"Venue-making describes the process of turning political issues into political institutions" In @govjournal.bsky.social, @klueserthan.bsky.social and I use a stag hunt game between govt and interest groups to model this process.

Everything is fine, ‘global leaders’ have perfectly accurate risk perceptions 🫠

Misinformation studies have a bright future ahead of them 🙌

Misinfo * generative-AI = 🤯💸

www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The...

Thank you @wepsocial.bsky.social for awarding me the Gordon Smith & Vincent Wright Memorial Prize. I'm honored that my article on inter-ministerial cooperation and its impact on policy-making has been recognized. A big shoutout to PoliSci at @aarhusuni.bsky.social for funding the data collection 🙏

🚨 New paper 🚨

Despite the small prevalence of false news, media literacy tips typically encourage people to be more skeptical of the news🧐

Would they be effective if they promoted trust in true news instead? And does the proportion of true-false news matter?

This 👉 “You can’t draw inferences about the causal effects of exposure on TikTok when people are choosing what to be exposed to in the first place,” he added, noting that TikTok’s algorithm tends to show people what they’re interested in.” @jkertzer.bsky.social

🚨 Worried about influencers shaping public opinion on the 🇮🇱🇵🇸conflict? My latest contribution for ECPR's blog The Loop offers some perspective. While influencers have the potential to be highly influential, their (biased) contribution to the discourse is limited & already subsiding.

📢 Meet TOD: a new mock social media platform designed to facilitate real-time ('live') dynamic participant interactions 🗨️! TOD also features other live elements like pop-ups and message-level interventions

With the wonderful Jonathan Klüser

👉pre:print: osf.io/preprints/ps...