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Sydney DeMets

@sydneydemets.bsky.social

sydneydemets.github.io PhD Candidate at UW iSchool. Interested in social networks, diffusion, and rumors. I used to study aquatic ecosystems and do remote sensing work.

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 12/02/2026

Ph.D. candidate Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social spoke with @sethabramovitch.bsky.social for a @thr.com article on the persuasive role of podcasts as a mass medium and recent shifts: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My paper exploring polarization and guest trajectories among political podcasts is out now. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts

Social networks structure the flow of political information that is critical for civic participation and individual decision making, simultaneously op…

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

"Podcasts in the Periphery", written with @emmaspiro.bsky.social, is forthcoming in Social Networks. Our preprint is now available on SocArVix! osf.io/preprints/os... Key Points: 1) Guests who repeatedly appear on top political podcasts appear on increasingly famous shows.

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

See my article arguing that the affordances of the podcasting medium and the lax content moderation of platforms like Spotify and Apple help to shift the podcast ecosystem right. www.techpolicy.press/-tracing-the...

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Tracing the Anti-Establishment Shift Among Podcasts and the Role of Platforms | TechPolicy.Press

Sydney DeMets writes that podcasts, once associated with high-brow shows like “Radiolab,” are now a stronghold for the reactionary right.

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