tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172493762024-03-07T04:06:24.189-05:00Ohio State Communication, Opinion, and Political Studies GroupThis web page and blog is for the OSU COPS group--faculty members and graduate students in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University interested in political communication and public opinion.Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503720818100390075noreply@blogger.comBlogger336125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-63980045377977491502020-02-18T09:48:00.000-05:002020-02-18T09:48:51.772-05:00COPS in the NewsFebruary has been a big month for public engagement by members of COPS. First, <a href="https://comm.osu.edu/people/kamenchuk.1" target="_blank">Olga Kamenchuk</a> co-authored a piece in the Washington Post reporting on survey data on American attitudes toward Vladimir Putin:<br />
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Just two days later, <a href="https://jacob-long.com/" target="_blank">Jacob Long</a>'s piece on possible differential response to public opinion polls regarding Trump appeared in the Washington Post:<br />
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-72583819123293486942020-02-14T13:23:00.000-05:002020-02-18T09:43:08.005-05:00COPS next Tuesday -- 2pm (not our usual 1pm)Tuesday (Feb. 25) Erin Drouin will be talking about her research and seeking our feedback. Please come, but do note we'll be meeting one hour later than normal for this meeting.<br />
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Competency Stereotypes, Female Political Candidates, and Political Knowledge:
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<span style="background: white;">An an important stereotype that people may use
when evaluating political candidates is gender-based issue competency. Voters
may evaluate males as more competent at economic and military issues, while
women are evaluated as more competent at 'compassion issues' such as education
and healthcare. However, current work has found mixed results with some studies
finding that voters use issue-competency stereotypes while other studies find
no such relationship. We suggest that people's level of political knowledge is
an important moderator that may explain the discrepancy in findings.
Furthermore, we use non-self report measures of stereotyping -- verbal
descriptions of candidates and eye movements -- to circumvent social
desirability biases which could underestimate the use of gender-based
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-26067424556607257802020-01-28T22:32:00.000-05:002020-01-28T22:34:28.702-05:00Dr. Lindsay Hoffman Special Guest Speaker at COPS, 2/4/2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next week <a href="https://www.communication.udel.edu/people/lindsayh?uid=lindsayh&Name=Lindsay%20Hoffman" target="_blank">Dr. Lindsay Hoffman</a> will speak to the COPS group about her career trajectory as a political communication scholar. Dr. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Communication and Associate Director of the <a href="https://www.cpc.udel.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Political Communication</a> (CPC) at the University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University in 2007 after completing her M.A., both under the advisement of Dr. Chip Eveland. Dr. Hoffman was one of the founding student members of COPS and presented regularly in preparation for conferences and job talks. One paper that worked its way through COPS is now one of her most highly cited papers (Hoffman & Thomson, 2009). Broadly, Dr. Hoffman's research examines how various forms of media and technology foster or suppress political behavior and communication. She is also Director of the CPC's <a href="https://www.cpc.udel.edu/national-agenda/national-agenda-2019-direction-democracy" target="_blank">National Agenda Series</a>, where she talks with politicians like Joe Biden (a UD alum) and John Kasich, journalists like NPR's Domenico Montanaro (a UD alum), comedians like Chris Garcia and Ashley Nicole Black ("Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"), political cartoonists, and interesting public figures across the ideological spectrum.</span>William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-42533717264139236332019-12-26T21:40:00.001-05:002019-12-26T21:41:12.245-05:00Jason Cornel's Research in the News<a href="https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191225/facts-are-misremembered-to-fit-personal-biases-ohio-state-study-finds" target="_blank">https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191225/facts-are-misremembered-to-fit-personal-biases-ohio-state-study-finds</a>William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-51414433038691412232019-11-19T09:35:00.001-05:002019-11-19T09:35:18.665-05:00Today on Campus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Political science and communication scholars in recent
decades have been preoccupied with an array of issues related to what might be
called the “epistemic well-being of democracy.” Worries about democracy’s
epistemic well-being motivate research warning, for example, of the increased
potential for cognitive biases to influence people’s worldviews in a
high-choice informational environment, the possibility that citizens might
intentionally or unintentionally use technology to sequester themselves into
“echo chambers” that do not expose them to challenges to their beliefs, and the
ability for misinformation to spread through new communications media with
unprecedented ease and quickness due to reduced barriers to entry. Of late, the
picture painted by commentators has tended to be highly pessimistic, with
numerous scholars and mainstream pundits voicing sentiments similar to those
expressed by Anya Schiffrin, who in a recent issue of the <i>Journal of
International Affairs</i> claims that “it does not seem an exaggeration to say
that disinformation spread by social media has undermined the functioning of
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While I agree with these scholars that the epistemic
well-being of democracy is of paramount normative importance and that it is
vital to try to understand the ways it is impacted by evolving communications
technologies, I also believe sweeping conclusions like Schiffrin’s are
premature. This is mainly because the empirical research agenda pursued by
scholars looking into the various topics cited above has so far tended to
overlook several key issues that need to be addressed before we can make any
strong conclusions about whether new communications technologies are
undermining democracy and which policy proposals are best suited to help us do
better. In my presentation, I’ll highlight the four issues I take to be most
important and sketch a couple rough ideas for empirical research I think might
go some way to shoring them up. As a theorist by training, I’d love to find a
collaborator or two with a stronger background in empirical
research/methodology if anyone is interested. Thanks in advance for all of your
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Anya (2017). “Disinformation and Democracy: The Internet Transformed Protest
but did not Improve Democracy.” <i>Journal of International Affairs </i>71:1,
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-21457879417113987992019-11-06T15:15:00.001-05:002019-11-06T15:15:04.714-05:00NCA Practice Presentations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week at COPS we had practice presentations for papers by COPS Ph.D. students Olivia Bullock (and collaborators) and Matt Sweitzer. Both Olivia and Matt will be presenting next week at the National Communication Association (NCA) conference in Baltimore, MD. Great turnout -- marred only by my lame photo editing skills to create this panorama. Next week we'll have presentations by students who are new to COPS this year; see you then!<br />
<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-24291695548214499442019-11-04T12:57:00.000-05:002019-11-04T12:57:13.067-05:00I'm glad to announce that this paper, published in collaboration with former COPS students <a href="https://compcommlab.univie.ac.at/team/hyunjin-song/" target="_blank">Hyunjin Song</a> (now at University of Vienna) and <a href="https://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/myiah-hutchens/" target="_blank">Myiah Hutchens</a> (now at University of Florida) is now out in the journal in print: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19312458.2019.1612865">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19312458.2019.1612865</a><br />
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-14843535804407716462019-10-19T11:39:00.001-04:002019-10-19T11:55:07.908-04:00New Facebook study by Garrett and Poulsen in JCMC<div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In their new paper "</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/24/5/240/5575583" target="_blank">Flagging Facebook falsehoods: Self-identified humor warnings outperform fact checker and peer warnings</a>" in the</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <i>Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication</i>, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kelly and Shannon present two studies evaluating the effectiveness of flagging inaccurate political posts on social media. In Study 1, they tested fact-checker flags, peer-generated flags, and a flag indicating that the publisher self-identified as a source of humor. Conducting a 2-wave online experiment (N=218), they found that self-identified humor flags were most effective, reducing beliefs and sharing intentions, especially among those predisposed to believe the post. They found no evidence that warnings from fact checkers or peers were beneficial. Compared to the alternatives, participants exposed to self-identified humor flags exhibited less reactance to and had more positive appraisals of the flagging system. The second study replicated the findings of the first and provides a preliminary test of what makes this flag work.</span></div>
William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-39153364753049274822019-10-15T09:46:00.002-04:002019-10-15T09:46:48.051-04:00COPS Today: Context in Pol Comm Research<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today we will talk about an issue that is particularly salient at this moment in the United States: the role of context in the study of political communication effects. A new Forum was just released in the journal <i>Political Communication</i> which focuses on just this topic. For instance, </span><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2019.1670897" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rojas and Valenzuela</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> make the argument that research in the United States should have the same expectation of taking explicit consideration of the context of research conducted here as scholars studying other political contexts must make regarding any particular idiosyncrasies of those contexts. Let's talk about this, but perhaps expand the idea to the particular temporal context or geographic context of the research that we conduct in the U.S. For instance, what are the implications of gathering data at the current political moment, as the U.S. House of Representatives pursues an impeachment inquiry against the president, and roughly 20 Democrats vie for their party's nomination to run for president in 2020? And, would it matter if one were conducting a study a politics at this time in Iowa compared to Columbus Ohio compared to Montana?</span></div>
William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-90753149592131232712019-10-08T10:58:00.001-04:002019-10-19T11:59:32.592-04:00Catching up: COPS Students take major School of Communication Research Awards<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">For those out of the loop at the end of Spring 2019 (as I was due to being on sabbatical...), I wanted to share this news:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Last spring at the School of Communication’s annual "Comm Day" celebration and awards banquet, two COPS members won awards for their outstanding research. Matthew
Sweitzer won the Doris Gildea Morgan award for top senior researcher, and Olivia
Bullock won the Walter B. Emery award for top junior researcher in the School. Belated congrats to them both!</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ade1a7b3-7fff-24ae-3ad4-7e8acab3d538"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kelly, Rob and Shannon had <a href="https://theconversation.com/too-many-people-think-satirical-news-is-real-121666" target="_blank">an interesting piece </a>in <i>The Conversation</i> back in August on belief in satirical news. It contributes to a larger debate: should <a href="https://www.snopes.com/" target="_blank">Snopes</a> fact check satirical website </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://babylonbee.com/" target="_blank">The Babylon Bee</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? With data from a 6-month panel, they found that a number of people believe satirical articles are truthful. They argue that making the satirical intentions of the source more clear would help minimize unintended belief in inaccurate information.</span></span>William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-13031142593831384942019-10-02T14:32:00.000-04:002019-10-19T11:48:15.420-04:00Congrats to Hillary Shulman!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Congratulations to
Assistant Professor, and COPS faculty member, Hillary Shulman! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Hillary and her
colleague, Associate Professor Daniel Bergan (Michigan State University), won a
$20,500 grant from the North Central Regional Center For Urban Development for their
project titled <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">"Local
policymakers' perceptions of the opioid crisis and the efficacy of extension
communications.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">As noted on the OSU School of Communication website, their
project “aims to identify message strategies that affect how policymakers engage
with the opioid crisis in their communities.”</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Keep up the awesome work
Hillary!</span>Shannon Poulsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885435747390408002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-67734244083814928282019-09-24T12:07:00.002-04:002019-09-24T12:07:25.685-04:00COPS meeting today on socialization to academic conferences<br />
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A quick reminder we’re meeting today to discuss academic
conferences. Senior COPS students Shannon Poulsen, Jacob Long and Matt Sweitzer
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My apologies for missing again this week, but I hope to be
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-72670991369816784862019-09-13T15:33:00.001-04:002019-10-19T11:58:05.393-04:00Coronel, Poulsen and Sweitzer have forthcoming paper in Human Communication Research<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;">COPS faculty member Jason Coronel and COPS Ph.D. students Shannon Poulsen and Matt Sweitzer have a new </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;">paper forthcoming in <i>Human Communication Research</i> titled "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investigating the generation and spread of numerical misinformation: A combined eye movement monitoring and social transmission approach." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Across two studies, they examined the role of schemas in the creation of numerical misinformation and how it can spread via person-to-person communication. They found that individuals misremember numerical information in a manner consistent with their schemas and person-to-person transmission can exacerbate these memory errors. These studies highlight the mechanisms supporting the generation and spread of numerical misinformation and demonstrate the utility of a multi-method approach in the study of misinformation.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Congrats Jason, Shannon, and Matt!</span><br />
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503720818100390075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-8604608122662137432019-09-09T10:50:00.002-04:002019-09-09T16:33:17.974-04:00Jacob Long on Two Award-Winning Conference Papers<br />
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COPS Ph.D. student <a href="https://www.jacob-long.com/" target="_blank">Jacob Long</a> had a very successful summer, with two papers winning awards at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Toronto. His sole-authored paper won the Chaffee-McLeod Top Student Paper award in
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Long, J. A. (2019, August). <i>An approach for measuring
partisan segregation in political media consumption</i>. Paper presented at the
102nd Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Mass Communication
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Jeong, M. S., Long, J. A., & Lavis, S. M. (2019,
August). <i>From political satire to political discussion: Satire talk as
mediator and affinity for political humor as moderator</i>. Paper presented at
the 102nd Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Mass
Communication and Journalism, Toronto, ON.</blockquote>
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These -- in conjunction with multiple 2018 and 2019 publications (<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0093650218791011" target="_blank">Communication Research</a> and <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15205436.2018.1504302" target="_blank">Mass Communication & Society</a>) and more on the way (in Journal of Communication) -- are a great way to start the academic job search year. Congrats Jacob!</div>
<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-44300808640977931572019-08-29T13:35:00.000-04:002019-09-13T15:36:23.931-04:00Conference Deadlines ApproachingMajor conference deadlines are approaching as we head into fall. The Southern Political Science Association abstract deadline for the January 2020 meeting is Sept. 1st. The Midwest Political Science Association submission deadline is October 3rd for the April 2020 conference. The International Communication Association deadline for the May 2020 conference is November 1st. Finally, the American Association for Public Opinion Research submission deadline is November 8th for the May 2020 conference. In a few weeks we'll be having a "socialization" session in which we'll discuss these and other conferences you may wish to consider for your work, the value of conference participation, and some ideas for getting the most out of your participation. Senior COPS Ph.D. students <a href="https://comm.osu.edu/people/poulsen.6" target="_blank">Shannon Poulsen</a>, <a href="https://comm.osu.edu/people/long.1377" target="_blank">Jacob Long</a>, and <a href="https://comm.osu.edu/people/sweitzer.34" target="_blank">Matt Sweitzer</a> will serve as panelists on that COPS session.William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-13923047278956048012019-08-26T14:00:00.002-04:002019-10-19T11:50:25.096-04:00New paper by Bullock, Amill, Shulman, & Dixon<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Olivia Bullock, MA student Daniel Amill, and faculty Hillary Shulman and Graham Dixon, on their recent publication "Jargon as a barrier to effective science communication: Evidence from metacognition" in <b>Public Understanding of Science</b>. The paper addresses<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> some of
the unintended consequences of jargon use on people's acceptance of scientific
technology. Basically, they found that when descriptions of technology
included scientific jargon, people reported that the technologies in question
seemed riskier, participants were more likely to argue against and refute the
information provided, and reported less support of these technologies, than
when jargon words were replaced with easier to understand terms. This experiment
shows the effects of complicated language extend beyond misunderstanding, and
can affect people's feelings towards the topic at hand. This can be especially
problematic when the subject matter lends itself to jargon (as in the case of
politics, health, and law). The implication is that if you want people to
engage with complex subjects, create messages that are easy to process. You can access the paper here: </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662519865687">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662519865687</a>William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-81273481758581707152019-08-26T13:52:00.001-04:002019-10-19T11:52:04.901-04:00Social Media and Misperceptions<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">Congrats to Kelly Garrett on his paper recently published on social media and political misperceptions! The bottom line conclusion is that "social media can alter citizens' willingness to endorse falsehoods during an election, but that the effects are often small." </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">You can view the paper in Web format </span><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213500" style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11pt;"> or hit Kelly up directly for a PDF copy.</span></div>
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to political misperceptions in U.S. Presidential elections. <i>PLOS ONE, 14</i>(3),
e0213500. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213500</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-34108363097836929732019-04-29T12:27:00.001-04:002019-04-29T12:27:21.619-04:00Garrett & Bond receive award to analyze Facebook dataA research team that includes two School of Communication faculty is one of 12 inaugural
recipients of the <a href="https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/" target="_blank">Social Media and Democracy Research</a> grants from the <a href="https://www.ssrc.org/" target="_blank">Social Science Research Council</a> and their partner <a href="https://socialscience.one/" target="_blank">Social Science One</a>. Garrett will lead the team, which also includes <a href="http://robertmbond.net/" target="_blank">Rob Bond</a>, <a href="http://cbudak.com/index.html" target="_blank">Ceren Budak</a> (University of Michigan), <a href="http://jasonjones.ninja/" target="_blank">Jason Jones</a> (Stony Brook University), and <a href="https://communication.cals.cornell.edu/people/drew-margolin/" target="_blank">Drew Margolin</a> (Cornell University).<br />
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The award provides unprecedented access to
anonymous data from Facebook on the sharing of online content. These data will be used to examine a variety of behaviors that could be harm people's understanding of science, politics and their community, notably including sharing inaccurate information.<br />
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A brief description of the project is here: <a href="https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/grantees/garrett/">https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/grantees/garrett/</a><br />
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Other grantees are listed here: <a href="https://items.ssrc.org/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants-grantees/">https://items.ssrc.org/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants-grantees/</a><br />
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And more details about the types of data to be analyzed are here: <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/election-research-grants/">https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/election-research-grants/</a>Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503720818100390075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-65099941279310073152019-01-11T19:50:00.000-05:002019-01-11T19:50:11.470-05:00Bond, Sweitzer publish paper on homophily in RedditCongratulations to Robert Bond and Matt Sweitzer for their recently released paper in Communication Research, "Political Homophily in a Large-Scale Online Communication Network." From the abstract:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><i>As communication increasingly occurs in online environments, it is important to know the structure of such conversations in social networks. Here, we investigate patterns of conversation in online forums concerning politics, as well as patterns of cross-ideological interactions in forums that are not expressly political. First, we demonstrate a method for measuring the latent ideological preferences of more than 690,000 individuals using patterns of political commenting. Using this measure, we find that communication between ideologically dissimilar individuals becomes more common in periods of increased engagement with politics, that political homophily decreases as more individuals contribute to a conversation, and that forums dedicated to nonpolitical topics exhibit substantially less homophily than political forums. Theoretical implications for political communication on online platforms are discussed.</i></span>William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-371000971994983102018-12-04T12:05:00.004-05:002018-12-04T12:05:46.267-05:00Election Modeling Talk through TDIThis talk may be of interest to some COPS members. https://tdai.osu.edu/events/2018/11/27/11021/<br />
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Title:</strong> “Forecasting U.S. elections using compartmental models of infection”<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-11027" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px" src="https://tdai.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AVolkening-photo-223x300.jpg" srcset="https://tdai.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AVolkening-photo-223x300.jpg 223w, https://tdai.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AVolkening-photo.jpg 463w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1.2em; max-width: 100%;" width="223" /></strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Authors:</strong> Alexandria Volkening (MBI, Ohio State University), Daniel F. Linder (Augusta University), Mason A. Porter (University of California, Los Angeles), and Grzegorz A. Rempala (Ohio State University)</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Abstract:</strong> U.S. election prediction involves polling likely voters, making assumptions about voter turnout, and accounting for various features such as state demographics and voting history. While political elections in the United States are decided at the state level, errors in forecasting are correlated between states. With the goal of shedding light on the forecasting process and exploring how states influence each other, we develop a framework for forecasting elections in the U.S. from the perspective of dynamical systems. Through a simple approach that borrows ideas from epidemiology, we show how to combine a compartmental model with public polling data from HuffPost and RealClearPolitics to forecast gubernatorial, senatorial, and presidential elections at the state level. Our results for the 2012 and 2016 U.S. races are largely in agreement with those of popular pollsters, and we use our new model to explore how subjective choices about uncertainty impact results. We conclude by comparing our forecasts for the senatorial and gubernatorial races in the U.S. midterm elections of November 6, 2018, with those of popular pollsters.</div>
William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-8722187013715205072018-09-17T12:42:00.002-04:002018-09-17T12:42:36.025-04:00“Can We All Just Get Along?” A Program of Research Directed Towards Overcoming Difference and Improving Race Relations in America<br />
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today in room 3116 from 3:00-4:00pm. Osei Appiah and I will be discussing our latest research on race and politics (with collaborators including Olivia Bullock, Katy Coduto, Jacob Long, and Dr. Amy Nathanson) and will be discussing future research
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<br />William "Chip" Evelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04242356101482747467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249376.post-19181044285620984502018-04-17T15:38:00.000-04:002018-04-17T15:38:00.124-04:00Call for Papers -- relevant for COPS folks?<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://pop.edmgr.com/download.aspx?scheme=4&id=12" /><br />
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<strong><u>CALL FOR PAPERS: CELEBRITIES AND POLITICS</u></strong><br />
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Celebrity and fame permeate political life. In the United States and
internationally, well-known celebrities advocate for humanitarian causes and
even run for political office; elected officials are often renowned for their
personal style and social media presence; and the multi-national media and
consumer products industries use famous people to increase profits and shape
political discourse (to name just some examples). Given that the study of
politics is centrally concerned with power, this Special Section aims to
examine the power and politics of "celebrity." We therefore invite
scholars to submit theoretical and empirical pieces that build on existing
celebrity/celebrities and politics research or break new ground to explore the
power of "celebrity" and interrogate the forces that produce and
maintain it.<br />
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The list of possible paper topics for this Special Section might include, but
is not limited to:<br />
- Theorizing the link between fame and political
discourse and processes<br />
- The "celebritization" of the political
sphere in historical perspective<br />
- The politics of celebrity in the sports and/or
entertainment industries<br />
- Celebrities' impact on public opinion and voting
behavior<br />
- Social movements and the mobilization of
celebrity/celebrities<br />
- Methodological approaches to/challenges for celebrity
research in political science<br />
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<strong><u>Editorial Information</u></strong><br />
Michael Bernhard, Editor-in-Chief<br />
Daniel I. O'Neill, Associate Editor<br />
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Samantha Majic, Guest Editor<br />
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<strong>Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2018</strong><br />
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