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Political communication, authenticity perceptions of politicians, social identity.
Researching the role of social norms in negative campaigning
I study the durability of interventions (e.g., meta-misperception correction to reduce partisan animosity) and how to sustain those effects over time; also causal inference, especially sensitivity analysis and partial identification.
Behind every political campaign, there are people making decisions on which messages to send, which platforms to use, which data to trust. My research follows these professionals in the Italian context.
Researching conspiracy thinking and political attitudes of news audiences & critical perspectives on social media platforms' governance
My PhD examined COVID-19 misinformation within the Afrikaner community in South Africa, analysing how Facebook comments on articles from the largest Afrikaans news website reflected key markers of Afrikaner identity.
Jamie studies political communication, political theory, and how culture and public discourse shape power and belonging.
My research focuses on how citizens understand and respond to online political campaigns and (targeted) advertising, and how to strengthen their literacy through practical interventions.
Investigating how data-driven technologies and communicative AI shape smart city branding, governance, and political communication.
Researching digital political behavior from a sociotechnical perspective.
My research focuses on political communication and media psychology, with an emphasis on emotion and emotion regulation in political contexts, including the health impacts of political media usage.
I examine how populist communication evolves with government participation, diffuses across parties, and shapes citizen engagement.
Examining the mobilisation of hyper-nationalist, extreme religious identities in diaspora media spheres. It is based on the case study of the 2022 Leicester unrest.
My research focuses on the use of social media by political parties, politicians, and citizens during election campaigns, with a particular empirical focus on the South Indian state of Kerala.
Mackenzie researches the construction of social norms surrounding political discourse and how those norms shape online and offline civic engagement.
Examining how digital media, gendered disinformation, and online abuse shape Nigerian women’s political participation and representation.
My PhD project focuses on how citizens perceive the use of AI in news media, including concepts like trust, legitimacy, awareness, and public opinion, studied through survey data and survey experiments.
Examining how political elites and influencers use identity and propaganda on social media and emerging tech, and democratic implications.
My research examines how digital media shape communication and the production, circulation, and reception of political content.
My PhD research examines the politicisation of collective memory in Hungary, focusing on how national history is used to construct political legitimacy.
The longitudinal effects of political content on social media on political trust among adolescents.
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