Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@ucsb.bsky.social @ucfreespeech.bsky.social @ucsbblumcenter.bsky.social 000
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026#3 Digital political media use = ⬆️ participation in electoral politics & belief in democracy, systems & ⬇️ political trust & satisfaction with political systems 000
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026#2 Inequalities are related to the resources held by individuals, the experiences of groups, and the economic, democratic, and technological development of societies. 100
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Three big empirical takeaways: #1 gaps in online pol information reception & engagement are prevalent worldwide and growing over time 100
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026tldr; we explore the WALLS, WINDOWS, & DOORS of digital politics Digital media can appear as WALLS that reinforce existing pol inequalities, provide WINDOWS that allow limited visibility into pol life, and occasionally open DOORS that expand pol voice and influence for the less powerful 100
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Our 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.socialcambridge.orgMapping Global Digital Political InequalityCambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality 287
Reposted by Dan LaneJohn Sands @iohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A 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. 🧵knightfoundation.orgKnight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight FoundationFor 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... 26249
Reposted by Dan LaneUC 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 231
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Lots of open questions about how to measure, count and test identity threats in digital media environments! Drop a line if you have ideas... 000
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Effects of in/outgroup threats: Ingroup threats → negative emotions + corrective action (reporting, negative comments). Outgroup threats → positive emotions + amplifying behavior (likes, shares). Both effects are strongest among strong partisans. (4/4) 100
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026People are more sensitive to threats targeting their own political group. Strong partisans even see threat in content that isn't explicitly threatening — they may perceive threat wherever they look. (3/4) 100
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Realistic threats (losing power/money/safety) and symbolic threats (attacks on values/morality) are theoretically distinct — but people experience them as blurred together (2/4) 100
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026New 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/smidthreatstinyurl.comPolitical Identity Threats on Social Media - Daniel S. Lane, Yifei Wang, Alcides Velasquez, 2026One 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 ... 131
Reposted by Dan LaneChokely 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 🧵 12113
Reposted by Dan LaneChokely 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. 🧵 28541
Reposted by Dan LaneMike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 05/11/2024It'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) 1194
Reposted by Dan LaneDavid 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/... 1616968
Reposted by Dan LaneMeredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 13/09/2024I 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...abcnews.go.comHow Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris could change the election end gameTaylor Swift’s fans largely lean Democratic, but her support of Kamala Harris could boost engagement. 35017
Reposted by Dan LaneChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 07/09/2024Wonder 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 0106
Reposted by Dan LaneCurd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 05/09/2024Jetlagged and up early at #APSA2024? Or just really eager to get thia conference started? Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications! 161
Reposted by Dan LaneChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 01/09/2024Just 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... 13717
Reposted by Dan LaneMeredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2024For 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...open.substack.comTikTok, Reddit, and gender gaps in media ecosystemsGender gaps in media use are a pretty new phenomenon. 13512
Reposted by Dan LaneJournal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social · 06/08/2024In 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.... 022
Reposted by Dan LaneShannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 05/08/2024Heading 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_...unc.az1.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 178
Reposted by Dan LaneJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/08/2024Our 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... 151
Reposted by Dan LaneJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/07/2024Four headlines from The Post: prediction, prognostication, and the show plus reporters writing about themselves. No stakes here, nothing to inform the electorate. 34912
Reposted by Dan LaneErin Cassese @erincassese.bsky.social · 26/07/2024Happy to be included in this virtual special issue with some other great scholarship on gender and presidential elections! 0197
Reposted by Dan LaneWeverthon 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 #ggplot2weverthon.comReveal a ggplot incrementallyProvides 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... 34392136
Reposted by Dan LaneChokely 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...routledge.comRace and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political CommunicationRace 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... 042
Reposted by Dan LaneStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 22/07/2024I 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 1030344
Reposted by Dan LaneBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/07/20241. we must say with one voice that political violence is unacceptable and wrong 2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more 34713
Reposted by Dan LaneCurd 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....tandfonline.comCountering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital NetworksIn 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... 1238
Reposted by Dan LaneStephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 09/03/2024Did 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 usepewresearch.orgDownload DatasetsPew 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 112656
Reposted by Dan LaneChokely 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) 34611
Reposted by Dan LaneDavid 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... 17956
Reposted by Dan LaneJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2024New 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... 710859
Reposted by Dan LaneGordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2024De 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... 053
Reposted by Dan LaneEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/02/2024How 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 288
Reposted by Dan LaneShannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 06/01/20243 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 38736
Reposted by Dan LaneCommunication Neuroscience Lab @falklab.bsky.social · 30/12/2023Join 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 1812
Reposted by Dan LaneAPSA & 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/politicalcommunication.orgPolComm Report – PolCommWelcome 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... 131
Reposted by Dan LaneJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2023We 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. 0209
Reposted by Dan LaneSacha 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? 24723
Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Curious if that techno optimism carries over to politics…our recent paper shows that the journalistic picture of SM in politics is decidedly dark and stormy academic.oup.com/jcmc/article... maybe the futurists still dream of techno-political utopia?academic.oup.comThe story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021Abstract. This article examines how American news media have framed social media as political technologies over time. To do so, we analyzed 16 years of politica 140
Reposted by Dan LaneTiancheng 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 01410
Reposted by Dan LaneEthan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · 06/11/2023What 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 15938