@acgoldberg.bsky.social participated at the NTNU European conference in Brussels. He presented some first results regarding Democracy in the digital age based on a recent survey conducted with colleagues at ISS. #knowledge4EU #ntnueuropeanconference #sciencecommunication #polisky

‪Can one further improve the common (face-saving) turnout question in election surveys? Our new publication @electoralstudies.bsky.social tested this w three alternative wordings & validated turnout data. Short answer is that the current version works already pretty good! doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Join our department! We have 1 PhD-position and 2 post-doc positions out now. The positions are all related to political communication and media (and hires will be welcomed in our research group) #commsky #polisky

🏆We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024–25 Best Paper Award in @psrm.bsky.social 🏅The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers, by @finseraas.bsky.social and @olenyhus.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Congratulations to the authors!🎉

✅ Voters often choose parties that share similar positions to them on certain issues. 🗳️ @acgoldberg.bsky.social and Jonas Lefevere (@ecprpovb.bsky.social) argue this behaviour is more prevalent among voters with more extreme issue positions. ➡️ bit.ly/4duf83e

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

What role will social media play in the 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election? Hedvig Tønnesen gave a presentation on the role of social media, democratic resilience and the importance of international collaborations when Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education visited NTNU last Friday.

📢New publication w J. Lefevere in PRX @ecpr.bsky.social In a comparative setup w 4 issues & 10 countries, we examine proximity voting w a focus on the moderating role & interplay of party polarization and voter extremity. TLDR: Both aspects matter, but not their interplay. doi.org/10.1080/2474...

📯More exciting news! Our very own Melanie Magin has recently punished a new article where they assess the media performance of migration coverage. #commsky

📢 Exciting news! Melanie Magin from our research group has contributed to the new book Citizens' Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations 📚. Explore her insights here 👉 www.routledge.com/Citizens-Par... #MediaResearch #PoliticalParticipation #Academicsky #commsky

Melanie Magin (from our research group) is highly engaged in teaching and has published an article on enhancing student ownership of learning through course design (in political communication). See details here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #commsky #academicsky #teaching

Working on our interdisciplinary competency for our Christmas party 🎉

📢 One week left to apply for the PhD position in my new project 🎓 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #EUsky #polisky #academicsky

@pmeiners.bsky.social presented his preliminary work (co-authored with @pieterdewilde.bsky.social) on narratives and framing of EU policies #polisky #commsky

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

Researchers from EVPOC are involved in the next round of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Survey (ICCS), focusing on democratic competence of pupils. #democracy #education nyheter.ntnu.no/forskningsmi...

(bsky-less) Melanie Magin has published a new book chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning, entitled "On the relationship between political campaigning and echo chambers" www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Melanie Magin, one of our communication scholars, has earned chocolate for her excellent teaching practitioner status #researchbasedteaching

Great Political Economics seminar at @ntnu-iss.bsky.social today. Cyrusian (NTNU) on "The Price of a Lordship" and Marxer (Lucern) on "Direct Democracy and State Government Finances"

Today we're learning about the connection between direct democracy and taxes. Thanks to Benedikt Marxer from Lucerne for visiting us

📢🎓 PhD position in my new "The future of EUrope" project 💶 Good salary & project money for data collections, travels, etc. 📝 International supervision team 🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ DL 10.12. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Thanks for sharing and RT! polisky EUsky