APSA's Organized Section on Information Technology & Politics

Happy New Year, dear APSA ITP community! After the holidays is before the APSA submission deadline: Make sure to submit your abstract by January 14! You can find the call here: connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/202... Looking forward to seeing you in Boston!

That being said: The next APSA submission deadline – January 14, 2026 – is just around the corner! Please find the section’s call for proposals here: connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/202... We hope to see you in Boston!

Thank you all for devoting your time to the APSA ITP community and for contributing to making the next APSA annual meeting in Boston 2026 as lively and successful as the last one!

Want to nominate someone our yourself for an award? The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2026!

Most importantly, watch out for the Best Student Paper Award which will be awarded by Yilin Su, Allison Ko and Camila Mont’Alverne as well as the Best Dissertation Award which will be handed out by Rosalynd Southern, Will Schulz, Shir Raviv and Eddie Yang!

Jan Zilinsky, Thomas Zeitzoff and Rajeshwari Majumdar will be handing out the Best Conference Paper Award. Curd Knüpfer, Michael Bossetta and Manu Singh Burson serve on the Best Public Facing Scholarship Award.

Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Václav Štětka and Benjamin Burnley serve on the committee for the Best Book Award. Lindsay Hoffman, Daniel Muise, Augusto Valeriani and Sabina Mihelj will choose the Best Article Published in our journal, Information Technology and Politics.

We welcome Shelley Boulianne as 2025-2026 Section Chair, Jiang Li as Vice Chair and Cher Elect, Ben Epstein as Section Secretary, Leticia Bode as Treasurer and Katharina Heger as Communications Officer! Furthermore, we would like to announce the award committee members:

First of all, we thank Patricia Rossini and Shelley Boulianne for serving as past Section Chair and Program Chair! Thank you both for organizing such insightful and inspiring ITP panels at APSA these past two years! (And thank you for introducing some first-time attendees to timbits..🍩)

Hi there, after a very successful APSA meeting in Vancouver, ITP has some announcements to make:

FACT: The best panels at APSA are always on Sunday.

THEREFORE: Attend APSA's best panels today!

#APSA2025 #misinformation #harm #AI #publicopinion

#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.

APSA ITP on X: "Digital tools, methods, theory, and hard to find Twitter data Wednesday morning at the #APSA2025 pre-conference workshop on https://t.co/3P8RFxA6gh. https://t.co/BcqCIZMmiW" / X Digital tools, methods, theory, and hard to find Twitter data Wednesday morning at the #APSA2025 pre-conference workshop on https://t.co/3P8RFxA6gh. https://t.co/BcqCIZMmiW

Worth a look.
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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:
apsanet.org/membership/o...

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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....