Sebastián Valenzuela

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Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile) | Associate Researcher with the IMFD and NUDOS research centers | Associate Editor of IJPOR | Research interests: Political communication, social media, journalism, misinformation #commodon | Posts in 🇪🇸🇬🇧
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Attention Misinformation Scholars!
Submit an abstract to a special issue in the International Journal of Press/Politics
Theme: "Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms"
Deadline: 15 July 2023. Details:
https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/HIJ/CfP_Global%20Misinformation.pdf

Guest editors: @esserfrank, @edda @SebaValenz , Edson Tandoc
We are looking forward to your submissions!
@[email protected] @[email protected] @cvaccari

🚨Call for papers on “Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms ”
🔖Special issue of the Int J Press/Politics
🤓Guest editors: @esserfrank @edda Edson Tandoc Jr. @SebaValenz
📅Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2023
➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/HIJ/CfP_Global%20Misinformation.pdf

🎺 Publication alert 🚨 just online:

Exploring the relationship between #misinformation and worries about #COVID19.

Using survey data from 17 countries, augmented with an experiment, we find that perceived prevalence of misinformation can have significant effects, even though audience members reject the information as being false.

This was true #teamscience by the nepocs.eu team and led by Jörg Matthes and Soyeon Jin. #commodon @communicationscholars

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2146983

Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels worries about COVID-19: a cross-country, multi-method investigation

Data suggests that the majority of citizens in various countries came across ‘fake news’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test the relationship between perceived prevalence of misinformation and pe...

Taylor & Francis

RT @[email protected]

🚨 Now at @[email protected]

@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and I combine survey and web-tracking data to assess whether people "Google" the answers to political knowledge questions in online surveys.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.42
🔓 https://osf.io/sw6f3

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/seramirezruiz/status/1597640469374062592

Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data

Cambridge Core

¿Qué hacer frente a la #desinformación? En el marco de las Jornadas Chilenas de la Computación, no te pierdas la presentación del estudio "Desinformación en Chile", de los investigadores #IMFD Sebastian Valenzuela y Marcelo Mendoza.

Jueves 24 de noviembre, de 9 a 11.30 hrs (🇨🇱)

Inscripción: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJUMj-FNX4AYKuJ8dFXA536h2OVUDwkb8I1c-nKfMpTXoY2g/viewform

DESINFORMACIÓN EN CHILE: Resultados de estudio nacional sobre desinformación, su difusión en redes sociales y su impacto en las percepciones públicas

Fondo de Pluralismo ANID - PLU 210012 EXPONEN MARCELO MENDOZA ROCHA Depto. de Computación, Universidad Católica de Chile. Investigador asociado CenIA e IMFD ANDREA RIQUELME MIÑO Investigadora CAP, Lic. en Ciencia Política y Administración Pública, Universidad de Talca SEBASTIÁN VALENZUELA Facultad de Comunicaciones, Universidad Católica de Chile. Investigador asociado IMFD ENRIQUE NÚÑEZ MUSSA Investigador en Periodismo, Michigan State University. Center for Latinx Digital Media, Northwestern University FABIÁN PADILLA Director y editor general de @fastcheckcl. Estudiante de Doctorado en Comunicación, Universidad Católica de Chile FECHA: JUEVES 24 DE NOVIEMBRE, de 09.00 a 11.30 horas DÓNDE: Facultad de Ingeniería, U. San Sebastián. Campus Bellavista. AUDITORIO BELLAVISTA 2 (Entrada por Pío Nono) CONSULTAS: [email protected]

Google Docs

Likely of interest to many on here, out in a week: "Connected in Isolation Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times," by Eszter Hargittai

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047371/

Connected in Isolation

What life during lockdown reveals about digital inequality.The vast majority of people in wealthy, highly connected, or digitally privileged societies may ha...

MIT Press

🚨JOB POSTING🚨
My university (Catholic University of Chile) is hiring a full-time TT assistant or associate professor in game studies, for a joint appointment between the School of Communication and College UC. For the full call, read:

https://college.uc.cl/images/college-uc/documentos/concursos_academicos/22-1007-Open_call_College__Fac_of_Communications.pdf

Feel free to boost, share, etc.

A nuanced review of the social media-democracy link was just published in Nature Human Behaviour: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01460-1

I'm glad to see that the work of so many of my colleagues and co-authors (and mine, too 😜 ) has contributed to move the field away from the simplistic optimistic/pessimistic camps.