🆕Using visual rhetoric theory, this study analyzes AI-generated national images from 2 LLMs, one from China & one from the US. Analysis shows that the outputs of these LLMs are hyperrealistic & shaped by narrative frameworks present in each country. 📖 https://t.co/IlVuZjBN1p

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📚Book review📚 "The Politics of Cyber-Security" argues that cyberspace is a construct shaped by pol/social factors, such as who benefits from specific actions. Critiques include a state-centric view of policy & focus on Western cybersecurity knowledge. ➡️ https://t.co/abYL6hR5hE

🆕This study introduces a new, #Twitter-based method to assess polarization & measure political distances. When applied to three Spanish elections, the findings show higher levels of #polarization than traditional methods. ➡️@cpsola_ @UOCUniversity 📓 https://t.co/gZKlZz1wYD

🆕 Comment🆕 The art of strategic conversation: Using a scenario set, this article discusses internet governance policy through individual and paired contributions informed by their professional backgrounds. @OxfordSBS @lvesnic @auda @_ZoeHawkins_ ➡️ https://t.co/e1bXLElWkZ

🆕Focusing on 3 state elections in #India, this study explores the impact of incumbency, issue focus, & personalization on the tone of digital campaign ads. Results highlight how #digital platforms are shaping Indian political communication. @TaberezNeyazi https://t.co/3bfeEKs609

🎉🆕Why do people living under electoral authoritarian regimes engage with oppositional figures and information online? Focusing on Cambodia, the results of this study by @Jeremy_M_Ladd indicate that repression itself may be a driving force. @QuinnipiacU ➡️ https://t.co/kXKaV2YAMu

Going to the #APSA25 in Vancouver? Here is the Information Technology and Politics Sponsored Panel schedule at a glance. @APSAtweets @apsa_itp

🆕🆕🆕 Twitter diplomacy and the Taliban? This study examines the influence of two strategic frameworks - social media communications & public diplomacy messaging - on the Taliban’s social visibility & approval. Results are mixed. @ZJU_China @DalhousieU 📘 https://t.co/LQxCKSf49z

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🆕🆕🆕 Autocrats, digital tools, & elite challenges: This study identifies three purposes for elite-targeted online disinformation & suggests that political survival is more likely for autocrats who more frequently proliferate it. ✍️@dkupr @CAU_News 👀 https://t.co/Ll9SA7fNNQ

🗒️Note 🗒️ Using survey data, the authors’ conceptual model of the relationship between participation in user-generated content & instrumental engagement, & expands upon this model with the addition of two mediators. ➡️@TexasTech @IndianaUniv 📔 https://t.co/8vTqMz0XKR

🔓OPEN ACCESS!🔓 YouTube recommendations & affective polarization – how are they connected? In the context of Dutch politics, this study finds that YouTube’s algorithm generates more polarizing recommendations w/i right-wing content networks. @erasmusuni https://t.co/UVlvctMnhR

🆕NEW PUB!🆕 How does an authoritarian personality relate to attitudes on gun control? In this study, the authors propose a model where exposure to partisan media acts as a mediator. ➡️@UTAustin @NJU1902 @jssyczc Read it: 👀 https://t.co/yM09UWEAbB

🆕In this study, @dmkuznetsova uses network analysis to identify communities on #Telegram and investigate the activities by state/pro-government actors as well as opposing/neutral actors in the context of recent protests in Belarus and Russia. 📚 https://t.co/yAHG8DTi7f

🆕In this study, @beatrizjorda13 & @ManuGoyanes propose a moderated mediation model to explain the persuasive effects of incidental news exposure on social media. Findings show a direct relationship and an indirect relationship via cognitive elaboration. ➡️ https://t.co/8tKbGG9QLU

🔓This study explores the impact of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement on political polarization w/i the Persian Twittersphere. Findings show differences in user behavior & highlight the role of computational propaganda. @uniofwarwick #WomanLifeFreedom https://t.co/yDZ0UYEO90

In an experiment with ~4% of the electorate of Cyprus, personalized affinity information increased electoral participation and encouraged party consideration but did not shift voting intentions, finds @Nikandros95 in @JITP_APSA https://t.co/wnx8Fp72J1

🔓OPEN ACCESS🔓 Many political activities have gone digital 🛜, but the democratic #digitaldivide persists. What can be done about this? The results of this study highlight user-centric web 🕸️ design as a potential path forward. @IWaismelManor 📘 https://t.co/HBeaYtsSzj

🆕➡️This study examines important mediators in #Bangladesh’s 2024 Quota Reform Movement alongside their promoted narratives & locations. Results identify 4 major mediators & 3 dominant narratives that helped amplify the movement. @sayeed_alzaman @msstate 📔 https://t.co/TBll0cQbgJ