Huge thanks again to @taberez.bsky.social and his fantastic team at the National University Singapore! 👏
Thanks for the hospitality and all your efforts! I know it was a lot of work and I am very grateful you made this happen. ❤️

Next up, I got to chair a panel on AI in election campaigns, centering on persuasion effects. This featured 3 papers with results from 🇳🇱, 🇵🇰, and 🇮🇩.
My main takeaway: all these countries are grappling with the rapid rollout of these technologies -- making an already messy field much more messy..

Our third co-panelist, @alice-hamilton.bsky.social (Wageningen University), with highly interesting experimental work across 🇪🇺 countries, investigating the effects of accusations of disinformation. Super interesting dynamics between the right-wing and far right!

Here's my fellow panelist @ehabrasul.bsky.social (NUS)
presenting cutting edge work on "How Perceptions of Misinformation and Disinformation Influence News Consumption across Traditional Media, Social Media, and AI"
Very cool stuff! Part of a larger project. One to watch!

Day 2 of #IJPP2025:
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.

Nachreichen möchten wir außerdem ein Paper von @curdknupfer.bsky.social, Lance W. Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social zu Normalisierung durch überproportionale mediale Berichterstattung über disruptive politische Akteur*innen aufgrund eben dieser Disruptivität:
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

Not being mayor of Gas Town along the fury road.

Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025

Excellent presentation and lively discussion about "Strategic Legalism and Journalistic Agency under Security Governance" by Saira Ali (Adelaide University), focused on journalists in 🇵🇰.
#IJPP2025

Very impressive quantitative work by Yufan Guo & Longhan Wei (Chinese U of Hong Kong) on
"How the State Politicizes Everyday Language: A Computational Analysis of Discursive Shifts on Chinese Social Media"...using word embeddings in over 180.000.000 (!) posts from 🇨🇳Weibo over 10 years.

Next:

Dyotana Banerjee (Krea University) on...
Community Icons, New Media and the Politics of Caste Assertion in Gujarat, 🇮🇳

@cristinamonzer.bsky.social (UPenn) on...
Aligned identities, curated politics: How TikTok creators express partisan sorting 🇺🇸

Can't keep my del toros apart. 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for calling me out. I'm extra embarrassed because I MADE THE SAME MISTAKE LAST NIGHT. Incredible.

I'm so tired. 🧟‍♂️

HAHA. On nooooo!!

It's like one of those 90s Batman movies, with CGI from the (terrible) contemporary Tim Burton stuff. Weird casting choices. Terrible accents. Both over the top yet somehow too serious.
Fell asleep at some point. Still hated every minute.
Two thumbs all the way down!

I want my Friday night back. ☹️

We post so that others might learn from our mistakes...

Haha. My academic mantra: "do good things and publicly complain about it"😅

Now... Onward to the next service to-do. Ugh! 🦸‍♂️😩