Today, Digital Democracy Centre SDU Samfundsvidenskab had the pleasure of an interesting talk given by SDU-alumni Antonis Kalogeropoulos on his ERC-funded research project on social inequalities in news consumption. Cool findings, and exciting stuff coming up!

Meant to tag all the good people at APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions ICA Comp Methods Journalism Studies / ICA AEJMC Political Communication Division Newspaper & Online News Division of AEJMC to help get the word out!

Pre-announcement:

We will hire a postdoc!

The selected candidate will work fulltime till 31/12/25 on our 🇪🇺ERC Consolidator Grant 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇵🇭🇺🇲🇦🇺🇲🇮🇹🇿🇦🇳🇱team RHUL Politics and IR University of 🇬🇧London.

Feel free to share widely, thanks.

For project, team & agenda, see:
newnewsproject.com

In our first PSA Media and Politics Group panel at #PSA24 Patrícia Rossini / [email protected] presents a co-authored paper on moral disagreement and affective polarisation effects with social media users in Brazil: co authors Camila Mont’Alverne Antonis Kalogeropoulos
Are people being worn out by disagreement on social media?

New paper 📣. W/PROF J Ringrose she/her/TRANS NONBINARY ALLY🏳️‍⚧️ ☆ Idil Cambazoglu ☆ (she/her) ♡´･ᴗ･`♡ Betsy Milne (she/her) We talked to boy’s (aged 13-14) about misogynist Andrew Tate, to explore his appeal. We found Tate’s content plays on boy’s fears about their masculinity and future in a confected gender war shorturl.at/dzES1

AI cannot reliably identify false news (let alone lies), despite what sales reps and boosters may claim. Too many false positives, false negatives, issues of bias, (let alone perceiving 'entire meanings')

And governments are poorly placed to this work
ekathimerini.com/news/1232467/d… 1/4

📰 New publication: Open-access article out in Journalism Studies examining how young people (18-24) in England who experience social inequality consumed news during the first national Covid-19 lockdown: doi.org/10.1080/146167… (1/9)

Journalists too 'have unconscious biases. In the case of trans people, that often manifests in worrying more about people who may mistakenly identify as trans — and regret that decision — than about the challenges that trans people face' gina chua writes niemanlab.org/2023/12/too-ma…

Είναι προσβολή μία σημαία από τα σεντόνια δολοφονημένων γυναικών; | in.gr in.gr/2023/12/18/apo…

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Γιατί πολλοί που στηρίζουν τον γάμο ομοφύλων δεν στηρίζουν το δικαίωμα τους στην τεκνοθεσία; Έγραψα ένα άρθρο για αυτό👇 tl:dr: ο σεξισμός

I’ve been teaching, talking, and tweeting about this for years, but it’s worth repeating: the ongoing existence of real slavery in the world, today, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Slavery (in various forms) is not just in the past. It should concern us all.

🚨We are hiring imec-smit, VUB VUB a postdoc for 2 years as part of the ERC-StG project INEQNEWS aiming to examine social inequalities in digital news consumption! Apply by December 15! smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/postdo…

It's tempting to see this entirely through the lens of US politics and American news media, but this trend mirrors Reuters Institute data showing declining interest in news and increasing news avoidance in many places around the world. From the 2022 DNR: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…

Happy to share our new paper on troubling uses of messaging apps! We look at the multiple measures of WhatsApp use and find that group networks and high political activity are the core predictors of detrimental engagement with misinformation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Summary👇