Felicia Loecherbach
@feloe.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Polcom & Journalism UvA ASCoR | previously NYU CSMaP & VU Amsterdam | PolComm, news selection and effects, social media, digital data (donations)
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After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
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We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
DEELNEMERS GEZOCHT voor onderzoek naar ChatGPT-gebruik (vergoeding: €30 bol.com-cadeaubon).
Gebruik je regelmatig ChatGPT en wil je bijdragen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek?
Doe mee: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Gebruik je regelmatig ChatGPT en wil je bijdragen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek?
Doe mee: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
DEELNEMERS GEZOCHT voor onderzoek naar ChatGPT-gebruik (vergoeding: €30 bol.com-cadeaubon).
Gebruik je regelmatig ChatGPT en wil je bijdragen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek?
Doe mee: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Gebruik je regelmatig ChatGPT en wil je bijdragen aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek?
Doe mee: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS?
✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:
"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)
✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:
"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS?
✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:
"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)
✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:
"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)
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Come work with us 🚨
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab
Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Come work with us 🚨
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
Details
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
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🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨
Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger
DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥
@polcomm.bsky.social
➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger
DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥
@polcomm.bsky.social
➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"
Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...
werkenbij.uva.nl
May 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨
Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger
DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥
@polcomm.bsky.social
➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger
DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥
@polcomm.bsky.social
➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
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How to map digital news sharing environment in multi-party systems? New preprint led by Felix Gaisbauer from @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social suggests a pipeline to arrive at a sharing cartography. Check it out!
Very cool new work by Felix Gaisbauer, @pournaki.bsky.social and @dscheykopp.bsky.social providing new methods for shedding light on a more systemic view of news sharing and uncovering important subtleties to the polarization/echo chamber debate:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08359
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08359
A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet and content level of news circulation on Twitter
News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context, rese...
arxiv.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
How to map digital news sharing environment in multi-party systems? New preprint led by Felix Gaisbauer from @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social suggests a pipeline to arrive at a sharing cartography. Check it out!
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🎉 We #congratulate ASCoR researchers @feloe.bsky.social, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, and @theoaraujo.bsky.social, along with other researchers, who have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to increase the sharing and reuse of digital trace data in a safe and ethical manner.
April 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🎉 We #congratulate ASCoR researchers @feloe.bsky.social, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, and @theoaraujo.bsky.social, along with other researchers, who have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to increase the sharing and reuse of digital trace data in a safe and ethical manner.
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🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher "Political Communication in the Aftermath of Democratic Elections"
Are you looking for a postdoctoral position in political communication research? Are you interested in elections, media-politics relations and framing effects, and would like to become an expert on th...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn
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🔍📰 "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof et al. (@mariekevhoof.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net @judith-moeller.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social). Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🔍📰 "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof et al. (@mariekevhoof.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net @judith-moeller.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social). Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
While Berlin transformed into a little winter wonderland I had the pleasure to teach a very interested group a thing or two about automated image analysis. Thanks for the invite @bachl.bsky.social !
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
While Berlin transformed into a little winter wonderland I had the pleasure to teach a very interested group a thing or two about automated image analysis. Thanks for the invite @bachl.bsky.social !
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Super excited to have @feloe.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today for our first DiMES workshop on automated image and video analysis. W/ @bcastanho.bsky.social @vivifabrien.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Super excited to have @feloe.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today for our first DiMES workshop on automated image and video analysis. W/ @bcastanho.bsky.social @vivifabrien.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social
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Study by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al.(2024) compares 5 methods for detecting political searches in browser histories: Zero-shot AI (like GPT) achieves highest recall but needs human validation for accuracy. Best approach is AI-human collaboration: use AI to filter searches, then human review. 🧪
January 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Study by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al.(2024) compares 5 methods for detecting political searches in browser histories: Zero-shot AI (like GPT) achieves highest recall but needs human validation for accuracy. Best approach is AI-human collaboration: use AI to filter searches, then human review. 🧪
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💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich
🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)
👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.
🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de
🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)
👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.
🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de
January 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich
🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)
👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.
🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de
🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)
👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.
🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de
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✨Time for meta reflection✨
In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 10, 2024 at 12:21 PM
✨Time for meta reflection✨
In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young people’s exposure to electoral campaigns content using a combination of data from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO) and YouTube data obtained via data donation using the software PORT
#ODISSEI2024
#ODISSEI2024
December 10, 2024 at 10:28 AM
@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young people’s exposure to electoral campaigns content using a combination of data from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO) and YouTube data obtained via data donation using the software PORT
#ODISSEI2024
#ODISSEI2024
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A truly exciting development in research on fx social media platform usage is data donations.
Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others.
#ODISSEI
Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others.
#ODISSEI
December 10, 2024 at 9:11 AM
A truly exciting development in research on fx social media platform usage is data donations.
Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others.
#ODISSEI
Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others.
#ODISSEI
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We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊
❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊
❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
Senior Researcher & Team Lead for Transparent Social Analytics and Open Science
GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association.
Starting as soon as po...
www.hidden-professionals.de
December 4, 2024 at 10:41 PM
We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊
❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊
❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
👇
🚨New pub🚨
@feloe.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social @damiantrilling.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com used digital trace data to estimate the long tail of news consumption, beyond major journalism sources. Their new(s) taxonomy helps avoid blindspots in news diversity
doi.org/10.1177/1464...
@feloe.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social @damiantrilling.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com used digital trace data to estimate the long tail of news consumption, beyond major journalism sources. Their new(s) taxonomy helps avoid blindspots in news diversity
doi.org/10.1177/1464...
December 3, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Professorship in Digital Communication with a Focus on Digital Society
Application Deadline: February 17, 2025.
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky?
That's the research question I want to answer.
Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.
Everyone, please share the link.
Thanks!
forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG
That's the research question I want to answer.
Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.
Everyone, please share the link.
Thanks!
forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky?
That's the research question I want to answer.
Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.
Everyone, please share the link.
Thanks!
forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG
That's the research question I want to answer.
Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.
Everyone, please share the link.
Thanks!
forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG
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New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
academic.oup.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
Reposted by Felicia Loecherbach
Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...
Bellingcat Tech Fellowship Opportunity - bellingcat
November 21, 2024 We will be reviewing applications for the fellowship on a rolling basis, and expect to interview applicants in the first week of December (2-6 December 2024) Would you like to develo...
www.bellingcat.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...
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Based on dataset linking behavioral webtracking and 4 survey waves during 2022 Brazilian Presidential election, @reutersinstitute.bsky.social work led by
@camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice
@camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice
🚨New publication alert!
IJPP has just published our article about the impact of exposure to partisan news on social polarization and vote choice in the context of the last Brazilian elections. Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
IJPP has just published our article about the impact of exposure to partisan news on social polarization and vote choice in the context of the last Brazilian elections. Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 21, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Based on dataset linking behavioral webtracking and 4 survey waves during 2022 Brazilian Presidential election, @reutersinstitute.bsky.social work led by
@camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice
@camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice