iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 26/11/2025

We’ve assembled a stellar line-up of scholars to discuss how digital trace data donations can help us study elections across a wide variety of platforms and contexts! @claesdevreese.bsky.social @favstats.eu @algosoc.org Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 16/06/2025

@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level. I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

PhD or Postdoc looking at the grim job market? Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson. Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

A huge congratulations to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for winning this year's 2025 Kaid Sanders @polcomm.bsky.social article of the year award! #ica25 Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 13/06/2025

A funny detail from @anjabechmann.bsky.social's study using YouTube data donation, showing that participants in Denmark were heavily Rickrolled 😅 #ica25

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 13/06/2025

Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!) Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 21/05/2025

Can news media help? Regular news readers were less prone to misperceptions across all three measures, suggesting that news readership can help correct our skewed sense of the opinion climate. ARIMA timeseries modelling supported this only for masking.

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 21/05/2025

Importantly, we found that people in the opinion minority (mostly those opposing the measures) were wildly off in their guesses, while those in the majority were far more accurate. This is 'false consensus' in action: small vocal groups overestimate their own prevalence.

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 21/05/2025

Across every wave, participants consistently underestimated public support for all three measures: masking, vaccination, and the contact‑tracing app. These gaps were small but pervasive throughout the 2 year period. The biggest gap? Mask wearing, the most visible measure.

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 21/05/2025

Do people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises? Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them! Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1080/1058...

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 19/05/2025

Hot off the press! Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!) With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 11/04/2025

@dvshah.bsky.social with fascinating work on Pepe the frog as alt-right imagery that has been inadvertantly picked up and disseminated by news organization. He sees this mainstreaming of hate symbols a resulf of 'discursive softening' by extremist groups.

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 11/04/2025

Even though news organizations are in a severe crisis, the public does not see a crisis. People have access to all the information they need, argues @rasmuskleis.bsky.social He shows the rise of influencers and regular people as sources of info competing with news publishers

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 11/04/2025

@taliastroud.bsky.social presenting some of the key takeaways of the large 2020 Meta US Election partnership project, focusing on the effects of: 1) Altering the newsfeed algorithms 2) Reshaping virality 3) Deactivating the platforms They find (some) limited effects on news engmnt and knowledge.

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 10/04/2025

Fascinating reflections on "Europe's digital agenda in a polarised world" in @algosoc.org closing panel with @natalihelberger.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Peter-Paul Verbeek and Tamar Sharon

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 07/04/2025

Excited to moderate this AI and Journalism panel at the @algosoc.org conference "The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others! Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 03/04/2025

Always happy to share tips for great conference presentations! This one focused on something we often overlook: keeping your audience engaged 🎯 Already stressing about your #ica25 talk? Check out this guide I put together with @polcomm.bsky.social 📢👇 🔗 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 12/02/2025

Candidate for best paper title? 🤔 Our new paper uses individuals' behavioural data to examine how people navigated the complex COVID-19 online information environment to reach news media. If you are interested in the role of digital intermediaries to news, it's worth a read! lnkd.in/e2Yg5Kre

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 31/01/2025

Trying to identify online populist radical right content? Our new paper might help! Our team evaluated different computational approaches to the identification of this content 👇 With the current political climate, these methods are more relevant than ever. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 25/11/2024

@favstats.eu with the 🔥 memes while presenting our work on tracking political information exposure on mobiles

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