Can’t ❤️ this. So upsetting the Trump administration is doing this. Sheer insanity.

How Partisan Media Influences Aversion to Political Compromise | Article | Media and Communication Yoo Ji Suh, Dhavan V. Shah, Michael W. Wagner

New article: How Partisan Media Influences Aversion to Political Compromise, from IDS Grad Fellow Yoo Ji Suh, Affiliate @dvshah.bsky.social, and @prowag.bsky.social

www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

The deadline for submissions to our IJoC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas” has been extended to June 15, 2025. Email me (dshah@wisc.edu) or my co-editors w/ questions & share the CfP in your network. Link to call below (under the original link)

The deadline for submissions to our IJoC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas” has been extended to June 15, 2025. Email me (dshah@wisc.edu) or my co-editors w/ questions & share the CfP in your network. Link to call below (under the original link)

First up: @taliastroud.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social in stellar #AlgoSoc2025 panel on the future of news consumption

1️⃣ day until the @algosoc.org conference 🚀 🌺

@natalihelberger.bsky.social @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @jvh.bsky.social @theoaraujo.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social

"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison

🇺🇸 Absolutely insane crowd here in Madison, Wisconsin — the Capital of Democracy!

#Handsoff

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years.

Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.

May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

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There’s no place on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for corrupt judges like Brad Schimel.

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The “free speech absolutist” owner of X doesn’t like the output of the Community Notes program he has previously championed, so he puts his massive thumb on that scale to ensure it’s labels align with his twisted view of reality.

Welcome Kate

Hi, I'm Kate, a researcher at the University of Washington studying rumors and disinformation. I post a lot about my research and about my dog, Ruby. :)

Prosecutors in New York are doing more to counter the abuse of power from the Trump administration than our elected officials in DC. Integrity in action.

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case.

Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence | CNN Politics The Senate voted Wednesday, to confirm former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. My team 1st encountered her while studying conspiracy theories denying chemical weapons attacks and other war crimes in Syria (~2017). She repeatly spread those false claims, echoing Russian disinfo. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is what a cap on “indirect costs” through NIH grants will do. Going from >50% of grant total to 15% will change how your local university healthcare systems function everyday.

We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.

Reupping this Call for Papers for a special issue of IJOC. Just over three months to go. Please share in your networks.

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

New summer institute for up-and-coming scholars across disciplines whose work investigates or intersects with disinformation: disinfoinstitute.org

The first iteration will be this June in San Diego. Applications are due January 31.

What do people want? Views on platforms and the digital public sphere in eight countries Our research explores how people use platforms for news and information about politics, while also remaining sceptical of the information they see there.

…along with this excellent report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and @citap.bsky.social:

Probably a good day to re-up this report from @knightfdn.bsky.social and Gallup:

When are Fact-Checks Effective? An Experimental Study on the Inclusion of the Misinformation Source and the Source of Fact-Checks in 16 European Countries Despite increasing academic attention, several questions about fact-checking remain unanswered. First, it remains unclear to what extent fact-checks are effective across different political and med...

“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries”

Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.

For no particular reason today.

doi.org/10.1080/1520...

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness' Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

✨Out now: The Fall Issue (Nr. 30) of the Political Communication Report!✨
“What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing”
📖 Full issue: politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

A 🧵 on the essays featured in this issue:

Feel free to contact my fellow special issue co-editors, Erik Bucy (erik.bucy@ttu.edu) and Martin Echeverría (martin.echeverria@correo.buap.mx). We seek research that spans North and South America and considers candidate performance in hybrid media settings.

MCRC Team Shares IJOC Call for Papers: “Presidential Debates Across the Americas” International Journal of Communication: Special Issue Call for Papers: “Presidential Debates Across the Americas: Analyzing Candidate Performance in Hybrid Media Settings” Guest editors: Dhavan V. Sha...

We welcome submissions to our IJOC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me (dshah@wisc.edu) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below. mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/13/m...

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

Feel free to contact my fellow special issue co-editors, Erik Bucy (erik.bucy@ttu.edu) and Martin Echeverría (martin.echeverria@correo.buap.mx). We seek research that spans North and South America and considers candidate performance in hybrid media settings.