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The EVPOC (Elections, Values, and Political Communication) Research Group at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
@acgoldberg.bsky.social participated at the NTNU European conference in Brussels. He presented some first results regarding Democracy in the digital age based on a recent survey conducted with colleagues at ISS. #knowledge4EU #ntnueuropeanconference #sciencecommunication #polisky
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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‪Can one further improve the common (face-saving) turnout question in election surveys? Our new publication
@electoralstudies.bsky.social tested this w three alternative wordings & validated turnout data. Short answer is that the current version works already pretty good!

doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Redirecting
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August 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Join our department! We have 1 PhD-position and 2 post-doc positions out now. The positions are all related to political communication and media (and hires will be welcomed in our research group) #commsky #polisky
July 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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🏆We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024–25 Best Paper Award in @psrm.bsky.social

🏅The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers, by @finseraas.bsky.social and @olenyhus.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to the authors!🎉
June 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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✅ Voters often choose parties that share similar positions to them on certain issues.
🗳️ @acgoldberg.bsky.social and Jonas Lefevere (@ecprpovb.bsky.social) argue this behaviour is more prevalent among voters with more extreme issue positions.
➡️ bit.ly/4duf83e
The role of policy extremity in issue voting
Voters often choose parties that share similar positions to them on certain issues. Andreas Goldberg and Jonas Lefevere argue that this behaviour is more prevalent among voters with more extreme issue...
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May 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
March 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
What role will social media play in the 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election?
Hedvig Tønnesen gave a presentation on the role of social media, democratic resilience and the importance of international collaborations when Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education visited NTNU last Friday.
March 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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📢New publication w J. Lefevere in PRX @ecpr.bsky.social

In a comparative setup w 4 issues & 10 countries, we examine proximity voting w a focus on the moderating role & interplay of party polarization and voter extremity.

TLDR: Both aspects matter, but not their interplay.

doi.org/10.1080/2474...
The contingent nature of proximity voting: unravelling the interplay of party issue polarization and voters’ positional extremity
Extant research argues that party issue polarization increases voters’ propensity to engage in proximity voting, but evidence is mixed. We argue that the extremity of voters’ issue positions affect...
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March 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📯More exciting news! Our very own Melanie Magin has recently punished a new article where they assess the media performance of migration coverage. #commsky
Viewpoint Diversity, Balance, Deliberativeness: Assessing the Media Performance of Migration Coverage Multi-Dimensionally Based on Deliberative Democratic Theories
The issue of migration is highly salient in public debates in many countries. Given this salience and the risk of political instrumentalization, often by actors from the far right, it is important ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📢 Exciting news! Melanie Magin from our research group has contributed to the new book Citizens' Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations 📚.

Explore her insights here 👉 www.routledge.com/Citizens-Par...

#MediaResearch #PoliticalParticipation #Academicsky #commsky
Citizens, Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations
Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stab...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Melanie Magin (from our research group) is highly engaged in teaching and has published an article on enhancing student ownership of learning through course design (in political communication). See details here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#commsky #academicsky #teaching
Student ownership of learning through course design: The example of an undergraduate political communication course
This paper presents a course design that aims to stimulate student ownership of learning. It was developed for a semester-long undergraduate course in political communication, but it is equally sui...
www.tandfonline.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Working on our interdisciplinary competency for our Christmas party 🎉
December 4, 2024 at 6:56 PM
@pmeiners.bsky.social presented his preliminary work (co-authored with @pieterdewilde.bsky.social) on narratives and framing of EU policies #polisky #commsky
December 4, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior?

The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵
December 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Researchers from EVPOC are involved in the next round of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Survey (ICCS), focusing on democratic competence of pupils. #democracy #education nyheter.ntnu.no/forskningsmi...
Forskningsmiljø ved NTNU får fornyet tillit på stor demokratiundersøkelse - NTNU Nyheter
– Elevenes lavere forståelse for demokrati og svekkede skolemotivasjon er bekymringsfullt
nyheter.ntnu.no
December 3, 2024 at 10:54 AM
(bsky-less) Melanie Magin has published a new book chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning, entitled "On the relationship between political campaigning and echo chambers" www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
December 3, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Melanie Magin, one of our communication scholars, has earned chocolate for her excellent teaching practitioner status #researchbasedteaching
November 29, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Great Political Economics seminar at @ntnu-iss.bsky.social today. Cyrusian (NTNU) on "The Price of a Lordship" and Marxer (Lucern) on "Direct Democracy and State Government Finances"
November 25, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Today we're learning about the connection between direct democracy and taxes. Thanks to Benedikt Marxer from Lucerne for visiting us
November 25, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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📢🎓 PhD position in my new "The future of EUrope" project

💶 Good salary & project money for data collections, travels, etc.
📝 International supervision team
🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature
🗓️ DL 10.12.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Thanks for sharing and RT!

polisky EUsky
Ph.D. Position in Political Science (269902) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Ph.D. Position in Political Science (269902), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
www.jobbnorge.no
October 28, 2024 at 10:35 AM