Internet, Social Media & Politics Research Lab VUW

Internet, Social Media, and Politics Research Lab - Kōtaha at THW - Victoria University of Wellington, publishes the "New Zealand Social Media Study" (NZSMS)

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🎄 The Internet, Social Media & Politics Research Lab - Kōtaha at @VicUniWgtn wishes everyone happy holidays and all the best for 2025 🎄

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ISPRL Director @MonaKrewel making sense of the political parties’ social media communication on @1NewsNZ https://t.co/rkFKR7EwrG

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ISPRL Director @MonaKrewel on the social media strategies of the parties in the post-Ardern era https://t.co/SMYI6rqCCc

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In 2023, the Department of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet convened a Multi-Stakeholder Group to explore ways to strengthen resilience to disinformation in NZ. The group of which ISPRL director @MonaKrewel was part has now released its final report: https://t.co/waSgujfhtv

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Access here: https://t.co/BRtGqaMEPF

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🚨New (open access) publication from the ISPRL team 🚨 (1/2)

Krewel, M & M Gibbons (2024): Between Selfies and
Conspiracy Theories: Social media campaigning in 2020, in: Curtin, J et al. (eds.): A Team of Five Million? The 2020 'Covid-19' New Zealand General Election. Canberra.

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Our director @MonaKrewel spoke w He Whenua Taurikura, Aotearoa's Independent Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism about dis- and misinformation in NZ elections for their new podcast series "Unsettling Extremism" https://t.co/QeN1SM2m2H

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Our director @MonaKrewel writes about the role that mis- and disinformation played in the 2023 New Zealand election in @ConversationEDU https://t.co/yORl4bLLpE

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Heartfelt congratulations to our close collaborator @MLuczak who has been named co-director of Te Pūnaha Matatini 🎉🎉🎉

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Congratulations @MLuczak - this is wonderful news:
https://t.co/QEfeotwgwy

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“While the overall amount of disinformation in this election campaign is not high, we still need to carefully monitor what’s happening so we can react early when we see social media flooded with organised disinformation campaigns.“ (22/22)

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👇👇The New Zealand Social Media Study (NZSMS) has released new results today: Big little lies? Disinformation in the 2023 election campaign - A thread🧵 (1/22) Full report from the third week here: https://t.co/XM5yiu0JxB

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“However, I am worried about the orchestrated attacks against specific groups in Aotearoa and how fringe parties have conquered new issue areas since the pandemic in which to spread disinformation. It would be a mistake to underestimate them." (21/22)