy bubbles, ar...

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What exactly is India's strategic narrative? New publication by @monikabd.bsky.social in a special issue @profmiskimmon.bsky.social and I edited. Congratulations Monika!: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Narrating order as resistance: India, the EU, and the ‘Russia-Ukraine conflict’

This article investigates how India resisted pressure from the European Union to condemn Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and align its overall response towards Russia with that of the EU. It argu...

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In this article, we offer a methodological contribution towards analysing the rhetorical mechanisms of legitimation and delegitimation in strategic narratives projected by perpetrators of wars of aggression www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #teamrhetoric #stratcom

Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine

International security dynamics are increasingly studied within the analytical framework of strategic narratives. We offer a methodological contribution towards analysing the rhetorical mechanisms ...

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New article out now on how to improve risk and emergency communication, increase disaster #preparedness, and save lives www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #disaster #risk #communication

Reducing communication-related vulnerability to disasters: A framework for capacity development

Social vulnerability to disasters is in part driven by communication-related factors, including barriers to accessing, understanding, and acting upon …

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Normalizing the "New Normal" as "Common Sense" of "the People": An Interdisciplinary Discourse-Historical Analysis -- by Ruth Wodak link.springer.com/article/10.1...

»Normalizing the ›New Normal‹ as ›Common Sense‹ of ›the People‹« - Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik

Numerous instances of appeals to common sense and normality can currently be observed, especially among far-right and nationalist-conservative politicians in Europe and beyond. In Austria, Germany, Fr...

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Great presentation on the many overlapping & contradictory meanings and dynamic of ‘crisis communication’ by the one and only @stenhansson.bsky.social at #cadaad2026 - great points about fluidity of crisis meanings underpinning ned for critical & context sensitive work!

Are you attending the #CADAAD2026 conference? Our general editors Carmen Lee & Jan Chovanec will also be there! Get in touch with them to discuss ideas on publishing an article or editing a special issue! #MediatedDiscourse #DiscourseAnalysis @cadaad2026.bsky.social

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will begin tomorrow at the University of Valladolid, Spain Programme www.cadaad2026.com/138021/secti... Hashtag #CADAAD2026 @cadaad2026.bsky.social @cadaad.bsky.social

CADAAD 2026

Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

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🗣️ How do MPs talk about political trust? @eefjesteenvoorden.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd, Erika van Elsas, and Tom van der Meer hand-code 20 years of parliamentary debates in four countries. Where trust talk is most common, MPs mostly use it to discredit rivals. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

📢 Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum #Brexit discourses journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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#Brexit and blame avoidance: Officeholders' discursive strategies of self-preservation www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #polcomm #polsky

Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions | Review | Media and Communication

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📢 Discursive strategies of power and governance In: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

📢 Discursive strategies of power and governance In: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

How does Russia adapt its strategic narratives to audiences in the Global South? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Selling Russia to the Global South(s): how Russia adapts strategic narratives to audiences in Latin America and Africa

Although Russia’s pivot to the Global South is widely acknowledged, little is known about how it tailors messaging to different audiences covered by this geographical label. More generally, despite...

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🚨 Happy that this piece is finally out in @polstudies.bsky.social ! Across 9 (!) studies and multiple data sources, we ask a simple question: is the “directional” definition of Negative Campaigning still valid and reliable? TLDR: yups! Paper: tinyurl.com/3yvs5a38 Open data: osf.io/un4f8

Normalizing the "New Normal" as "Common Sense" of "the People": An Interdisciplinary Discourse-Historical Analysis -- by Ruth Wodak link.springer.com/article/10.1...

»Normalizing the ›New Normal‹ as ›Common Sense‹ of ›the People‹« - Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik

Numerous instances of appeals to common sense and normality can currently be observed, especially among far-right and nationalist-conservative politicians in Europe and beyond. In Austria, Germany, Fr...

link.springer.com

How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum #Brexit discourses www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Legitimation in government social media communication: The case of the #Brexit department www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #polcomm #polsky

Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions | Review | Media and Communication

Sten Hansson, Nic DePaula

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10 years since the EU referendum. Here is a list of works I’ve written on Brexit. 1. Constructing Brexit Britain A CADS book-length study on how the pro-Brexit press, Conservative government and citizens constructed national identity in times of Brexit. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

Constructing Brexit Britain

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the lan…

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In this new article, we break down the ways in which russia has tried to justify its illegal and unprovoked war of aggression against #Ukraine -- with @andreasventsel.bsky.social @mlmadisson.bsky.social

European Security@europeansecurity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New OA article: Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine by @stenhansson.bsky.social @andreasventsel.bsky.social and Mari-Liis Madisson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chapters by @stenhansson.bsky.social @susannekopf.bsky.social @miglmarl.bsky.social @ursulalutzky.bsky.social S. Bennett, @francozappettini.bsky.social @michelezappavigna.bsky.social N. Wenzl, M. Demata @catherinebouko.bsky.social D. Garcia, A. Musolff, G. Lalic-Krstin, N. Silaski, G. Mautner & me

Sten Hansson@stenhansson.bsky.social · last mo.

Discourses of #Brexit books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hce...

Ruth Wodak's new article: Normalizing the 'New Normal' as 'Common Sense' of 'the People': An Interdisciplinary Discourse-Historical Analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1...

»Normalizing the ›New Normal‹ as ›Common Sense‹ of ›the People‹« - Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik

Numerous instances of appeals to common sense and normality can currently be observed, especially among far-right and nationalist-conservative politicians in Europe and beyond. In Austria, Germany, Fr...

link.springer.com

Legitimation in government social media communication: The case of the #Brexit department www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum #Brexit discourses www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#Brexit and blame avoidance: Officeholders' discursive strategies of self-preservation www.researchgate.net/publication/...