The hype is real! Portsmouth Comic Con is just around the corner and we are preparing with our latest episode of #PopMatters from FilmMedia&Communication Faculty of CCI, UoP
Check it out⬇️
Thanks to Rebecca Janicker & all who contributed putting it together! 🙏
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Echoing Prof Kate Dommett, these are some incredibly cool findings on political microtargetting *across the world* 👇

Somehow managed to summarise my entire PhD thesis on the growing UK voting age gap in 1000 words for the The Political Studies Association blog. Give it a read! ⬇️

psa.ac.uk/psa/news/widen…

📢 CFP for one-day hybrid workshop (19 June) on researching social media after the APIcalypse! Details below 👇 Deadline for 300 word abstracts 24 May 2024. Please share! docs.google.com/document/d/1Dr…

I had my first full-time permanent academic job in 1992 at a former poly & have spent most of my career in the sector. The joy of teaching creative subjects to students from working-class backgrounds/state schools/mature students, many felt they were given a 2nd chance 1/

It’s really hard to describe the pressures of being an academic at risk of redundancy. You still have to deliver everything the job demands (and normal working conditions demand way too much, prompting years of industrial action) in teaching, research & admin …/1

The 2024 Jay Blumler Lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Coleman on the topic of 'Democratic Hope in an Age of Anxiety'.

You can find information about attending in person on May 1 at the University of Leeds, or watching the livestream, here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events/e…

📢New: How Meta Nuked A Climate Story. I spoke to Marisa Kabas, James Dennis and Wawa Gatheru about the social media giant and what its generally terrible, no-good decisions mean for the climate and democracy.
forbes.com/sites/davidrve…

It’s book day! I Heart Politics is out today

University of Portsmouth: We are putting 398 staff at risk of redundancy.

Also University of Portsmouth: We are spending £250m on new buildings🤯

Completely unacceptable, members are now being consulted on taking strike action.

UCU Portsmouth

portsmouth.co.uk/education/stri…

There's still time to sign up to the next PSA Media and Politics Group online seminar with Prof Florian Toepfl Florian Toepfl l @[email protected] on users' engagement with political content on VKontakte, chaired by Lone Nerup Sørensen :
eventbrite.co.uk/e/psa-mpg-semi…

The University of Portsmouth's biggest asset is its staff, and if the university seeks to push through eye-watering cuts it may face the disruption of potential industrial action

ucu.org.uk/article/13526/…

My article on 'The Caring Public Sphere' for Javnost is now out on open access. It shows (I hope!) that the notion of care can help to radically rethink the public sphere concept in an era of 'care crises' (1/9)

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The University of Portsmouth is consulting academics on a plan to make around 50 redundancies. Their last announcement was a £250 million investment in estates.

I’m searching for people in #portsmouth #fareham #gosport #havant to take part in my PhD into trust in local news. The focus group will discuss access to news, reporting of communities, & trust. If you can spare an hour please DM me. (Pic is of me on the front page 21 years ago)

Redundancies at University of Portsmouth as it proposes a major restructure portsmouth.co.uk/education/redu…

Very poor timing for further restrictions of researchers' access to at least some data on what happens on digital platforms. Unless a better tool is provided, this further erodes independent researchers' ability to analyse and assess social media, making them (even) more opaque.

Ever wondered what parties spend money on in their campaigns? Didn’t have time to look at the 6,396 invoices parties submitted in 2019? We did!
New article with Sam Power @sliktor Andrew Barclay casts light on election campaign spending govandopp

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Our PSA Technology, Internet, and Policy (TIP) blog has officially gone live! 💡
In this new space, we invite researchers and practitioners to reflect on and discuss the impact of digital media on society, as well as other pertinent issues in Tech and Tech policy.
DM us to contribute!
psatip.uk/blog/the-tip-b…