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Emily Thorson Jul 28, 2023

Claes de Vreese ☑️Jul 28, 2023

The research in Nature and Science on the impact of social media illustrates some of the questions that can be answered when we have social media data access.

It relies on a unique collaboration and data access. Exciting research! But the example is 🇺🇸 based and based on privileged access.

We need a better, more equitable #dataaccess system #DSA

@academicchatter @politicalscience @communicationscholars

Emily Thorson Jul 27, 2023

Brendan Nyhan Jul 27, 2023

New at Nature: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w
Our key findings:
-Median Facebook user gets 50.4% of content from like-minded sources
-But reducing exposure by 1/3 for 3 months had no measurable effect on attitudes

Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing - Nature

A large-scale field intervention experiment on 23,377 US Facebook users during the 2020 presidential election shows that reducing exposure to content from like-minded social media sources has no measurable effect on political polarization or other political attitudes and beliefs.

Nature

Emily Thorson Jul 27, 2023

During the 2020 election, we conducted a 23k-person pre-registered field experiment on Facebook, reducing exposure to content from politically like-minded sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w. The article also has a wealth of other information, including stats on platform "echo chambers" and a 382-page (!!!) appendix. I'm so excited for this to finally be out.

Emily Thorson Jun 28, 2023

Brendan Nyhan Jun 28, 2023

Prediction: Just like Russian influence operations in 2016 and "fake news" in 2016/2020, the panic will be misdirected and domestic political elites will remain the most important source of misinformation https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/technology/ai-elections-disinformation-guardrails.html

A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails

Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.

The New York Times

Emily Thorson May 5, 2023

Boris Holzer May 5, 2023

In this interesting article, @kstrump shows that the perception of inequality - rather than its actual level - determines the support for redistribution. However, perception appears to depend on political attitudes because it is unrelated to actual inequality.

(automatic translation):
https://www-faz-net.translate.goog/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/wann-sich-gehaelter-gerecht-anfuehlen-studie-zu-sozialer-ungleichheit-18820469.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

(in German:)
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/wann-sich-gehaelter-gerecht-anfuehlen-studie-zu-sozialer-ungleichheit-18820469.html

article in SSQ:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ssqu.13269

@sociology

Wann sich Gehälter gerecht anfühlen: Studie zu sozialer Ungleichheit

Die Studie einer amerikanischen Politikwissenschaftlerin untersucht, wann soziale Ungleichheit in den Augen der Betroffenen besonders groß ist. Das Ergebnis: Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit sind nur lose gekoppelt.

FAZ.NET

Emily Thorson Feb 23, 2023

big clue that the survey I am currently taking was written by someone over the age of 60.

Emily Thorson Feb 23, 2023

Mirya Holman Feb 23, 2023

Everyone knows that the US strategy for dealing with #COVID19 was... messy. In this new short article, @efarris & I point to right-wing extremism among county #sheriffs as a specific obstacle to a healthy, functioning federal system.

Tldr; right-wing extremism among sheriffs is associated w their refusal to enforce mask mandates. It is a danger to democracy.

#openaccess and out now! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13244

Emily Thorson Feb 15, 2023

Mirya Holman Feb 15, 2023

Excited for this new article w @jeffguhin, Constantine Boussalis, and Travis Coan to be out in the world! We investigate how and where discussions of racial and economic equality occur in sermons from pastors. We use more than 100,000 sermons and a new geographic measure to show that a) evangelical pastors rarely talk about inequality, b) they do it less in more racially diverse places, and c) they use color blind frames https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jssr.12822

Emily Thorson Feb 11, 2023

Claes de Vreese ☑️Feb 10, 2023

Free open access (download pdf) book by Kathleen Searles, Yanna Krupnikov, John Ryan and Hillary Style.

Constructing Political Expertise in the News

🚨 FREE ACCESS ENDS FEBRUARY 17🚨

#polcomm #commodon #journodon #openaccess #openscience
@communicationscholars @politicalscience

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/constructing-political-expertise-in-the-news/FD426A970FA263A18749729B5E4642C7

Emily Thorson Jan 17, 2023