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Political Tech Incubators in American Digital Campaigning, with Eric Wilson
Social Media and Politics - May 29, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsEric Wilson, Managing Partner at Startup Caucus and Host of The Business of Politics Show, discusses political tech incubators and their emerging role in US digital campaigning. We chat about how the Republican and Democratic Party need different tech solutions for different campaigning styles, ...
Technology Disruption, Democracy, and Principled Platform Regulation, with Prof. Lance Bennett
Social Media and Politics - May 15, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsProf. Lance Bennett, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Communication at the University of Washington, discusses the types of principled values that should guide platform regulation. We reflect on the disruptive ethos of tech companies and what that means for democracy. We also discuss ...
Challenging Covid Vaccine Misinformation on Private Social Media, with Prof. Andrew Chadwick
Social Media and Politics - May 01, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsProf. Andrew Chadwick, Professor of Communication at Loughborough University, shares insights from his new public research report: Covid Vaccines and Online Personal Messaging: The Challenge of Challenging Everyday Misinformation. The report explores how British citizens use private social messa...
Comparing Digital Political Communication across Countries and Time, with Prof. Anders Olof Larsson
Social Media and Politics - April 24, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsProf. Anders Olof Larsson, Professor of Communication at Kristiania University College, shares his comparative social media research on party communication. We start out with a macro-level look at political parties' adoption of Facebook and Instagram across Europe, before focusing more specifica...
Rating News Credibility with Algorithms, with Arjun Moorthy
Social Media and Politics - April 17, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsArjun Moorthy, co-founder and CEO of The Factual, discusses how machine learning and natural language processing can rank news for credibility. Arjun breaks down the criteria underpinning The Factual's rating system as well as how it tries to minimize bias. We talk about some of the pitfalls of ...
Social Media and the War in Ukraine, with Prof. Joshua Tucker
Social Media and Politics - March 27, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsProf. Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics at NYU and Co-Director of the Center for Social Media and Politics, discusses social media's impact on the invasion of Ukraine. We talk about 'information theaters' of operation and how they differ across the West, Ukraine, Russia, and China. Prof. Tuck...
Political Leader Evaluations on Instagram and Emotions in Covid Crisis Communication, with Dr. Jenny Lindholm
Social Media and Politics - February 27, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Jenny Lindholm, University Teacher and Researcher in Political Science, Media, and Communication at Åbo Akademi University, discusses her research on visual political communication. First, we break down Dr. Lindholm's eye-tracking experiment on how party leaders' Instagram photos affect view...
Mobile News Consumption: How Smartphone News Exposure Affects Political Knowledge, with Dr. Jakob Ohme
Social Media and Politics - February 13, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Jakob Ohme, Senior Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute, discusses his research on mobile news consumption. Dr. Ohme breaks down how exposure to political news on a smartphone might differ from a desktop, and he breaks down results from a recent eye-tracking study exploring the topic. We a...
2021 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
Social Media and Politics - December 22, 2021 07:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHere we go! A deep dive into the year's latest trends in social media and politics, as well as predictions for the future. We cover various platforms' year in review recaps, Telegram and Belarus, Facebook's change to Meta and the Silicon Valley "Founder", artificial intelligence and the virtual ...
Right-Wing Alternative Media and Republican Party Social Media Engagement, with Dr. Curd Knüpfer and Mike Cowburn
Social Media and Politics - November 28, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Curd Knüpfer (Assistant Professor) and Mike Cowburn (PhD Candidate), from the JFK Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, discuss their research on right-wing alternative media. We start out by discussing what right-wing alternative media are, and how they are trans...
Digital Political Communication and Social Media Campaigning in Germany, with Juri Schnöller
Social Media and Politics - November 14, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJuri Schnöller, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Cosmonauts & Kings, discusses the latest trends in German digital political communication. We chat about the role of digital political consultants in Germany, the important role of messenger apps like Signal and Telegram, and how social media i...
ISIS Radicalization, Counter-Extremism, and Visual Propaganda on Social Media, with Dr. Tamar Mitts
Social Media and Politics - October 24, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Tamar Mitts, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, shares her research on ISIS radicalization and it's relationship to social isolation, anti-Muslim sentiment, and counter-extremism programs. We discuss Dr. Mitts' Twitter dataset that uses spatial al...
Covid Mask Wearing in Politicians' Social Media Images and Emotions in German Politics, with Dr. Mirya Holman
Social Media and Politics - October 10, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Mirya Holman, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, shares her latest research on how politicians depict mask wearing through their social media images. We discuss how computer vision can be used to detect masks in images, as well as what factors correlate with polit...
Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, with Prof. Chris Bail
Social Media and Politics - September 26, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsProfessor Chris Bail, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University, discusses his latest book Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing. Professor Bail shares findings from three studies on political polarization covering field-experiments, qualita...
Digital Ads for Registering and Mobilizing Black and Hispanic Voters, with Tatenda Musapatike
Social Media and Politics - August 15, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTatenda Musapatike, Founder and CEO of the Voter Formation Project, shares her insights on using social media to mobilize non-white voters. In her prior role at Acronym, Tatenda led the Expand the Electorate project, which used digital ads to register and mobilize Black and Latinx voters in 8 ta...
Digital Ads for Registering and Mobilizing Black and Latino Voters, with Tatenda Musapatike
Social Media and Politics - August 15, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTatenda Musapatike, Founder and CEO of the Voter Formation Project, shares her insights on using social media to mobilize non-white voters. In her prior role at Acronym, Tatenda led the Expand the Electorate project, which used digital ads to register and mobilize Black and Latinx voters in 8 ta...
Digital Ads for Registering and Mobilizing Black and Latinx Voters, with Tatenda Musapatike
Social Media and Politics - August 15, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTatenda Musapatike, Founder and CEO of the Voter Formation Project, shares her insights on using social media to mobilize non-white voters. In her prior role at Acronym, Tatenda led the Expand the Electorate project, which used digital ads to register and mobilize Black and Latinx voters in 8 ta...
Tech Advocacy for Children's Digital Rights and the Twisted Toys Campaign, with Baroness Beeban Kidron
Social Media and Politics - July 04, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsBaroness Beeban Kidron, Chair of the 5Rights Foundation, guests to discuss the recently launched Twisted Toys campaign. We chat about the role of awareness campaigns for tech advocacy, how policymakers respond to children's data protection issues, and the creative design process behind the Twist...
Political Marketing, Digital Strategy, and Social Media for the Andrew Yang 2020 Campaign, with Andrew Frawley
Social Media and Politics - June 27, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAndrew Frawley, former Director of Marketing at Yang2020, shares his experience running marketing and digital strategy for Andrew Yang's 2020 campaign. Andrew discusses the role of social media for outsider campaigns, challenges in establishing growth on social media, and the role of podcasts fo...
Modern Political Campaigns and Social Media in the United States, with Dr. Michael D. Cohen
Social Media and Politics - June 13, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Michael D. Cohen, CEO of Cohen Research Group and Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Modern Political Campaigns: How Professionalism, Technology, and Speed Have Revolutionized Elections. We talk about how communication technologies have shifted political campaigns...
Social Media Communication in the EU, with Tom Moylan
Social Media and Politics - June 04, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTom Moylan, Communication Strategist at the Directorate-General for Communication at the European Commission, shares his personal reflections on EU digital communication. We discuss the value that social media can bring in communicating the European Union to citizens, as well as how EU instituti...
The Cultural Sociology of Political Performance, Icons, and Social Media, with Prof. Jeffrey Alexander
Social Media and Politics - May 16, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJeffrey Alexander, Professor of Sociology at Yale University, discusses his cultural sociology approach to political performance and cultural icons. We start out with the concept of fusion, and how political actors work to achieve it through the elements of political performance. Then, we turn t...
Digital Media Infrastructures and Tech Platforms, with Dr. Jean-Christophe Plantin
Social Media and Politics - May 02, 2021 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Jean-Christophe Plantin, Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, explains the concept of media infrastructures. We discuss Dr. Plantin's research on digital platforms, infrastructures, and how tech giants like Facebook and Google increasingly blen...
Deliberation in Practice and Pandemics, with Ieva Česnulaitytė
Social Media and Politics - April 18, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIeva Česnulaitytė, Policy Analyst at the OECD, discusses her and her colleagues’ research on representative deliberative processes. We break down some of the key models of deliberative processes, when they tend to be used, and how their success can be measured. We also discuss how the coronavi...
Social Media Influencers and Political Campaigns, with Madeline V. Twomey
Social Media and Politics - March 28, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsMadeline V. Twomey, President at Rufus and Mane, discusses how social media influencers can benefit political campaigns (and vice versa). Madeline forged digital influencer partnerships for Joe Biden's presidential campaign and inauguration. She shares her experiences working with influencer pro...
Digital Politics in Canada: Parties, Memes, and the Courts, with Dr. Tamara Small
Social Media and Politics - February 21, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Tamara A. Small, Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph, discusses her research on social media and politics in Canada. We start out with her latest edited volume Digital Politics in Canada: Promises and Realities (2020, University of Toronto Press). We then d...
Information Theory, Algorithms, and Political Polarization, with Prof. Martin Hilbert
Social Media and Politics - February 07, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsMartin Hilbert, Professor of Communication at UC-Davis, discusses his research on algorithms and polarization. Prof. Hilbert introduces information theory and how it can be applied to studying the transfer of emotions via algorithms. We break down some of Prof. Hilbert's recent studies, as well ...
Digital Ads for Political Mobilization and Persuasion, with Nick Ahamed
Social Media and Politics - January 24, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsNick Ahamed, Director of Analytics at Priorities USA, shares his research on the effectiveness of digital ads for increasing voter turnout and support for Democrats. We discuss the field and survey experiments that Priorities USA has been running to find the optimal messaging strategies, targeti...
2020 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
Social Media and Politics - December 20, 2020 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten joins for the 5th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! We answer listener questions and present six gifts, each representing big events that shaped social media and politics this year. 25:18 - Platform Year in Review Reports 53:08 - Platforms and Act...
Audience Development, Online Political Journalism, and Social Media, with Sofia Diogo Mateus
Social Media and Politics - November 29, 2020 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsSofia Diogo Mateus, Audience Development Editor at Politico Europe, discusses the role of social media in online political journalism. We talk about the importance of audience development, the tools used to assist in online publishing and measuring engagement, and the benefits and pitfalls of us...
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