Ine Goovaerts

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp!

💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis
🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies)
🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪
📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025

www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

📢 Launching this fall: PolCom Classics!

A monthly online webinar where leading scholars revisit “classic” themes in political communication - mis/disinfo, framing, digitalization & more.

🗓 Every last Thu, 12–13 CET

First session: Sept 25 w/ @rensvliegenthart.bsky.social.

@nefca.bsky.social

The PolCom Division of NeFCA is now live on BlueSky!

Go follow them and keep an eye on their page for a nice announcement on Monday👀

Respect isn’t just a norm—it’s a dividing line in how people interpret politics. Turkenburg et al. show support for respectful talk varies by education, cynicism, populism & polarization—and shapes reactions to disrespectful politicians.

Read now in POQ: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics" Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨

Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger

DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥

@polcomm.bsky.social

➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research!

@markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters.

🧵 1/6

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨📝Can intergenerational empathy promote pro-environmental beliefs, policy support and behaviour?
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... This is the RQ of this article published @plosone.org w/ Edana Beauvais. My favourite project so far, & the most creative!

Cover of the book “The Psychology of Attack Politics Perceptions, Evaluations and Effects” by Alessandro Nai, Lukas P. Otto, Chiara Vargiu, out in July 2025 (Routledge). The cover features a detail from a medieval painting showing people happily stabbing at each other (from the Codex Manesse, 1304-1340)

📚📚📚

New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social

We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡

Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘

Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf

https://academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hcr/hqaf002/8078028

How do complexity and simplicity in political communication shape citizens' reasoning and attitudes toward politicians? 💭

Read more about it in this new study, out now in Human Communication Research ⬇️🤩
academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

🚨My small book with
@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
on timely #empathy #politics is online and I can't be happier! 🚨

shorturl.at/jZyPz

*The manuscript can be accessed freely for the next 2 weeks!* The book builds on my PhD thesis, defended
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Want to know more? The preprint of our accepted manuscript can be found here: osf.io/96jeh?view_o...

@turkenburgemma.bsky.social @sofiemarien.bsky.social

In short, we show that respectful comm in politics is not equally important to everyone, and not everyone reacts to norm-breaking the same way.
Yet, while this variation matters for some norms and outcomes, we also underline that not all shades of disrespect should be tarred with the same brush.

This is important, as previous literature often presupposes that there is widespread support for respect-based communicative norms in politics. One underlying reason for conditional effects often found in pol comm research, may thus be the variation in norm-support across citizens.

(2) while depending on the outcome (i.e., affect toward politicians, political trust, political talk, political information-seeking) and the specific norm under scrutiny, several results show that citizens who support respect-based norms more, react more negatively to perceived norm-violations.

Analyzing a wide range of communicative norms, we overall find that:

(1) there is substantial variation in norm-support across the population, with differences based on socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., education level) and political attitudes (e.g., cynical, populist, polarized attitudes);

Do citizens vary in their support for respect-based norms in political communication (e.g., civility, accessibility)? And if so, does this variation influence how violations of these norms shape democratic outcomes?

We address these questions in our new study, accepted in @poqjournal.bsky.social ⬇️

Vandaag is het nieuwe @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social uit met uitstekend onderzoek over de 2024 verkiezingen van collega-politicologen Artemis Tsoulou-Malakoudi, @inegoovaerts.bsky.social Gaetano Scaduto, @lucaskins.bsky.social, Caroline Close, Jonas Lefevere & @elisestorme.bsky.social www.sampol.be

Learnt so much today at our NeFCA practitioners’ event about political campaigns and political journalism!💡
Many thanks to our speakers and all participants!🙏

In Antwerpen today attending an event on digital political campaigning from a practitioners perspective :)

(with @philippmendoza.bsky.social)

✨Introducing the POLCOMM WHO-TO-FOLLOW List✨
(Bluesky Edition)

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Please respond to this post, in case you would like to be added!

I’d also love to be added! Thank you!

📢 Final days to apply for @ECPR @ECPR_PolCom endorsed (reserved) workshop: how uncivil, intolerant & violent communication styles threaten our democracies.
Conveners Jérémy Dodeigne & Chiara Vargiu at Joint Session '25 in Prague!
ecpr.eu/Events/Event/W…… ⏰DL: 21 Nov

🗓️Save the date! On 5 December, the Political Communication & Persuasive Communication divisions from NeFCA are organizing a Practitioners' Event on Political Campaigning in the Digital Context, in Antwerp. All information, line-up and registration option below👇👇

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

I created this starter pack with political scientists based in 🇧🇪, working on BE, Belgians abroad, or scholars with a past/present/future connection with 🇧🇪
A way to discover an awesome community of brilliant colleagues, including young scholars!
Very incomplete since I just joined
go.bsky.app/ULqBpam