🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

1/ 🗞️ In the press, Rishi Sunak was given over 1.5 times more speaking time than Keir Starmer. On the week he announced that he would be running as a candidate, Reform leader Nigel Farage yielded nearly as much quotations in the press as Labour leader Keir Starmer.

In our first weekly report on media coverage during the #GeneralElection campaign, we analysed how the main parties were being covered by newspapers. There was substantial negative coverage of both parties, with The Labour Party receiving the highest levels of negative press.

🧠 Learn the concepts for applying #VisualAnalysis in politics with hands-on exercises ⤵️ 🤝 Explore visuals in inferential & interpretive studies using quantitative & qualitative methods 🧑‍🏫 Led by Erik Bucy 📆 22–26 Jul, 09:30–12:30 CEST 👉 Book ecpr.eu/Events/284

Here is the TLDR in a nifty thread by our fab news and comms team:

“Instead, our fact checking has focused on what politicians have actually said, and whether it holds up to scrutiny.” Politician’s claims are the problem in the UK election, not viral AI-content. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/pol…

We have some spaces left for our seminar by Fulbright Scholar Professor Erik Bucy this Wed 10th - "Learning from Media Scandal: How Coverage of Press Crises Primes Accountability and Reaffirms Faith in a Socially Responsible Press", book a place here - lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/e…

Many thanks to Professor Erik Bucy for delivering an IAS seminar on the topic of media scandal today, as a culmination of his time Loughborough University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar for the past year. The video is now available on our IAS YouTube Channel - youtu.be/qtSUM37vk_k?si…

Fantastic collection, from a stellar list of academic analysts with insights about the UK general election from almost every angle—and all open access. Well done guys. European Consortium for Political Research APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions US-UK Fulbright ICA Visual Communication Studies

Politics and the Life Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal from Cambridge University Press - Politics, publishes research on the relationship between biology/health, broadly construed, and political behavior/institutions. Submissions: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pls. More information: cambridge.org/pls.

"Both in their presence and, in the case of Sunak ducking out from D-Day commemorations, absence, visuals are influential elements of campaign communication that are well remembered by voters." write Erik Bucy & @NathanRitchie16 in electionanalysis.uk

🔐 Get introduced to theory, methods & application of visual communication analysis in politics ⤵️ 🎓 Learn relevant concepts for studying visual politics & approaches to sampling 🧑‍🏫 Led by Erik Bucy 📆 7–11 Oct, 15:00–18:00 CEST 👉 Book ecpr.eu/Events/284

Is your research a fit for our positions? Excited to work with vibrant scholars across fields, amazing students, do some serious teaching and work to share what we learn with the public? We’d love love love to see your application!

🚀 Explore the theory, methods and 📈applications of visual communication analysis in politics ⤵️ 🎓 Learn relevant concepts for studying visual politics & approaches to sampling 🧑‍🏫 Led by Erik Bucy 📆 7–11 Oct 👉 Book ecpr.eu/Events/284

Check out the newly released #JVPC Vol. 11, Issue 1, Research Handbook on Visual Politics, Darren Lilleker and Anastasia Veneti (eds) (2023), reviewed by Erik Bucy. doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0….

We welcome submissions to our International Journal of Communication special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me ([email protected]) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below. mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/13/mcr…

Feel free to contact my fellow special issue co-editors Erik Bucy ([email protected]) and Martin Echeverría ([email protected]). We seek research that spans North and South America and considers candidate performance in hybrid media settings. UW-MCRC Center for Communication and Civic Renewal

El International Journal of Communication, editado por Silvio Waisbord, lanza una edición especial sobre debates presidenciales en las Américas. Esta convocatoria busca analizar cómo este formato se adapta al siglo 21 en contextos políticos y mediáticos diversos.

El call está liderado Dhavan Sha, Dhavan Shah , referente internacional en comunicación política, mensajes mediáticos y participación cívica, Eric Bucy, Erik Bucy, experto en comunicación visual y no verbal y framing visual en elecciones, de Texas Tech University, y un servidor.

Note the new extended deadline on our IJOC special issue on Presidential Debates Across the Americas. If you’re working on a relevant paper or project, consider submitting! The call for papers is linked below.

Looks cool