Accepted! 🥳 #ICA2026

Excited and looking forward to Cape Town to present my work on social inequalities in digital news use! Along with @antoniskalog.bsky.social @academiuhhh.bsky.social & @patyrossini.bsky.social, I discuss the persistence of class as a structural barrier to (digital) news use.

Can't hit the repost button often enough on that one.

Great takedown of his _Anxious Generation_ airport book in none other than Nature, BTW:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them

That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I guess StackOverflow is done.

🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social

Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

This year we asked about Climate News User Needs and the gap is clear.

They value coverage that informs and explains climate issue but feel media can do better. It also fits with how audiences see journalistic roles here: more as educators/curators/watchdogs than e.g., gatekeepers.

1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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The News is Not Made for Me scale is an 8-item scale that investigates the growing gap between news providers and audiences as well as audience inequality gaps related to news use and benefits. It gets at what we call "agnostic" features of news - such as pace, language, and access.

Using a panel survey in Brazil & UK, we see that people who feel the most alienated from news tend to be younger, lower SES, have lower news self-efficacy, greater interest in soft news, and have more attention problems. These findings highlight the overwhelming relentlessness of news cycles.

The first paper from the INEQNEWS project by the wonderful @academiuhhh.bsky.social! <3

2. @academiuhhh.bsky.social @atrimukherjee.bsky.social me and @antoniskalog.bsky.social on the effect of social media vs TV in reducing news use gaps. #ICA25

I guess I just think anyone who says stuff like "The groupchats are the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion" should be stuffed in a locker and never let out.

These groupchats are only powerful because of the sheer concentration of wealth. Your crowd isn't brilliant or clever. You're just rich.

Class privilege in UK journalism:

My piece in @theconversation.com following the publication today of our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report "UK Journalists in the 2020s" (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...)

theconversation.com/new-survey-s...

Does loneliness correlate with support for the populist radical right? In the Netherlands, yes-lonelier individuals were more likely to support the PRR across 15 years of data (2008-2023), with effect sizes comparable to health correlates of loneliness. (1/9)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Late to the party, but I'm super stoked for being at (my first!) #ICA25 to present our work on interest gaps in news consumption across TV and social media across 47 countries, along with @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @academiuhhh.bsky.social & @richardfletcher.bsky.social! See everyone in Denver :)