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....

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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…

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.

Bournemouth University International Summer School 2025

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

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

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

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The dangers of hate speech on social media YouTube video by Cogitatio Press

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...

Front cover of the US Election Analysis 2024 report.

📣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/
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