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Darren Lilleker

@profdgl.bsky.social

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Academic, lecturer, writer, loud music lover, real ale fan, biker.

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Darren Lilleker @profdgl.bsky.social · Jul 1

Great to see our paper on emotions, identity and protests published in Javnost - big shout out to Michael George who will hopefully be Dr George this year www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The Dynamics of Emotional Attachments and Identity Formation within Protest Movements: Exploring Expressive Behaviours during the Nigeria’s Protests: Javnost - The Public: Vol 32 , No 2 - Get Access

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · Mar 7

A Russia-based disinformation network published 3.6 million online articles last year for the primary purpose of influencing AI chatbots' output — and succeeded, according to a new report.

Russia flooding training data to influence chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude

A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (“Truth”) has influenced leading AI chatbots’ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the bots’ training data, a new report from…

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Darren Lilleker @profdgl.bsky.social · Jan 28

Great opportunities for non-UK students wishing to enhance their knowledge and skills @bournemouthuni.bsky.social summer schools. More info here www.bournemouth.ac.uk/bournemouth-... do share to prospective students

Bournemouth University International Summer School 2025

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PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social · Dec 16

Our January conference programme is now live!

Across the two days we have panels on elections, political journalism, culture wars, gender representation, social movements and AI.

Keynotes @patyrossini.bsky.social and @profdgl.bsky.social open both days

www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Electoral communication in 2024: Responding to a year of turbulence in media and politics

Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 2024-25

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Darren Lilleker @profdgl.bsky.social · Dec 4

The dangers of hate speech on social media, promoting a paper authored with Marta Perez-Escolar which remains a serious issue for political communication #polcomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnNu...

The dangers of hate speech on social media

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Einar Thorsen @einarthorsen.bsky.social · Nov 15

📣U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign🗳️

Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. General Election.

🔗https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
📄https://bit.ly/USElectionAnalysis2024_Jackson-et_al_v1-COMPRESSED

Front cover of the US Election Analysis 2024 report.

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