📧 Feeling inundated with emails from political campaigns? We were too, so we decided to write a paper about them! New work from Bin Chen Porismita borah me and Jo(sephine) Lukito w/ Media & Democracy Coop

Check out the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media and ICWSM special issue that we guest-edited! The articles showcase the wide range of data, methods, and contributions in quantitative descriptive work on digital media.

Dr. Jo(sephine) Lukito of the University of Texas, Austin has made using science to understand political language her life’s work. She joins Jess Phoenix, Lava Connoisseur 🌋 for the third episode in our series about the science of democracy in the #2024Election cycle. youtu.be/EF1InN2MS_M?si…

We are in need of some selfless folks who are willing to serve as last-minute reviewers for ICD. If that’s you - or can make time to review papers or abstracts in the next few weeks - could you send an email to Ruth at [email protected] and Maha at マーハー@相模湖バス釣り[email protected]?

The inaugural report of the Pew-Knight Initiative offers a compelling glimpse into the contemporary challenges confronting local journalism. Delving deep into the local news habits and attitudes of U.S. adults, this study unveils a sobering reality.
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Great job opportunity. Work with us on 'political influencers.'
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions , International Communication Association

📢PUBLICATION ALERT🧵
Our new research in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections. Simon Kruschinski▲@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, Mads Hove, Tom Dobber, NHelberger is @[email protected], Claes de Vreese, and I analyze 2.5M FB & IG ads that ran from 2020 to 2022.