Laia Castro (@laiacastroh) 's Twitter Profile
Laia Castro

@laiacastroh

Associate Professor @CPoliticaUB & Lead of the Digital Media and Politics team at the @BSC_CNS | Comparative polcomm & public opinion research

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Oriol Bosch, PhD (@orioljbosch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy to see this published! 🧵 In this paper we show that certain types of digital trace data can be substantially biased. If what you want to measure happens across devices/browsers/platforms, and you fail to capture all these traces...bias will occur tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy to see this published! 🧵

In this paper we show that certain types of digital trace data can be substantially biased.

If what you want to measure happens across devices/browsers/platforms, and you fail to capture all these traces...bias will occur
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Laia Castro (@laiacastroh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A bit late to the party but here's also my preprint on features & implications of high-choice media environments upcoming in the fabulous Encyclopedia of Political Communication below osf.io/preprints/soca…

Enrique Hernández (@ehernandezpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 JOB ALERT: Fully funded 4-year PhD position Ciencia Política UAB Please share with your networks & encourage MA students to apply! #PolSciJobs Deadline: October 14, 2024 Details: webs.uab.cat/transdem/2024/…

📢 JOB ALERT: Fully funded 4-year PhD position <a href="/cpa_uab/">Ciencia Política UAB</a> 

Please share with your networks &amp; encourage MA students to apply! 

#PolSciJobs 

Deadline: October 14, 2024  

Details:
webs.uab.cat/transdem/2024/…
Carol Galais (@carolgalais) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Publication alert! Ever wonder why some politicians seem ready to throw chairs while others are chill as cucumbers? We dug into the Spanish Parliament to find out! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6MIEV4…

Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24% -Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X -Led people to share higher-quality news Effects persisting for

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile!

In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers:
-Reduced partisan animosity by 24%
-Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X
-Led people to share higher-quality news

Effects persisting for
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions (@poli_com) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#ICA25's Political Communication Division's CALL FOR PAPERS is now out: icahdq.org/mpage/POLIT_CFP 📰Full Papers 📚Panels 🚧Works in Progress 🎢Research Escalator 🗓 Deadline: November 1, 2024!

Michael Bang Petersen (@m_b_petersen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Just out in PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against

🚨 Just out in <a href="/PNASNews/">PNASNews</a> 🚨

Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility:

Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online.

But - against
Mercè Crosas (@mercecrosas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After our successful conference on Computational Social Science, an interview with 🇺🇦 [email protected] about misinformation, polarization, and the need to study the internet BSC-CNS CODATA elpais.com/tecnologia/202…

Berta Caihuelas Navajas (@bcaihuelas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Molt contenta d'haver presentat el meu darrer paper de la tesi "Education and Increasing Turnout Inequality" ahir a la JCPOP. Gràcies a la Laia Castro i als assistents pels comentaris. Thanks also to Elias Dinas for his insightful keynote and to all the other great presenters!

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (@eurohpc_ju) 's Twitter Profile Photo

News Flash!⚡ The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking selected the first 7 European #AIFactories, set to be deployed next year: in #Finland, #Germany, #Greece, #Italy, #Luxembourg, #Spain and #Sweden. They will create a network of AI hubs to drive innovation in Europe More: eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/selection-firs…

News Flash!⚡

The <a href="/EuroHPC_JU/">EuroHPC Joint Undertaking</a> selected the first 7 European #AIFactories, set to be deployed next year: in #Finland, #Germany, #Greece, #Italy, #Luxembourg, #Spain and #Sweden.

They will create a network of AI hubs to drive innovation in Europe

More: eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/selection-firs…
Chris Bail (chris_bail_duke 🧵) (@chris_bail) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can LLMS reproduce the treatment effects of field experiments in silico? Interesting new paper suggests they do so about 78% of the time: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01167

Kiran Garimella (@gvrkiran) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This paper is now published at the Mobile Media and Communication journal! Please consider using the tool if you work with WhatsApp: gvrkiran.github.io/content/WhatsA… It's now been deployed in multiple countries, recruiting 1000s of users in 6 countries. Let me know if u are interested!

This paper is now published at the Mobile Media and Communication journal!

Please consider using the tool if you work with WhatsApp: gvrkiran.github.io/content/WhatsA…

It's now been deployed in multiple countries, recruiting 1000s of users in 6 countries.

Let me know if u are interested!
Journal of Information Technology & Politics (@jitp_apsa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢🆕📢Is social media an effective information source during a crisis? Using survey data, this study finds no positive relationship between social media and political knowledge. ➡️Laia Castro karolina koc michals James Stanyer Frank Esser Toril Aalberg 👁️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢🆕📢Is social media an effective information source during a crisis? Using survey data, this study finds no positive relationship between social media and political knowledge.
➡️<a href="/laiacastroh/">Laia Castro</a> <a href="/kocmichalska/">karolina koc michals</a> <a href="/JamesStanyer1/">James Stanyer</a> <a href="/esserfrank_/">Frank Esser</a> <a href="/TorilAalberg/">Toril Aalberg</a>
👁️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…