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SUMMARY:CPG: Nikki Usher (USD)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How and why American journalism (accidentally) amplifies anti-democratic actors: Small town extremists\, media storms\, and a broken news industry \n  \nAbstract: Within a week\, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle. This newly-empowered politician\, Darren Bailey\, would go on to hijack the pro-business Republican party in Illinois toward extremism. Democratic backsliding emerges across all levels of politics\, but the threats posed by small town politicians to the rule of law have been overlooked. This research asks\, first what features of local political ecologies that might facilitate the rise of small town anti-democratic extremists? Second\, how does the political economy of the contemporary  news ecosystem–local\, regional\, national\, and partisan media–serve to amplify these bad actors? Ultimately\, this case study considers how small-town extremists are enabled by the structural\, cultural\, and normative dimensions of democratic life that they seek to undermine\, especially the difficulty the institutional news media faces in covering anti-democratic actors.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-nikki-usher-usd/
LOCATION:Comm Project Room – 2310 Rolfe
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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SUMMARY:Dan Costanzo (NORC at the University of Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Researchers who conduct population surveys face escalating costs and declining response rates\, as they aim to collect data that is representative\, trustworthy\, and publishable. Sample recruitment is often prohibitively expensive to researchers\, and cheap convenience samples are fraught with representation and quality issues. NORC at the University of Chicago has built a survey panel called\nAmeriSpeak to help researchers navigate these choppy waters. AmeriSpeak is a probability (random) sample of US households recruited to take surveys for NORC. Dan Costanzo\, a Director of Business Development at NORC\, will talk about AmeriSpeak’s novel approach to sample recruitment\, which includes sending field interviewers located throughout the US to the homes of non-responders. The\nresult of NORC’s rigorous efforts is a panel that delivers higher response rates and a more representative sample of US adults than mail and phone recruitment efforts alone provide. AmeriSpeak is commercially available to academic\, government\, media\, and other researchers. Costanzo will also talk about the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)\, a federally funded program through\nNorthwestern University that enables academic researchers to use AmeriSpeak for free.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/dan-costanzo-norc-at-the-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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SUMMARY:CPG: Davin Phoenix (UCI\, Political Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Emotional Representation: Identifying the Characteristics and Consequences of Elected Officials Mirroring the Emotions of Their Constituents (with Christopher Stout\, Gregory Leslie\, and Elizabeth Schroeder)  \n  \nAbstract: In this study\, we identify a previously overlooked component of representation\, which we label ‘emotional representation.’ Emotional representation occurs when elected officials mirror the dominant emotional state of a constituent group through their public outreach. First\, to explore the existence of emotional representation\, we examine the degree to which members of Congress mirrored Black people’s documented increase in expressions of anger following the murder of\nGeorge Floyd in the Summer of 2020. Using a regression discontinuity design and sentiment analysis including 305\,358 tweets\, 190\,192 Facebook Posts\, and 35\,409 press releases\, we show that descriptively representative MCs provide the highest levels of emotional representation. Second\, to examine the impact of emotional representation\, we deploy a two-stage experiment to 390 Black respondents. We find that Black people who increased in anger after being primed with images of police violence view elected officials who engage in emotional representation as more\nfavorable\, empathetic\, and trustworthy.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-davin-phoenix-uci-political-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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SUMMARY:CPG: Marlon Twyman (USC\, Communication & Computer Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Metawisdom of the Crowd: How Choice Within Aided Decision Making Can Make Crowd Wisdom Robust \n  \nAbstract: Quality information can improve individual judgments but make group decisions less accurate; if individuals attend to the same information\, the predictive diversity that underlies crowd wisdom may be lost. We explore this tension within the context of decision support systems that provide the choice of decision aids and before then primary judgments. We argue that whenever a set of decision aids induce diverse errors\, this structure leads to higher group accuracy because aid choice will exhibit predictive diversity itself. In two experiments—the prediction of inflation (N=1907\, pre-registered) and a tightly controlled bean-count estimation task (N=1198)—we find strong evidence for this.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-marlon-twyman-usc-communication-computer-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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SUMMARY:CPG: Je Hoon Chae (UCLA\, Communication)
DESCRIPTION:Title:Robust Persuasive Effect of Political Fact-Checking and Remaining Challenges \nAbstract:The proliferation of misinformation and the persistent gap in factual information among partisans represent significant concerns in contemporary U.S. politics. Fact-checking\, a journalistic intervention aimed at verifying the accuracy of claims and information\, is seen as a key strategy to address this issue. While early studies suggested a backfire effect\, where strong partisans reinforce their existing beliefs when presented with counter-attitudinal corrections from fact-checkers\, recent experimental evidence suggests this backfire effect is not replicable. Instead\, fact-checking effectively updates the factual beliefs of even staunch partisans in line with fact-checked information. This presentation addresses two critical questions. First\, to what extent is the persuasive effect of fact-checking effective across various scenarios? Through a series of randomized experimental designs\, I demonstrate that the persuasive effect of fact-checking remains robust even when presented by an out-group source\, when the credibility of fact-checkers is impaired\, or when headlines are automatically tagged on social media posts. Second\, how extensively do U.S. partisans consume fact-checking content\, particularly cross-cutting fact-checking? By analyzing original articles from PolitiFact\, their Twitter posts\, and retweet patterns\, I show that a disproportionate number of fact-checking articles written by PolitiFact\, a major political fact-checking organization\, are counter-attitudinal from the Republican standpoint. Furthermore\, the sharing patterns of these fact-checking posts suggest that Republicans or conservatives rarely share such content amongst themselves\, casting doubt on their exposure to cross-cutting fact-checking in their daily lives.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-je-hoon-chae-ucla-communication/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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SUMMARY:CPG: Christian Grose (USC\, Political Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Do Funding Communications Increase Election Officials’ Willingness to Open More Polling Places? A Field Experiment\n \nAbstract: Can encouragement communications cause election officials to open more polling places? Does increasing spending on elections to open more polling places lead to higher voter turnout? Public officials who administer elections make decisions about the operation of elections\, and these decisions are directly influenced by budgets available. However\, scholars of elections have rarely examined the role of budgets on elite choices regarding making it easier to vote. I theorize that some election administrators are stewards of voter access while others are not. A field experiment was conducted during the 2020 US general election where local election officials randomly received direct communications encouraging them to apply for funding by a nonpartisan university institute; and a control group of local election officials were not. Results of the field experiment show that the randomized communication led to a 3.9%-point increase in local officials applying for and receiving the funding compared to control group officials. In a 2SLS causal model and in correlational analyses\, there is evidence that exogenous increases to election budgets and exogenous increases in polling locations led to higher voter participation. The conclusions are that some public officials can be encouraged to increase voter access via budgetary or financial nudges and communications.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-christian-grose-usc-political-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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