A. Heft
@akheft
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Right-wing digital advocacy groups are imitating their left-wing counterparts, but with key differences in their range of tactics, extremity of ideological alignment, and the practice of astroturfing. @SAISHopkins @uni_tue @LSEInequalities @Ninawth @akheft
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New article (open access) in @cps_journal with @AndreaKrizsan1 and @ConnyRoggeband: "Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality" https://t.co/PnKf0zV9ND
journals.sagepub.com
Across Europe, contention has emerged over the Istanbul Convention, a treaty combatting violence against women. The Convention has become a main arena for conte...
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New paper out @JITP_APSA! We look at right-wing "copycats" of progressive groups e.g. @MoveOn @GetUp @campact @Avaaz Find similar patterns of emulation across partisan divides @Phillip_Ayoub @StoecklKristina Great to wk w/ @akheft & Michael Vaughan @JWI_Berlin @SAISHopkins
My co-authored article exploring how right-wing groups "copy" left-wing groups in digital organizing finally accepted @JITP_APSA 🥳 Fruit of 3yrs work w/ @akheft & Michael Vaughan Thanks to funding from @JWI_Berlin Looking fwd to sharing this work in near future.
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The German interior ministry has recently tried to ban right-wing news outlet COMPACT. But who accesses alt. news sources and what is their relationship to conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda? @SebStier @patrick_zerrer, H. Rauxloh & I had a look: https://t.co/nF107sukfs
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📰 Another day, another resource (though this one is more a draft): a list of #polcomm and computational social science conferences (e.g., comm, journal, po, polisci, css, hci). Feel free to share with colleagues/students/classes. https://t.co/rgxEm2KPP6
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"Anstatt der Exotisierung Ostdeutschlands ist für ein besseres Verständnis der rechtswählenden Ostdeutschen ein internationaler Turn erforderlich. Schon allein um die Ursachenforschung nicht regional zu verkürzen." - mein Gastbeitrag in der heutigen @FAZ. https://t.co/jf9jGtXJoL
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Thrilled to see my article published in German Politics and Society! A quite timely read, if I dare say, considering the upcoming state elections in Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony and the expected success of the ever more extremist #noAfD.
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It's the week before my 5th year at @UTexasMoody starts, so I thought I'd drop some resources that may be helpful if you're in various transitional stages in academia. Today, I'm sharing a 🧵of the readings I send my grad students at different stages.
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Nach dem Factsheet "#Rechtsextremismus auf digitalen Plattformen" geht das Projekt #NEOVEX @maik_fielitz im Factsheet "Eine Machtfrage" der Funktion von Plattformen in #Demokratie|n nach. Schaut auf Auswirkungen & Einfluss der Politik von digitalen Plattformen auf Demokratien ⬇️
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🎧IDZ ON AIR 🎧 NEOVEX-PODCAST | Teil 2 ⬇️ @maik_fielitz & Kilian Bühling @JWI_Berlin über die Rolle von alternativen Plattformen in der Kommunikation von Rechtsextremen & Verschwörungstheoretiker*innen & dem Verhältnis von Plattformkultur & Verbreitung von Verschwörungstheorien.
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Digital media research is changing, and it can make it that much harder to study elections, as @m_dot_brown and I argue in our new @techpolicypress piece. https://t.co/D37ECfWBJn
techpolicy.press
Digital media research should be guided by collaboration, transparency, preparation, and consistency, write Josephine Lukito and Megan A. Brown.
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Dass der französische Rassemblement National mit der AfD bricht, kommt für LÉONIE DE JONGE (@L_deJonge) nicht überraschend. Ihre Untersuchung zeigt, dass die Rechtsaußen-Parteien in Europa mehr trennt als verbindet. https://t.co/M6LMaTkelp
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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 One of my dissertation papers published full access in Javnost-The Public 🎉 It’s a theory piece in which I develop a concept of “anti-systemic counterpublics” to study various forms of non-subordinate counterpublics 1/4
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We don't live "single-issue lives" - Audre Lorde. Here's why Multi-issue, #Digital advocacy orgs matter for #gender #LGBTIQ activism. @EJPGjournal
https://t.co/1TIkclLUU5
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
"We ‘do not live single-issue lives’: why digital advocacy organizations matter for gender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer advocacy" published on Sep 2025 by Bristol University...
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Women are highly underrepresented among scientific experts. We show that if there are female experts, they are not perceived as less credible than their male colleagues. They are even considered slightly more credible among female citizens. https://t.co/nJeLIlR8uW 1/4
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📢 New Publication! Paul Balluff, Hajo Boomgaarden, & @annie_waldherr’s paper reviewing multilingual named entity recognition tools is out in Computational Methods & Measures 🎉 #CSS #commscience Read open-access 👇 https://t.co/zY9YfaTzb9
compcommlab.univie.ac.at
The International Journal of Press/Politics has published a paper by Paul Balluff, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Sarina Joy Oberhänsli, Jana Bernhard-Harrer, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Andreas Fahr, and Martin Huber!
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Eine starke #Wissenschaft braucht faire Arbeitsbedingungen. Aber: Fast 9 von 10 wissenschaftlichen Angestellten an Unis sind #befristet beschäftigt - oft auf kurze Zeit. Das muss sich ändern. Unterzeichnet jetzt und #StopptDauerbefristung
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Eine starke #Wissenschaft braucht faire Arbeitsbedingungen. Aber: Fast 9 von 10 wissenschaftlichen Angestellten an Unis sind #befristet beschäftigt - oft auf kurze Zeit. Das muss sich ändern....
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