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The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials

New dataset that describes social media activity of a very large group of US elected officials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research: Believing that the mass public in the opposing party supports undemocratic tactics leads people to be more supportive of undemocratic tactics themselves. Being assured that a majority of your opponents oppose such radical tactics increases support for democratic norms osf.io/my987/download

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We’ve prepared a clear and concise visual program for the #PolComm division.

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Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Solutions-oriented Framing and Responsibility Attribution in Urban Youth Crime: Effects on Policy Support and the Mediating Role of Emotions and Social Inequality Perception The Washington, D.C. mayor's November 2023 declaration of youth violence as a public emergency has sparked growing public concerns and intensified media attention. In 2025, President Donald Trump c...

Proud to share this D.C-based work & it was supported by the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award at @aejmc.bsky.social

First 50 copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JT6UP...

With "D.C. crime" dominating headlines, my new publication with Dr. Renita Coleman shows that solution-focused framing of urban youth crime coverage reduces support for punitive policies, while boosting hope, raising awareness of social inequality, and increasing support for rehabilitative policies.

Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news…

In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here’s our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States. buff.ly/8yo3BfO

Latinos aren’t just turning away from the Democrats – they’re becoming more politically disengaged | USAPP Latinos who born in the US are becoming less politically engaged overall.

Latinos aren’t just turning away from the Democrats – they’re becoming more politically disengaged find @derekwakefield.bsky.social of Bucknell University, Bernard L. Fraga of Emory University and Colin Fisk

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

GitHub - JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos: Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025 Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025. Contribute to JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos development by creating an account on GitHub.

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

#ICA25 If you are into conspiracies: I'm chairing a @polcomm.bsky.social panel today (6/14 Saturday) at 1:30pm!

#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: QITTA-lyzing Hate: Digital Disinhibition, Minority Targeting, and Visual Intolerance - 13-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Capitol 5 (Regency 4).

#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: QITTA-lyzing Hate: Digital Disinhibition, Minority Targeting, and Visual Intolerance - 13-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Capitol 5 (Regency 4).

We analyzed one month of web browsing data from a sample of U.S. adults. Here’s what we learned about how AI appears online. 🧵👇

Very interesting! I wonder what this would look like at the senior researcher level--for example, do they develop more efficient coping skills as time goes by?🤔

I'd like to be added! Thank you!

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨Out now: The Fall Issue (Nr. 30) of the Political Communication Report!✨
“What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing”
📖 Full issue: politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

A 🧵 on the essays featured in this issue:

The first woman of color to lead a major ticket lost. What will Harris' legacy be?
www.npr.org/2024/11/15/n...

Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections Disgruntled young men who resent feminism are the focus of candidates vying to be president.

Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package.

www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

It's important to remember that he is the president who secured 48.56% of the vote in the latest presidential election. This underscores the ongoing trends of rising authoritarianism and growing populism. Democracy is a historical legacy achieved through the power of the people.

The deployment of military forces in the National Assembly today risked escalating into a violent clash. It remains unclear whether Yoon and his aides thoroughly assessed these risks.

2. Erosion of democracy: President Yoon Suk-yeol's inclination toward authoritarianism is not a recent development. In the past, he criticized a journalist's question as "disrespectful" and pushed forward controversial policies, exacerbating social conflict.

Human Acts: A Novel Amazon.com: Human Acts: A Novel: 9781101906729: Kang, Han: Books

(If interested, I recommend reading a novel “Human Acts” by Han Kang, which is based on this historical event.) www.amazon.com/Human-Acts-N...

With this expanded martial law, innocent civilians were mercilessly sacrificed at the hands of their own military--To this day, the nation holds memorial services every May to honor the victims and their families.

1. National trauma: South Korea has a deep historical pain and trauma tied to martial law. Forty-five years ago, Chun Doo-hwan (the 5th president, serving from 1980 to 1988) imposed a nationwide state of emergency under the guise of "restoring order.”

The South Korean president (also a former prosecutor general) abruptly declared martial law around 10 PM (KST) to counter "anti-state forces." This event is far more than a fleeting six-hour episode—it carries profound historical significance.

Follow our wonderful UMass colleague / GloTech Fellow @heesoojang.bsky.social for thought analysis of political situation in South Korea. Her CNN interview 👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-X...

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Are Americans’ perceptions of the economy and crime broken? This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?

"People’s ability to evaluate crime relative to the trends has been completely broken. And it’s a new thing, in terms of the level of brokenness."