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...

Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

Dating apps enjoy some popularity among those looking for relationships, love, casual sexual encounters, and more. While platforms’ infrastructures provide affordances to mitigate safety concerns, ...

Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...

“The people” is a central concept in populism, yet it remains unclear how those who identify with this community interpret it. Drawing on social identity theory and fandom studies, this study exami...

We examine how multi-platform digital environments influence intra-party dynamics within political organizations, focusing on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) as a paradigmatic case of extreme ...

This article contributes to the literature on the use of strategic communication in authoritarian legitimacy by analyzing the rhetoric of populist authoritarian leaders. Dynamic legitimation theory...

The administration’s use of public channels to herald funding freezes and federal investigations tells of a coherent agenda to remake higher ed, according to one political scientist.

Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar

This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relation...

Call for Papers:  Second Delhi School Workshop on Political Communication Dates: July 30 to August 1 2025 Application Deadline: May 23, 2025 Venue & Host: Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing S...

Securing America's Borders

This paper examines the U.S. ‘gov-tech' market, focusing on firms that partner with government agencies to redesign digital public infrastructures. Through interviews with founders and chief techno...

We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.

When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...

Recent technological and political developments have caused researchers to reevaluate journalists’ relevance vis a vis other forms of media production, with some calling for a “decentering” of jour...

This talk argues that platforms fail democracy in stable governments and fair elections.

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...

We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism

Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count