Come and join us at the The Political Studies Association annual conference in Birmingham, April 14-16, 2025! Please see the attached images for the CFP for the Media and Politics Group section. Abstracts of 300 words are to be uploaded to Ex Ordo (psa25.exordo.com) by Friday, 18 October.

Can it really be all of 19 years ago? 💚

GUMG member Cairsti presented her work 'Bad News for the BBC' at last week's #meccsa2024

Not contrary opinion at all, this can be context specific (and there are a lot of other variables) but once you can demonstrate you can teach at various levels (and you have designed and coordinated at least one course) focus on publications and funding. They count for more.

Delighted to see two of my articles trending at Political Studies Review! One is my article on political comedy effects and the other is my recent article with Pete Finn, Lauren C. Bell and Dr Amy Tatum on AI.

Every time I read this I just want to shout it from the rooftops.

I talked to Le HuffPost about Donald Trump and media influencers. Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde StrathJMC huffingtonpost.fr/international/…

Arrived at The Lowry today for the first day of #UndiscipliningsociologyII I will be screening and talking about Freedom to Run with Stephen Sheriff later this morning The Sociological Review Foundation

Almost ready to go #UndiscipliningII

#sojustact

"I have concepts of a plan."

Timely analysis from Dr Caroline Leicht here.

WELCOME TO THE DEADBOT SOCIETY **AI and MEMORY** New Gold Open Access Original Article in Agenda Setting Cambridge Memory, Mind & Media doi.org/10.1017/mem.20…

Having a good day with Street Stuff™️ at West & St Mary’s Primaries in Paisley as part of our ScotGov Justice backed ‘United Against Division’ project.

Misinformation - and disinformation - often comes from the top, exhibit no ∞ (Some politicians illustrate how authentic, domestic, live-televised misinformation is at least as concerning, if not more, as the synthetic, foreign, online stuff elite discussions seem obsessed with)

#sojustact

The wonderful Prof Mo Hume talking about the #rights of rivers, bio-cultural rights, & architectural governance of rivers #LoughsAgency

Very excited that LSE USAPP blog let me expand on my analysis of Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris. You can now read more about why it matters as well as the nuances of the statement here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024…

I’m sure you all remember the riots, just over a month ago. I’m almost sure you remember the role played by large social media accounts in spreading the misinformation that incited the riots & fuelling the anger and hate. 1/3

Cc Cairsti Glasgow University Media Group