Yesterday I kicked off #ica25 with a hike at the Flatirons. From today, the professional part of the conference starts!

To explore this question, we used Benoit’s typology to distinguish six types of campaign messages and analyzed how journalists frame each of them. 3/8

Users who perceive high risk are less likely to trust Facebook as a platform—but this distrust doesn't extend to other users or to the content. People tend to blame the company, yet still trust what they see and who they interact with. 4/9

To answer this, we conducted a large-scale survey in 2022 across seven European countries: Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, and the Netherlands. 3/9

New publication in Information, Communication & Society with Balázs Bodó and Zsolt Boda on how trust is constructed on social media!

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What a wonderful feeling to finally close a book manuscript. It’s been a long journey—but it’s officially submitted! #NetworkedLocality #polcomm

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One key reason often cited for news avoidance is perceived negativity in news. Our findings show that its deterrent effect varies by political orientation: left-leaning voters are more likely to turn away, while negativity aligns better with the worldview and psychology of right-leaning voters. 4/7

Thrilled to announce our new publication with Manuel Goyanes in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research! Using a two-wave Spanish survey, we examine how news avoidance connects with perceived news negativity and political trust. Details below! 👇1/7
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To test the direct and conditional effects of issues communicated by political actors on Facebook and the love and angry reactions they trigger, we conducted a content analysis in three countries. This way we could also uncover the role of party- and country-level moderators 3/5