Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

📣 @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the call for the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open! 🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026. 🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353

FULL PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY ...at the DDC and DIAS, here at the University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰 ...open to various disciplines, including law, economics, political science, communication, journalism, or AI. More info: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

COME WORK WITH US ON DIGITAL SOCIETY & DEMOCRACY IN 🇩🇰! Full Professorship. Fantastic conditions. Highly dynamic team environment. Great colleagues. FUN! Happy to answer questions and make introductions to the rest of the team...

Cool study on how motivated reasoning shapes politicians' perception of public support for policies. I would add that, increasingly, skewed perceptions due to the salience of particular online formations (what becomes "loud" and visible online) are likely to also play a role in this.

Politicians often overestimate citizen indifference to policies, likely reflecting scepticism about whether opinions are genuine or just survey responses link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pssssst... 🤫 You can read/download/cite my contributions on Agenda Surfing and Far-Right Communication FOR FREE via the Preprint versions: portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...

Gibt viel Erklärungsbedarf zum US Medien System. Hier nochmal beim SRF🇨🇭 Stichwort: Konsolidierung und Fragmentierung als 2 Seiten der gleichen Münze www.srf.ch/audio/srf-4-...

Here's my entry on AGENDA SURFING 📰🏄‍♀ in the now published ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION. Learn all about how social actors can attach their messaging to previously established agendas to "surf" the waves of public attention. Cool stuff! www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

My day started with a pretty painful rejection for a grant I'd been working on. 💔 Shortly after I received word that my paper with @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social got accepted to Political Communication. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Heute bei Deutschlandfunks mediares zur gleichen Thematik: www.deutschlandfunk.de/curd-knuepfe...

Interview mit ZDF live zum Themenkomplex Medienkonsolidierung in den USA. TLDW: no good can come of this. Aber: hier sind größere Mächte am Werk als "nur" Trump. Und: unter normalen Umständen hätte ich sehr starke Zweifel, dass das so durchgeht... www.youtube.com/live/da3-btX...

I'm back in the top 1% of global Mountain Goats listeners. 🏔️🐐 In case anyone was wondering.

The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (where I work), has an ongoing collaboration with TrygFonden, which allows us to fund project-based fellowships. The upcoming cohort has 15(!) colleagues from academia, journalism, & policy coming in. Cool stuff. ...And the fellowship will continue in 26/27. 👀

Now that the 11th annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP2025 is over, I am back on European ground, & wanted to reiterate that it remains my favorite smaller conference. So many interesting projects, so broad + international & yet so constructive + focused. 10/10!

not good www.wired.com/story/senato...

Nachreichen möchten wir außerdem ein Paper von @curdknupfer.bsky.social, Lance W. Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social zu Normalisierung durch überproportionale mediale Berichterstattung über disruptive politische Akteur*innen aufgrund eben dieser Disruptivität: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

#NeuesausderForschung Gervais et al. untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen autoritärer Persönlichkeit und der Unterstützung politischer Gewalt; u.a. mit einem Fokus auf den Widerspruch zwischen autoritärer Unterwerfung und der Billigung von Gewalt gegen Autoritäten: doi.org/10.1017/S104...

Fantastic 1st day of conferencing at #IJPP2025. Lots of new faces, projects & ideas. Topics: International ✅ Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅ Politics ✅ @taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @polcomm.bsky.social

First panel of the day, focused on Campaigns and Identities. With Dennis Steffan on Visual Frame Building in Election Campaigns in 🇩🇪&🇰🇪 Then: Tetsuro Kobayashi, linking conspiratorial beliefs to collective efficacy, via social media engagement and deep search in 🇯🇵. #IJPP2025 #IJPP25

Kicking off #IJPP25 with welcoming words by our Editor in Chief @taberez.bsky.social, followed by an excellent keynote by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on how the rise of illiberal public spheres forces us to reconsider normative assumptions in #polcomm. Focusing on publics, media trust, & disinfo.

In Singapore (1st time) for the annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP. Only had about 90 minutes of free time to explore & snap some pre-golden hour pics at the tourist hotspots in China Town.📸 Have another half day off on Sat. LMK if you have any must-sees/eats...

The @ec.europa.eu 'Democracy Shield' plans have dropped. The focus on free, independent media, fact-checking, literacy, election integrity etc make sense. But: it needs to be acknowledged that many of these challenges are not from outside the EU only. Also from within. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Apparently, back in late Summer, some clown with my email/name volunteered for numerous review and writing tasks due at the end of this *very busy* month. 🤡😭

Nice work by these always excellent colleagues: Embedding platform affordances within the contexts (and confines) of the media/political regimes in which they are used by various social movements. Smart stuff!

Research by our own @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others proves that climate journalism truly matters. Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)

It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .

How Elon Musk boosts the British right.

Hi #PolComm & #commsky folks! What are some of your go-to texts for an intro into (digital) communication?

Chapter 1+2 work pretty good and are interesting for students in interdisciplinary study programs (as far as I can tell) - www.wiley.com/en-gb/Platfo... @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social & Bruce Mutsvairo

Hi #PolComm & #commsky folks! What are some of your go-to texts for an intro into (digital) communication?

Social science is so cool

This must be what it's like to be American when the World Cup is on.

Posting is correlated with affective polarization: 😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics 🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)

🚨 Evergreen Post 🚨 Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.

Made this meme, in celebration of passing my Danish language module 3.1. exam today. 🇩🇰🎶🫡

I contributed some quotes citing our research to this @euobserver.com piece on the German center-right's relation to the far right. 🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar... TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.

Why does the country think CBS News is biased? Because the modern conservative movement has been pushing that narrative for the better part of 80 years!

New publication alert🔓🚨 Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity? Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.

If you've been reading that fantastic new paper by @dasalgon.bsky.social & @tevoelker.bsky.social on how mainstream parties lose if they adopt far-right issues: We looked at a case study & found similar dynamics for media. This was partly based on data from Daniel & Teresa!❤️ bsky.app/profile/curd...

In our new article, @tevoelker.bsky.social and I show how far-right actors have increased their influence on mainstream parties' agenda-setting. For the @euobserver.com, Hannah Kriwah has written about our study, and I had the pleasure to comment on it. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Showed the poop plane video to our five-year-old. He didn’t seem to think it was funny. White House comms not landing as well as one might think with the preschool males demographic.

One unexpected thing I learned from today's #NoKings protests is that an inflatable mascot costume is only going to set you back bz about 25-50 $\€

What's the opposite of doomscrolling? Need a word for what I'm doing right now.

DARTMOUTH OUT! We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

Very cool to see friends’ work being reported in the national media, congrats @tevoelker.bsky.social!

12 days to go and clearly a good time to share this again. While it looks like the PVV is going to do worse than in the last election (although let's not forget a lot of movement in the last week in 2023), taken together far-right parties might do as well or better than in 2023.

Of all the ways in which media coverage of Trump II is failing, it's this kind of stuff that makes me despair the most. It's right there! In the foundational text!! You don't even have to cite anyone else. ARRGHH!!!

AI usage by political campaigns is still low (this project estimates about 2% of posts), but it's certainly a pattern that when it is used, it's most used by the far right.