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New report out w/
@katemfitzgerald where we analyse a million tweets during the Republican primary debate. Basically, X is flooded with platform manipulation, isn't doing enough to moderate content, and has no clear strategy for political disinformation. eprints.qut.edu.au/242533/
Some Reddit speculations: what would Reddit look like if some of its most popular communities went dark forever? #Reddit #RedditBlackout elliotpanek.blogspot.com/202…
I’m excited to be taking on a new role: Journalism & Media Studies Graduate Program Coordinator at The University of Alabama! Find out more about our award-winning Master's program:
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Excited to share some data visualizations based on what we've been up to this semester at the Alabama Reddit Research Group! This visualization allows us to see, at a glance, comments or posts from subreddits for an entire year, sh…lnkd.in/gJDvAKqa lnkd.in/g4uG4eqx
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New from the University of Alabama's Reddit Research Group, led by JCM professor @elpanek: This interactive data visualization project shows how Reddit, and popular subreddits, have grown over time.
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Of 25 interventions designed to reduce partisan animosity, 23 worked; a few of them had pretty large effect sizes (d = .52)! Seems like partisan animosity, though increasingly and alarmingly extreme, might not be a strongly held belief.
A megastudy on a national sample of partisans (n=32,059) tested 25 interventions designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes & partisan animosity.
The top 3 were:
-intergroup contact
-addressing mistrust in the media
-creating a common ingroup identity
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Comm researchers: know of studies or samples of YouTube or TikTok users reporting what they watched? (genre, niches, diversity of content, particular vids). Lots on amount viewed, but less on actual content.
@ICA_CAT @bowmanspartan @alicetiara @McEwanInComm
Gratifying to read coverage of the downside of social media that doesn't oversimplify the research & avoids blaming the usual scapegoats (Facebook, echo chambers, misinformation, algorithms). Love the cool illustration, too! newyorker.com/culture/annals…
Terrific #ica22! So many great papers (incl. @jbrundidge & @RKellyGarrett's paper on affective polarization, worth checking out!) & great reunions (w/ Mina Choi [pictured], @JoeBBayer, @UTsharon). Wish I could've seen more of you. Perhaps #ica23?❤️
Been awhile since I blogged, but Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter seems a good occasion to reflect on the portability of influence.
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Interesting finding supporting 'partisan echo chamber' hypothesis: exposing FoxNews viewers to CNN tempers their views. This runs counter to @chris_bail's findings that partisan Twitter users double down when exposed to opposing views. So, echo chamber dynamics differ by medium?
🚨NEW PREPRINT w/ @dbroockman. We conducted a real-world experiment to study the effects of partisan media. In Sept 2020, we paid people who normally watch Fox News to instead watch CNN. Median person was paid $15/hour for 7 hrs/week for 4 wks to watch CNN. Thread on results 1/
For folks who study live-streaming (on YouTube, Twitch, Tiktok, Instagram, etc.) or if you know someone who studies this, consider submitting to Technology, Mind, & Behavior's special issue!
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/1al4pv2s…
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This week's #FacultyResearchFriday spotlight is Dr. Elliot Panek, associate professor in journalism and creative media. 🔦 Check out his research accomplishments!
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Reddit has 52 million active users a day, and 1 in 4 people ages 25-29 use Reddit. I chat with social media researcher and author, @elpanek, about his book; Understanding Reddit. We covered the evolution of social dynamics within this understudied network of communities.
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The University of Alabama has been a low key hub for cutting edge, interdisciplinary political communication scholarship for a while now. Now we're getting a little louder about it.
Check us out so we don't have to shout!
Our new website is live! Check us out and learn about our goal of interdisciplinary political communication.
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Two weeks from today!
A free virtual book talk on *Breaking the Social Media Prism* featuring @chris_bail in conversation with @elpanek.
This is the first installment of "Politics Broadly," a political communication speaker series organized by @OPCaM_UA. RSVP for the link!
Come work with us!
We're hiring a tenure-track media production professor - MFA or PhD, documentary or narrative filmmakers. Please circulate among your network and message me with any questions! facultyjobs.ua.edu/postings/…
