🚨 Call for papers for the 10th annual conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics (University of Edinburgh, UK, 17-18 October 2024). Deadline for abstracts: 14 June 2024. Please share!
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Checking the proofs for the 2nd ed. of the Handbook of Digital Politics, edited by Stephen Coleman and myself. Out in October. We have an amazing line-up of star contributors and up-and-coming scholars, including:

New report alert 🚨
O3CLboro has found WhatsApp's ‘forwarded’ and ‘forwarded many times’ tags may not prevent the spread of misinformation as they are often misunderstood by users.
Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2r84hj89

For those interested in political #participation in the #digital technology era, our Vol.53/2 hosts a symposium on the volume Outside the Bubble:
discussion by Rosa Borge Shelley Boulianne James Dennis ➕rejoinder by the authors Cristian Vaccari 🇺🇦 [email protected] augusto valeriani 👉cambridge.org/core/journals/…

As part of the award committee w/ Anamaria Dutceac Segesten Cristian Vaccari 🇺🇦 [email protected], I can only recommend everyone APSA ITP reading this article. A strong example for theory-driven computational research providing insights on the effects of TikTok’s vs. YouTube’s affordances on political discourse

To overcome the kinds of ambiguous user interpretations revealed in the report, the connection between the “forwarded' tags and the potential spread of misinformation ought to be made more explicit for users. Read more: lboro.ac.uk/research/onlin…

lboro.ac.uk/research/onlin… As ever, thanks to The Leverhulme Trust for supporting the Everyday Misinformation Project.

Meta designed these tags to encourage sharing and avoid tarnishing its brand with associations between its platform and the spread of misinformation. But the approach can inhibit the effectiveness of misinformation warnings

Natalie-Anne Hall, Brendan T Lawson, Cristian Vaccari 🇺🇦 [email protected] & Professor Andrew Chadwick use qualitative methods to uncover people’s ambiguous interpretations of the “forwarded” tags.

New! O3CLboro Public Report: Beyond Quick Fixes: How Users Make Sense of Misinformation Warnings on Personal Messaging. Free and open access: lboro.ac.uk/research/onlin…

I'm honored to be this year's recipient of the Walter Lippmann Best Article Award from APSA APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions with 'Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil & Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk'. Thanks to the award committee for the recognition!

The roundtable of our symposium 'Bridging Divides with Communication Research' at the Hazlerigg Council Chamber is happening now.
The central question is how to decolonise and de-westernise our curriculums, practice, research and methods.

'Comparative research can help us to understand what is going on in one country and understand these historical cultural dynamics. Then, we can use this knowledge to inform policymakers. And this is also a task for universities and National Research foundations' Edda Humprecht

'We want to point attention to anti-populism and the actors, both political and media actors that are part of anti-populism and the roles that they play in polarisation and political realignment and the transformation of journalism.' Daniel C. Hallin

Stanyer asks Hallin & Humprecht what works to address the pressing challenges in politics, such as misinformation & polarisation Loughborough CRCC👉 @[email protected]

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'Another of the basic requirements for a healthy democracy is the ability of the society to come to enough consensus to act and to solve common problems. And today this is often the problem that we're facing. The polarisation has simply been too great.' Daniel C. Hallin

'It comes back to whether we can teach people how to deal with information, whether we can develop news literacy programmes to teach where to find accurate information. Comparative research can play a crucial role in this' Edda Humprecht in the Political Communication panel.

'Critical communication research has evolved over time, but there are also continuities. One of the most striking continuities is the election campaign research, which has been conducted here since the early 90s' says incoming Loughborough CRCC👉 @[email protected] director James Stanyer James Stanyer

'The future of the field of Media, Memory and History is to decolonise and de-westernise research in media history. There are too many Euro-centric approaches.' says panellist Maria Rikitianskaia Maria Rikitianskaia

are media studies ahistorical? certainly not in this room! Medhurst & Rikitianskaia address topics in media history & the “digital turn” Loughborough CRCC👉 @[email protected]

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