APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics

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#News #AI #war #theUN #misinformation and #surveillance. It is a full day of #saturdayfun at #apsa2025

#APSA2025 is what's happening. Today's ITP menu is spicy tech with a side of #platforms, #AI, public #engagement, #celebrities, #polarization, and of course APSA's future number one most important topic...authoritarianism.

Let's get ready to #APSA2025 people. If you have not been to an @apsaitp.bsky.social panel, it is time to rethink your life choices. The ITP section is chockablock full of wonderful people and research. We also specialize in non-obnoxious uses of presentation software and interesting memes.

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Thursday's tasty selection from APSA's ITP section. I cannot believe I am writing this but folks, smash the likes and shares. We are APSA ITP for goodness sakes! #APSA2025

#APSA2025 is imminent. Charge your lap tops. Dry clean those special work clothes. Remember to follow @apsa.bsky.social and attend all the amazing panels sponsored by the Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics. Tons of new talent and ideas in Vancouver this year.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and…

Registration Join scholars for the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from Wednesday, September 10 to Sunday, September 14, 2025, to explore the meeting theme,…

Join APSA in Canada! Explore the largest gathering of political science scholars at the #APSA2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver, CA, September 11-14, to explore the conference theme on “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.”

Are you presenting at #APSA2025? Submit your paper or presentation to APSA Preprints to the APSA Annual Meeting event page to circulate your project, get a DOI, & make sure to upload new versions as your work progresses! Check out others' papers, too. #polisky

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Theme Panel: Perestroika at 25: The State of the Discipline Today Co-sponsored by Division 54: Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics In-Person Roundtable Participants: (Chair) Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University (Presenter) C. Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota (Presenter) Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine Session Description: Twenty-five years ago, many of us opened our emails to find a disgruntled e-mail message signed by one “Mr.

Theme Panel: Perestroika at 25: The State of the Discipline Today #APSA2025

APSA 2025 in Vancouver BC is imminent. Check out the wonderful assortment of panels about to take place in one of the greatest cities in the world.

Run for Office!!! The APSA's ITP section invites you to consider a leadership role! As we like to say: somebody has to do this stuff. Please send any nominations (including self-nominations) to Section President Patricia Rossini at patricia.rossini@glasgow.ac.uk by September 4.

Run for Office!!! The APSA's ITP section invites you to consider a leadership role! As we like to say: somebody has to do this stuff. Please send any nominations (including self-nominations) to Section President Patricia Rossini at patricia.rossini@glasgow.ac.uk by September 4.

Section 18 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Information Technology and Politics Section Award Recipients More on the Information Technology and Politics section Best Student PaperBest Public Facing

Time to celebrate the 2025 ITP Section awards:
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Truly honoured by this award for our book with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social🙏 Many thanks to APSA @apsaitp.bsky.social, as well as to almost 20k people who have accessed the book online so far! #illiberalism

Section 18 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Information Technology and Politics Section Award Recipients More on the Information Technology and Politics section Best Student PaperBest Public Facing

Time to celebrate the 2025 ITP Section awards:
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Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia Limited research attention was given to the impact of online media on political participation in Latin American countries that face acute social tensions stemming from colonial histories and multi-...

Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity Twitter/X, with its unique microblogging capabilities, has increasingly become a prominent platform for political information and engagement. Analyses of 2021 Pew Research Center American Trends Pa...

Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning Fake news on social media is rapidly spreading, causing significant damage and highlighting the need for effective communication strategies to detect and combat its spread. This study introduces a ...

Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pill epistemology The rise of social media and the internet as predominant modes by which most Americans access and communicate information has transformed how we understand knowledge. Coterminous with such technolo...

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Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities Social media platforms like YouTube are often seen as gateways for the spread of conspiracy theories. While much of the research has focused on why people consume conspiracy theory content, little ...

Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities: Journal of Information Technology & Politics - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The bad citizen? Framing non-voting on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. election Although voting is considered a cornerstone of democratic citizenship, the U.S. has grappled with low voter turnouts for over a century. We examine America’s “non-voters problem” by adopting a mixe...

The bad citizen? Framing non-voting on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. election: Journal of Information Technology & Politics:
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Section18 - American Political Science Association (APSA) Information Technology and Politics (Section 18) The purpose of this section is to provide a forum for members with an interest in the use of computers,

Please help spread the word that nominations are open for the ITP awards:

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Deadline April 1!

Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines In this article, I examine a national security incident often associated with substantial ambiguity – a major cyber attack – via the lens of web search engines. Web search engines are the most impo...

Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions Hostile speech by politicians is increasingly prevalent on social media, especially for regular social media users. However, studies that compare the effects of political incivility versus intolera...

Full article: Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication The proliferation of mobile short video apps has transformed the dynamics of discourse circulation in contemporary society. However, limited research has been conducted on this phenomenon. This exp...

Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication
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“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects w...

“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads
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There's still time to submit your proposals! The 2025 annual meeting proposal submission deadline has been extended to Monday, January 20, 2025. Join us for the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 11–14, 2025, held in Vancouver. convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...

Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China This article examines the localization of digital governance technologies in inland China, with a focus on Guizhou Province, which houses China’s first big data pilot zone. Despite the centralizati...

Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China: Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....