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View article: Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics
Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics Open
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View article: Visual modelling can optimise sticky trap design for simultaneous monitoring of multiple species of insect pests
Visual modelling can optimise sticky trap design for simultaneous monitoring of multiple species of insect pests Open
Coloured sticky traps are commonly used to monitor insect pests. Colour affects trap performance, with preferred colours often differing between species, making selection of trap colour for effective management of multiple pests challengin…
View article: Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges Open
Humans and insects inhabit very different perceptual worlds, so human experimenters need to be aware of their perceptual biases when investigating insect behaviour. In applied entomology, human perceptual biases have been a barrier to the …
View article: Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking
Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking Open
How do city-level policymakers build support for substantive action in policy domains characterized by low levels of national salience and limited local capacity, and which evidentiary resources support as well as reflect these uses? Despi…
View article: Worst of the Bunch: Visual Comparative Benchmarks Change Evaluations of Government Performance
Worst of the Bunch: Visual Comparative Benchmarks Change Evaluations of Government Performance Open
Benchmarking theories argue voters use information about other countries’ performances, usually on the economy and obtained through experience or media, to evaluate their own governments. Yet existing observational evidence is relatively f…
View article: Visual bordering: How refugee-serving organizations represent refugees on Instagram
Visual bordering: How refugee-serving organizations represent refugees on Instagram Open
Theories of symbolic bordering highlight how xenophobic media coverage and humanitarian messaging create boundaries between migrants and receiving communities partly based on deservingness. Contrasting with studies of mainly text-based rep…
View article: Policy preferences in response to large forced migration inflows
Policy preferences in response to large forced migration inflows Open
What migration policies do people in receiving countries prefer, and to what extent do humanitarian concerns matter for these preferences? Despite sustained scholarly attention to migration attitudes in high-income countries, much less wor…
View article: As We Like It: Did the UK’s 2016 EU Referendum Reveal the “Will of the People?”
As We Like It: Did the UK’s 2016 EU Referendum Reveal the “Will of the People?” Open
Rhetoric surrounding the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on continued European Union (EU) membership frequently has invoked the “will of the people.” Addressing the House of Commons in March 2019, then–Prime Minster Theresa May stated tha…
View article: Occupational Essentialness During COVID-19 and Attitudes Towards Labor Migration
Occupational Essentialness During COVID-19 and Attitudes Towards Labor Migration Open
Leading scholarship consistently shows citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants, with implications for theorizing immigration attitudes. Without contesting this, we argue it ignores a crucial aspect of occupations that transcends skills: th…
View article: Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences
Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences Open
Existing studies demonstrate that threat perceptions matter for immigration attitudes. However, while these perceptions are potentially sensitive to information about immigrants’ impacts, questions remain about whether inserting such infor…
View article: Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings Open
How do governments visually communicate policies, and what does this reveal about actors’ political objectives? Governments strategically narrate their priorities, yet few studies examine this process through visual modes. We contribute to…
View article: Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–2015
Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–2015 Open
Researchers studying international organizations have access to growing and varied archives due to digitization efforts. While developments in computational methods confer efficiency gains for examining these materials at scale, they raise…
View article: Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty Open
The COVID-19 pandemic and interventions addressing it raise important questions about human mobility that have geopolitical implications. This forum uses mobility and immobility during the pandemic as lenses onto the ways that routinised s…
View article: How universities facilitate city network socialization through knowledge exchange on immigrant integration
How universities facilitate city network socialization through knowledge exchange on immigrant integration Open
Universities increasingly facilitate as well as study social change alongside decision‐makers and users. This is partly in response to demands for civic engagement and demonstrable public impact. While existing scholarship has critically e…
View article: The politics of data visualisation and policy making
The politics of data visualisation and policy making Open
Data visualisation has become ubiquitous in everyday life, from seeing images in news media to tracking individual health indicators. While the effects of data visualisation on society and people have been explored within a range of litera…
View article: The practice and politics of migration data visualization
The practice and politics of migration data visualization Open
Data visualization aims to enhance understanding and communication of key insights deriving from primarily quantitative sources. While prior scholarship has focused on the technical aspects of how to visualize data, recent interest has tur…
View article: Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media
Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media Open
Social media have become conduits through which audiences can challenge elites in media and politics. Recent updates to cascading activation, originally developed to explain how frames flowing from powerful figures gain public dominance, g…
View article: The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations
The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations Open
What visual features characterize online migration data visualizations, and what do they suggest for the politics of representing migration and informing public attitudes? Audiences increasingly encounter quantitative information through v…
View article: Messaging migration: media agenda-setting, immigration attitudes, and the effects of evidence on perceptions and policy preferences
Messaging migration: media agenda-setting, immigration attitudes, and the effects of evidence on perceptions and policy preferences Open
How do messages impact what people think? Although this broad question speaks to current debates about the role of information in politics, variations of it have appeared throughout political science. My approach draws upon political commu…
View article: Media Independence through Routine Press-State Relations: Immigration and Government Statistics in the British Press
Media Independence through Routine Press-State Relations: Immigration and Government Statistics in the British Press Open
When and how does press coverage maintain independence from governments’ preferred language? Leading scholarship argues that elites shape media content, especially in foreign affairs settings where journalists rely on official sources. But…
View article: Visual brokerage: Communicating data and research through visualisation
Visual brokerage: Communicating data and research through visualisation Open
Researchers increasingly use visualisation to make sense of their data and communicate findings more widely. But these are not necessarily straightforward processes. Theories of knowledge brokerage show how sociopolitical contexts and inte…
View article: Making corpus data visible: visualising text with research intermediaries
Making corpus data visible: visualising text with research intermediaries Open
Researchers using corpora can visualise their data and analyses using a growing number of tools. Visualisations are especially valuable in environments where researchers communicate and work with public-facing partners under the auspices o…
View article: Clean skins: Making the e-Border security assemblage
Clean skins: Making the e-Border security assemblage Open
How do border security practitioners engage with data and technology, and what difficulties or limitations arise from these engagements? Responding to calls for critically examining how technological ‘solutions’ are enacted, we analyse the…
View article: Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance
Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance Open
Recent migration ‘crises’ raise important geopolitical questions. Who is ‘the migrant’ that contemporary politics are fixated on? How are answers to ‘who counts as a migrant’ changing? Who gets to do that counting, and under what circumsta…
View article: Engaging with (big) data visualizations: Factors that affect engagement and resulting new definitions of effectiveness
Engaging with (big) data visualizations: Factors that affect engagement and resulting new definitions of effectiveness Open
As data become increasingly ubiquitous, so too do data visualisations, which are the main means through which non-experts get access to data. Most visualizations circulate and are shared online, and many of them are produced by Internet re…