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Francesco Vittonetto

@fravittonetto.bsky.social
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PhD researcher at Griffith University • Transnational populism and political communication

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#Populist #RadicalRights and transnational engagement 📹️ @fravittonetto.bsky.social answers which factors explain transnational online engagement with PRR communications by analysing YouTube data from 2016 to 2024 buff.ly/PmIBXUn
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The online transnationalisation of populist radical right publics | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The online transnationalisation of populist radical right publics
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It is out in the world! 🎉 'The online transnationalisation of populist radical right publics' is published open access in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social. In this, I ask: which factors explain transnational online engagement with PRR communications?🧵 [1/7]
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The online transnationalisation of populist radical right publics | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The online transnationalisation of populist radical right publics
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Some emails just turn a day into one to remember. ✨ Now forthcoming in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social, “The Online Transnationalisation of PRR Publics”, my second solo article.
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 13/04/2026
As the acknowledgements explain, this project has had a long (and sometimes bumpy!) journey. But we’re very proud of the result. @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Dublin on 16 June, the day after it goes online. If you're at the conference, drop in!
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 03/02/2026
Coming out in June. (when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Do followers of populist radical right parties across the globe talk about the same things online? @fravittonetto.bsky.social analyses the emergence of transnational publics of the populist radical right in this new article in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Transnational publics of the populist radical right: patterns of topic convergence across Europe and the United States
In recent years, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have constructed a shared transnational discourse around issues like immigration and culture wars. However, we do not know how their publics ...
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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🔥 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🔥 The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational in @bjpir.bsky.social with Benjamin de Cleen & Panos Panayotu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational - Benjamin De Cleen, Be...
How does populism interact with space? While it is increasingly acknowledged that populism operates across geographical scales from the local to the transnation...
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 08/12/2025
🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century
The idea that the presence of Western European political parties at grassroots level rose and fell in the twentieth century is central to some of the …
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Like any PhD, mine has its share of challenges and mountains to climb. But I’ve never once felt without support or guidance from my amazing supervisory team!
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
On @ecprtheloop.bsky.social I present key insights from my recent @ausjpolsci.bsky.social article on transnational populist publics. The blogpost includes examples that didn’t fit into the main piece, and shows how leaders like Trump and Meloni are now global icons for the PRR.
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 13/11/2025
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates: theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
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Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research
A world-first study involving 4,000 Australian adults shows political parties shouldn’t assume Indigenous candidates will face voter rejection.
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thrilled that my first (ever!) and first single-authored article is out in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🎉 PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation? A 🧵
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Transnational publics of the populist radical right: patterns of topic convergence across Europe and the United States
In recent years, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have constructed a shared transnational discourse around issues like immigration and culture wars. However, we do not know how their publics ...
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 01/09/2025
3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
💡Two super useful resources for when academics (or journalists!) are being targeted - and for institutions to be prepared. (We are underprepared…) 1) expertvoicestogether.org/researcher 2) researchersupport.org #ECPRgc25 @ecpr.bsky.social
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Expert Voices Together
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 26/08/2025
In the last 6 months, our wee study of Gen-Z voters & non-voters in Australia has been the 3rd most read of all articles ever published in Political Studies. You can read it too, open access, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Such an interesting piece of research by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ✨ So lucky to work with such a brilliant and generous scholar every day, brava!!
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Stijn van Kessel @stijntvankessel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.
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Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party
Abstract. This book investigates why and how several contemporary populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe adopt the supposedly outdated ma
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This beautiful python was right outside my office at @griffith.edu.au. Reviewer 2, it seems, wanted to supervise that new draft a little more closely.
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 27/05/2025
"Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right", now under contract with Oxford University Press. We've already got a full draft and the reviews were really positive, so this should be out in 2026! @ammassarisofia.bsky.social; @casmudde.bsky.social; @arjupskas.bsky.social
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Larissa Böckmann @larboe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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Far‐Right Illiberalism in the European Parliament | Article | Politics and Governance
Larissa Böckmann, Sarah L. de Lange, Nathalie Brack, Matthijs Rooduijn
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Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
🚨 New research! With Milly Stilinovic & @dhutchman.bsky.social, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up. New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461... Conversation theconversation.com/ai-is-moving...
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AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check
Existing efforts to regulate AI share a limitation: they’re built around intended use, not the messy, creative and often unintended ways it is actually being used.
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
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Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"
Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It was great to present my work in today’s department seminar! Big thanks to @duncanmcdonnell.com, Ferran, and @ammassarisofia.bsky.social for the constant support – and to the big crowd of PhD friends and staff colleagues attending
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 14/04/2025
I had a great long chat earlier this morning with Steve Austin on ABC about Gen-Z voting, how parties seek to engage with young people, and much else besides! (including my Gen-Z daughter's view of youth wings...) From around 1:43 here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Mornings - ABC listen
You'll get a deeper insight into the issues that matter each morning.
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In today's @theconversation.com, @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma and I write about Gen-Z turnout in Australia: theconversation.com/47-of-gen-z-... A short thread on our main takeaways, based on our survey of over 1,300 Gen-Z Australians:
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47% of Gen Z mainly vote to avoid a fine. It’s a sign of younger Australians’ discontent with democracy
With Gen Z and Millennials combined now outnumbering Baby Boomers as the dominant voter bloc, their votes will shape the election. But do they care?
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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
CALL FOR PAPERS Our annual APSA Political Organisations and Participation @popgroupaus.bsky.social research group workshop is being held 5-6 June at the Uni of Canberra. Limited financial support available for ECRs and HDRs travelling from outside Canberra. Short abstracts due 7 April.
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 08/03/2025
This week, The Australian ran a story all about our recent EJPR article on radicals, moderates, and aligned members of party youth wings. You can read it here: www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/progr...
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Queenie Tomaro @queenietomaro.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm thrilled to share my open-access paper published in @austjia.bsky.social! In this study, I examine how women's participation is framed within P/CVE policies, identifying three key logics: protection, political agency, and religion. Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/1035...
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Preventing and countering violent extremism: the logics of women’s participation
Women’s participation in preventing and countering extremist violence is increasingly prioritised in international, regional and national policies on Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)...
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Last sunset from my three-week office at @uva.nl. What an intense experience this was: I met so many talented - and welcoming - PhD colleagues, have been in touch with an incredibly rich research environment, and gathered invaluable feedback on my own work. It really felt like home.
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My @polstudies.bsky.social article on stigma & grassroots activism in populist radical right (PRR) parties has now page numbers! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Drawing on the 1st ever comparative survey of PRR party members, I ask how stigma affects their participation in party activities.
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Deterrent or Stimulus? How Perceived Societal Stigma Affects Participation in Populist Radical Right Parties - Sofia Ammassari, 2025
While the effects of political stigma on populist radical right parties have been extensively investigated, we know little about the impact of societal stigma o...
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A foggy start to my research visit at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl), kindly hosted by @sldelange.bsky.social and @alessandronai.bsky.social. If you are around in the next three weeks, I'm happy to meet up!
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 16/01/2025
Almost 500 downloads for our new article "Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project" over the past couple of weeks. If you're interested in party organisations and/or young people in politics, this is for you: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It was great to kickstart 2025 at the University of Milan! Hosted by the wonderful School of Media and Communication, I had the opportunity to share my research on transnational engagement with PRR contents. I presented first insights from a brand new dataset of YouTube comments from 8 countries.
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 23/12/2024
Our article "Inside Party Youth Wings: The YOUMEM Project" is online today & open access in Party Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... [A wee thread 🧵]
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just a normal afternoon walk at Griffith's Nathan campus. @griffithuniversity.bsky.social
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It was great to present my work on transnational populist publics at the very last - but excellent - panel of #APSA24 Thanks to my supervisory team and colleagues at Griffith for their endless support!
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Is being a proud supervisee a thing? Congrats on this huge (& well deserved) achievement!
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Tomorrow, at the APSA Conference, I’ll talk about my research on transnational populist publics. My paper examines the contribution of digital publics on YouTube in building the bridges between PRR parties in France, Italy, and the US. [Thread!]
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Six established academics, each paired with three postgrads, 20 minutes per session. The single task: “Talk about whatever you want advice on.” The APSA version of a speed mentoring session at the PhD Symposium, in wonderful Forrest Research Foundation. #APSA2024
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nick Cheesman, April Biccum, Sarah Ball, and Jack Corbett led us through a deep dive into interpretive methods: great talks and engaging discussion! Check out their APSA research group page here: tinyurl.com/2ejxfsm3 #APSA2024
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The 2024 APSA PhD Symposium continues with an insightful talk from Kelly Gerard (UWA). "Making sandwiches in academia" tackled the issue of balancing research and service roles in academia when you're a PhD or an early career researcher. #APSA2024
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Great to have Michael Hopkin from The Conversation kickstart the 2024 APSA PhD Symposium at the Forrest Research Foundation. Some great insights for how PhDs can engage with media and reach a wider audience! #APSA2024 @phoebehayman.bsky.social
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Francesco Vittonetto @fravittonetto.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It really looks like a warm welcome, UWA! The AusPSA Conference kicks off tomorrow with the PhD Day, in beautiful Perth #APSA24
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 14/11/2024
I guess that after various drills, this time the migration is real. I've put together a wee starter pack on two of the things I work on, populism and the radical right. Feel free to share & suggest yourself or others! go.bsky.app/Tqmc9sJ
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