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Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Honored to work as AE with Johanna and Travis!

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Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Deeply grateful for A. J.'s review. I especially appreciate his reading of my book as a supply-side account of rightwing media--what they do, for whom, and how they help organize rightwing politics. The next step, as he notes, is the demand side and its complex relationship to that supply.

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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🚨We are so incredibly thrilled to announce that our Multi-Platform Research Special Issue in Political Communication is out now at www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcp20/4...! Special Issue Team: @meredithpruden.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Wei Zhong and me!!! 🎉

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Political Communication

SI-Multi-Platform Research. Volume 43, Issue 2 of Political Communication

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New from me, @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @jasong.bsky.social @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @beccalew.bsky.social: analyzing sales data released from InfoWar's court case, we find that certain styles (linguistic and auditory) used by Alex Jones on his radio show predict next-day sales

Screenshot of the title page of a journal article in Information, Communication & Society by Ross Dahlke and coauthors. The article is titled “Style and substance on The Alex Jones Show predict InfoWars sales: a multi-modal analysis of a media empire.” The abstract explains that the study combines daily InfoWars sales data from 2016 to 2018 with linguistic, auditory, and topical features from Alex Jones’s radio show and online articles, finding that some styles and topics predict next-day sales.

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Line chart showing daily InfoWars sales in dollars from January 2016 through December 2018. Sales are highly volatile, with frequent spikes, but generally rise from relatively low levels in early 2016 to a higher and more sustained range through 2017 and 2018, often around $100,000 to $300,000 per day, with occasional peaks approaching $1 million.

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Multi-panel figure showing daily trends in selected themes and styles in Alex Jones radio shows and InfoWars news articles from 2016 to 2018. The left column tracks radio show content including Power, Bio, Achieve, Focus Future, and Money; the right column tracks article content including Power, Achieve, Money, Anger, and Focus Future. Gray daily values are overlaid with smoothed trend lines, showing that some themes shift gradually over time while others remain fairly stable.

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Multi-panel figure showing daily trends in major topics in Alex Jones radio shows and InfoWars news articles from 2016 to 2018. Radio show panels include Nationalism, Politicians, Show Slogans, Promotions, and Fake News; article panels include Trump, Scientific Discoveries and Controversies, Media and Politics, Attacking Democrats, and Global Conflicts. Smoothed trend lines show modest but noticeable changes over time, including persistent attention to Trump and politics in articles and nationalism and political messaging in radio content.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And I just got @yunkangyang.bsky.social’s wonderful new book, Weapons of Mass Deception!

Weapons of mass deception: how right-wing media wage information warfare and undermine American democracy by Yunkang Yang, red book cover with a hand holding a bomb made of crumpled up newspapers

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Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I got @ajbauer.bsky.social 's new book! The book explains the origin of a key theme that has animated US rightwing media for decades, namely their critical disposition towards the press.

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Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Use promo code AUFLY30 to get 30% off my book — valid on both paperback and hardcover!

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Maggie Macdonald, PhD @mgmacdonald.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I am so happy to see this published! (And delighted that my excellent coauthors went along with my suggested title of 'Candidates be Posting')

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

✨NEW PAPER OUT✨ “Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: ‘indexing by proxy’ in a German immigration debate” together with Lance Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Why do far-right issues keep making the news? 🧵⤵️ academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

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Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate

Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you work in higher-ed, please read this interview with @dkreiss.bsky.social. I believe the types of public signals to the sector he points to here have direct ramifications beyond the US.

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Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

On Friday at 17:00 (1A.10) I'll present "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Far-Right Media and Digitally-Networked Elites Radicalize Politics" (co-authored w/@curdknupfer.bsky.social & @yunkangyang.bsky.social) on panel "Politics, Media, and Radicalization" #EPSA2025 Paper: tinyurl.com/38czxhh6

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Yunkang Yang @yunkangyang.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thrilled to announce that my new book Weapons of Mass Deception: How Right-Wing Media Wage Information Warfare and Undermine American Democracy is now available for preorder from Oxford University Press! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

First of two of my #ICA25 talks in Denver: a paper co-authored with @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social, wherein we theorize how ideological digital networks might radicalize elites and political factions. Pictured: me attempting to explain a visual metaphor... 😅🤷‍♂️

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Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

@curdknupfer.bsky.social presenting our co-authored work (w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social) about connective factions Read the paper here: mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Going to be in Berlin in 2 weeks, to speak about "The Logic of Connective Faction" ...a project I've been working on with @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social. Looking forward to see all my old friends & colleagues at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🫶

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David Broniatowski @broniatowski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Proud to work with an amazing team: @yunkangyang.bsky.social , Ramesh Paudel, Jordan McShan, @matthindman.bsky.social , and Howie Huang. And grateful to the Knight Foundation for supporting work on transparent methods for information integrity. Full paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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a group of power rangers standing next to each other with the words `` super team '' above them .

ALT: a group of power rangers standing next to each other with the words `` super team '' above them .

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Look at the rainbow! Just the best city giving ✨

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