📢 New in HCR by @janadreston.bsky.social and @andreasnanz.bsky.social: Both intentional search and accidental exposure to election info on social media boost political knowledge—but don’t improve vote-choice alignment. Intentional seekers just feel more confident. Read: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

🎓 Top Student-Led Paper 🎓 @janadreston.bsky.social & @andreasnanz.bsky.social 📄 Incidental Exposure in a Mock Election Setting on Social Media: Effects on Subjective and Objective Political Knowledge and Aligned Voting

Read-only for raw data is great advice. Also, an intuitive structure for subdirectories is important. But raw data as *.pdf seems a bit... impractical? Are reviewers and (future) readers then supposed to parse your data from a PDF? This sounds a bit error-prone to me (or I don't get it)

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @andreasnanz.bsky.social and colleagues investigate how crucial political predispositions as well as how perceptions of content characteristics predict the two levels of incidental exposure to #news. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Nanz and Matthes examine how incidental exposure to political information on social media impacts users’ political knowledge and sense of political efficacy. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

New paper on incidental exposure (IE) w. @rutakaskeleviciute.bsky.social, Stubenvoll, and Matthes in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social📝 We investigated how pol. predispositions (interest and news avoidance) as well as perceptions of content relate to first- and second-level IE. doi.org/10.1080/2167...

New blog post on #MediationAnalysis (MA), which is widely misunderstood and overused in #CommunicationResearch and #Psychology. I made mistakes using MA myself, and no one should be blamed. But it's important to discuss flaws, esp. as MA has become so popular. www.raffaelheiss.com/post/mediation

New paper on incidental exposure (IE) in @icsjournal.bsky.social 📝 We investigated how first- (scanning of IE content) and second-level IE (thorough processing) relate to internal pol. efficacy and pol. surveillance knowledge (w. a 3W survey during 2021 GER election 🗳️). doi.org/10.1080/1369...

📢 Publication 📢 Jörg Matthes, @alonzoizner.bsky.social, @andreasnanz.bsky.social, @1864.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, & Selina Noetzel report findings from a 17-country survey about incidental pol news exposure & both online and offline pol participation. 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1080/2167...

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This study by Jörg Matthes, @alonzoizner.bsky.social, @andreasnanz.bsky.social et al. examines incidental political news exposure, revealing how its effects on participation depend on engagement levels and the quality of democracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....