Dan Lane
@danlane.bsky.social
Associate Prof @CommUcsb | Dir. UCSB Digital Political Inequality Lab https://dpilab.comm.ucsb.edu/ | Political Comm, Intergroup Comm & Comm Tech | Ph.D. @UM_CommStudies
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It's Election Day! The @cccr.bsky.social has been working hard to share research-based evidence about elections in the U.S. & how information relates to attitudes about elections, as well as public-facing work promoting voter turnout & citizen knowledge about the choices they face. Some examples: 1)
November 5, 2024 at 3:19 PM
It's Election Day! The @cccr.bsky.social has been working hard to share research-based evidence about elections in the U.S. & how information relates to attitudes about elections, as well as public-facing work promoting voter turnout & citizen knowledge about the choices they face. Some examples: 1)
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🚨Out in Science!🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM
🚨Out in Science!🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I wrote about the Swift endorsement, with a political science/communication angle. How does her endorsement matter? And how do celebrity endorsements in 2024 differ from the past? Special thanks to @jessfeez.bsky.social for speaking with me about this!
abcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...
abcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...
How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris could change the election end game
Taylor Swift’s fans largely lean Democratic, but her support of Kamala Harris could boost engagement.
abcnews.go.com
September 13, 2024 at 1:24 AM
I wrote about the Swift endorsement, with a political science/communication angle. How does her endorsement matter? And how do celebrity endorsements in 2024 differ from the past? Special thanks to @jessfeez.bsky.social for speaking with me about this!
abcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...
abcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...
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Wonder how social media moderators as gatekeepers decide what content is political? Come see my talk today at 2pm in Franklin 12, part of @polcomm.bsky.social session on The Limits of Free Expression on Social Media! #APSA2024
September 7, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Wonder how social media moderators as gatekeepers decide what content is political? Come see my talk today at 2pm in Franklin 12, part of @polcomm.bsky.social session on The Limits of Free Expression on Social Media! #APSA2024
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Jetlagged and up early at #APSA2024?
Or just really eager to get thia conference started?
Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications!
Or just really eager to get thia conference started?
Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications!
September 5, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Jetlagged and up early at #APSA2024?
Or just really eager to get thia conference started?
Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications!
Or just really eager to get thia conference started?
Come see our 8 o'clock panel on party communications!
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Just in time for #APSA2024, here’s Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, co-edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Available now at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
September 1, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Just in time for #APSA2024, here’s Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, co-edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Available now at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
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For the night crew: I've written my first post for my substack, GENDER GAP. I took a small bite out of a big topic for my first post, writing about the gender gap in social media use. Hope you'll check it out:
open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
TikTok, Reddit, and gender gaps in media ecosystems
Gender gaps in media use are a pretty new phenomenon.
open.substack.com
August 19, 2024 at 4:32 AM
For the night crew: I've written my first post for my substack, GENDER GAP. I took a small bite out of a big topic for my first post, writing about the gender gap in social media use. Hope you'll check it out:
open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
open.substack.com/pub/meredith...
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In their #JMPSpecialIssue article, Musa Malik, Sungbin Youk (Ewha Womans University, Seoul) and René Weber (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) provide initial evidence of the linkages between moral content and the saliency of audiences' expressed moral understanding.
econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....
econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....
August 6, 2024 at 10:01 PM
In their #JMPSpecialIssue article, Musa Malik, Sungbin Youk (Ewha Womans University, Seoul) and René Weber (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) provide initial evidence of the linkages between moral content and the saliency of audiences' expressed moral understanding.
econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....
econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Heading to #APSA24 in Philly? Call for travel grants from the Information, Technology, and Politics section. Apply thru survey link below. Applications will be evaluated based on need & the section's commitment to increasing diversity & inclusion. Due Aug. 16.
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August 5, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Heading to #APSA24 in Philly? Call for travel grants from the Information, Technology, and Politics section. Apply thru survey link below. Applications will be evaluated based on need & the section's commitment to increasing diversity & inclusion. Due Aug. 16.
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Our book "The Power Of Us" is on a huge sale today:
It's only $7.54 for hardcover + $8.96 for the audiobook
If you ever wanted a deal, now is the time to buy it:
www.amazon.com/Power-Harnes...
It's only $7.54 for hardcover + $8.96 for the audiobook
If you ever wanted a deal, now is the time to buy it:
www.amazon.com/Power-Harnes...
August 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Our book "The Power Of Us" is on a huge sale today:
It's only $7.54 for hardcover + $8.96 for the audiobook
If you ever wanted a deal, now is the time to buy it:
www.amazon.com/Power-Harnes...
It's only $7.54 for hardcover + $8.96 for the audiobook
If you ever wanted a deal, now is the time to buy it:
www.amazon.com/Power-Harnes...
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Four headlines from The Post: prediction, prognostication, and the show plus reporters writing about themselves. No stakes here, nothing to inform the electorate.
July 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Four headlines from The Post: prediction, prognostication, and the show plus reporters writing about themselves. No stakes here, nothing to inform the electorate.
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Happy to be included in this virtual special issue with some other great scholarship on gender and presidential elections!
In light of Kamala Harris's historic presidential bid 🇺🇸, we are ungating✨three✨of our virtual special issue collections!
Collection #3 on Women, Gender, & 🇺🇸 Presidential Elections cambridge.org/core/journal...
Articles are open access until the end of Sept 2024 📰
Collection #3 on Women, Gender, & 🇺🇸 Presidential Elections cambridge.org/core/journal...
Articles are open access until the end of Sept 2024 📰
Women, Gender, and American Presidential Elections
Women, Gender, and American Presidential Elections
cambridge.org
July 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Happy to be included in this virtual special issue with some other great scholarship on gender and presidential elections!
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📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results.
I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!
ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!
ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
Reveal a ggplot incrementally
Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...
www.weverthon.com
July 24, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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🚨Coming soon from Routledge: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication
Race and ethnicity are increasingly central to our lived experiences of politics, yet they are often absent from studies of urgent questions in contemporary political communication. This volume respon...
www.routledge.com
July 22, 2024 at 6:12 PM
🚨Coming soon from Routledge: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication, edited by me and @danlane.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy at www.routledge.com/Race-and-Eth...
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I rarely donate to federal campaigns anymore since the marginal impact of that same money is much higher for downballot campaigns.
I made an exception for Harris today, & this is why
I made an exception for Harris today, & this is why
If you’re thinking of giving, give tonight. The timing tells a story of enthusiasm that’s important for the world to see in dollars and cents
My household’s in for $250. Let’s f––ing go (coconuts).
July 22, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I rarely donate to federal campaigns anymore since the marginal impact of that same money is much higher for downballot campaigns.
I made an exception for Harris today, & this is why
I made an exception for Harris today, & this is why
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1. we must say with one voice that political violence is unacceptable and wrong
2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more
2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more
July 14, 2024 at 1:41 AM
1. we must say with one voice that political violence is unacceptable and wrong
2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more
2. do not amplify unverified reports until we know more
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✨NEW ARTICLE✨ out in Political Communication by Matthias Hoffmann & me:
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
We trace sequences of climate frames in the AfD's digital networks. #polcomm #commsky #polisky
OPEN ACCESS here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
We trace sequences of climate frames in the AfD's digital networks. #polcomm #commsky #polisky
OPEN ACCESS here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...
www.tandfonline.com
April 2, 2024 at 4:37 PM
✨NEW ARTICLE✨ out in Political Communication by Matthias Hoffmann & me:
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
We trace sequences of climate frames in the AfD's digital networks. #polcomm #commsky #polisky
OPEN ACCESS here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
We trace sequences of climate frames in the AfD's digital networks. #polcomm #commsky #polisky
OPEN ACCESS here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Did you know that the Pew Research Centre lets you download their datasets?
www.pewresearch.org/download-dat...
For you R nerds, there is also an R package you can use
www.pewresearch.org/download-dat...
For you R nerds, there is also an R package you can use
Download Datasets
Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. See this post for more information on how to use
www.pewresearch.org
March 9, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Did you know that the Pew Research Centre lets you download their datasets?
www.pewresearch.org/download-dat...
For you R nerds, there is also an R package you can use
www.pewresearch.org/download-dat...
For you R nerds, there is also an R package you can use
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🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)
March 1, 2024 at 3:11 PM
🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)
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🚨WP🚨
We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 22, 2024 at 3:16 PM
🚨WP🚨
We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals.
These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 8, 2024 at 7:17 PM
New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals.
These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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De Keersmaecker et al find: political MODERATES are more knowledgeable about politics than centrists or extremists. 45 nation study.
That aligns with my personal experience discussing politics with people.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That aligns with my personal experience discussing politics with people.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM
De Keersmaecker et al find: political MODERATES are more knowledgeable about politics than centrists or extremists. 45 nation study.
That aligns with my personal experience discussing politics with people.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That aligns with my personal experience discussing politics with people.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How use of online platforms–like Facebook, Instagram or TikTok–differs among some U.S. demographic groups.
YouTube Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter(X) Reddit BeReal
Ages
Household income
Education
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Rep/Lean Rep
Dem/Lean Dem
source: Pew
YouTube Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter(X) Reddit BeReal
Ages
Household income
Education
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Rep/Lean Rep
Dem/Lean Dem
source: Pew
February 3, 2024 at 2:18 PM
How use of online platforms–like Facebook, Instagram or TikTok–differs among some U.S. demographic groups.
YouTube Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter(X) Reddit BeReal
Ages
Household income
Education
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Rep/Lean Rep
Dem/Lean Dem
source: Pew
YouTube Facebook Instagram Pinterest TikTok Linkedln WhatsApp Snapchat Twitter(X) Reddit BeReal
Ages
Household income
Education
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Rep/Lean Rep
Dem/Lean Dem
source: Pew
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3 yrs ago the insurrectionists sought to violently halt a procedure enshrined in the US Constitution & to overturn a freely and fairly-run election. With Khadijah Costley White, @dkreiss.bsky.social & @rebekahtromble.bsky.social we’ve edited a forthcoming volume - Media & January 6th 1/x
January 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
3 yrs ago the insurrectionists sought to violently halt a procedure enshrined in the US Constitution & to overturn a freely and fairly-run election. With Khadijah Costley White, @dkreiss.bsky.social & @rebekahtromble.bsky.social we’ve edited a forthcoming volume - Media & January 6th 1/x