Calling all researchers. If you’re working w/ social media data, see what’s coming next from @Communalytic.org, our no-code research platform for collecting and analyzing discourse across networks like Bluesky, Reddit, Telegram, X & more. communalytic.org/2026/02/18/c... #academicsky #PolCom #PhDSky
Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, with a mere 10 languages making up 82% of all internet content. This disparity is the core challenge for content moderation, write Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew. Measurement is part of the solution, they say.
Happy to share our latest pub on Electronic News examining international news coverage in US media. We thank @masscommgrad.bsky.social for making this happen 💜🥰 doi.org/10.1177/1931...
The 📚 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 📚 is now out in the wild, and a first awesome batch of entries is available in open access!
Read them, love them, use them for your courses! 🔥
Check the 🧵 below to access them
Plz repost for maximum diffusion
Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details. • State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024. • State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024. • Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024. • Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021. • Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.
🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education…
dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io
Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social
My co-authors and I will present three papers at #ica25 today and tomorrow! Join us if you are interested in journalists’ AI adoption, press freedom interpretation, and how media are conceptualized in research on authoritarian contexts.
This is great!! @polcomm.bsky.social is launching a database for polcom teaching resources! #ica25
Pin the #ica25 feed to keep up on conference posts this week!
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New month, new pub 📑 on First Monday Journal with @lvsheen.bsky.social - Dat and I explore the differences in self-presentation across social media platforms.
We thank @masscommgrad.bsky.social for the support via the 2023 Patricia Key Benoit Graduate Research Award.
🎉Congratulations to doctoral students H. Dat Tran and Uyen Diep on their latest publication in Newspaper Research Journal! #ScholarshipFirst #Research #GeauxManship🎓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Graphic of Diep and Tran. Their research project is titled, The Vietnam War, 50 Years Later: Mediated Memory, Media History, and Differences in Americans’ Collective Remembrances of the Vietnam War and Perceptions of Contemporary US-Vietnam Diplomatic Relations." Faculty advisor is Dr. Will Mari.
Congratulations to doctoral students Uyen Diep and H. Dat Tran on receiving the Patricia Kay Benoit Award supporting independent and collaborative graduate and doctoral research! #ManshipMade
🎉Congratulations to doctoral student Uyen Diep on her latest publication in Newspaper Research Journal! #ScholarshipFirst #Research #GeauxManship🎓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excited to share our latest pub on Newspaper Research Journal @lvsheen.bsky.social examining potential influences of international news to audiences’ perceptions of foreign nations and nationals. We appreciate the fund from @masscommgrad.bsky.social 💜
doi.org/10.1177/0739...
In what ways do Global North approaches to research and policymaking on the information environment fall short at addressing Majority World concerns? How can they be improved? I spoke with 54 experts around the world to learn more:
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
In the absence of federal regulation, states continue to lead the development of technology policy in the US, passing 238 bills in 46 states in 2024, a 163 percent increase from last year.
New report published today by us & NYU's Center on Tech Policy.
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Happy to share our latest pub on @icsjournal.bsky.social about dating apps U&Gs among Vietnamese LGBTIQ+ young adults w/ @lvsheen.bsky.social - full paper at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QZGMX...
Why do voters often not mind negative or uncivil campaigns—is it for a lack of better electoral alternatives? 🧵
In my PhD study “The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns” (w/ @lindabos.bsky.social & @alessandronai.bsky.social) we test this idea:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polcom #commsky
Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed
go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe
🚨NEW study from @qutdmrc.bsky.social with eye-opening! 👀 findings!
The computational analysis of engagement found that X's algorithm was changed in July 2024 to boost Republican-leaning & Elon Musk's accounts during US election
#AlgorithmicBias #USElection2024 #Twitter #X eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌
go.bsky.app/VqFrK14
