Nick Lewis

@adamcurtisbroll.bsky.social

as outlandish as his films felt at the time, we are actually now living in a Paul Verhoeven dystopia

Thanks so much Ben!

thank you! 😃

Thanks Kiwi! Hope you're well.

it will be *you* next 🙏

Thanks Len!

thanks dude! Let's catch up soon.

I'm also especially grateful to my supervisors, @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @danberliner.bsky.social , whose guidance and support over the past four years have been truly incredible.

Delighted to share that I passed my PhD viva yesterday at @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and that I'm now officially a doctor of political science!

A huge thank you to my examiners, @caprosser.com and @nickanstead.bsky.social , for their time, insight, and thoughtful engagement with my thesis.

my addled brain was, for a second, genuinely amazed that Gideon had gone and got himself *yet another* job

I give that accent a solid 7/10 😉

Focus

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and Kennedy killed the hat, too!

Farewell to one of the greats

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I was at Drumsheds for Four Tet back in November. What's really odd, given all the subsequent negative coverage, is how impressively slick, professional, and safe it was.

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Yikes

The man himself @michaelchabon.bsky.social is in the house!

Extremely Online? Ideological and affective polarisation on British political Twitter In my last post, I talked about how politicians have gradually became more emotive in their Twitter rhetoric over time. Are these politicians preaching to the converted? Were Donald Trump's tweets enc...

How does polarisation play out on social media?

Looking at Twitter between 2019 and 2021, the second paper in my thesis shows political conversations being driven by users with more ideologically- and affectively-extreme views.

TL;DR: t'was a bin fire even in the relatively benign pre-Musk era.

can also confirm they are not the names of the three musketeers 😄

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends:

• Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots

• Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus

• Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

Emotion trumps reason? ``Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.

It’s hard to believe, but I’m nearing the end of my doctoral journey.

Over the past few years, I’ve been researching how social media influences democratic deliberation, and I’m excited to share a series of posts about what I’ve discovered.

#socialmedia #politicalcommunication #research

LSE: The Ballpark | The social media spiral of silence with Nick Lewis YouTube video by LSE Phelan US Centre

📱 Is the Presidential race the 'TikTok election'?

🗣 Are politicians becoming more extreme in their online rhetoric?

💻 Why do people avoid discussing politics on social media?

🎙 I chatted with Chris at the LSE United States Centre about these questions and more 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUT...

at the pol. behaviour seminar last week @yamilrvelez.bsky.social presented really great research using GPT-3!

Nice piece from @stephenkb.bsky.social on loving the economy we actually have on.ft.com/3HjyVTt

History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace Listen to this episode from Past Present Future on Spotify. This week’s episode in our series on the great political essays is about David Foster Wallace’s ‘Up, Simba!’, which describes his ex...

Loved this! David Runciman compares and contrasts two truly great pieces of political writing in Rolling Stone, by Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace:

Not a fan of posting X stuff here but those who care about disinformation and electoral integrity might care about this X ‘policy update’.

Polisky commsky polcomm

We are excited about a new year of Political Behaviour Seminars at the LSE! As usually, you can either come along in-person, or join us remotely at 4pm GMT, by signing up to our email list via gov.comms@lse.ac.uk. More info: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r... Looking forward to it!