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New article: "'With and Between You All': Celebrity Status, User-Audience Networks, and Representative Claims in Emma Watson’s Feminist Politics"
New article: "'With and Between You All': Celebrity Status, User-Audience Networks, and Representative Claims in Emma Watson’s Feminist Politics"

Ellen Watts and I I have just completed a new book chapter that is forthcoming in a volume edited by Rebecca Lind at the University of Illinois-Chicago, the third in her series Produsing Theory in a Digital World.

New O3C Survey Report: News Sharing on UK Social Media: Misinformation, Disinformation & Correction
New O3C Survey Report: News Sharing on UK Social Media: Misinformation, Disinformation & Correction

Today sees the publication of a new survey report examining problematic news sharing on UK social media, which I co-authored with Cristian Vaccari.

The Online Harms White Paper: Tensions and Omissions
The Online Harms White Paper: Tensions and Omissions

I recently wrote an article about the UK Government’s new Online Harms White Paper.

Book Review of Misinformation and Mass Audiences, edited by Brian Southwell, Emily A. Thorson, and Laura Sheble

I wrote a review for International Journal of Press/Politics of Brian Southwell, Emily A. Thorson, and Laura Sheble’s timely new edited collection, Misinformation and Mass Audiences.

Announcing the new MA Social Media and Political Communication at Loughborough University
Announcing the new MA Social Media and Political Communication at Loughborough University

Over the last nine months I've led the development of a new MA programme in Social Media and Political Communication at Loughborough. We are now accepting applications for the first group of students. The programme begins October 2019.
Speaking at the UK Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference

On November 9 I’ll be a keynote speaker at the UK Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference

Speaking at the International Journal of Press/Politics Conference at Reuters Institute, Oxford Next Week
Speaking at the International Journal of Press/Politics Conference at Reuters Institute, Oxford Next Week

On October 11 I’ll be giving the keynote at this year’s International Journal of Press/Politics conference.

New Article: Do Tabloids Poison the Well of Social Media? Explaining Democratically Dysfunctional News Sharing
New Article: Do Tabloids Poison the Well of Social Media? Explaining Democratically Dysfunctional News Sharing

We (Cristian Vaccari, Ben O’Loughlin and I) examine the links between the sharing of tabloid news and the propensity to misinform and disinform others on UK social media.

Funded PhD Studentships: Improving the Health of Our Online Civic Culture: A New Centre for Doctoral Training at Loughborough University
Funded PhD Studentships: Improving the Health of Our Online Civic Culture: A New Centre for Doctoral Training at Loughborough University

We have some funded PhD studentships here at Loughborough University. This is the first wave of positions and they’re part of a new interdisciplinary centre for doctoral training we’re setting up.

Oxford Studies in Digital Politics: New Titles in 2018—and a Call for Proposals in News and Journalism
Oxford Studies in Digital Politics: New Titles in 2018—and a Call for Proposals in News and Journalism

My book series with Oxford University Press will publish five new titles in 2018. Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan’s fascinating, empirically-grounded account of the Umbrella Movement: Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong.