Alessandro Nai

@alessandronai.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social

Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality

Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1h

Your regular reminder that TASS, Russia's state news agency, has a logo that is, let’s say, vaguely reminiscent of your favourite statistical software (no, the other one)

James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 13h

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 22h

Together, these handbook chapters provide a foundational overview of topics of extremely high relevance to the work of the DDC.
We hope they will prove equally useful to the wider field of #PolComm #PoliticalCommunication!

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 22h

📚DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📚
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social
Feat. DDC's @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social 🧵⤵️

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 23h

Researching political communication aspects of infographics, or prepping a syllabus on data visualization for social science, and need to get up to speed? @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social and I wrote our entry in this encyclopedia with you in mind: pre-print here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... #polisky

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Fabian! <3

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 1d

Grateful for the opportunity to contribute—by name—to what must be the most massive collaborative encyclopedia project of all time, next to Wikipedia. All credit goes to @annisch.bsky.social who did the heavy lifting for the overview article on Populist Attitudes.

osf.io/preprints/so...

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

🙂🫶

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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 1d

For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Silke Fürst @sfuerst.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to see this Encyclopedia published, & grateful to have contributed an entry on Data Journalism!

👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Many thanks to @alessandronai.bsky.social, maxgroemping.bsky.social & dominiquewirz.bsky.social for editing such a comprehensive resource for the field 🎉

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! 🙂🙂

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 1d

I posted it here before, but @favstats.eu and I wrote an entry about LLMs in the encyclopedia below 👇

Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 1d

From ‘News aggregation’ to more than 430 other entries, this encyclopedia is packed with discoveries, thanks to the incredible work of its editors. Huge congratulations!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see this out in the world! My entry, on letters to leaders, is available here dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

It's serif, not sheriff, Marco

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri

The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

🙂🫶

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jairolugo.bsky.social @jairolugo.bsky.social · 1d

Great to share our latest publication with Dr Ahmed Farouk Radwan in the College of Communication at the University of Sharjah as part of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication under the title,

Statistics in the news:
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication

This Encyclopedia covers the vast field of political communication, presenting an authoritative overview of its key foundational theories and empirical methodologies. Authored by nearly 600 experts fr...

www.e-elgar.com

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

We (editors) selected them to try and capture the diversity/scope of the volumes, and had to make some tough calls... were it for us, they'd be all OA! Apologies that we could not select more!

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing authors, amazing co-editors 🫶

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my entry on
AGENDA SURFING 📰🏄‍♀
in the now published ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION.

Learn all about how social actors can attach their messaging to previously established agendas to "surf" the waves of public attention. Cool stuff!
www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, man!

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the chapter by @favstats.eu and me 😃 www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

www.elgaronline.com

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure this is possible - will check

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

And finally, to all authors: feel free to repost this thread by linking it to the preprint of your entry!

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic to work on this with the dream-team @maxgroemping.bsky.social & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social

A massive thank you to all authors for their kindness & expertise ❤️

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

Some entries in #OpenAccess from January:

Algorithmic biases
Artificial intelligence
Cartoons
Dehumanizing language
Far-right communication
Incivility
Inoculation
Intergroup bias
Investigative journalism
Post-truth
Postcolonial communication
Prejudice
Schadenfreude
Soft propaganda
War journalism

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

The cover price for the hardback is high - for libraries only

But the digital version is quite affordable, should be around $50 - just 11 cents per entry! Available from next week onwards

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

While we have strived to open up towards regions that tend to be underrepresented in the literature, most of the authors come from the “usual suspects” (including us editors) - authors nonetheless come from 58 different countries

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 1d

We have tried to be diverse and inclusive in the entries’ coverage - to reflect the massive scope of our field, and to avoid reproducing power dynamics that obfuscate (sub)fields and authors that are usually out of the spotlight

Which topics/voices have we missed? Let us know!

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