🤝 Meet the instructors behind our exclusive #MethodsSchool course tasters 🍪 at the General Conference ⤵️ 🧑‍🏫 Wouter Wolfs, Daniel Kovarek, @sergsagara, Erik Bucy & Jo Howard (Institute of Development Studies) ✍️ Register for #ecprgc24 to access all 5️⃣ sessions! 🔗 Learn more 👉 ecpr.eu/Events/Event/S…

I’ve been to countless conferences. IJPP is always absolutely fantastic. APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions

🚨 Call for Papers🚨 Together with Aqsa Farooq I am editing a special issue of International Journal of Communication on Generative AI and disinformation. Details below, DL December 31, 2024 CfP builds on our European Digital Media Observatory scientific conference held at ASCoR | @[email protected] UvA Amsterdam 👉🏽edmo.eu/edmo-news/call…

1/ 🗞️ In the press, Rishi Sunak was given over 1.5 times more speaking time than Keir Starmer. On the week he announced that he would be running as a candidate, Reform leader Nigel Farage yielded nearly as much quotations in the press as Labour leader Keir Starmer.

Sign of the times or what happens when Millennials start writing ‘fortunes’ with a decidedly generational outlook? I see some post-pandemic truth here but not a lot optimism. lol

In our first weekly report on media coverage during the #GeneralElection campaign, we analysed how the main parties were being covered by newspapers. There was substantial negative coverage of both parties, with The Labour Party receiving the highest levels of negative press.

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🧠 Learn the concepts for applying #VisualAnalysis in politics with hands-on exercises ⤵️ 🤝 Explore visuals in inferential & interpretive studies using quantitative & qualitative methods 🧑‍🏫 Led by Erik Bucy 📆 22–26 Jul, 09:30–12:30 CEST 👉 Book ecpr.eu/Events/284

Here is the TLDR in a nifty thread by our fab news and comms team:

“Instead, our fact checking has focused on what politicians have actually said, and whether it holds up to scrutiny.” Politician’s claims are the problem in the UK election, not viral AI-content. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/pol…

We have some spaces left for our seminar by Fulbright Scholar Professor Erik Bucy this Wed 10th - "Learning from Media Scandal: How Coverage of Press Crises Primes Accountability and Reaffirms Faith in a Socially Responsible Press", book a place here - lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/e…

Many thanks to Professor Erik Bucy for delivering an IAS seminar on the topic of media scandal today, as a culmination of his time Loughborough University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar for the past year. The video is now available on our IAS YouTube Channel - youtu.be/qtSUM37vk_k?si…

Fantastic collection, from a stellar list of academic analysts with insights about the UK general election from almost every angle—and all open access. Well done guys. European Consortium for Political Research APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions US-UK Fulbright ICA Visual Communication Studies

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"Both in their presence and, in the case of Sunak ducking out from D-Day commemorations, absence, visuals are influential elements of campaign communication that are well remembered by voters." write Erik Bucy & Nathan Ritchie in electionanalysis.uk

🔐 Get introduced to theory, methods & application of visual communication analysis in politics ⤵️ 🎓 Learn relevant concepts for studying visual politics & approaches to sampling 🧑‍🏫 Led by Erik Bucy 📆 7–11 Oct, 15:00–18:00 CEST 👉 Book ecpr.eu/Events/284

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🚀 Explore the theory, methods and 📈applications of visual communication analysis in politics ⤵️ 🎓 Learn relevant concepts for studying visual politics & approaches to sampling 🧑‍🏫 Led by Erik Bucy 📆 7–11 Oct 👉 Book ecpr.eu/Events/284

Check out the newly released #JVPC Vol. 11, Issue 1, Research Handbook on Visual Politics, Darren Lilleker and Anastasia Veneti (eds) (2023), reviewed by Erik Bucy. doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0….