@laiacastro.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, University of Barcelona; Digital Media & Politics
To all the #DSA experts and data access enthusiast out there, before you go on holiday, sign up & save the date for the #dsa40 data access days in Berlin, September 25 & 26!
2 days with keynotes, panels, expert insights and practical guidance 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
Thrilled to share the program for the III Yale-UB HPE Workshop — a joint initiative bringing together HPE researchers across continents and disciplines. Huge thanks to our sponsors, presenters, and discussants. Can’t wait for a great conference!
cc @cescamat.bsky.social (UB co-host)
Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics?
Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.
Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.
🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
From Bluesky to the Guardian!
In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.
Special issue on Democratic Listening forthcoming @polcommjournal.bsky.social. 9 excellent articles using experimental, observational, & philosophical methods to study this key component of political comm. Check out the TOC + intro essay by Michael Neblo & myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
30.05.2025 14:27 — 👍 28 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1
🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
Kicked off our #Fuel2Fire 🔥 project in Hamburg!
In this cross-country collaboration, we're studying polarization across Europe — from meta discourse to polarizing topics & practices — with partners from Spain, Sweden, Poland & @netzwerkrecherche.org.
#Polarization #Journalism
Out now at @poqjournal.bsky.social! Do election forecasts set realistic election expectations? doi.org/10.1093/poq/... 🧵 (w/ @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social and other awesome BlueSky-less colleagues)
12.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3
▶️ Do far-right wins fuel disinformation fears? 😮
@kgattermann.bsky.social, @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social and @claesdevreese.bsky.social show that strong far-right showings in the 2024 EP elections heighten public concern about disinformation 👇
GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025 01 to 26 September 2025 Mannheim | Online
📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025
The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open!
🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025
Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Mannheim
💻 Online
More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar
🌟 Another milestone for #MEDem! We’re now backed by 900+ #democracyresearchers worldwide! 🌍
🙌 Let’s keep the momentum going and reach 1,000 soon!
It only takes a minute to sign 👉 www.medem.eu/medem-endorsements
Our project #WHAT-IF is live! 🚀
Disinformation and hate speech threaten democratic discourse. WHAT-IF is building a digital twin of the political information landscape to test interventions and foster healthier democracies.
Stay tuned for updates and check our brand-new website: what-if-horizon.eu
Much needed and timely report on academic access to social media data👇🏽
17.01.2025 12:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU
We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social
‼️ Call for papers for the Barcelona DEC Workshop on Political Behavior and Public Opinion 👉 webs.uab.cat/grdec/2025-w... deadline: January 15th
02.12.2024 11:50 — 👍 38 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 6
(DIGITAL) MEDIA SYSTEM
So far, only new studies have empirically investigated media systems in the digital age. Stemming from trad approaches to media system comparisons, @laiacastro.bsky.social & @sinajb.bsky.social review the latest efforts to measure digital MS www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
To celebrate the publication of our HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS and our awesome contributors, I’m kicking off a pre-holiday challenge: every day, I’ll share a short intro to one of its chapters.
This is also an opportunity to connect with new colleagues, so please feel free to 📌!
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Partisanship and Older Americans' Engagement with Dubious Political News
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Older adults are the most likely to visit dubious political news sources yet they are good at identifying misinformation because of strengthening partisanship while aging, finds @benlyons.bsky.social @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social
@jasonreifler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
At the Digital Democracy Centre, we've just created this cool new starter pack featuring research institutions, researchers, NGOs, journals, and think tanks focused on how digital technologies and AI impact media, politics, and democracy.
We'll be updating the list continuously!
As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here:
jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/
And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...
follow @mercecrosas.bsky.social for insightful takes and updates on the innovative work that the Computational Social Sciences team is doing at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
16.11.2024 09:19 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of the introduction. It begins with "Computational text analysis (CTA) comprises techniques for measuring the content of texts with the help of computer algorithms. The methods are discussed under various labels, such as text-as-data, automated content analysis, natural language processing, or text mining. The defining characteristic of a CTA technique is that once it is initially configured, the computational system performs the measurements independently without requiring any manual intervention or effort. The strength of CTA lies in its scalability, enabling the measurement of characteristics across vast amounts of text. As a result, CTA has seen widespread application in communication, related social sciences, and the digital humanities, with the increasing availability of digital or digitized, machine-readable texts. We start this chapter with an overview of the historical development of CTA. We then systematize CTA along two dimensions: the representations of ..."
Here is @mscharkow.bsky.social's and my take on the past, present, and future developments of computational text analysis. Read the preprint now, as it will already be outdated at the time of official publication: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
02.10.2024 19:39 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1📣Job Alert🚨 I am hiring a PhD to join a research project on ONLINEHATE at the PolSci Department, UB, funded by www.aei.gob.es
It's a 4-year position.
Deadline: September 27 at 14.00h.
Find all info in the link below.
Please, get in touch if you have any questions!
drive.google.com/file/d/1FO0Z...
NEW📚Our *free* #openaccess book "Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication: Solutions to Wicked Problems" is out🚀
A privilege to work w/Peter Neijens, @judith-moeller.bsky.social @theoaraujo.bsky.social.
🙏@ascor.bsky.social for support.
📢Share #CommSky
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
📣Yet another job alert 🚨 Postdoctoral position available in my Digital Media and Politics team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - CNS
Find all relevant info and how to apply in here: bsc.es/join-us/job-...
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
📣Job Alert🚨 I am hiring a PhD to join a research project on ONLINEHATE at the PolSci Department, UB, funded by www.aei.gob.es
It's a 4-year position.
Deadline: September 27 at 14.00h.
Find all info in the link below.
Please, get in touch if you have any questions!
drive.google.com/file/d/1FO0Z...
