☺️@paulinesophieh.bsky.social and I won a prize for this article: www.ceeol.com/search/artic... Thanks to @michelpoiccard.bsky.social and the editorial team! Are you seeing actors use bad faith, for what, and do they get away with it?
Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely.
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Please complete this v.brief survey about news and crime, for my brilliant dissertation student Alex Land. Thank you! 🙏docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDd9wT...
Free registration 13 April panel: How strategic narratives transformed the study of public diplomacy, 4pm UK time:
www.newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/2026/4/7/join-13-april-panel-how-strategic-narratives-transformed-the-study-of-public-diplomacy
Have we already entered a 'new influence domain' through the intersection of emotional AI, social media and behavioural targeting? Are you being targeted? h/t @andrewhoskins.bsky.social
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Media as #fatal to thinking about and feeling for human beings? Re AI + Iran war, Malik writes: 'When the true and false jostle constantly in the content slipstream, nothing feels real.' Its hard to care about the unreal: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#compassionfatigue #compassionprevention
Great new article by Bradley Ward and Christian Sherrington: why the AI-based #technosolutionism of the #Starmer government won't rescue UK governance ➡️ more public alienation ➡️ open goal for the populist right: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#doomspiral #cyclesofinsecurity #vacancy #AIpolitics
New in Media, War and Conflict: From laughing to learning: How TikTok genres influence American youth understanding and sentiments about the war in Ukraine, by Kateryna Bystrytska: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In a research seminar now: if corruption will never end, what would be a more inclusive, democratic corruption?
Conference CfP: My friends are convening Urban Elites, Rural Margins? Comparative Perspectives on Urban-Rural Divisions from Post-Socialist Europe and Latin America, at UCL on 15-16 June. How to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
CCTV is really having fun with Trump, the dollar as global currency, and the US economy, in a little film about the Iran war. Captions are fast but its worth the 5 minutes. What do cats and eagles mean in China? Are cats cool and eagles idiots? What do red eyes mean? www.youtube.com/watch?v=As0r...
Our Media, War and Conflict journal has gone from 8 articles per issue to suddenly double. A sign of today’s wars prompting a lot of quality research? journals.sagepub.com/home/mwc
On April 13, the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy will host a webinar focusing on the topic: Shaping the Discipline: How #StrategicNarratives Transformed the Study of #PublicDiplomacy. Kindly convened by Ilan Manor. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-and-...
We hope you can use this in your own research. Any feedback is welcome. Thanks to editor @swaisbord.bsky.social and managing editor Kady Bell-Garcia.
Resistance takes effort and creativity to find new ways of engaging with AI. And humans get tired. Many offload cognitive labour to chatbots. What does it take for humans to grasp that this surrenders power to create meaning to AI? Is the only alternative to switch the AI off and walk away?
This takes us to the “so what” question. From our typology you can treat human-AI as a terrain of contestation in which resistance is possible. We highlight what we would call counter-hegemonic modes of engaging with AI. But its difficult.
We look at who is deciding what kind of knowledge and discourse is created, and agency can be distributed across human and AI in many ways. Who is “encoding” meaning in these interactions and who is doing the “decoding”?
To help you explore this, we offer a typology of discourses, relations, structures and moments that shape the context of human-AI interactions, and bear upon those interactions.
Let me explain our new article in International Journal of Communication. We ask who can create meaning in discourse in human-AI interactions, and the impact on power relations broadly.
Our new article is out! When we interact with ChatGPT and other Generative AI systems, who is shaping whom? Does the machine gradually substitute our interpretive capacities, or can it extend them? Thanks @ijoc-usc.bsky.social:
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In autocratic contexts, 'Visibility becomes vulnerability. Silence becomes rational.' But AI can speak. Great new piece by @michalmaly.bsky.social and Asker Bryld Staunæs theloop.ecpr.eu/synthetic-di...
Similar findings to what @stevhutch.bsky.social Tolz @preciouschatd.bsky.social @rhyscrilley.bsky.social Gillespie found with RT in: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Do Western diplomats and embassies need to learn how to navigate ambient parapolitics?
1/2 Great article by Noordenbos & Tuters: Russia is v.good at using digital platforms to narrate resistance to the West across the Global South. Its not just narrative content but how narrative elements circulate that creates effects - #ambient #parapolitics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Wonderful that my friend and collaborator @profvaccari.bsky.social's #inaugural lecture will happen 11th March, Edinburgh, in-person. A great moment for Cristian and an urgent topic he addresses: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
I had a chat about what @profmiskimmon.bsky.social and I wrote recently about how many narratives used in politics are deliberately ambiguous - watch here, responses appreciated:
Today’s topic: spiritual warfare.
This sums a lot of what AI offers, some blurry vibes, and how its promise is part of a longer history of dealing with some pretty big dilemmas. By @tomdivon.bsky.social + Christian Pentzold: AI can make the dead talk – why this doesn’t comfort us: theconversation.com/ai-can-make-...
This is in a special issue devoted to strategic narrative (link.springer.com/journal/41254) convened by public diplomacy expert Ilan Manor. Huge thanks to Ilan, and papers by @elsahedling.bsky.social @rhyscrilley.bsky.social and others are well worth exploring.
Future research paths: ethics + power, audience reception, AI-enabled narrative production, and measurement of effectiveness. We argue that strategic narrative analysis remains essential for understanding global politics—and for enhancing diplomatic literacy in contested communicative environments.