New article: How Partisan Media Influences Aversion to Political Compromise, from IDS Grad Fellow Yoo Ji Suh, Affiliate @dvshah.bsky.social, and @prowag.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

The deadline for submissions to our IJoC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas” has been extended to June 15, 2025. Email me ([email protected]) or my co-editors w/ questions & share the CfP in your network. Link to call below (under the original link)

The deadline for submissions to our IJoC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas” has been extended to June 15, 2025. Email me ([email protected]) or my co-editors w/ questions & share the CfP in your network. Link to call below (under the original link)

First up: @taliastroud.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social in stellar #AlgoSoc2025 panel on the future of news consumption

1️⃣ day until the @algosoc.org conference 🚀 🌺 @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @jvh.bsky.social @theoaraujo.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social

"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison

🇺🇸 Absolutely insane crowd here in Madison, Wisconsin — the Capital of Democracy! #Handsoff

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years. Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism. May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

There’s no place on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for corrupt judges like Brad Schimel. We need a justice who will look out for everyday people’s rights and freedoms. Vote for Judge Crawford on April 1st! app.sosha.ai/s/vbJLLPYP

The “free speech absolutist” owner of X doesn’t like the output of the Community Notes program he has previously championed, so he puts his massive thumb on that scale to ensure it’s labels align with his twisted view of reality.

Hi, I'm Kate, a researcher at the University of Washington studying rumors and disinformation. I post a lot about my research and about my dog, Ruby. :)

Prosecutors in New York are doing more to counter the abuse of power from the Trump administration than our elected officials in DC. Integrity in action.

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. My team 1st encountered her while studying conspiracy theories denying chemical weapons attacks and other war crimes in Syria (~2017). She repeatly spread those false claims, echoing Russian disinfo. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is what a cap on “indirect costs” through NIH grants will do. Going from >50% of grant total to 15% will change how your local university healthcare systems function everyday.

We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.

Reupping this Call for Papers for a special issue of IJOC. Just over three months to go. Please share in your networks.

New summer institute for up-and-coming scholars across disciplines whose work investigates or intersects with disinformation: disinfoinstitute.org The first iteration will be this June in San Diego. Applications are due January 31.

…along with this excellent report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and @citap.bsky.social:

Probably a good day to re-up this report from @knightfdn.bsky.social and Gallup:

“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries” Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study. For no particular reason today. doi.org/10.1080/1520...

NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

✨Out now: The Fall Issue (Nr. 30) of the Political Communication Report!✨ “What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing” 📖 Full issue: politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2... A 🧵 on the essays featured in this issue:

Feel free to contact my fellow special issue co-editors, Erik Bucy ([email protected]) and Martin Echeverría ([email protected]). We seek research that spans North and South America and considers candidate performance in hybrid media settings.

We welcome submissions to our IJOC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me ([email protected]) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below. mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/13/m...

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

We welcome submissions to our IJOC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me ([email protected]) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below. mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/13/m...

IDS has a podcast! Listen in to hear conversations between our host (and Institute Chair) Dr. Angela Byars-Winston and great guests including @dvshah.bsky.social, @morgancjerald.bsky.social, @jirs.bsky.social, @ldwilliamsonphd.bsky.social, and others. ids.wisc.edu/podcast/

A fantastic choice. His work in Wisconsin has been phenomenal.

The handwringing lectures about how the left has no choice but to stay on Twitter are even more ridiculous when you remember that the far right used a series of alternative media — from direct mail to talk radio to Fox News to Breitbart to Gab, Parler and Truth Social — as their path to victory.

.@AllieCarnegie @DanCassino @ProfKevinCoe @anncrigler @claesdevreese @NinaEliasoph @DrChip97 @lfeldman17 @RKellyGarrett @jgastil @brucewhardy @AndrewFHayes @phevron @DrSharonspeaks @EevaLuhtakallio @nmaurantonio @VWPickard @Slaymer @DanielMRomero @scheufele @dvshah

Who wants to be the 10,000th viewer of the #PolComm Forum article? How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination: Hybrid Media Campaigning, by @cfwells @dvshah Pevehouse @junghwanyang Pelled @JosephineLukito Boehm @ShreenitaGhosh Schmidt (all...

#PolComm classic: "Connecting" and "Disconnecting" With Civic Life: Patterns of Internet Use and the Production of Social Capital, by @dvshah @uw_sjmc @UWMadison, @NojinKwak @UM_CommStudies @UMichLSA @umich, and R. Lance Holbert @TUKleincollege @TempleUniv...

How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination: Hybrid Media Campaigning, by @cfwells @dvshah @junghwanyang @JosephineLukito @ShreenitaGhosh et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2016.1224416 #PolComm

From #PolCom archive 2009: SI on Communication and Political Socialization Communication and Political Socialization: Challenges and Opportunities for Research, by Jack M. McLeod & @dvshah @uw_sjmc @uwmadison https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600802686105

+ @ayelletpelled @JosephineLukito Fred Boehm, JangHwan Yang @dvshah #PolCom #compol

Communication Competence as a Foundation for Civic Competence: Processes of Socialization into Citizenship, by @dvshah Jack M. McLeod & Nam-jin Lee https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600802710384 #PolCom

#ica_pol panel #28 at #ICA19 at 9:30 AM: #PolComm Ecologies and Media Systems, with @andrew_chadwick (discussant) @pmnapoli @AnaInesLanger @JohannesBGruber @ajungherr @KathyJCramer @jiyoun_suk @dvshah @prowag @karlrohe @LeiGuo_SH @chrisjvargo et al....

#ica_pol panel #22 at #ICA19 at 2:00 PM: Rethinking the Theory of Selective Exposure, with @TaliaStroud @RKellyGarrett @dvshah et al. https://ica2019.abstractcentral.com/planner.jsp#22#ICA19#PolComm

New #PolCom article in @JITP_APSA: Participation in Contentious Politics: Rethinking the Roles of News, Social Media, and Conversation Amid Divisiveness, by @LeticiaBode @StephEdgerly @cfwells @Itaygabay @pollsandvotes @lewfriedland @dvshah...

From #PolComm archive 2005: Understanding the Relationship Between Communication and Political Knowledge: A Model Comparison Approach Using Panel Data, by @DrChip97 @osupolisci, @AndrewFHayes @ohiostate, @dvshah @uwmadison & @NojinKwak @UMich https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600500311345

From #PolComm archive 2005: Observations on Estimation of Communication Effects on Political Knowledge and a Test of Intracommunication Mediation, by @DrChip97 @osupolisci, @AndrewFHayes @ohiostate, @dvshah @uwmadison & @NojinKwak @UMich https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600500311428

How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination: Hybrid Media Campaigning, by @cfwells @dvshah Jon C. Pevehouse @junghwanyang @ayelletpelled Frederick Boehm @JosephineLukito @ShreenitaGhosh Jessica L. Schmidt https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2016.1224416 /4

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Adding my love letter to arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01315 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White JMLR 25 (2024) 1-63 #ReinforcementLearning These aren’t the heroes we deserve, but they are the heroes we need.

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The Communication, Brain and Behavior Lab uses neuroscience tools to better understand how persuasion works in the mind. Learn more about their work: https://buff.ly/4fdbAlo

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