Happy to share my new paper on political agenda-setting! I craft and test a new model: the Issue Initiation Model. It details how political parties - by initiating and elevating their agendas - can influence the attention of both competing parties and the news media.
I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky.
I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast.
Short 🧵 1/n
Which kind of products are news publishers planning for 2025?
Data from our report by Nic Newman and @fedecherubini.bsky.social on the trends that will shape journalism in the year ahead
Read our report in full reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-m...
Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include: “Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.” “Gays are freaks.”
Congrats to Meta on adopting new measures that will increase its levels of hate speech theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
We all know the amazing work of Weber and De Sio on ‘Issue Yield’. But few use it concretely beyond the appealing logic of bridge issue to cater to core & potential voters. I provide a simpler & more applicable way forward on this logic by using a split in issue ownership to select campaign issue👇🏼
Citizens’ engagement on politicians’ own social media shapes not just what politicians talk about—but also what they act on. 🤳🏻💥 We show how interacting with politicians' posts increases the likelihood of real legislative action by those same politicians. doi.org/10.1177/1065...
This is really exciting, you two!
NEW: Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
Har du det, som om din hjerne er gået i forrådnelse efter flere timers scrollen rundt på telefonen? Så er du ikke alene.
Nu er fænomenet blevet kåret som årets ord af Oxford University Press:
Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@timallinger.bsky.social :-D
Trump’s 2024 cabinet picks are extremely conservative. Despite media claims floating around about ideological diversity, the extreme right has a much firmer grip on his administration than in 2016.(1/n)
Vi har fået de første data ind fra det store projekt med Aarhus Universitet, der skal gøre os klogere på kandidattest, der kan flytte magt og mandater, når der er valg.
De foreløbige resultater tyder på, at valgtest påvirker EU-valg endnu mere end folketingsvalg. jyllands-posten.dk/politik/ECE1...
A chart showing the proportion that say each is their main gateway to online news. The results are: Social media - 29%; Search - 25%; Direct - 22%; Mobile alerts - 9%; Aggregators - 8%; Email - 5% Social media is more important for younger users. Search is equally important for all age groups.
Social media is the main way for accessing online news, followed by search, according to our #DNR24. 22% mainly go direct to a news website or app.
Social media is more important to younger audiences, but search is important across age groups.
🔗 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...