Sign in

Ashley Blum

@akblum.bsky.social
414 followers 198 following 8 posts

Political scientist studying propaganda, media trust and authoritarian politics ashleyblum.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Ashley Blum @akblum.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New paper with Gabriela Czarnek, @dgrand.bsky.social and @adamberinsky.bsky.social out in Political Behavior! Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
After the Takeover: Rebuilding Trust in Public Media Through Institutional Reform - Political Behavior
We examine the dynamics of citizens’ trust in public media during government-led efforts to implement major media reforms in a highly polarized context using two cross-sectional experiments. After Pol...
1178
Reposted by Ashley Blum
Cameron Martel @cameronmartel.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work? In Current Opinion in Psychology, @dgrand.bsky.social & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%! We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
17236
Reposted by Ashley Blum
Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
new paper!
071
Reposted by Ashley Blum
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
🚨WP🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right? WRONG: We show that brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)! 🡆Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers 🡆Effect undiminished after 2mo 🡆Works even on entrenched beliefs osf.io/preprints/ps...
1211352
Reposted by Ashley Blum
Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
reposting again. application portal is open and we will be reviewing files on a rolling basis.
012
Reposted by Ashley Blum
tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Neat new article in Post-Soviet Affairs about how Russian television covers foreign protests. A tricky issue. Kremlin wants to show instability outside of Russia, but also wants to say "Kids, don't try this at home." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Authoritarian media and foreign protests: evidence from a decade of Russian news
The proliferation of protests around the world poses challenges for authoritarian media outlets. While censoring news about protests abroad may push audiences to alternative news sources, their cov...
041
Reposted by Ashley Blum
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!
05135