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Alessandro Nai
@alessandronai.bsky.social

Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social

Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality

Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social

http://www.alessandro-nai.com .. more

Political science 51%
Sociology 18%
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After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

Agree! She has this capacity of describing scenes in a way that they vibrate out of the page. Same for some of the protest scenes further down the book

#2
Universality (Natasha Brown, 2025)

A brutal act, a journalist craving success (and provocation) and a smorgasbord of cringe characters illuminate this masterful novel. Like her previous ASSEMBLY, a powerful story of privilege, identity, and what it means to be a Briton. Brilliant

#booksky 📚🖋️💙

The US version is brutal

Ouch, still quite a few places to add

This is fun, you can create yours here (click reset):
tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu....

Reposted by Alessandro Nai

Getting home from school, turning on MTV, and hoping that the cool song I am waiting for comes up. The fresh VHS is in the tape recorder, in case it does. I am ready.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
My chapter on Far-right Communication is currently open access!
...Along with some other fantastic entries.
Check them out!

(And maybe go ahead and download them... while you can.)

You can check out the whole encyclopedia at the link below

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

Fun (if exhausting) project with the awesome @maxgroemping.bsky.social & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social
www.elgaronline.com

More entries will become open access in the months to come - watch this space
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🖋️ Far-right communication

Curd Knüpfer (@curdknupfer.bsky.social)

“Far-right communication is a narrower and ideologically driven mode of political communication that predicates exclusionary political demands on perceived markers of social identity”
www.elgaronline.com

🖋️ Dehumanizing language

Isabella Gonçalves (@igoncalves.com)

“Critically examining dehumanizing language in public discourse can reveal essential clues as to how an ingroup is differentiated from outgroups, further perpetuating intergroup hierarchization and outgroup exclusion"
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🖋️ Cartoons

Cherian George (@cherian.bsky.social)

“Cartoons as a mode of political communication are largely studied on the fringes of the field [...]. What has earned the medium a beloved place in political communication, however, is the use of cartoons to ridicule power"
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🖋️ Artificial intelligence

Claes de Vreese (@claesdevreese.bsky.social)

“The impact of AI on political communication is conditioned by political discussions and regulations of AI. This pertains to geo-political questions, the political economy of AI businesses, and the regulation of AI”
www.elgaronline.com

Reposted by Aleksandra Urman

🖋️ Algorithmic biases

Aleksandra Urman (@aurman21.bsky.social) & Mykola Makhortykh

“Algorithmic biases are particularly concerning [...] due to their implications for unequal access to politically relevant information and unfair outcomes for different providers of political information”
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The 📚 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 📚 is now out in the wild, and a first awesome batch of entries is available in open access!

Read them, love them, use them for your courses! 🔥

Check the 🧵 below to access them

Plz repost for maximum diffusion

Great positions, awesome team & work environment! 👇👇👇
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📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”

Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).

Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.

Links in🧵

#commsky
Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread:

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...
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📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”

Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).

Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.

Links in🧵

#commsky
📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...

Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377)
The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...
wzb.hr4you.org

#1
The Flamethrowers (Rachel Kushner, 2013)

A whirlwind of a novel, with moments of true greatness. Reno likes speed and art and intensity, negotiates her new strange life in New York, and is pulled towards the radical underbelly of the revolutionary 70s. Bold and beautifully written

#booksky 📚🖋️💙

Here’s last year’s thread, in case of

bsky.app/profile/ales...
Starting a thread about the books I’ve read in 2025, focusing on novels

Feel free to comment with recommendations on what to read next!

#books #booksky
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Thread about the novels I read in 2026, with a couple of thoughts for each of them

Feel free to add your suggestions below re what to read next! Let’s add some cool lit to this place

#booksky 📚🖋️💙
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Glorious

Is this also the case in Northern Ireland?
(ok, I’ll oust myself)

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Awesome project, fantastic team - great things ahead! 🔥

Polisci folks: watch this space

Motion to include the Netherlands as strong counterfactual case for the comparative test of that theoretical framework
🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social

Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...
doi.org