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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is only a couple of hours until APSA 2026! 🌉In the hopes that everyone's travels went safely and smoothly, here is an overview of the thrilling ITP panels we will get to attend over the coming days! (P.S.: Looks like simply staying at Marriott, Maine, will make for a great conference)
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Best Student Paper Award goes to Shun Yamaya (Stanford University) for “How Did the Internet Change Campaign Fundraising?” Congratulations! 🏆🎉
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Best Dissertation Award goes to Hanna Sistek (Purdue University) for her dissertation “Structural Incentives for Politicians to Manipulate Domestic Opinions”. Congratulations on this enormous achievement! 🙌💫
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Best Public Facing Scholarship Award goes to Daniel S. Schiff (Purdue University), Arne Bewersdorff and Marie Hornberger (both Technical University of Munich) for “AI literacy: What it is, what it isn’t, who needs it and why it’s hard to define”, published in The Conversation. Congrats! 👏
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Best Book Award goes to Tamar Mitts (Columbia University) for “Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism”, published with Princeton University Press. Congratulations! 👏
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Best Article Award for a paper published on ITP is awarded to Lisa P. Argyle, Ethan C. Busby, Alex Lyman, Justin Olcott, Jackson Pond and David Wingate (all Brigham Young University) for their article “Testing theories of political persuasion using AI”. Congratulations! 🎉
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Best Conference Paper Award goes to Kirill Chmel, Eunji Kim, John Marshall (all Columbia University), Tiffany Fisher-Love (Incite Studio) and Nathaniel Lubin (Harvard University) for “How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics: A Field Experiment During the 2024 US Elections”. Congrats! 👏
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Summertime is award time! 🌞 🏆We are happy to announce this year’s APSA ITP award winners who have made such great and innovative contributions to our field and presented them at last year’s APSA in Vancouver. Make sure to read and cite their books and papers! 📑📚
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣The APSA Information Technology & Politics section is happy to announce that travel grants will be offered to four outstanding scholars: Congratulations to Wenyu Liao, Hungyen Hsu, Ying Qi Pan and Shay Hawkes! 👏 We look forward to hearing more about your work at the annual meeting in Boston! ✈️
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you'd like to attend APSA 2026 in Boston to present your ITP research but lack funding, please consider applying for a travel grant: openwater-os.secure-platform.com/americanpoli... Application is open until May 29! Good luck!
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📣ITP offers travel grants for APSA 2026 participants!📣Apply here until May 29th: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati... We hope to see you in Boston! 🤞
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED for three AWARDS committees. New deadline: April 8, 2026 Best dissertation committee Best conference paper committee Best public-facing scholarship committee Please send submissions to all committee members. They are listed here: members.apsanet.org/section18
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year, dear APSA ITP community! After the holidays is before the APSA submission deadline: Make sure to submit your abstract by January 14! You can find the call here: connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/202... Looking forward to seeing you in Boston!
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2026 Division Calls
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Hi there, after a very successful APSA meeting in Vancouver, ITP has some announcements to make:
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
FACT: The best panels at APSA are always on Sunday. THEREFORE: Attend APSA's best panels today! #APSA2025 #misinformation #harm #AI #publicopinion
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
#News #AI #war #theUN #misinformation and #surveillance. It is a full day of #saturdayfun at #apsa2025
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
#APSA2025 is what's happening. Today's ITP menu is spicy tech with a side of #platforms, #AI, public #engagement, #celebrities, #polarization, and of course APSA's future number one most important topic...authoritarianism.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Let's get ready to #APSA2025 people. If you have not been to an @apsaitp.bsky.social panel, it is time to rethink your life choices. The ITP section is chockablock full of wonderful people and research. We also specialize in non-obnoxious uses of presentation software and interesting memes.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Worth a look. x.com/apsa_itp/sta...
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APSA ITP on X: "Digital tools, methods, theory, and hard to find Twitter data Wednesday morning at the #APSA2025 pre-conference workshop on https://t.co/3P8RFxA6gh. https://t.co/BcqCIZMmiW" / X
Digital tools, methods, theory, and hard to find Twitter data Wednesday morning at the #APSA2025 pre-conference workshop on https://t.co/3P8RFxA6gh. https://t.co/BcqCIZMmiW
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thursday's tasty selection from APSA's ITP section. I cannot believe I am writing this but folks, smash the likes and shares. We are APSA ITP for goodness sakes! #APSA2025
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
#APSA2025 is imminent. Charge your lap tops. Dry clean those special work clothes. Remember to follow @apsa.bsky.social and attend all the amazing panels sponsored by the Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics. Tons of new talent and ideas in Vancouver this year.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and…
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To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality
To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Join APSA in Canada! Explore the largest gathering of political science scholars at the #APSA2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver, CA, September 11-14, to explore the conference theme on “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.”
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Join scholars for the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from Wednesday, September 10 to Sunday, September 14, 2025, to explore the meeting theme,…
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APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Are you presenting at #APSA2025? Submit your paper or presentation to APSA Preprints to the APSA Annual Meeting event page to circulate your project, get a DOI, & make sure to upload new versions as your work progresses! Check out others' papers, too. #polisky preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Theme Panel: Perestroika at 25: The State of the Discipline Today #APSA2025
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Theme Panel: Perestroika at 25: The State of the Discipline Today
Co-sponsored by Division 54: Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics In-Person Roundtable Participants: (Chair) Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University (Presenter) C. Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota (Presenter) Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine Session Description: Twenty-five years ago, many of us opened our emails to find a disgruntled e-mail message signed by one “Mr.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
APSA 2025 in Vancouver BC is imminent. Check out the wonderful assortment of panels about to take place in one of the greatest cities in the world.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Run for Office!!! The APSA's ITP section invites you to consider a leadership role! As we like to say: somebody has to do this stuff. Please send any nominations (including self-nominations) to Section President Patricia Rossini at patricia.rossini@glasgow.ac.uk by September 4.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Run for Office!!! The APSA's ITP section invites you to consider a leadership role! As we like to say: somebody has to do this stuff. Please send any nominations (including self-nominations) to Section President Patricia Rossini at patricia.rossini@glasgow.ac.uk by September 4.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Time to celebrate the 2025 ITP Section awards: apsanet.org/membership/o... 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂
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Section 18 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Information Technology and Politics Section Award Recipients More on the Information Technology and Politics section Best Student PaperBest Public Facing
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Vaclav Stetka @vstetka.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Truly honoured by this award for our book with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social🙏 Many thanks to APSA @apsaitp.bsky.social, as well as to almost 20k people who have accessed the book online so far! #illiberalism
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Time to celebrate the 2025 ITP Section awards: apsanet.org/membership/o... 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂
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Section 18 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Information Technology and Politics Section Award Recipients More on the Information Technology and Politics section Best Student PaperBest Public Facing
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia
Limited research attention was given to the impact of online media on political participation in Latin American countries that face acute social tensions stemming from colonial histories and multi-...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity
Twitter/X, with its unique microblogging capabilities, has increasingly become a prominent platform for political information and engagement. Analyses of 2021 Pew Research Center American Trends Pa...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning
Fake news on social media is rapidly spreading, causing significant damage and highlighting the need for effective communication strategies to detect and combat its spread. This study introduces a ...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Full article: Pill epistemology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pill epistemology
The rise of social media and the internet as predominant modes by which most Americans access and communicate information has transformed how we understand knowledge. Coterminous with such technolo...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities: Journal of Information Technology & Politics - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities
Social media platforms like YouTube are often seen as gateways for the spread of conspiracy theories. While much of the research has focused on why people consume conspiracy theory content, little ...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The bad citizen? Framing non-voting on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. election: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The bad citizen? Framing non-voting on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. election
Although voting is considered a cornerstone of democratic citizenship, the U.S. has grappled with low voter turnouts for over a century. We examine America’s “non-voters problem” by adopting a mixe...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Please help spread the word that nominations are open for the ITP awards: apsanet.org/membership/o... Deadline April 1!
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Section18 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Information Technology and Politics (Section 18) The purpose of this section is to provide a forum for members with an interest in the use of computers,
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines
In this article, I examine a national security incident often associated with substantial ambiguity – a major cyber attack – via the lens of web search engines. Web search engines are the most impo...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Full article: Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions
Hostile speech by politicians is increasingly prevalent on social media, especially for regular social media users. However, studies that compare the effects of political incivility versus intolera...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication
The proliferation of mobile short video apps has transformed the dynamics of discourse circulation in contemporary society. However, limited research has been conducted on this phenomenon. This exp...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads
Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects w...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There's still time to submit your proposals! The 2025 annual meeting proposal submission deadline has been extended to Monday, January 20, 2025. Join us for the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 11–14, 2025, held in Vancouver. convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China
This article examines the localization of digital governance technologies in inland China, with a focus on Guizhou Province, which houses China’s first big data pilot zone. Despite the centralizati...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Regime characteristics and online government disinformation: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Regime characteristics and online government disinformation
Previous research assumes that authoritarian regimes are more prone to employ online disinformation internationally compared with democratic states. However, minimal research has empirically examin...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication
The proliferation of mobile short video apps has transformed the dynamics of discourse circulation in contemporary society. However, limited research has been conducted on this phenomenon. This exp...
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
DEADLINE ALERT!!!! Get your proposals ready and in by the deadline that is less than one week away. #apsa2025 #Vancouver #Canada "we will meet again in the land of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh" convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...
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APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2025
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Matt Placek @mplacek.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Appreciate the share from @apsaitp.bsky.social. If you want to read and don’t have access, let me know. Also, be sure to check out the other awesome articles in the same special issue on digital media in Central and Eastern Europe.
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Full article: One way or another? Discussion disagreement and attitudinal homogeneity on social networking sites as pathways to polarization in Czechia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics @apsaitp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 21 , No 1 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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