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View article: Element Design for Active Learning: A Design Thinking Approach to Assignment Development for Political Science, Media, and Communication Education
Element Design for Active Learning: A Design Thinking Approach to Assignment Development for Political Science, Media, and Communication Education Open
Hundreds of active learning assignments are reported in the political education literature. However, the adaptability of these assignments to new courses can be limited by different learning outcomes, course themes, or institutional contex…
View article: Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation
Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation Open
The recent rise of disinformation and propaganda on social media has attracted strong interest from social scientists. Research on the topic has repeatedly observed ideological asymmetries in disinformation content and reception, wherein c…
View article: The problems with social media affordances and digital political campaigning
The problems with social media affordances and digital political campaigning Open
Social media platforms open up new methods of candidate messaging, voter contact, and data acquisition. Currently, affordances is a popular concept used to study the relationship between political campaigns and how they use social media pl…
View article: Social media platforms for politics: A comparison of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, and WhatsApp
Social media platforms for politics: A comparison of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, and WhatsApp Open
Citizens have increasingly diversified their use of social media platforms, raising questions about which platforms are adopted and for what purposes. We use survey data from four countries (Canada, France, the United States, and the Unite…
View article: Reconceptualizing Cross-Cutting Political Expression on Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook Comments During the 2016 Brexit Referendum
Reconceptualizing Cross-Cutting Political Expression on Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook Comments During the 2016 Brexit Referendum Open
Political communication research has long sought to understand the effects of cross-cutting exposure on political participation. Here, we argue for a paradigm shift that acknowledges the agency of citizens as producers of cross-cutting exp…
View article: Cross-Platform Emotions and Audience Engagement in Social Media Political Campaigning: Comparing Candidates’ Facebook and Instagram Images in the 2020 US Election
Cross-Platform Emotions and Audience Engagement in Social Media Political Campaigning: Comparing Candidates’ Facebook and Instagram Images in the 2020 US Election Open
This study provides a cross-platform, longitudinal investigation of pictures depicting political candidates posted to Facebook and Instagram over a 15-month period during the 2020 US election(n = 4,977). After motivating an exploratory res…
View article: Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media
Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media Open
Contributions in this thematic issue focus explicitly on citizens and their online engagement with European politics. For social media research in the European Union, citizens remain an understudied actor type in comparison with political …
View article: FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision
FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision Open
We present a methodological workflow using two open science tools that we developed. The first, FBAdLibrian, collects images from the Facebook Ad Library. The second, Pykognition, simplifies facial and emotion detection in images using com…
View article: The cueing power of comments on social media: how disagreement in Facebook comments affects user engagement with news
The cueing power of comments on social media: how disagreement in Facebook comments affects user engagement with news Open
Previous research demonstrates that conflict framing in news articles can influence individuals’ attention, selection, and distribution of news. However, no study has examined whether the valence of social media comment fields can trigger …
View article: Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation
Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation Open
The recent rise of disinformation and propaganda on social media has attracted strong interest from social scientists. Research on the topic has repeatedly observed ideological asymmetries in disinformation content and reception, wherein c…
View article: Scandalous Design: How Social Media Platforms’ Responses to Scandal Impacts Campaigns and Elections
Scandalous Design: How Social Media Platforms’ Responses to Scandal Impacts Campaigns and Elections Open
Given the role of social media in the modern election, scholars should not only study how platforms function for political actors; we should also study how platforms function as political actors. This essay therefore introduces the concept…
View article: Dataset eye-tracking trials + survey results
Dataset eye-tracking trials + survey results Open
Dataset containing trial results (N=96) of an experiment combining tracking eye movements of subjects reading a Facebook post and two comments from the Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet. The dataset also contains information about our …
View article: THE PROFESSIONAL BENEFITS OF PODCASTING POLITICS
THE PROFESSIONAL BENEFITS OF PODCASTING POLITICS Open
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View article: A PODCASTING PRIMER
A PODCASTING PRIMER Open
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View article: Political Campaigning Games: Digital Campaigning With Computer Games in European National Elections
Political Campaigning Games: Digital Campaigning With Computer Games in European National Elections Open
This study examines how politically themed computer games function as digital campaigning tools during elections. To make sense of this understudied phenomenon, the concept of political campaigning games (PCGs) is introduced and defined as…
View article: CanEuroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses about Euroscepticism across Six Countries
CanEuroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses about Euroscepticism across Six Countries Open
This study compares the media discourses about Euroscepticism in 2014 across six countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark). We assess the extent to which the mass media’s reporting of Euroscepticism indicates …
View article: Can Euroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses about Euroscepticism across Six Countries
Can Euroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses about Euroscepticism across Six Countries Open
This study compares the media discourses about Euroscepticism in 2014 across six countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark). We assess the extent to which the mass media's reporting of Euroscepticism indicates …
View article: The Brexit battle on Facebook: assessing echo chambers and polarisation
The Brexit battle on Facebook: assessing echo chambers and polarisation Open
Does online campaigning foster ‘echo chambers’ and exacerbate the polarisation of society? On Facebook, Leave and Remain supporters behaved very differently. Pro-Remain users commented mainly on like-minded Facebook pages. By avoiding conf…
View article: The Weaponization of Social Media : Spear Phishing and Cyberattacks on Democracy
The Weaponization of Social Media : Spear Phishing and Cyberattacks on Democracy Open
State-sponsored cyber groups have long utilized spear phishing to pierce government networks. Spear phishing relies on social engineering to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information or downloading malicious software, rather t…
View article: Introduction: Populism in the 21st Century: Critical reflections on a global phenomenon
Introduction: Populism in the 21st Century: Critical reflections on a global phenomenon Open
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View article: Fighting fire with fire: Mainstream adoption of the populist political style in the 2014 Europe debates between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage
Fighting fire with fire: Mainstream adoption of the populist political style in the 2014 Europe debates between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage Open
Advancing the concept of populism as a political style, this study compares the debate performances of two British party leaders, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, as they clashed in a pair of televised debates over Britain’s European Union (EU…
View article: A typology of political participation online: how citizens used Twitter to mobilize during the 2015 British general elections
A typology of political participation online: how citizens used Twitter to mobilize during the 2015 British general elections Open
This study investigates how, and to what extent, citizens use Twitter as a platform for political mobilization in an electoral context. Conceptualizing political participation as a process, we develop a typology of political participation …