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Bytes Europe

The Path to Political Science: Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely byteseu.com/873548/ #article_type=opinion #careers #chapter=chapter #chapter=unt #PoliticalScience #Science #sponsored=No

Bytes Europe · The Path to Political Science: Dr. Natasha Altema McNeelyThe opinions expressed in this article are the writer’s own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus. This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UNT chapter.The flowers are blooming, spring is sprung, and classes are getting harder–welcome to March, everybody. With March comes Women’s History Month, and with Women’s History Month comes a time to appreciate the inspirational women in our own lives. For me, one of those women is Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely, a political science professor here at the University of North Texas. Dr. McNeely is new to UNT–she only
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Quercus ⚫🟣⚪🟡

'Social Inflation'

I want to introduce a concept I'll call "social inflation", defined as 'the gradual thinning of the interpersonal resources of a society'. I imagine that the field of sociology has some language for this, but let's pretend I'm coming up with something new.

Economic inflation is something we are long familiar with, as it is just assumed that everything has to always get more expensive as 'standards of living' (for the wealthy) must perpetually increase (not wages, though). Social inflation, however, is impossible to define quantitatively. Leading up to times of turmoil there is a creeping breakdown of relationships that can snap suddenly, a socio-economic depression, to the point that our civil institutions can no longer function. Globally, we may be entering a socio-economic depression that will drastically reshape our states and institutions.

I believe that social and economic inflation, essentially the drawdown of resources that support our civic institutions, is driven by technological grifting and worker exploitation. #Luddite platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of #Luddism, to me, is addressing these two intertwining factors, by rejecting the hyper-technological 'growth' used to justify the 'trickle down' approach to economics that exploits workers and destroys the planet. #usPol #SolarPunk #Sociology #PoliticalScience

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Christoph Deppe

Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference #FIMI is central to the EU’s approach to #disinformation. But what kind of concept is it? And why is it useful for EU policy but less so for scientific research?

Unlike traditional disinfo frameworks, FIMI focuses on manipulative behavior rather than just falsehoods. This makes it an effective policy tool—but creates challenges for researchers.

🔗 Read more: tdhj.org/blog/post/disinformat

#HybridThreats #EUvsDisinfo #politicalscience
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TDHJ.org · Disinformation In Cognitive Warfare, FIMI, Hybrid ThreatsBy Christoph Deppe
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Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D.

My dear brother, Seyed Javad Miri, had a new book coming out. Before it hits bookstores, it can be bought via Lulu. #philosophy #sociology #islam #iran #middleeast #politics #politicaltheory #politicalscience #psychology #colonialism #decolonialism #imperialism lulu.com/shop/seyed-javad-miri

LuluTowards EmancipationTowards Emancipation: Decoloniality and Critical Social Theory in the Primordial School of Thought presents a rigorous exploration of non-Western intellectual traditions and their potential to reshape the contours of contemporary social theory. Seyed Javad Miri interrogates the contributions of seminal thinkers such as Allama Tabatabai, Ali Shariati, Imam Musa Sadr, and Syed Hussein Alatas, whose ideas, though rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts, transcend their origins to offer universally relevant insights into modernity, social ontology, and the intricate dynamics of human agency. In this scholarly work, Miri engages with the central tenets of decolonial theory, critically assessing the lingering influence of Eurocentric epistemologies and social structures, and articulates the enduring relevance of these frameworks in challenging the intellectual legacy of colonialism.
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Christoph Deppe

🛠️ The #euvsdisinfo #dataset is a fantastic resource—well-structured, highly useful, and a great example of proactive #data sharing in the #research of #disinformation. I’ll be using it in an upcoming research project!

🔍 That said, the data collection #methodology remains a bit opaque. If anyone has insights on how the data is gathered, I’d love to hear more!

🔗 euvsdisinfo.eu/

EUvsDisinfoEUvsDisinfo | Detecting, analysing, and raising awareness about disinformation - EUvsDisinfoEUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force.It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.
#OSINT#DataTransparency#InfoOps
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Matthew Sheffield

Republican hatred of Democrats and of separation of church and state has significantly damaged political polling because reactionary Americans are willing to lie about their opinions if they think it helps Trump.

This has been verified repeatedly regarding Trump's obvious lies about the size of his first inauguration attendance.

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University of California PressExpressive Responding in Support of Donald Trump: An Extended Replication of Schaffner and Luks (2018)There is considerable debate about whether survey respondents regularly engage in “expressive responding” – professing to believe something that they do not sincerely believe to show support for their in-group or hostility to an out-group. Nonetheless, there is widespread agreement that one study provides compelling evidence for a consequential level of expressive responding in a particular context. In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration rally there was considerable controversy about whether this inauguration crowd was the largest ever. At this time, a study was conducted which found that Donald Trump voters were more likely than Hillary Clinton voters or non-voters to indicate that an unlabeled photo of Donald Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration rally showed more people than an unlabeled photo of Barack Obama’s 2009 presidential inauguration rally, despite the latter photo clearly showing more people. However, this study was not pre-registered, suggesting that a replication is needed to establish the robustness of this important result. In the present study, we conducted an extended replication over two years after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration rally. We found that despite this delay the original result replicated, albeit with a smaller magnitude. In addition, we extended the earlier study by testing several hypotheses about the characteristics of Republicans who selected the incorrect photo.
#politicalscience#polling#uspol
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Paul Houle

🤠 Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions

arxiv.org/abs/2502.20463

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arXiv.orgPersonal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political DiscussionsEngaging in political discussions is crucial in democratic societies, yet many individuals remain politically disinclined due to various factors such as perceived knowledge gaps, conflict avoidance, or a sense of disconnection from the political system. In this paper, we explore the potential of personal narratives-short, first-person accounts emphasizing personal experiences-as a means to empower these individuals to participate in online political discussions. Using a text classifier that identifies personal narratives, we conducted a large-scale computational analysis to evaluate the relationship between the use of personal narratives and participation in political discussions on Reddit. We find that politically disinclined individuals (PDIs) are more likely to use personal narratives than more politically active users. Personal narratives are more likely to attract and retain politically disinclined individuals in political discussions than other comments. Importantly, personal narratives posted by politically disinclined individuals are received more positively than their other comments in political communities. These results emphasize the value of personal narratives in promoting inclusive political discourse.
#politics#politicalscience#discussion
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