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Niamh Cashell

@niamhcashell.bsky.social

Politics PhD student researching the use of visuals in election campaigns

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The TIP Newsletter: the Cloud in the age of AI, Regulation trends beyond the West, & more! Hello TIPers,

And @sarahledoux.bsky.social's main story in this month's newsletter ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ is on regulating copyrighted data for AI training and how India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ is taking on this task, with a comparison to limited efforts in the EU ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ and US ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Link to the newsletter again: technologypolicy.substack.com/p/the-tip-ne...

23.01.2026 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Join us ๐’•๐’๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’“๐’๐’˜ ๐Ÿ“ฃ (2 Dec) to discuss "The Politics of Platform Regulation" ๐Ÿ“– with Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca 3:00-4:15pm GMT!

Looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion on how govs shape content moderation & strategies to combat harmful content

Sign up ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

01.12.2025 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐Ÿ’ฅUpcoming event! ๐Ÿ’ฅ"The Politics of Platform Regulation"
๐Ÿ•’ 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT

Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content

Sign up ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

14.11.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

It was a pleasure to engage with 3 fantastic panellists and lots of interesting audience discussion!

16.04.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image text: Save the date. Early Career Pre-Conference Day at PSA24. 24 March 2024. 2-5pm. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. More information to follow.

Image text: Save the date. Early Career Pre-Conference Day at PSA24. 24 March 2024. 2-5pm. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. More information to follow.

๐Ÿšจ SAVE THE DATE

We're thrilled to announce that we are continuing our new tradition of an Early Career Pre-Conference Day ahead of the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social main conference. Join us in Glasgow on 24 March 2024 from 2pm!

More info on registration and schedule will be released soon ๐Ÿ‘€

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05.12.2023 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Just presented our project with @niamhcashell.bsky.social at the Media & Politics Group @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social using quants & quals analysis to compare Google & Microsoft AI tags of political campaign images; we discussed issues w accuracy & implications of AI's sexist & racist biases

26.10.2023 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Visualising the future of visual politics Visual campaigning is not new to the social media era. In the US, the first political cartoon was published by Benjamin Franklin in political pamphlets in 1747. Visual symbols such as the bald eagle, ...

Having seen how awkward-bordering-on-uncanny Sunak's Smoke free future promo pic is it is worth reading @niamhcashell.bsky.social piece on appearing visually authentic

blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/visualising-...

05.10.2023 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Kenn!

05.10.2023 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi everyone! Iโ€™m a Politics PhD student based at the University of Manchester. I focus on visual political communication and how candidates target in-groups and out-groups through their campaign imagery. In my spare time I love swimming, especially outdoors!

05.10.2023 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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