Sebastián Valenzuela

New from @milenionudos.bsky.social 📢 Using surveys from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, we examine how large-scale disruptions like COVID-19 alter information repertoires. TL;DR: Despite drastic changes to people's routines, news media use remained strikingly stable. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1461... (OA)

🚨Out now!🚨 POQ's special issue, Advancing Public Opinion Research Across Countries and Contexts. An overview from the editors: doi.org/10.1093/poq/... All articles and notes: academic.oup.com/poq/issue

This was a fun experiment to design and deploy! Particularly glad that @digitaljournalism.bsky.social found it worthy of publication.

AC/DC vuelve a tocar en Chile en 2026. Imposible no acordarse de ese épico concierto en el Velódromo del Nacional, allá por octubre de 1996, cuando con @tengochicle.bsky.social saltamos un metro al sonido de Back in Black. Mejor concierto de rock ever.

One week left to submit your paper to this SI of POQ. See 👇 for more information:

💫 New Open Access Special Issue in IJPP! Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms The SI explores how misinfo spreads, is perceived & countered across political systems, info environments & platforms. Read the intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Call for Papers🚨 Are you researching public opinion across countries & contexts? Submit to the Public Opinion Quarterly special issue I’m co-editing with Hernando Rojas & Ting Chen. Let's advance nuanced, cross-contextual insights! 🌍 📅 Deadline: May 18, 2025 🔗 CFP: academic.oup.com/poq/pages/ad...

Great opportunity for fielding a pre-post study on the spread of junk content on Meta platforms... oh, wait. We don't need such study. We know what will happen. Just look at Elon's X.

Lots of food for thought in these essays. Please read, comment, and share.

The debate on whether misinformation matters is a good reminder that, in science, absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence.

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: APSA & ICA's PolComm Divisions are looking for a new... (1) Webmaster 💻 & (2) Social Media Officer🤳! ⏳Deadline: Friday, 10 January 2025. Full Call here: politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...

Are you doing research on public opinion across countries and contexts? Then, consider submitting an article to the 2026 special issue of @poqjournal.bsky.social, that I'm guest editing with Hernando Rojas and Ting Chen. Full CFP: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc... Deadline: May 18, 2025.

Excited to share the results from the 2024 Expert Survey on the Global Information Environment tomorrow for #IPIE's #UNGA program. 🗓️9/24 | 🕰️8:30-1:00 |📍CUNY Elebash Hall Join Safiya Noble, Phil Howard, Wendy Chun, and many others for an for insightful discussion. www.ipie.info/news/ipie-tr...

New Preprint: “(Don’t) Stop Believing” Are conservatives generally more vulnerable to #misinformation? Our new study suggests: Bias occurs on both sides – but in different forms (higher confirmation bias on the right, higher disconfirmation on the left). osf.io/84c36 Here's a thread ⏬

#𝗝𝗠𝗖𝗤_𝟭𝟬𝟬 Read what @sebavalenz.bsky.social, Ingrid Bachmann, Regina Lawrence & Homero Gil de Zúñiga had to say about empirical articles revolving around politics and media published by JMCQ in its 100 years. This article is part of our 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to see that @jmcquarterly.bsky.social's centennial issue is finally out, journals.sagepub.com/toc/JMQ/curr... Delighted to have contributed with a piece on 100 years of polcomm in JMCQ: doi.org/10.1177/1077... Congratulations to all the editors, reviewers and authors

Awesome design, yes. Important findings, too. Just impressed that not a single article from communication sciences is cited. Whole theories in comm, most notably cultivation, predict a causal-effect relationship between crime TV shows and crime attitudes and behavior. #academicsilos

The 2023 state of the climate report: it's fucked academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...