Yes! @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social has been super busy digging into builiding the vectors
...and they align very closely with our expectations of illiberal connective factions!
More to come.
The bad news: I missed half of #ICA26 and traveled halfway around the world to hang out in a hotel room.
The good news: I'm feeling waaay better today. 💪
Still: sorry to have missed so many colleagues (& penguins) I was going to see while here. 😔
Here's my co-author and current @ddc-sdu.bsky.social TrygFonden fellow Priyanka Kundu, doing an EXCELLENT job presenting our work on how 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇪🇺-based LLM chatbots define "Radicalization" -- in English and Bangla.
Update: I returned in time to participate in the polcomm reception AND present our work on progress in high density session by the journalism division:
What's right-wing news?
In which we measure distinct news values for hyper partisan news sites.
The human body is resilient! 💪
#ICA26
Superstar Postdoc @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social presents our work on how a connective faction forms ties through distinct digital communicative practices and social media logics to undermine democracy in Brazil.
We draw on @snurb.info's idea of practice mapping to highlight this connective activity