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Ricardo Ferreira

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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | Media, Politics & Democracy | University of Liverpool | Failed Extra & Bad Saxophonist. 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇧🇪🇸🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Scottish Election Analysis 2026 brings 55 contributions on topics such as campaigning, news, voters, pools, representation and policy. Published 10 days after the election, it provides immediate and accessible analysis of the contest. Full report here: www.electionanalysis.uk 3/3
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Scottish Election Analysis 2026 - UK Election Analysis
Report featuring more than 100 contributions from leading UK academics, with snap analysis and early research insights on the 2024 UK General Election.
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Drawing on sentiment analysis of 4,385 tweets by parties and party leaders, we show how negativity shifts depending on electoral context, political positioning, and whether parties compete as incumbents, challengers, front-runners, or insurgents. Here: www.electionanalysis.uk/scottish-ele... 2/3
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When parties travel, does negativity follow? Comparing campaigns on X - UK Election Analysis
Digital campaigning in elections has become increasingly negative, with parties frequently attacking their opponents’ policies and leadership.
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Very happy to contribute to the FIRST EVER Scottish Election Analysis Report, organised by Ana Langer, Christopher Carman, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, and @maia-aa.bsky.social . Focusing on negative campaigning, @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and I analysed how parties adapted their tone on X. 🧵1/3
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/11/2025
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
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With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Apropos... 1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
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The BBC is under scrutiny. Here’s what research tells about its role in the UK
The BBC is the most widely used source of news in the UK. It has lower reach among the young and the less formally educated.
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Margaret R Roller @margaretrroller.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Next in the series "A Qualitative Look at Journalists’ Reporting & Potential Harm to Democratic Norms" at bit.ly/4ngz6S0, with the spotlight on the @poqjournal.bsky.social article by @ferreira-rr.bsky.social and @jfdaoust.bsky.social discussing when & how to report disturbing political news.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 25/09/2025
ICYMI: 📰 The Leverhulme Trust September Newsletter is out! Read it on our website now: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter @mphiljill.bsky.social @ferreira-rr.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My new research project is featured in the @leverhulme.ac.uk September newsletter — and it made the cover! A great start to my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at @commmedia.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Grateful for the support and the generous spotlight on my work. Trying not to blush 👇
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Ayala Panievsky @panievsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In the middle of this devastating news cycle, I got to meet my journo hero: @arusbridger.bsky.social, now @prospectmagazine.co.uk, ex @theguardian.com, always fearless. We had a great conversation, with sharp @lionelbarber.bsky.social joining us online. Give it a listen 👉 shorturl.at/P2FtG
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Does the news need gatekeeping?
Journalist Ayala Panievsky talks about her new book ‘The New Censorship’ in a time of democratic decay
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Arrived at the office today to a wonderful surprise — a copy of my dear friend @panievsky.bsky.social’s brand-new book. A powerful and timely take on how media can be twisted to undermine public deliberation and amplify anti-democratic forces. Looking forward to learning from her brilliant work! 📚
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Taken together, our findings provide a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the criteria journalists use to decide whether to publish a story, particularly when their democratic role conflicts with traditional notions of news values that underpin gatekeeping theory. /6 end.
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
+ Yet, the decision to publish tends to prevail even if a majority of journalists see potential harm. Private interests—political or financial—overcome the public interest. + Some bet on mitigating measures (e.g., additional context or corrections) and open the door for rationalisation. /5
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Reasons to publish: 👉 “Competing voices” 👉 Legitimacy of position (e.g. president) 👉 Accountability of an actor 👉 Fear of looking left-leaning 👉 Audience pressure Not to publish: 🚫 Potential harm to democracy 🚫 Journalism’s social and democratic role 🚫 Ethical standards (esp on hate speech) /4
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
First, Journalists do hold clear and consistent views on what constitutes “problematic content”. Two types stand out: content that they believe 'will undermine democratic attitudes' (or authoritarian proposals) and misinformation about 'relevant issues' (e.g., COVID-19 and climate change). /3
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Journalists often face a dilemma about whether to publish content that could undermine public deliberation and democratic norms. But what do they perceive as harmful, and how do they make such decisions? We ran 36 in-depth interviews with journalists in Brazil’s biggest newsrooms to find out: 👇/2
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📣 Hot off the press! Thrilled to see this paper with @jfdaoust.bsky.social published in Public Opinion Quarterly @aapor.bsky.social. Open access link below, followed by a short 🧵with our key findings.../1 academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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To Report or Not to Report? A Qualitative Analysis of Journalists’ Perspectives on Harm to Public Opinion
Abstract. Journalists face intricate decisions regarding what to publish, especially when problematic content may impact public opinion in a way that could
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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 31/07/2025
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Grateful for the opportunity to present at the #ICA2025 in Denver. I explored with @jfdaoust.bsky.social the journalists’ perceptions and editorial decisions on content potentially harmful to public opinion. Thank you to everyone who attended the session and contributed to the discussion.
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
You are also warmly invited to my presentation tomorrow, Friday 13 June: “Breaking the News: Journalists’ Perceptions and Decision-Making on ‘Problematic Content’ and Public Harm” (with Jean-François Daoust) 🕒 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM 📍 Colorado A (Grand 2)
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I am attending the 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference in Denver, Colorado. Excited to join brilliant colleagues from around the world to explore critical questions at the intersection of media, journalism, and democracy. If you are here and would like to chat, DM me.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/05/2025
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
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Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
More morally abhorrent and politically counterproductive speech from Starmer. 1. It propagates a nativist narrative by blaming immigration/immigrants for the UK’s economic and social ills. 2. It thereby also whitewashes Tories for years of destructive economic and social policies.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/05/2025
The race to the bottom is on as Starmer delivers his great immigration reset | John Crace
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The race to the bottom is on as Starmer delivers his great immigration reset | John Crace
A week after Reform cleans up at the local elections, the prime minister decides it’s time to ‘take back control’
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Thomas Hanitzsch @thanitzsch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Competitive Authoritarianism. Textbook definition.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Take 5 min, email your alma mater, and ask them to follow suit (if they haven't already, and most haven't). President, provost, and public relations officer.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump administration is asserting the power to disappear people into foreign gulags without due process and openly discussing putting citizens there next. This is tyranny. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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El Salvador’s President Says He Won’t Return Maryland Man Who Was Wrongly Deported
An Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador was a blunt example of Mr. Trump’s defiance of the federal courts.
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Held within the walls of Europe’s oldest diplomatic academy, these conversations could not be more urgent—occurring at a moment when the pursuit of social justice faces relentless attacks and the international order stands at a critical crossroads. 3/3 📍Vienna, Austria - 11.04.2025
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Over two days of intense and thought-provoking discussions, world-leading academics and brilliant emerging scholars came together to examine the intersections of journalism, media, technology, regulatory frameworks, state and private capture, diplomacy, and global governance. 2/3
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It was a pleasure to participate in the Milton Wolf Seminar, organised by the American Austrian Foundation, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Diplomatische Akademie Wien. I am grateful for the kind invitation and the opportunity to share my research. 1/3
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tariffs are not just bad for the world economy, but also for science. This is one more hit to research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Tariffs hit science labs: Trump levies raise cost of supplies
Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain.
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Beyond the politics of it all, this a good case for placebo effects in natural experiments
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is an excellent piece on the current threat to regional universities, which educate and impact far more people than the Ivies, but are completely ignored in the legacy media and national debate.
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A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
of acute job insecurity, insufficient resources, pressures from panicked managers and increasingly untenable workloads.” 3/3👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
the politics of raising tuition fees would be. Nor did academics have anything to do with the decision to impose visa restrictions on high-fee‑paying foreign students, which has compounded the problem. Yet it is they who must bear the brunt of Westminster’s cumulative mistakes, in the form of… 2/3
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Demoralised university staff, whose pay has been declining steeply in real terms, are not responsible for the dysfunctional marketisation of higher education, which is at the root of today’s financial black hole. Successive Conservative governments are, having failed to foresee how treacherous… 1/3
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How do you cover a country in a constitutional crisis? Learn from actual crisis communication. No two-sideism, no euphemisms but strong words, focus on consequences, and point to help. @froomkin.bsky.social 💡 #journalism
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Excited to be part of this episode of a new podcast series organised by the Canada team of the JRP Project. Thank you to the team for the opportunity to share my research, and a special thanks to Mariam Kourabi for being such a great interviewer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UOr5...
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EP 2 DR FERREIRA
YouTube video by JRP Canada
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Scenes from Syria’s prisons are streaming across social media sites. For a history of the horrors within them, which serve as a further testament to the unbreakable spirit of the Syrian people in the face of immense violence, this book was published by I.B. Tauris one year ago.
Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System
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Jesper Stromback @jesperstromback.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Now I have just read this new great book by @vstetka.bsky.social and @sabinamihelj.bsky.social! It can be recommended anyone interested in the role of media and communication in processes of democratic backsliding! And it is open access! @polcomm.bsky.social library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“It may well amount to the best defense we have for maintaining democratic norms and holding politicians accountable.” Nik Usher👇🏻
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
When X feeds experimentally show people fewer posts with antidemocratic attitudes, people feel more positively toward outpartisans, finds @tiziano.bsky.social @msaveski.bsky.social @jiachenyan.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social et al. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14652
Social Media Algorithms Can Shape Affective Polarization via Exposure to Antidemocratic Attitudes and Partisan AnimosityFigure 1Figure 2Figure A3
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This ⬇️ As executive board member of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) responsible for (disinformation) research I can only say that this fear is also palpable in Europe. The playbook travels. #commsky #eusky #polcom #misinformation #academicfreedom
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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:
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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
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
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
To my US friends, that is what you do 👇🏻
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
700+ journalists at Britain’s only liberal newspaper(s) believe that something has gone so profoundly wrong in their own organisation that 93% of them have voted to go on strike 1/ pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
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Guardian strike: Staff agree 48-hour walkout over Observer sale to Tortoise
Guardian strike vote: Staff agree 48-hour walkout in protest at proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media
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Ricardo Ferreira @ferreira-rr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m thrilled to announce that I passed my PhD viva yesterday at the University of Edinburgh! I am deeply grateful to my examiners, Silvio Waisbord and @profvaccari.bsky.social, the chair, Wilfried Swenden, and my supervisors, @newsprof1.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill and @jfdaoust.bsky.social
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