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Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database

- Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life
- Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times
- Reddit = 600k

Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

On @bsky.app for academia: The post I made about the magnificent article by @juanroch.bsky.social
@daniel-balinhas.bsky.social @aurelmondon.bsky.social has been cited, according to @altmetric.com, by 3 users with 20,362 followers. On Bluesky it has been cited by 136 users with 913,869 followers

A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory - Public discourse about polarisation has become one of the latest hypes in politics, whether it is in the political sphere proper, the media, or academia. Much like...

A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation doi.org/10.1057/s412... Polarization
Narrative, Political parties, Public sphere, Democratic expansion @juanroch.bsky.social @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social @aurelmondon.bsky.social

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Victimhood, partisan identities, and media consumption in the US Political partisanship is typically understood as a social identity. Partisans vary in the strength of their identity – some are deeply attached to their partisanship, while for others it is not hi...

#1 — Victimhood, Partisan Identities, and Media Consumption in the US

Mayer & Parks examine how narratives of victimization intensify partisan identity, linking perceptions of group victimhood to media consumption and social media use.

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Who wants what, and why? Attitude polarization and political viability of UBI - Bastian Becker, Hanna Schwander, 2025 This study examines attitude polarization as a key determinant of the political viability of policy reforms, using Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a case in poi...

Who wants what, and why? Attitude polarization and political viability of UBI doi.org/10.1177/0958...
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Entrevista a Alyssa Battistoni - Corriente Cálida Alyssa Battistoni Una sociedad poscapitalista también tendría que hacer frente a las transformaciones que ya hemos provocado y a las que están efectivamente integradas en el futuro. En este momento, n...

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I've been pretty quiet lately finishing up my doctoral dissertation—it’ll be out soon! I’ll be back next year with more on Social Sciences and politics. For now, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

The Politics and Practice of Truth: Critical and Interpretive Perspectives on the Relationship Between Evidence and Policy in Post-Truth Times General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
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Mientras las instituciones gestoras de la evaluación científica sigan legitimando el lobby editorial, todos los que dependen de esas evaluaciones seguirán alimentando el monstruo.

La revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal recibe el Sello FECYT • PlatCom La revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal ha obtenido el Sello de Calidad FECYT, una distinción otorgada por la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología que reconoce el cumplimiento de ...

📚La revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal recibe el Sello FECYT, reconociendo su labor en Comunicación, Información, la Documentación Científica y las Bellas Artes.

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Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories doi.org/10.1177/1369... @beatrizlbuarque.bsky.social @nicklewis.bsky.social

Polarización social y control político: algunas consecuencias de la inteligencia artificial y las redes sociales para la razón práctica doi.org/10.36576/sum... Algoritmos Racionalidad Horkheimer Marcuse Mosterín Habermas Gramsci @sarrion.bsky.social · Carlos Rodríguez-Gordo

(PDF) A critique of the polarisation narrative: Expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation PDF | To cite: Roch J, Balinhas, D and Mondon A (2025) 'A critique of the polarisation narrative: Expanding the limits of democracy, parties and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

The ‘polarisation narrative’ simplifies complex issues by constructing a spectrum where good should be found in the middle of diametrically opposed political positions

New preprint article by @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I

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Social Media Strategies in Second-Order Elections: Insights From the 2019 European Election Campaign | Article | Media and Communication Antonio Amuza, Bianca Fox, Valentina Marinescu

Social Media Strategies in Second-Order Elections: Insights From the 2019 European Election Campaign doi.org/10.17645/mac... Antonio Amuza · @bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social · Valentina Marinescu @cogitatiomac.bsky.social

From general rejection to individual normalization: Ambivalences in discourses on intimate partner violence by young Spaniards doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Ismael Ocampo Bernasconi · Eva Espinar-Ruiz · @daniellaparra.bsky.social · Carmen Vives-Cases

La derecha radical populista en España (2019-2024): estudio de caso del discurso de Vox Introducción: La derecha radical populista, definida por Cas Mudde en 2007, ha visto surgir partidos en Europa que, aunque derivados de la extrema derecha de los años 80 y 90, presentan diferencias si...

La derecha radical populista en España (2019-2024): estudio de caso del discurso de Vox doi.org/10.31637/eps...
Carlos Pablos Romero · Lucía Andaluz Antón · @josemcorrales.bsky.social

Hidden Hate: Analysis of Hate Speech on a Darknet Forum Research relating to hate speech and the darknet have both grown significantly in the previous decade. Nonetheless, there is a dearth of empirical research exploring how hate speech manifests withi...

Hidden Hate: Analysis of Hate Speech on a Darknet Forum doi.org/10.1080/0741...
Kenji Logie · Noah D. Cohen · E. Taylor · Katrina Perry

Análisis framing del marco discursivo de VOX hacia medios de comunicación españoles en la red social X durante el ciclo electoral 2022-2023 Este artículo profundiza en el tratamiento dispensado por el partido político español Vox a los medios de comunicación. Para ello hemos realizado un análisis framing de los posts publicados en la red ...

Análisis framing del marco discursivo de VOX hacia medios de comunicación españoles en la red social X durante el ciclo electoral 2022-2023 doi.org/10.14198/DIS...
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In honour of #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth, #Identities is sharing our Special Collection, 'Global Perspectives and Local Encounters on #Islamophobia', with #FreeAccess throughout November:

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Political hate speech of the far right on Twitter in Latin America doi.org/10.3916/C72-... @enriquejdiez.bsky.social · María Verdeja · @sarrion.bsky.social · Luis Buendía · @julianmacias.bsky.social

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Populism, Radical Politics and the EU 13th Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on the European Union | 1 – 3 July 2026, Università di Catania

🌍 #SGEU26 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers
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Flags and Christian nationalist slogans feature in soaring attacks on UK mosques Between July and October, 25 buildings were targeted in 27 attacks, according to British Muslim Trust

Who could have predicted that mainstream media and politicians mainstreaming far-right talking points and symbols would embolden fascists (except all the research available on the matter)?

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The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework The study of far-right parties and politics is one of the most high-profile research areas in political science and related disciplines. Far-right parties have been the subject of vast amounts of v...

The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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