Ozan Kuru

"Instead of treating all individuals and groups equally with respect to their status, power, or ends, a group theory of political communication requires normative analysis of the positioning of groups vis-a-vis one another and liberal democracy."

Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: an analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media Abstract. This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the l

Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: an analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media url: academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

"As the university trades its teaching mission for “AI-tech integration,” it doesn’t just risk irrelevance—it risks becoming mechanically soulless. Genuine intellectual struggle has become too expensive of a value proposition."

"Our certainty-weighted extension to the expectancy-value model clarifies why certain misbeliefs remain deeply influential, and how knowing more can move —but also polariz— public opinion."

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Data Cleaning Tools and Techniques for Non-Coders Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible to journalists without coding.

Data Cleaning Tools and Techniques for Non-Coders

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I am realistic enough to understand the demand-side issues, but I am also old skool about stuff like this and I really wonder how you can have a fully-realized university if you are just continually dropping coverage of significant areas of knowledge like this

"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"

Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions

Over 100,000 killed in Gaza, by 6 Oct 2025, as direct (violent) deaths, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Centre for Demographic Studies

www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

"Integrate blogs into catalogues and repositories, assigning ISSNs and DOIs.
Encourage open licensing to facilitate reuse and archiving.
Support preservation initiatives like Rogue Scholar that combine openness with technical sustainability."

Deadline extended to 10 December.

Workshop on #Digital Authoritarianism in the Global South and East.

#ecpr #ecprjs26 #polisky #digital #asia #africa #latinamerica #europe

Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies?

My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm.

Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

It's already time for the third session of our PolCom Classics!

This round, we’re diving into mediatization & media logic with none other than @jesperstromback.bsky.social

🗓 November 27
⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET

📲 Register via the QR code or the link below — hope to see you there!

Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit Scientific Reports - Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit

STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉

Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡

Personal thread below!

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completed the semester for our undergraduate political communication seminar with a 2h digital detox news reading & discussion session

presented & met colleagues at 11th Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, Singapore, #IJPP, fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/events/1...

Excellent presentation and lively discussion about "Strategic Legalism and Journalistic Agency under Security Governance" by Saira Ali (Adelaide University), focused on journalists in 🇵🇰.
#IJPP2025

Fantastic 1st day of conferencing at #IJPP2025. Lots of new faces, projects & ideas.
Topics:
International ✅
Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅
Politics ✅
@taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@polcomm.bsky.social

My university is promoting Qualtrics new “synthetic data” initiative that “simulates human behavior so enable quicker experiments” and it is HORRIFYING that a UNIVERSITY promotes this “as transformative for how we collect data” and I don’t know who to scream at 😭😭😭😭

I enjoyed writing this piece for the LSE Impact Blog on Musk's latest swing at Wikipedia, and its future in a hostile AI-skewed political landscape 👇

Autocratization is not isolated within country borders.

In POQ, Chan argues that an authoritarian's electoral success abroad can shatter democratic norms and demonstrate the viability of authoritarianism.

Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

"Specifically, participants who were exposed to the longer conversations were more likely to express increased interest in engaging in political behaviors than those in the shorter conversations and control group."

Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.

"anthropologist Susan Blum written about “schoolishness,” a system that rewards the trappings of learning rather than learning itself. Schoolishness alienates the learner through packaged learning experiences.Are we using this moment to promote authentic learning, or to doubledown on schoolishness?”

Students think most other students regularly use AI for classes, but that they do so far less frequently.

Students think most other students regularly violate AI policies, but that they almost always follow them.

Preliminary data from @umich.edu survey on student AI use for class.

Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies.

Perceptions of misuse ≠ reality

Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Amaka Peace Onebunne looks at #journalists’ views of #AI in Nigerian newsrooms and how geographical and cultural factors influence AI usage, by conducting interviews with 18 #Nigerian journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of title page of an article published in the journal "Mass Communication and Society" titled "Understanding the Effects of Visual Misinformation: A Systematic Review of 10 Years (2014–2024)."

Interesting review documenting the rise in scholarship on visual misinformation, how it is more persuasive than text misinformation, and how #GenAI is both increasing visual misinformation content and being used to combat it. (!)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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"It’s going to be used to remove books from collections that are about queerness or sexuality or race or history. "

Our meta-analysis of 60 studies which was published in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social was covered by @spspnews.bsky.social
Representation in Media Can Deepen or Undo Prejudice | SPSP spsp.org/news/charact...
@stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social

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Excited to share my latest work with/ @snsoroka.bsky.social! How are Black Americans depicted in U.S. television news? We examine three decades of television content to answer this question and find for the most part, coverage has remained relatively unchanged.
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