Ernesto de León 🟥
@ernesto-deleon.com
Political communication researcher at @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org affiliated | PhD @unibern | Media effects, social media, and computational stuff
https://ernesto-deleon.com/
https://ernesto-deleon.com/
We’ve assembled a stellar line-up of scholars to discuss how digital trace data donations can help us study elections across a wide variety of platforms and contexts! @claesdevreese.bsky.social @favstats.eu @algosoc.org
Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4
Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We’ve assembled a stellar line-up of scholars to discuss how digital trace data donations can help us study elections across a wide variety of platforms and contexts! @claesdevreese.bsky.social @favstats.eu @algosoc.org
Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4
Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4
@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).
June 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).
Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level.
I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25
I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25
June 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level.
I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25
I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25
PhD or Postdoc looking at the grim job market?
Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson.
Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25
Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson.
Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25
June 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
PhD or Postdoc looking at the grim job market?
Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson.
Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25
Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson.
Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25
A huge congratulations to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for winning this year's 2025 Kaid Sanders @polcomm.bsky.social article of the year award! #ica25
Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!
Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!
June 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A huge congratulations to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for winning this year's 2025 Kaid Sanders @polcomm.bsky.social article of the year award! #ica25
Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!
Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!
A funny detail from @anjabechmann.bsky.social's study using YouTube data donation, showing that participants in Denmark were heavily Rickrolled 😅 #ica25
June 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A funny detail from @anjabechmann.bsky.social's study using YouTube data donation, showing that participants in Denmark were heavily Rickrolled 😅 #ica25
Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!)
Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!)
Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Can news media help? Regular news readers were less prone to misperceptions across all three measures, suggesting that news readership can help correct our skewed sense of the opinion climate. ARIMA timeseries modelling supported this only for masking.
May 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Can news media help? Regular news readers were less prone to misperceptions across all three measures, suggesting that news readership can help correct our skewed sense of the opinion climate. ARIMA timeseries modelling supported this only for masking.
Importantly, we found that people in the opinion minority (mostly those opposing the measures) were wildly off in their guesses, while those in the majority were far more accurate. This is 'false consensus' in action: small vocal groups overestimate their own prevalence.
May 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Importantly, we found that people in the opinion minority (mostly those opposing the measures) were wildly off in their guesses, while those in the majority were far more accurate. This is 'false consensus' in action: small vocal groups overestimate their own prevalence.
Across every wave, participants consistently underestimated public support for all three measures: masking, vaccination, and the contact‑tracing app. These gaps were small but pervasive throughout the 2 year period.
The biggest gap? Mask wearing, the most visible measure.
The biggest gap? Mask wearing, the most visible measure.
May 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Across every wave, participants consistently underestimated public support for all three measures: masking, vaccination, and the contact‑tracing app. These gaps were small but pervasive throughout the 2 year period.
The biggest gap? Mask wearing, the most visible measure.
The biggest gap? Mask wearing, the most visible measure.
Do people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises?
Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them!
Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social
🧵👇
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them!
Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social
🧵👇
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
May 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Do people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises?
Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them!
Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social
🧵👇
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them!
Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social
🧵👇
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Hot off the press!
Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!)
With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)
Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!)
With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)
May 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hot off the press!
Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!)
With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)
Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!)
With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)
@dvshah.bsky.social with fascinating work on Pepe the frog as alt-right imagery that has been inadvertantly picked up and disseminated by news organization.
He sees this mainstreaming of hate symbols a resulf of 'discursive softening' by extremist groups.
He sees this mainstreaming of hate symbols a resulf of 'discursive softening' by extremist groups.
April 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@dvshah.bsky.social with fascinating work on Pepe the frog as alt-right imagery that has been inadvertantly picked up and disseminated by news organization.
He sees this mainstreaming of hate symbols a resulf of 'discursive softening' by extremist groups.
He sees this mainstreaming of hate symbols a resulf of 'discursive softening' by extremist groups.
Even though news organizations are in a severe crisis, the public does not see a crisis. People have access to all the information they need, argues @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
He shows the rise of influencers and regular people as sources of info competing with news publishers
He shows the rise of influencers and regular people as sources of info competing with news publishers
April 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Even though news organizations are in a severe crisis, the public does not see a crisis. People have access to all the information they need, argues @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
He shows the rise of influencers and regular people as sources of info competing with news publishers
He shows the rise of influencers and regular people as sources of info competing with news publishers
@taliastroud.bsky.social presenting some of the key takeaways of the large 2020 Meta US Election partnership project, focusing on the effects of:
1) Altering the newsfeed algorithms
2) Reshaping virality
3) Deactivating the platforms
They find (some) limited effects on news engmnt and knowledge.
1) Altering the newsfeed algorithms
2) Reshaping virality
3) Deactivating the platforms
They find (some) limited effects on news engmnt and knowledge.
April 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@taliastroud.bsky.social presenting some of the key takeaways of the large 2020 Meta US Election partnership project, focusing on the effects of:
1) Altering the newsfeed algorithms
2) Reshaping virality
3) Deactivating the platforms
They find (some) limited effects on news engmnt and knowledge.
1) Altering the newsfeed algorithms
2) Reshaping virality
3) Deactivating the platforms
They find (some) limited effects on news engmnt and knowledge.
The Future of News Consumption panel at the @algosoc.org Conference featuring @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social.
Some key takeaways 👇🧵
Some key takeaways 👇🧵
April 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Future of News Consumption panel at the @algosoc.org Conference featuring @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social.
Some key takeaways 👇🧵
Some key takeaways 👇🧵
Fascinating reflections on "Europe's digital agenda in a polarised world" in @algosoc.org closing panel with @natalihelberger.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Peter-Paul Verbeek and Tamar Sharon
April 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Fascinating reflections on "Europe's digital agenda in a polarised world" in @algosoc.org closing panel with @natalihelberger.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Peter-Paul Verbeek and Tamar Sharon
Excited to moderate this AI and Journalism panel at the @algosoc.org conference "The Future of Public Values in
the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others!
Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr
the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others!
Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr
April 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Excited to moderate this AI and Journalism panel at the @algosoc.org conference "The Future of Public Values in
the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others!
Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr
the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others!
Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr
Always happy to share tips for great conference presentations! This one focused on something we often overlook: keeping your audience engaged 🎯
Already stressing about your #ica25 talk? Check out this guide I put together with @polcomm.bsky.social 📢👇
🔗 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
Already stressing about your #ica25 talk? Check out this guide I put together with @polcomm.bsky.social 📢👇
🔗 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
April 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Always happy to share tips for great conference presentations! This one focused on something we often overlook: keeping your audience engaged 🎯
Already stressing about your #ica25 talk? Check out this guide I put together with @polcomm.bsky.social 📢👇
🔗 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
Already stressing about your #ica25 talk? Check out this guide I put together with @polcomm.bsky.social 📢👇
🔗 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...
Candidate for best paper title? 🤔
Our new paper uses individuals' behavioural data to examine how people navigated the complex COVID-19 online information environment to reach news media.
If you are interested in the role of digital intermediaries to news, it's worth a read!
lnkd.in/e2Yg5Kre
Our new paper uses individuals' behavioural data to examine how people navigated the complex COVID-19 online information environment to reach news media.
If you are interested in the role of digital intermediaries to news, it's worth a read!
lnkd.in/e2Yg5Kre
February 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Candidate for best paper title? 🤔
Our new paper uses individuals' behavioural data to examine how people navigated the complex COVID-19 online information environment to reach news media.
If you are interested in the role of digital intermediaries to news, it's worth a read!
lnkd.in/e2Yg5Kre
Our new paper uses individuals' behavioural data to examine how people navigated the complex COVID-19 online information environment to reach news media.
If you are interested in the role of digital intermediaries to news, it's worth a read!
lnkd.in/e2Yg5Kre
Trying to identify online populist radical right content? Our new paper might help!
Our team evaluated different computational approaches to the identification of this content 👇
With the current political climate, these methods are more relevant than ever.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our team evaluated different computational approaches to the identification of this content 👇
With the current political climate, these methods are more relevant than ever.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trying to identify online populist radical right content? Our new paper might help!
Our team evaluated different computational approaches to the identification of this content 👇
With the current political climate, these methods are more relevant than ever.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our team evaluated different computational approaches to the identification of this content 👇
With the current political climate, these methods are more relevant than ever.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@favstats.eu with the 🔥 memes while presenting our work on tracking political information exposure on mobiles
November 25, 2024 at 10:56 AM
@favstats.eu with the 🔥 memes while presenting our work on tracking political information exposure on mobiles