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Editorial comment: looking back to go forward

Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 15h

#Now in #iCS
Marking the first year of a new editorial team,
@danmercea.bsky.social reflects on iCS’s evolving role in the field. The journal looks back to move forward, reaffirming our commitment to rigour and to the well-being of the academic community.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

How and why governments are regulating AI: a comparison of legislative frameworks

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INTERFACED @interfaced-eu.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Attention journalists!

Do you focus on community journalism that explores political life amid mistrust and change? We seek collaborators for authentic stories told by those who experienced them. Learn more: buff.ly/gldUha4

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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 15d

#OutNow in #iCS
Why does AI regulation look so different across countries? This article shows how legal frameworks vary, shaped by risk perceptions, political priorities, and institutional legacies.
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This paper examines different legislative approaches to regulate the production, deployment, and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specifically, it compares how the European Union (EU), Canada, ...

The social lives of COVID-19 data: following disease surveillance from institutions of power into everyday pandemic society

Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 15d

#OutNow in #iCS
This article examines the social lives of COVID-19 data, illustrating how statistics on infections and deaths have become tools of governance, sources of anxiety, and everyday reference points.
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In the early stages of COVID-19, investments in digital infrastructures supported the rapid circulation of disease surveillance data throughout pandemic society. Scholarship on the social lives of ...

Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: an analysis of the in-person, online and pivoting styles

JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

@feligsantos.bsky.social, Matthias Hoffmann and @danmercea.bsky.social unpack characteristics of in-person and online protesters

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Engaging with long-standing debates on the crisis of democracy, manifested as a downturn in civic involvement, this paper scrutinises the evolving landscape of protest participation. First delineat...

ICS Book Review offers 2024

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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 10

Book reviews keep #iCS at the heart of evolving debates. Want to shape the conversation?

🚨 Pick a title and join us. 📚

Contact Víctor Ávila Torres (Lincoln) after browsing:

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Fellowship for Community Outreach and Engagement Ambassadors

Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Jun 30

We are looking for Community Engagement Ambassadors for the #INTERFACED project. Please see the call 👇 for more details and contact info, apply or help us spread the word!

INTERFACED @interfaced-eu.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you active in citizen participation and well-connected in your community?

We’re looking for Community Outreach & Engagement Ambassadors to help connect researchers with the communities we aim to engage.

🔗 Apply now: interfaced.eu/fellowship-for-community-outreach-and-engagement-ambassadors

Are you passionate about citizen participation and political engagement? Do you have a strong presence—online or offline—in your community and the ability to connect with diverse groups, including tho...

interfaced.eu

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 the first of several short videos introducing the #INTERFACED project. More details about the project and ways to get in touch at www.interfaced.eu

Fellowship for Community Outreach and Engagement Ambassadors

INTERFACED @interfaced-eu.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you active in citizen participation and well-connected in your community?

We’re looking for Community Outreach & Engagement Ambassadors to help connect researchers with the communities we aim to engage.

🔗 Apply now: interfaced.eu/fellowship-for-community-outreach-and-engagement-ambassadors

Are you passionate about citizen participation and political engagement? Do you have a strong presence—online or offline—in your community and the ability to connect with diverse groups, including tho...

interfaced.eu

Fellowship call for INTERFACED Project

Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Jun 21

📣 The INTERFACED project is live on @bsky.app We're approaching political participation as an interfacing process linking multiple forms of engagement. Looking at how that linking happens, we expect, will help us provide fresh insights into the participation of key social groups. Blog 👇 & follow us

INTERFACED @interfaced-eu.bsky.social · Jun 19

🗳️ How can we reimagine democratic participation in a post-pandemic Europe?

In a new blog post, our project coordinators at the City University of London share the vision behind the INTERFACED project.

📰 Read more: www.interfaced.eu/welcome-to-i...

@danmercea.bsky.social @vanessagash.bsky.social

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INTERFACED @interfaced-eu.bsky.social · Jun 19

🗳️ How can we reimagine democratic participation in a post-pandemic Europe?

In a new blog post, our project coordinators at the City University of London share the vision behind the INTERFACED project.

📰 Read more: www.interfaced.eu/welcome-to-i...

@danmercea.bsky.social @vanessagash.bsky.social

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Edgeryders @edgeryders.bsky.social · Jun 5

Are you established in citizen participation and are able to reach out to everyone in your community? We are looking for Community Outreach and Engagement Ambassadors to help connect researchers to communities we want to engage with
edgeryders.eu/t/fellowship...

@interfaced-eu.bsky.social

Are you passionate about citizen participation and political engagement? Are you established in citizen participation (on or offline), and are able to reach out to everyone in your community? Do you h...

edgeryders.eu

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣@interfaced-eu.bsky.social is looking for Community Outreach and Engagement Ambassadors to help connect researchers w/ diverse communities, especially of hard-to-reach and disengaged people, to gain insights into political participation since the pandemic. See call 👇

edgeryders.eu/t/fellowship...

Fellowship call for INTERFACED Project

Are you passionate about citizen participation and political engagement? Are you established in citizen participation (on or offline), and are able to reach out to everyone in your community? Do you h...

edgeryders.eu

As It Happened: An Analysis of TikTok Activity in the Wake of the Ban on Calin Georgescu’s 2025 Presidential Run and the Protests that Followed It - Take Part

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Apr 12

Analysing protest participation - @danmercea.bsky.social, @felipegsantos.bsky.social & Matthias Hoffmann argue it's a gradient, beyond the binary of participation and non-participation & suggest practical mobilisation pathways: buff.ly/cxrnvln (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Apr 11

On our #takepart project, we have been looking at the ways in which TikTok was used in March 2025 to protest the decision to ban far-right candidate Calin Georgescu from running in the next Romanian presidential elections. Blog post and more info about the project 👇

www.takepart.ro/2025/04/10/a...

‘calingeorgescupresedinte revolutie democratie poporulroman ccr’

www.takepart.ro

Horizon Europe awards £3m to political participation research project INTERFACED | City, University of London

LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Mar 31

Calling all #ECRs 📣

Join @britishacademy.bsky.social ECRN to learn about getting published in social sciences, humanities and the arts with Alison Shell, @andreamedrado.bsky.social, @danmercea.bsky.social, @philippagrand.bsky.social

Fri 6th June | 13:00 - 16:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/early...

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Christina Neumayer @nechri.bsky.social · Mar 24

Our co-edited volume (with Claudius Wagemann, Toma Burean, @danmercea.bsky.social and Lorenzo Mosca) ‘Protest and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements and Active Citizens Are Reshaping Europe’ Routledge 2025 arrived in print doi.org/10.4324/9781... @feligsantos.bsky.social

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Feb 27

...working link👇
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Research consortium INTERFACED, led by Professor Dan Mercea, receives Horizon European funding to research the state of democracy.

www.city.ac.uk

Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Feb 26

📣 our new Horizon Europe project on political participation since the onset of Covid-19 is now live. PR at link 👇. Watch this space for updates. @feligsantos.bsky.social @nechri.bsky.social
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

www.city.ac.uk

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our latest paper is an attempt to understand how individuals might connect protest episodes and who those people might be who find themselves in that position. @feligsantos.bsky.social wrote a great overview of our findings in the 🧵👇

Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨New publication!
In our latest paper in the International Journal of Sociology, Matthias Hoffmann, @danmercea.bsky.social and I study brokerage in protest networks. We explore how individuals connect protest episodes and the characteristics of those occupying brokerage positions. A 🧵

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨New publication!
In our latest paper in the International Journal of Sociology, Matthias Hoffmann, @danmercea.bsky.social and I study brokerage in protest networks. We explore how individuals connect protest episodes and the characteristics of those occupying brokerage positions. A 🧵

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Dec 17

8️⃣ @felipegsantos.bsky.social and @danmercea.bsky.social classify movement parties based on their ideological appeal and examine the extent to which their electorate is differentiated from other parties.

Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters - Acta Politica

The rise of movement parties in Europe has disrupted traditional notions of party politics, introducing new avenues for citizen engagement and political mobilisation. This paper provides a comprehensi...

link.springer.com

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Dec 12

Analysing protest participation - @danmercea.bsky.social, @felipegsantos.bsky.social & Matthias Hoffmann argue it's a gradient, beyond the binary of participation and non-participation & suggest practical mobilisation pathways: https://buff.ly/4flPug1 (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Nov 26

📢 new #openaccess article w/ @felipegsantos.bsky.social & Matthias Hoffmann. We describe protest participation as a gradient. We distinguish between non-, potential & actual protesters. We then pinpoint key factors increasing the likelihood of moving from non- to potential & actual participation.

Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thrilled to share our latest work, with @DanMercea and Matthias Hoffmann, published at @PolStudies. Using nat. rep. survey data from 6 European countries, we explore what differentiates actual and potential protesters between themselves and in relation to non-protesters.

A short 🧵

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thrilled to share our latest work, with @DanMercea and Matthias Hoffmann, published at @PolStudies. Using nat. rep. survey data from 6 European countries, we explore what differentiates actual and potential protesters between themselves and in relation to non-protesters.

A short 🧵

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · Nov 20

To all the researchers here on @bsky.app for whom the topic data access from online platforms is relevant, please consider writing a short feedback on the draft of the delegated acts for the DSA:

ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

European Commission - Have your say

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Nov 11

📢#outnow #openaccess new paper w/ @felipegsantos.bsky.social reporting survey experiment on drivers of vote for movement parties in 🇩🇰 🇭🇺🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇷🇴🇬🇧. Movt. party voters don't favor institutional outsiders or candidates w/ protest experience. Rather, they prioritize decisive policy change t.co/TOZkaX8VzS

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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · Nov 6

Do not forget to visit our most recent #DigitalCollection: expertly curated by Fred Paxton :

Populism and the Far-Right in the Digital Age.

All articles in this collection are free to access!

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Populism and the Far-Right in the Digital Age

Explore the article collection: Populism and the Far-Right in the Digital Age. Published in Information, Communication & Society.

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · Apr 17

Geo-indexing helped build a social infrastructure connecting discrete protests w/ shared vocabulary & conspiracies. Abstract 👇