And speaking of the slog - commiserations to those who did not get up this time. 13% success rate is just brutal - I sure hope whatever the ARC has coming down the line will do ECRs better in this country. We are leaving so much potential and great research on the table.

Not only that, their party website is real "Beyond 2000"/Myst aesthetics, not something I would be drawing attention to

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Not exactly in line with what you are looking for, but my colleagues & friends Mark Chou and Rachel Busbridge are great on perceptions of local government's role, and the expanding remit of local government vis-a-vis culture wars (think climate declarations, Australia Day etc)

Beyond the clear grossness of *all* of this - how very hip and cool to have a 43 year old as president of your student organisation

Others who might be interested: @duncanmcdonnell.com @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @visualpolitics.bsky.social @mattiazulianello.bsky.social @sabinedvolk.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @dbonansinga.bsky.social @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @emiliapalonen.bsky.social

Oh, there's also a video abstract, including a screenshot of me looking as smug as humanly possible
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This one will be of interest to populism scholars, visual politics scholars, and I think broader visual communication folk. Calling @bleiker.bsky.social @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @populism.bsky.social @populismblog.bsky.social @populismpsa.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social

I trace a shift from televisual mediation of ‘the people’, dependent on elite controlled platforms, to digitally enabled self-mediation, wherein publics broadcast themselves as ‘the people’ in real time via smartphones and social media. This comes with new, uninteded audiences however.

Opportunities for doing this have obviously changed over time due to shifts in visual technologies. To show this, I compare self-representations of 'the people' in the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt against Hugo Chávez & the 2021 US Capitol riots.

So much of the burgeoning literature on the visual politics of populism is 'top-down' - how do populist leaders & parties use visuals, basically. This article flips it, and looks at it from the 'bottom-up', examining how populist publics self-mediate as 'the people' under populism

Anthoula Malkopoulou and @benmoffitt.bsky.social ask - how should we respond to #populism? - arguing for responses to it to contain populism’s most egregious characteristics while salvaging its productive side.
@compeurpol.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...