#OpenAccess from @ita_polsc_rev -

Panem et circenses: removing political news to generate electoral support, evidence from Berlusconi's Italy - cup.org/3Sq7CMB

- Andrea De Angelis (@ipz_ch) & Alessandro Vecchiato

#FirstView

Despite most media literacy tips typically emphasizing skepticism of misinformation, mixed messages of skepticism and trust are the most effective at helping people discern true from false news, finds Sacha Altay Andrea De Angelis Emma Hoes doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

New #OpenAccess
Andrea De Angelis Alessandro Vecchiato analyze strategic use of TVnews as instrument of political influence focusing on Italy's 2011 financial crisis.They find deliberate reduction in hard news coverage, increasing voter support for Berlusconi's party
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🔔 Job Alert 🔔

The ad for the PhD position on my Swiss National Science Foundation project on polarization is now online:

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

Please help me share! #PoliSci_Jobs #academicjobs

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Excited to share that I've been awarded an Swiss National Science Foundation #Ambizione for my project on Multidimensional Polarization! 🥳

🚨 More soon on the (very independent!) PhD position on the project!

Looking forward to next 4 years at IPZ - Political Science UZH and a stay with Sara Hobolt at LSE Government!

🚨 Just out in @nature Scientific Reports🚨

What is the type of content people would share on social media if they were rewarded for it with 💰💰💰?

In this paper, Meysam Alizadeh Fabrizio Gilardi and I show that even a simple nudge (not yet actual money)... [1/X]

I am happy to share that I received the 2022 Gordon Smith & Vincent Wright Memorial Prize with Frederico Ferreira da Silva and Diego Garzia for our paper 'Partisan dealignment and the personalization of politics in Western parliamentary democracies, 1961-2018'!

Could the media’s attention to misinformation and fake news be harmful? In this paper (psyarxiv.com/4m92p) co-authored with Magdalena Wojcieszak Bernhard Clemm theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social Sijia Qian, we answer this question using both experimental (Study 1) and observational data (Study 2). Curious?🧵

📢 #S3DS2022 is approaching!
Monday 12 September, Keynote Prof. Stefano Bartolini
🗂️Read the programme t.uzh.ch/1kH and
✅Register as auditor t.uzh.ch/1mi
laura sudulich Frederico Ferreira da Silva Andrea De Angelis @manucciluca Daniel Bochsler 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social Marta Fraile Maldonado Dr. Mathilde van Ditmars

#S3DS2022 on 'Advances in #Comparative #Democracy #Research ' will take place at University of Zurich and IPZ - Political Science UZH from 12 to 16 September
You can apply till June 20th📅
Check the program t.uzh.ch/1kH
Submit your application NOW t.uzh.ch/1kp ✅
ipz.uzh.ch/en/s3ds

📣 CfA: Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies IPZ - Political Science UZH

💡 Topics of the panels:
1. campaigns with laura sudulich & Frederico Ferreira da Silva;
2. social media with LuigiC & Andrea De Angelis,
3. diversity with Daniel Bochsler 🇺🇦🇪🇺 & Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social
4. gender with Marta Fraile Maldonado & me

Info👇 Democracy Studies

Let's discuss what's happening in Russia. To put it simply, it's going full fascist. Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting lots of it. You can see 'Z' on these guys' clothes. What does it mean? 🧵

50 free eprints!!! Check out our article 'Who is afraid of a change? Ideological differences in support for the status quo in direct democracy'👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
with Davide Morisi and Céline Colombo

What about the political-behavioral implications of belief in #conspiracy theories?
In this #FirstView article Federico Vegetti & Levente Littvay show that those who believe in conspiracy theories are more likely to endorse violent political actions
#OpenAccess 👉ow.ly/Bwvx50EIG4k

Thrilled for the official launch of Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media today! We’ll be tweeting out summaries of our 18 #openaccess papers this wk. And check out our introductory piece (linked below) that lays out our thinking about quant description, digital media & why a(nother) new journal is needed

Next wednesday at 18:00 is our first R User Group Meeting after the winter break! There will be presentations about Text-Analysis and temporal-spatial-Visualization. #rstats #meetup

The meeting will be over Zoom.

Join us via Meetup: meetup.com/de-DE/Lucerne-…

Academics are one of the biggest groups using the #TwitterAPI to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world (& Twitter) a better place, and now more than ever, we must enable more of it.
Introducing 🥁 the Academic Research product track!
blog.twitter.com/developer/en_u…

This is the first of several great pieces that will be coming out in Frontiers - Political Science in the coming weeks as part of the special issue edited by Christina Farhart, Andrea De Angelis, Eric Merkley & myself. Watch this space.

Were political leaders always that important for electoral politics? In this LSE EUROPP blog post we highlight some key findings from our lastest WEP Journal article (tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…) Frederico Ferreira da Silva #elections #democracy
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday 12/01) at 12:30 CET for an interactive webinar with Universität Luzern to learn more about the EUI #PhD Programme!

You'll have a chance to interact with with Elias Dinas, Andrea De Angelis and Dr. Mathilde van Ditmars.

🔗 loom.ly/q-lciPs SBFI SEFRI SERI