Mamiko Hermann
@mamikohermann.bsky.social
PhD candidate at LMU Munich
M.S. in PolCom U Gothenburg
Government and public agencies' communication esp. at the local level / Former public officer in 🇯🇵 / PR consultant
M.S. in PolCom U Gothenburg
Government and public agencies' communication esp. at the local level / Former public officer in 🇯🇵 / PR consultant
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Check out Japan Decides 2024, edited by @kmcelwain.bsky.social (2005-06), Robert Pekkanen, and Faculty Associate @profdansmith.bsky.social, with contributions by Kenya Amano (2023-24), Faculty Associate Saori Katada, @profvekasi.bsky.social (2021-22), and others. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Japan Decides 2024
This book provides a coherent overall explanation for understanding in the election in both historical and comparative perspective
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Check out Japan Decides 2024, edited by @kmcelwain.bsky.social (2005-06), Robert Pekkanen, and Faculty Associate @profdansmith.bsky.social, with contributions by Kenya Amano (2023-24), Faculty Associate Saori Katada, @profvekasi.bsky.social (2021-22), and others. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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🎉 Just published! JAPAN DECIDES 2024! The most comprehensive analysis and interpretation of last year's general election in Japan––which saw the ruling LDP lose its seat majority and presaged further upheaval in 2025. E-book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Japan Decides 2024
This book provides a coherent overall explanation for understanding in the election in both historical and comparative perspective
link.springer.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
🎉 Just published! JAPAN DECIDES 2024! The most comprehensive analysis and interpretation of last year's general election in Japan––which saw the ruling LDP lose its seat majority and presaged further upheaval in 2025. E-book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
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Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Steven Schwarz @hadw-bw.bsky.social
🎤 "The Political Economy of Trading States and the Renaissance of Japanese Industrial Policy in the Global Chip War"
🏚️ online & onsite at the DIJ
📅 Nov 19, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET
▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...
🎤 "The Political Economy of Trading States and the Renaissance of Japanese Industrial Policy in the Global Chip War"
🏚️ online & onsite at the DIJ
📅 Nov 19, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET
▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Steven Schwarz @hadw-bw.bsky.social
🎤 "The Political Economy of Trading States and the Renaissance of Japanese Industrial Policy in the Global Chip War"
🏚️ online & onsite at the DIJ
📅 Nov 19, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET
▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...
🎤 "The Political Economy of Trading States and the Renaissance of Japanese Industrial Policy in the Global Chip War"
🏚️ online & onsite at the DIJ
📅 Nov 19, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET
▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...
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How does a fringe, anti-vaccine party come to influence national politics? In this insightful article, Romeo Marcantuoni and Robert A. Fahey examine Sanseitō, a Japanese political party founded during the pandemic.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology | Asia-Pacific Journal | Cambridge Core
Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology - Volume 23
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How does a fringe, anti-vaccine party come to influence national politics? In this insightful article, Romeo Marcantuoni and Robert A. Fahey examine Sanseitō, a Japanese political party founded during the pandemic.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
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Call for nominations for the Richard J. Samuels Dissertation Award in Japanese Studies from the United States-Japan Foundation (USJF). us-jf.org/en/news/usjf...
USJF Now Taking Nominations for Second Annual PhD Dissertation Award in Japanese Studies
USJF is accepting nominations for the 2026 Richard J. Samuels Dissertation Award in Japanese Studies, honoring excellence in social sciences research on Japan.
us-jf.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Call for nominations for the Richard J. Samuels Dissertation Award in Japanese Studies from the United States-Japan Foundation (USJF). us-jf.org/en/news/usjf...
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In an ongoing project, we ask which countries citizens prefer as benchmarks for policy decisions.
Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.
Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In an ongoing project, we ask which countries citizens prefer as benchmarks for policy decisions.
Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.
Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.
My first paper in Japanese titled "Government Communication in the Policy Cycle: Discussions in English Research and Implications for the Japanese Context" has been published in Public Communication Studies by the Public Relations Association for Social Sectors in Japan.
doi.org/10.34419/pra...
doi.org/10.34419/pra...
政策過程における政府・行政のコミュニケーション
公共コミュニケーション研究, 2025 年 10 巻 1 号 p. 93-100
doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My first paper in Japanese titled "Government Communication in the Policy Cycle: Discussions in English Research and Implications for the Japanese Context" has been published in Public Communication Studies by the Public Relations Association for Social Sectors in Japan.
doi.org/10.34419/pra...
doi.org/10.34419/pra...
Day 2 at #vsjf2025
Still reflecting on the inspiring discussion from Day 1, especially the transformation of "liberals" in Japan and symbolic phenomena in several domains including identity politics. Many of the issues raised by the presenters were relevant to my own topic: political communication.
Still reflecting on the inspiring discussion from Day 1, especially the transformation of "liberals" in Japan and symbolic phenomena in several domains including identity politics. Many of the issues raised by the presenters were relevant to my own topic: political communication.
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Day 2 at #vsjf2025
Still reflecting on the inspiring discussion from Day 1, especially the transformation of "liberals" in Japan and symbolic phenomena in several domains including identity politics. Many of the issues raised by the presenters were relevant to my own topic: political communication.
Still reflecting on the inspiring discussion from Day 1, especially the transformation of "liberals" in Japan and symbolic phenomena in several domains including identity politics. Many of the issues raised by the presenters were relevant to my own topic: political communication.
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I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the…
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the…
Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Vancouver, BC, Canada. DISSERTATION AWARDS Gabriel A. Almond Award…
politicalsciencenow.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
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Two fully funded PhD positions in political science at the University of Antwerp in @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social's new and very cool ERC project on disinformation and representation. Great opportunity!
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
Doctoral scholarship holders in political science | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
www.uantwerpen.be
July 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Two fully funded PhD positions in political science at the University of Antwerp in @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social's new and very cool ERC project on disinformation and representation. Great opportunity!
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
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#OpenAccess from our new issue -
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism: Why Studies on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are Often Overlooked in Political Science - cup.org/46r8oRY
- @apklein.bsky.social, Frédéric Krumbein & @hannes-mosler.bsky.social
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism: Why Studies on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are Often Overlooked in Political Science - cup.org/46r8oRY
- @apklein.bsky.social, Frédéric Krumbein & @hannes-mosler.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OpenAccess from our new issue -
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism: Why Studies on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are Often Overlooked in Political Science - cup.org/46r8oRY
- @apklein.bsky.social, Frédéric Krumbein & @hannes-mosler.bsky.social
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism: Why Studies on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are Often Overlooked in Political Science - cup.org/46r8oRY
- @apklein.bsky.social, Frédéric Krumbein & @hannes-mosler.bsky.social
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
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🚨 Big news from our last business meeting in #ICA25!
We’re launching the Political Communication Teaching Database, a shared space where educators can upload and download course materials on #polcomm.
👉 Submit your materials here: tally.so/r/mDMGb5
#TeachingResources #ICA #APSA
We’re launching the Political Communication Teaching Database, a shared space where educators can upload and download course materials on #polcomm.
👉 Submit your materials here: tally.so/r/mDMGb5
#TeachingResources #ICA #APSA
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨 Big news from our last business meeting in #ICA25!
We’re launching the Political Communication Teaching Database, a shared space where educators can upload and download course materials on #polcomm.
👉 Submit your materials here: tally.so/r/mDMGb5
#TeachingResources #ICA #APSA
We’re launching the Political Communication Teaching Database, a shared space where educators can upload and download course materials on #polcomm.
👉 Submit your materials here: tally.so/r/mDMGb5
#TeachingResources #ICA #APSA
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🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science!
Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES
@uantwerpen.be
🇧🇪
We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️
💥 4-yr fully funded
📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug
Details + apply 👇
Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES
@uantwerpen.be
🇧🇪
We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️
💥 4-yr fully funded
📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug
Details + apply 👇
Doctoral scholarship holders in political science | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
www.uantwerpen.be
June 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science!
Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES
@uantwerpen.be
🇧🇪
We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️
💥 4-yr fully funded
📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug
Details + apply 👇
Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES
@uantwerpen.be
🇧🇪
We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️
💥 4-yr fully funded
📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug
Details + apply 👇
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Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics?
Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.
Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.
🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.
Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.
🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
Digital Democracy Fellowship x TrygFonden Fellowship Program
Digital Democracy Fellowship x TrygFonden Fellowship Program
www.sdu.dk
June 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics?
Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.
Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.
🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.
Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.
🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
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Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
June 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
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Important read 👇
Great piece by Koen Vossen in @theguardian.com on the current turmoil in Dutch politics - and the risks of elevating a far-right leader to power. (Spoiler: it doesn’t end well.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Geert Wilders collapsed the Dutch government. He wanted power, but had no idea how to govern | Koen Vossen
The anti-Islam ideologue has exposed the limits of his insular, badly organised operation. For a ‘radical’, opposition is a much easier place, says political historian and author Koen Vossen
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Important read 👇
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Interested in different theories and conceptualization of #populism? Here are lectures by some of the leading scholars in the field, given in the context of our MSCA doctoral network @ideopop.bsky.social
The first six #lectures of our series on #Populism are now available online! Super interesting contributions on the different theorizations of populism and on how to measure it. Follow this space for more video lectures in the coming weeks!
ideopop.populism-internationalrelations.com/doctoral-tra...
ideopop.populism-internationalrelations.com/doctoral-tra...
Lecture series - IDEoPOP
Concepts, Causes, and Consequences of Populism Session 1Introduction to populismCristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Catholic University of Chile)Provides an overview of developments in how populism has manif...
ideopop.populism-internationalrelations.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Interested in different theories and conceptualization of #populism? Here are lectures by some of the leading scholars in the field, given in the context of our MSCA doctoral network @ideopop.bsky.social
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CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social
Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas
Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
#PolTheory #demoinno
Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas
Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
#PolTheory #demoinno
PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Citizens’ Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems (CASDS)
employment.ku.dk
June 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social
Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas
Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
#PolTheory #demoinno
Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas
Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
#PolTheory #demoinno
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Check out this new Element by Nik Usher & Jessica Hagman, which "...provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news." The free download period is extended to June 13th! #politics #commsky #polcom
New Cambridge Element 'Amplifying Extremism: Small Town Politicians, Media Storms, and American Journalism' by Nik Usher and Jessica C. Hagman is now free to read for 2 weeks.
cup.org/4kziCnn
#cambridgeelements #politics
cup.org/4kziCnn
#cambridgeelements #politics
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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🚨 We have two vacancies for PhD fellows:
- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
@robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent
- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
@robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent
June 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🚨 We have two vacancies for PhD fellows:
- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
@robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent
- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
@robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent
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✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨
The Phantom Counter-Public:
Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler.
🧵⤵️
The Phantom Counter-Public:
Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler.
🧵⤵️
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨
The Phantom Counter-Public:
Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler.
🧵⤵️
The Phantom Counter-Public:
Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler.
🧵⤵️
Inspiring topics coming up for 2 days at #WIConf2025
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Inspiring topics coming up for 2 days at #WIConf2025