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Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
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Jake Grumbach
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Wrote a piece for
@slate.com
on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA
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It’s wild that so many smart ppl have no political analysis. This is the analogue of declines in trust in journalism and medical professionals - they are the result of sustained political attacks.
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Brendan Nyhan
about 1 month ago
Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic
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alice e marwick
about 1 month ago
🚨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....
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Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories
Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2026.2644198#abstract
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Thomas M. Keck
2 months ago
New V-Dem data release dropped yesterday. For the first time, V-Dem identifies Trump-era United States as an autocratization episode. Here are 3 of V-Dem's indices for the full scope of U.S. constitutional history. Description of these indices in alt text.
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martin johannes riedl
2 months ago
New 📄 out in
@icsjournal.bsky.social
"Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety" Link:
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety
Dating apps enjoy some popularity among those looking for relationships, love, casual sexual encounters, and more. While platforms’ infrastructures provide affordances to mitigate safety concerns, ...
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2026.2639563
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Curd Knüpfer
4 months ago
This is such an excellent book and a veritable who's-who of
#PolComm
scholarship, full of prescient observations on the role of journalism, data, race / social identities, and new forms of networked mobilization in the current state of US crisis... Put it on your syllabi/reading lists!
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As our government seeks to erase the truth of five years ago, I am deeply grateful for all those researchers whose words shine with such clarity in our Media and January 6th
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social
book:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Curd Knüpfer
4 months ago
🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/
@yunkangyang.bsky.social
&
@mikecowburn.bsky.social
Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave.
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...
https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2604708
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Chokely Carmichael🥋
5 months ago
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in
@journal-of-comm.bsky.social
, we (w/
@dkreiss.bsky.social
,
@danlane.bsky.social
, &
@shannimcg.bsky.social
) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying
#polcomm
from a *group* perspective. 🧵
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Sarah J. Jackson
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That’s the second empirical study I’ve seen this week that does an excellent job w/ right-wing radicalizing discourse. The other is this study on anti-immigration in France which is fantastic (and I’m not only saying that b/c they cited my and
@dkreiss.bsky.social
’s work on “defensive publics”)
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Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics
What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2025.2588248?src=#abstract
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Andrew Thompson
6 months ago
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public"
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2501150122
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Miriam Rabkin
6 months ago
I wrote a piece about the tsunami of health
#disinformation
being supercharged by the
#MAHA
takeover of HHS, and interviewed
@dkreiss.bsky.social
for his perspective on information warfare
#publichealth
#medsky
www.orangedems.com/disinformati...
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP
8 months ago
UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon. Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom.
@aaup.org
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UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group
UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...
https://www.wral.com/news/local/unc-professor-dwayne-dixon-reinstated-october-2025/
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Brendan Nyhan
8 months ago
Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
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Clara Juarez Miro
9 months ago
What a great way to start the week! My new article is now published in @polcommjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 This study holds a special place for me, capturing the core of my dissertation. I am so excited to finally share this work. Check out the article here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/55HRJ...
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“The People” Imagined, Felt, and Experienced by Populist Supporters: A Cross-National and Cross-Ideological Approach
“The people” is a central concept in populism, yet it remains unclear how those who identify with this community interpret it. Drawing on social identity theory and fandom studies, this study exami...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/55HRJTQ5Y42DVTBVATEG/full?target=10.1080/10584609.2025.2550423
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Francesco Bailo
9 months ago
We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations.
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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Affording Fragmented Audiences: Multi-Platform Deliberation within the Five Star Movement
We examine how multi-platform digital environments influence intra-party dynamics within political organizations, focusing on the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) as a paradigmatic case of extreme ...
https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2548288
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What a wonderful institution and honor to present in front of so many amazing scholars.
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Curd Knüpfer
10 months ago
Hooray! The 31st Issue of the
#PolComm
Report is out! What a fantastic lineup
@igoncalves.com
was able to assemble for the topic of "Teaching PolComm" 🤩 Khadijah Costley White,
@kcoe.bsky.social
& Diana Zulli, Regina Cazzamatta, Matthew Powers, &
@sangjung-kim.bsky.social
(& her students).
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Spenser A. Warren
10 months ago
New article from John C. Stanko in Political Communication bridging IR and CP explores how populist autocrats use international status recognition to improve legitimacy at home.
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Dynamic Legitimation Theory and Populist Authoritarian Leaders: The Rhetorical Framing of International Status for Domestic Legitimacy
This article contributes to the literature on the use of strategic communication in authoritarian legitimacy by analyzing the rhetoric of populist authoritarian leaders. Dynamic legitimation theory...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2025.2529939#abstract
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Curd Knüpfer
10 months ago
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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Noah Rosenblum
10 months ago
Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education.
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Mike Ananny
10 months ago
Big thanks to always smart & thoughtful friend & colleague
@dkreiss.bsky.social
for so clearly articulating how Trump’s attacks on Higher Ed harm this country. Read the full interview.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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How Public Attacks on Harvard Harm All of Higher Ed
The administration’s use of public channels to herald funding freezes and federal investigations tells of a coherent agenda to remake higher ed, according to one political scientist.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/15/how-public-attacks-harvard-harm-all-higher-ed
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Curd Knüpfer
11 months ago
The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
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Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar
https://academic.oup.com/book/60493
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Curd Knüpfer
11 months ago
✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social
and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵
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Digital Journalism
12 months ago
ONLINE FIRST! This article by Allie Kosterich,
@adamsaffer.bsky.social
, Matthew S. Weber, and
@dkreiss.bsky.social
introduces “network histories” as a method to analyze how prior relationships influence digital journalism’s people, teams, and organizations.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism
This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relation...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2505981
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Center for Communication & Civic Renewal
11 months ago
🚨 CCCR has a new survey report out today! 🚨 "100 Days Under Trump: Public Reactions to Attacks on American Governance & Institutions" The report draws on our Apr/May YouGov panel survey of US adults, following our Oct 2024 survey w/ recontacts + a sample refresh. 1/
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Curd Knüpfer
12 months ago
✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨ The Phantom Counter-Public: Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler. 🧵⤵️
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Dominik Stecuła
about 1 year ago
The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with
@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social
and
@patyrossini.bsky.social
, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information:
u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
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2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
https://u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions
about 1 year ago
🔹The call is directed to grad students, postdocs & early career scholars. 🔗Full information:
politicalcommunication.org/ica-division...
🔹Submission: 300-word abstract of your paper that outlines the research questions/hypothesis ✨Keynote Speaker:
@dkreiss.bsky.social
#ICA
#Polcomm
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Upcoming ICA Sponsored Conferences – PolComm
Call for Papers: Second Delhi School Workshop on Political Communication Dates: July 30 to August 1 2025 Application Deadline: May 23, 2025 Venue & Host: Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing S...
https://politicalcommunication.org/ica-division/upcoming-ica-sponsored-conferences/
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions
about 1 year ago
📢 Call for Abstracts The ICA Polcomm is happy to be sponsoring the Second Delhi School Workshop on Political Communication 🗓️ July 30 – Aug 1, 2025 | 📍 New Delhi Deadline: May 23 The school broadens the field beyond US and European focus. 🧵👇
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Josh Braun
about 1 year ago
Posting for no particular reason.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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#VOA
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Claes de Vreese
about 1 year ago
PSA: When entering the US, Custom & Border Protection officers may "search a traveler’s mobile phone, computer, camera, or other electronic devices during the inspection process" in a way that "allows for the examination of the device and its contents" Details in link ⬇️
www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-s...
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Border Search of Electronic Devices at Ports of Entry
Securing America's Borders
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-search-electronic-devices
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Burcu Baykurt
about 1 year ago
I have a new article
@icsjournal.bsky.social
on the ways gov-tech firms try to reshape public services—turning public data into private assets and redefining state capacity—and use capture, rather than surveillance, as a guiding principle.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EBNZK...
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Gov-tech as capture: public infrastructures under data capitalism
This paper examines the U.S. ‘gov-tech' market, focusing on firms that partner with government agencies to redesign digital public infrastructures. Through interviews with founders and chief techno...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EBNZKI3YVU2PVW9HIYH6/full?target=10.1080/1369118X.2025.2479788
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Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
about 1 year ago
American higher education now faces a perfect storm of demoralization, defunding, and delegitimization. These attacks are not random or isolated; they follow a classic authoritarian playbook, and go beyond ordinary policy disagreements and have become an existential threat to the academic sector.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 1 year ago
Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors
@stevelevitsky.bsky.social
and
@ryanenos.bsky.social
The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/14/enos-levitsky-harvard-columbia-trump/
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Fil Menczer
about 1 year ago
IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship
osome.iu.edu/research/blo...
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IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship
When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...
https://osome.iu.edu/research/blog/ius-observatory-on-social-media-defends-citizens-from-online-manipulation-the-opposite-of-censorship
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Amanda Litman
about 1 year ago
🤝 WHEN WE’RE IN CHARGE: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership 🤝 is now available for pre-order & will be out on May 13!! It's a book for & about millennials & gen Z on how we can break the cycle of bad boomer leadership to make everyone’s lives a little bit better.
whenwereincharge.com
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Saif Shahin
about 1 year ago
#newPub
#openAccess
#academicSky
#commSky
Delighted to see this article finally published in Social Media + Society.
#StopAsianHate
as Hashtag
#Activism
: Provocateurs, Celebrities, and
#Fan
Practices of Collective Action Against
#Racism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Key findings 🧵👇🏽
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Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
over 1 year ago
CITAP, in collaboration with Marie Heřmanová (
@mariher.bsky.social
) & Kristóf Szombati, presents a very timely and important reading list: "Authoritarian Politics: How to Understand It and How to Resist It." ...🧵
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A.J. Bauer
over 1 year ago
🚨New Publications🚨 In Journalism Studies,
@amnadler.bsky.social
and I argue that right-wing news is competing with journalism over the cultural authority to tell the “true” story of public life. For journalism scholars and practitioners alike, a🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1080/1461...
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Competing for Cultural Authority: Journalism Studies Must Account for the Right
Recent technological and political developments have caused researchers to reevaluate journalists’ relevance vis a vis other forms of media production, with some calling for a “decentering” of jour...
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2454344
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Kate Wright
over 1 year ago
Very much looking forward to welcome
@dkreiss.bsky.social
to Edinburgh!
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P&IR Edinburgh
over 1 year ago
Join us on 6 February for an insightful talk and discussion on "How Platforms Fail Democracy" with visiting Professor Daniel Kreiss from the University of North Carolina. 🎙️ Speaker:
@dkreiss.bsky.social
📖 Book your space here:
edin.ac/4iI52Og
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How Platforms Fail Democracy
This talk argues that platforms fail democracy in stable governments and fair elections.
https://edin.ac/4iI52Og
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Curd Knüpfer
over 1 year ago
💡->🔬->📝->📄->📘 Our study on "Framing Cascades in
#Far-right
Digital Networks" now has an issue! 🧵⤵️
#polcomm
#commsky
Knüpfer, C., & Hoffmann, M. (2024). Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks. Political Communication, 42(1), 85–107.
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2024.2332762
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Carolyn Schmitt
over 1 year ago
NEW PUB with Lee McGuigan! 🎉 We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23470
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Richard Fletcher
over 1 year ago
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:
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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqae044/7907139
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Anne Applebaum
over 1 year ago
Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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US agency focused on foreign disinformation shuts down
A leading US government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department said Tuesday, after Congress failed to extend its funding following years of Repub...
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241224-us-agency-focused-on-foreign-disinformation-shuts-down?utm_slink=f24.my%2FApkI
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