Service not secretive! Oops

Called phantom publics by @curdknupfer.bsky.social who has done lots of work on it in US context

It’s not just British I woudl wager that’s the algorithm
It’ll have the same impact on Irish people including the public, politicians and journalists who will all imagine they’re living live in a far scarier more radicalised right wing environment that is the case in reality .

In Ireland perhaps our online TikTok politicians should take a social media break #speirgorm

Republicans may have opted for him in bid to stop Mandami?

Perfect thank you
Will read with interest

Hi curd
Our university doesn’t have access to this? Might there be an open access version anywhere ? Thanks!

And there's also a very cool piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social where he argues that digital analytics hastened the GOP's radicalization.
Highly recommend! 👍⤵️

academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...

Would be interested in hypothesis that simply spending time and being subject to algorithm and bots etc gives a false sense of the public and drives many policymakers rightward?

Another paper (not yet officially out but hopefully soon), where we show that various degrees of online connectivity are strongly associated with far-right issue uptake by partisan elites:
mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Might be interesting if still possible to emulate networks and likely exposure to narratives .. hoping someone working on it..

Have you seen any research on impacts on this? If not seems urgent?