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Dan Lane

@danlane.bsky.social
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Associate Prof @CommUcsb | Dir. UCSB Digital Political Inequality Lab dpilab.comm.ucsb.edu | Political Comm, Intergroup Comm & Comm Tech | Ph.D. @UM_CommStudies

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Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our new book (Element) "Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality" is out! Free for a time: tinyurl.com/mgdpi26 Handy video trailer: vimeo.com/1203556992 + summary thread 👇 So fun to collab w/ Emilija Gagrčin & @yqpan.bsky.social - Big thxs to @snsoroka.bsky.social & team! @polcomm.bsky.social
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Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality
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John Sands @iohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵
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Knight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight Foundation
For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...
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UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement @ucfreespeech.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎉 Congratulations to the Center’s 2026 - 2027 class of fellows! This cohort’s research examines topics such as the role of AI in civic education, fostering cross-partisan community and protecting academic freedom. Learn about their projects: buff.ly/03L58ah
Graphic featuring headshots of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement's new 2026-2027 Class of Fellows. Across the middle is an orange bar with blue text that reads "Congratulations! 2026-2027 Class of Fellows" and has the blue logo of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New in Comm Research! We find political identity threats on SM are messy to assess, but may help explain the unique experiences & behavior of partisans in digital media 1/4 @yifeiw1.bsky.social & Alcides Velasquez tinyurl.com/smidthreats
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Political Identity Threats on Social Media - Daniel S. Lane, Yifei Wang, Alcides Velasquez, 2026
One appealing explanation for the dismal state of digital politics in the U.S. is that social media offer abundant threats to users’ political identities. This ...
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @hcr-journal.bsky.social, I show how endorsements of entertainment media from ingroup members, particularly inpartisans, affect exposure intentions, with differential effects across racial lines. #PolComm #PoliSci #Politics #MediaStudies 🧵
Current explanations for political divides in entertainment media use identify divergent preferences for or evaluations of content. According to the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), extratextual information such as cues about the audience may also influence exposure intentions due to viewers’ perceptions of ingroup norms. Social media users discuss and form communities around entertainment content while conveying partisan and racial identities. A preregistered experiment exposed Black and White partisans (N = 1,259) to tweets in which a television show was endorsed by co- or out-partisans who were racial in- or out-group members. Exposure intentions were stronger when endorsement came from co-partisans; however, this effect was stronger for White partisans. Treatment effects were mediated by perceived ingroup norms and perceptions of how much of the audience consisted of ingroup members. Implications of multiple identities (i.e., race and partisanship) for the TNSB and the study of partisan entertainment divides are discussed.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.
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Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
It's Election Day! The @cccr.bsky.social has been working hard to share research-based evidence about elections in the U.S. & how information relates to attitudes about elections, as well as public-facing work promoting voter turnout & citizen knowledge about the choices they face. Some examples: 1)
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Meredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
I wrote about the Swift endorsement, with a political science/communication angle. How does her endorsement matter? And how do celebrity endorsements in 2024 differ from the past? Special thanks to @jessfeez.bsky.social for speaking with me about this! abcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...
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How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris could change the election end game
Taylor Swift’s fans largely lean Democratic, but her support of Kamala Harris could boost engagement.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Wonder how social media moderators as gatekeepers decide what content is political? Come see my talk today at 2pm in Franklin 12, part of @polcomm.bsky.social session on The Limits of Free Expression on Social Media! #APSA2024
Slide for presentation titled: “I Really Go with My Gut”: Political Ontology and How Moderators Identify Political Content in Online CommunitiesAbstract for “I Really Go with My Gut”: Political Ontology and How Moderators Identify Political Content in Online Communities
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Jetlagged and up early at #APSA2024? Or just really eager to get thia conference started? Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications!
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Just in time for #APSA2024, here’s Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, co-edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Available now at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
The cover of the book Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, co-edited by Stewart M. Coles and Daniel S. Lane.
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Meredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
For the night crew: I've written my first post for my substack, GENDER GAP. I took a small bite out of a big topic for my first post, writing about the gender gap in social media use. Hope you'll check it out: open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
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TikTok, Reddit, and gender gaps in media ecosystems
Gender gaps in media use are a pretty new phenomenon.
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Journal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
In their #JMPSpecialIssue article, Musa Malik, Sungbin Youk (Ewha Womans University, Seoul) and René Weber (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) provide initial evidence of the linkages between moral content and the saliency of audiences' expressed moral understanding. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....
Abstract of paper
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Heading to #APSA24 in Philly? Call for travel grants from the Information, Technology, and Politics section. Apply thru survey link below. Applications will be evaluated based on need & the section's commitment to increasing diversity & inclusion. Due Aug. 16. unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Our book "The Power Of Us" is on a huge sale today: It's only $7.54 for hardcover + $8.96 for the audiobook If you ever wanted a deal, now is the time to buy it: www.amazon.com/Power-Harnes...
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
Four headlines from The Post: prediction, prognostication, and the show plus reporters writing about themselves. No stakes here, nothing to inform the electorate.
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Erin Cassese @erincassese.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Happy to be included in this virtual special issue with some other great scholarship on gender and presidential elections!
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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · 24/07/2024
📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
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Reveal a ggplot incrementally
Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
🚨Coming soon from Routledge: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
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Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication
Race and ethnicity are increasingly central to our lived experiences of politics, yet they are often absent from studies of urgent questions in contemporary political communication. This volume respon...
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
I rarely donate to federal campaigns anymore since the marginal impact of that same money is much higher for downballot campaigns. I made an exception for Harris today, & this is why
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
1. we must say with one voice that political violence is unacceptable and wrong 2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
✨NEW ARTICLE✨ out in Political Communication by Matthias Hoffmann & me: Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks We trace sequences of climate frames in the AfD's digital networks. #polcomm #commsky #polisky OPEN ACCESS here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Did you know that the Pew Research Centre lets you download their datasets? www.pewresearch.org/download-dat... For you R nerds, there is also an R package you can use
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Download Datasets
Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. See this post for more information on how to use
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)
Screenshot of abstract for the article "Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model," found at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae004
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals. These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
De Keersmaecker et al find: political MODERATES are more knowledgeable about politics than centrists or extremists. 45 nation study. That aligns with my personal experience discussing politics with people. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
How use of online platforms–like Facebook, Instagram or TikTok–differs among some U.S. demographic groups. YouTube Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter(X) Reddit BeReal Ages Household income Education Urban Suburban Rural Rep/Lean Rep Dem/Lean Dem source: Pew
How use of online platforms - such as Facebook, Instagram or TikTok - differs among some U.S. demographic groups

% of U.S. adults who say they ever use ...

YouTube	Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter (X) Reddit BeReal

Ages

Household income

HS or less
Some college
College+

Urban
Suburban
Rural

Rep/Lean Rep
Dem/Lean Dem

* Estimates for Asian adults are representative of English speakers only.

Note: White, Black and Asian adults include those who report being only one race and are not Hispanic. Hispanic adults are of any race. Not
all numerical differences between groups shown are statistically significant. Respondents who did not give an answer are not shown.
Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted May 19-Sept. 5, 2023.
"Americans' Social Media Use”

PEW RESEARCH CENTER
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
3 yrs ago the insurrectionists sought to violently halt a procedure enshrined in the US Constitution & to overturn a freely and fairly-run election. With Khadijah Costley White, @dkreiss.bsky.social & @rebekahtromble.bsky.social we’ve edited a forthcoming volume - Media & January 6th 1/x
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Communication Neuroscience Lab @falklab.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Join us @APPCPenn as a Civic Science Fellow! Develop research w/ community partners focused on the science of climate communication, action, and resilience w/ @falklab @PennCSSM @MichaelEMann @dalbarra @TheNetterCenter @danicosme & more (detail ). Apply: bit.ly/3TB8zUy
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY** The final #PolComm Publication Friday before this account goes into holiday hiatus re-focuses on this year’s two issues of the Political Communication Report: politicalcommunication.org/pcr/
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PolComm Report – PolComm
Welcome to the Political Communication Report (PCR) The Political Communication Report (PCR) is a bi-annual online publication catering to the needs and interests of the international political commun...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
We have a new paper on "Social Media and Morality" in Annual Reviews www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/... We argue that social media accelerates existing moral dynamics: amplifying outrage, status seeking, and intergroup conflict as well as social support, prosociality, and collective action.
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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
🚨 New paper 🚨 Despite the small prevalence of false news, media literacy tips typically encourage people to be more skeptical of the news🧐 Would they be effective if they promoted trust in true news instead? And does the proportion of true-false news matter?
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Tiancheng Hu @tiancheng.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
🚨New Preprint: "Generative language models exhibit social identity biases" Did you know LLMs mirror human-like biases, showing human-levels of ingroup solidarity & outgroup hostility? @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @steverathje.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2310.15819
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Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
What do we know--and what don't we know--about corrections of misinfo? Now at Current Opinion in Psychology, @thomasjwood.bsky.social and I offer answers. TLDR: Corrections improve accuracy across groups (see figure); tiny fx on attitudes; open questions about durability + exposure. bit.ly/3Qt0IVD
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
✨OUT NOW:✨ 📰POLITICAL COMMUNICATION REPORT Issue 28 APSA & ICA’s #PolComm Divisions are happy to announce the 2023 Fall issue of the PCR, titled: “De-westernizing PolComm Theories and Research: More Perspectives, New Directions”! polsky commsky 🧵⤵️ politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...
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Fall, 2023 (28): “De-westernizing PolComm Theories and Research: More Perspectives, New Directions...
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
🚨PhD position in Pol Comm🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate on the project 'The Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization', supervised by the awesome @CorinnaOschatz, myself, and Andreas Schuck Please repost for N and diversity! Details below polisky commsky
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Sedona Chinn, Ph.D. @omgbearss.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Can lifestyle influencers shape political beliefs? @arielhasell.bsky.social and I explore how *aspirational* social media use is associated with attitudes and beliefs about expertise -- OUT NOW in SM+S! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
New publication! LSC Asst. Prof. @omgbearss.bsky.social and @arielhasell.bsky.social's research uncovers the subtle influence of lifestyle influencers, linking social media content to more anti-expert attitudes and less accurate beliefs. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
News coverage of social media increasingly emphasizes negative uses (e.g., misinformation) and its remedies (e.g., regulation), while increasingly using using anxious, angry, and moral language, finds @danlane.bsky.social @overbye.bsky.social & Gagrčin doi.org/10.1093/jcmc...
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021Image description
Moral foundation words in primary story corpus. Points represent yearly percentages, with larger point sizes indicating more observations. Lines are locally fitted polynomial regression lines.Image description
Mentions of political social media uses in primary story corpus. Points represent yearly averages, with larger point sizes indicating more observations. Lines are locally fitted polynomial regression lines.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Folks, it seems we are desperately in search of purpose, connection, & community but modern life has us distracted, isolated, and untrusting. The link between individual well-being and democratic well-being is the next big nut to crack.
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Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
New in JCMC! We analyze 16 yrs of pol news stories on social media: coverage a) increasingly uses anxious angry & moral language, b) is consistently focused on national politicians, & c) emphasizes normatively neg uses (e.g., misinformation) & remedies (i.e., regulation) tinyurl.com/sm-story
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
From CNN today: "Journalism professor’s six-word mantra is a blueprint for how news outlets should cover the 2024 race." Not the odds, but the stakes.
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Journalism professor’s six-word mantra is a blueprint for how news outlets should cover the 2024 r...
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen implores newsrooms to organize 2024 campaign coverage around the stakes of the presidential contest — not the horse race.
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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
I'm late to post this but I'm THRILLED that this paper is finally out in the world. The project has been a labor of love, building a dataset that using machine learning to map civic infrastructure in the U.S. at scale. Finally it's out there!! And hopefully this paper is just the beginning....
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The unequal landscape of civic opportunity in America - Nature Human Behaviour
de Vries et al. map civic opportunity across America, demonstrating that it is highly correlated with pro-social community behaviours, but is unequally distributed, and underrepresented in public dial...
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Antonis Kalogeropoulos @antoniskalog.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
We are hiring a postdoc for 2 years as part of the ERC-StG project INEQNEWS aiming to examine social inequalities in digital news consumption! Apply by December 15! smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/post...
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Hot off the press! Congratulations to @benjamintoff.bsky.social, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Nielsen on the arrival of their new book, AVOIDING THE NEWS: RELUCTANT AUDIENCES FOR JOURNALISM. bit.ly/49sXnyE @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
🚨CALL FOR AUTHORS🚨 We are looking for authors willing to write a short entry (2.5k words) on the topics below for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication Interested? ➡️ Reach out asap via email (a.nai@uva.nl) Plz repost for N and diversity @maxgroemping.bsky.social @dswirz.bsky.social
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Out now in New Media & Society, @danlane.bsky.social and I explore the utility of re-framing the goal of confronting racist speech online from attitude change to norm setting. A 🧵 (1/7)
Screenshot for "Making the impossible possible? Framing confrontations of racism on social media as norm-setting" by Coles and Lane, 2023.
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