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Finley Watson

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PhD candidate at La Trobe. Researching new media politics. https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/fwatson/about

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Thanks Emily!

04.07.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share my first ever peer-reviewed journal article, now published open access in Television & New Media.
It looks at how political influencers are using YouTube to engage young audiences and the potential implications for participatory politics.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

26.06.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the influencers courting your vote - 360 Political influencers on platforms like YouTube and TikTok are already a force likely to shape how elections are covered even if they don’t swing votes. Online influencers might not change the way you...

Happy to share my article in 360info this week, looking at the Australian political influencer scene and how it may (or may not) shape the upcoming federal election.
360info.org/meet-the-inf...

06.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New article from me in
@ConversationEDU
looking at the strange trend of 'fake podcasts'. These have been around for a couple of years now, though seem to have become a more permanent fixture in video marketing and political communication.

21.01.2025 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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