‘Digital citizen vigilance’ makes republican theory real -- by @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social @helenmargetts.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...

Political discourse and #argumentation www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Blame and responsibility attribution across actor dimensions: public media discourse on antimicrobial resistances link.springer.com/article/10.1... @policysciences.bsky.social

This beauty has now been submitted, approved by the publisher, and is set for production. Across 43 chapters, it covers a wide range of topics, approaches, and countries. Please stay tuned for updates. A big thank you to everyone involved! THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE FAR RIGHT

3/ The career hallmark of "has published over 100 papers" may become the average phd or postdoc output expectation. It's gonna get worse before it gets better, i.e. before we arrive at a more sustainable model of science eval, phd awarding criteria, and dissemination model. Which may take a while.

Discourses of blame in strategic narratives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Communication-related vulnerability to #disasters: A heuristic framework www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disaster preparedness capacity development: A scenario-based system for social vulnerability reduction www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #disasters #risk #preparedness #vulnerability

Disaster preparedness capacity development: A scenario-based system for social vulnerability reduction www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #disasters #risk #preparedness #vulnerability

Communication-related vulnerability to #disasters: A heuristic framework www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Amazing work by voters of Hungary today. Ending democratic backsliding requires a public that chooses to embrace democratic norms and reject autocracy - and the Hungarian people did just that. Since my recent work explores authoritarianism, thought I'd share some observations from the literature:

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Discourses of blame in strategic narratives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Naming, Blaming, Shaming, and Stigmatization in World Politics academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Research Article Lydie Denis: Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My paper "Blame Games in Cyberspace" is now in print in International Interactions. The TL;DR: When allies back a cyber attribution claim, the public gets more confident and more hawkish. When adversaries deny it, especially by contesting the evidence, confidence dips, though less reliably. 1/3

‘My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise “critique with an emancipatory intent” but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.’ Nancy Fraser, new on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026) www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Discursive strategies of power and governance (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Experimental approaches to #argumentation Special issue link.springer.com/collections/...

Why do people who oppose conspiracy theories help disseminate them? That is one key question in the new article "Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories", written by myself and Luna Gao and published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can governments scapegoat the #IMF 🌐 to avoid domestic #blame for austerity policies? 🏦📉 In a study with @rodabouharb.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social & Bernhard Reinsberg @uofgsocsci.bsky.social, published in @gsqjournal.bsky.social #GSQ, we put this claim to a test: doi.org/10.1093/isag...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative" by @discodiscourse.bsky.social #Narrative #NarrativeActionProcesses #ModalTokens #ExtremeRight #Neo-NaziFantasy doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Social vulnerability triage: a dynamic scenario-based system for disaster planning and response www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse -- by Manfred Kienpointner www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted that the Bloomsbury Handbook of Language of Death is out. Edited by Justyna Ziolkowska and me. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse -- by Manfred Kienpointner www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Review of government social media communication research www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Out now: 'Critical Discourse Studies and Health Communication'. Chapter in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by B. Forchtner and F. Zappettini. Honoured to publish in this book alongside many whose work has inspired me. Chapter pre-print #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Doxxing Discourse By @carmen-lee.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This is a fantastic chapter on discourse, power and governance. Fully recommend to anyone working in this area.

Discursive strategies of power and governance (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Strategic synchrony? The co-projection of identity narratives by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sputnik Latvia by @emmaronngren.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm very excited about the most recent @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication, "Catching Fire in the News The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Review of government social media communication research www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Flooding the zone: Paths forward for information quality, misinformation, and disinformation work -- @joshscacco.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A NEW HOPE? Local journalism as a mitigation hub for misinformation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The discursive micro-politics of blame avoidance: Unpacking the language of government blame games link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this chapter, I map the field of linguistically informed critical studies of #power and #governance, identify key trends, and point to future avenues of research www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Doxxing Discourse By @carmen-lee.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Solid editorial work from @bforchtner.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social 🔓 You can read the pre-print of my chapter 'Anything goes? Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Critical Discourse Studies' here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Out now: 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites'. Chapter led by @emma-putland.bsky.social with Kevin Harvey in the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han.... Accepted version in original post below!

New publication: "Researching immigration and racism with critical discourse studies" in the newly published Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, edited by @bforchtner.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

The discursive micro-politics of blame avoidance: Unpacking the language of government blame games link.springer.com/article/10.1...