Social Media and Politics

Study of ranked choice voting across 110 real elections shows competitive benefits, transparent dynamics, and minimal vulnerability to manipulation or ballot exhaustion.

Research on volunteer moderators of local online groups reveals how they sustain community information infrastructure through interpretive civic labor and contextual knowledge.

Analysis of six million responses to Belgium's Voting Advice Application reveals voters lack ideological coherence while elites maintain consistent ideological structures.

Experimental study shows youth-oriented voting advice application significantly improved party position knowledge among Belgian voters aged 16–30, while generic version had no effect.

Opposition and government members use geographic parliamentary questions differently for oversight and representation across democracies. Study reveals strategic distinctions in four countries.

Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.

Research shows operational transparency in government social media improves public understanding and trust, but doesn't increase engagement or collaboration intentions.

Study on how citizen participation in deliberative assemblies increases institutional legitimacy in Honduras, even when participants disagree with outcomes.

Structural examination of how situational heuristics shape cognitive biases in online emergencies through adaptive expectations and implicit attributions, with demographic variation analysis.

Study of 157 publications revealing how online misinformation fuels ideological polarization and institutional distrust through tri-directional feedback loops, with strategic framework for.

Study of 2019 European Parliamentary elections across 10 countries reveals that party issue competence affects voting, with stronger effects when voters attribute responsibility to the European level.

Analysis of candidate issue emphasis strategies during the 2022 French presidential campaign following the Ukraine war outbreak, examining alignment with voter priorities.

Actor-Network Theory analysis of Yasir Machmud's 2024 legislative election victory in Bone Regency, examining how human and non-human actors form networks that produce electoral success.