How democratic are ordinary citizens in Western democracies? Academic research has extensively studied this question recently. This 🧵summarizes some of the most important findings from the past 10 years in 22 short tweets 👇🏾

.Liwei Shen is presenting our (Yiming Wang Oliver Lang) work about how to address outgroup conspiracy beliefs in the context of Sino-US relations to facilitate inter group trust and collaboration. #policomm #ica23

Checking the proofs for the 2nd ed. of the Handbook of Digital Politics, edited by Stephen Coleman and myself. Out in October. We have an amazing line-up of star contributors and up-and-coming scholars, including:

This is today at noon! Benny Witkovsky and I will talk about how local county GOP leaders played a crucial role in the effort to StopTheSteal + our work with Center for Communication and Civic Renewal Jianing Li Lew Friedland Mike Wagner Yiming Wang Dhavan Shah

I have been at a loss for words since the weekend; I am deeply worried for the safety of my friends, family & people suffering from brutality. When I got this email today, I burst into tears. If you can help Aaron, please let me know, and I will connect you to him. Please help!

So glad to share this new work with wonderful co-authors Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) Yingdan_Lu !

approximately 1 in 7 Americans consume over 8 hours/month of partisan television & 1 in 4 Republican primary voters consume over 8 hours/month of Fox News osf.io/preprints/osf/…

NEW in PNAS from PRL👉 Derek Holliday, Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean Westwood: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We find that Americans of both parties overwhelmingly support democratic norms and reject political violence, despite antidemocratic behavior from political elites. 🧵1/7

.CSSLab at Penn, led by Prof. Duncan Watts has a launched a new resource for understanding media dynamics - a data dashboard on news consumption in the U.S. Explore trends, track shifts, & stay informed about the evolving landscape of information dissemination: bit.ly/4cdXbnt

The Annual Reviews has kindly just released what could be considered James Scott’s last brief autobiographical notes.👇 Thanks Margaret Levi for making this happen. I took the liberty of adding Scott’s picture. Free download: annualreviews.org/docserver/full…

Overjoyed to finally have this in hand! It contains an essay I wrote with Jianing Li about using a mixed-methods, multi-level approach to study the local roots of January 6th. We hope it can provide a guide for other researchers in political communication. A quick 🧵(1/8)

MeToo. Israel-Palestine. Even cat ladies. Stories cueing social identities frequently fill headlines. In a new @AJPSeditor with Yphtach Lelkes & S. Wolken “The rise of and demand for identity-oriented media coverage” we offer a partial explanation why. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj… 🧵/1

Just published on APSR First View: “The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media” by Eunji Kim and Shawn Patterson Jr. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Very nice write-up by Nieman Lab on our new special issue on global trust in elections featured in Public Opinion Quarterly (aapor) Camila Mont’Alverne Amy Ross Arguedas Benjamin Toff Rens Vliegenthart Carolien van Ham Sanne Kruikemeier @KristofJacobs1 Yiming Wang Porismita borah Nicholas Kerr Bridgett King

✨It’s publication day ✨ Our @CCCR article about the role of local events & actors in building support for the #StoptheSteal movement is now available at Politics & Society! W/ Jianing Li Benny Witkovsky Yiming Wang Mike Wagner Lew Friedland Dhavan Shah (1/9) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

The Twitter exodus has started, but maybe it should have started long ago? Our new study in Nature Communications shows that political abuse on X is a global, widespread, and cross-partisan phenomenon nature.com/articles/s4146…

Susceptibility to conspiracism is monotonic, and it is conditioned on winning and losing. Knowledgeable folks more susceptible to motivated reasoning. Elites/influencers can be asymmetric in effects! e.g. below from: link.springer.com/article/10.100… (also see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…)

Thrilled to see our work published! 🎉 We explore how intergroup framing in news can counter conspiracy beliefs, shedding light on its potential for fostering better understanding in the Sino-U.S. context. Check it out! 👇