Associate Professor of Political Communication and Computational Social Sciences at Royal Holloway Univ of London. Director of London Social Media Observatory.
City of London, London
Joined February 2012
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Andreu Casas retweeted
🇨🇭OSMO in Zürich!
This week, both Friederike Quint and @CasAndreu attended the 1st Digital Publics Conference, hosted by DSI Digital Publics (@DSI_Democracy) at the University of Zürich!
🙌 Thank you to the organisers– looking forward to many more conferences to come!
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Andreu Casas retweeted
📣🚨 New OSMO Preprint Alert!
💻 Read @CasAndreu's paper, entitled "Little evidence of ideological bias in YouTube suspensions of political content during the 2024 US Election", on OSF now!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rw…
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Andreu Casas retweeted
1️⃣Large Language Models as Lab Agents: Transfer Learning for Building Generalizable Automatic In-House Annotators, presenter: @CasAndreu, LSMO
ME06: AI-Driven Approaches to Political Text Classification and Generation
17:10-18:50 Thursday 18th June '26
Room Glenbank (Hilton)
🚨 I'm recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the @ldnsocmedobs, to be based at the @UniofOxford. These are both full-time positions for 2 years. Deadline for applications: June 23. Expected start date: September 2026. 🔁 Please share and help me spread the word! 🚀
This is very timely! We looked into the posting/moderation anomalies last week in the US. Special kudos to Ben Guinaudeau, Sol Messing, and @kengchichang! An outage rather than targeted censorship is what makes the most sense in this case, we’ll stay vigilant.
🌐📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @CasAndreu revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover
➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-t…
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Andreu Casas retweeted
📣🚨 New Briefing Paper Alert!
📃 We are excited to announce the launch of our briefing paper on TikTok, Politics and Elections, co-produced with Westminster Foundation for Democracy
➡️ wfd.org/tiktok-politics-and-…
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Andreu Casas retweeted
“Lowering the voting age helps—but it’s not enough.”
My research @LSEblogs on how policy-makers can engage youth at the local level btw elections, to improve quality of democracy & public policy. @natalieben @lisanandy @MayorofLondon #democracy #cities
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
🚨 One more week to apply to the PhD position at the London Social Media Observatory. If you are interested in empirical, quantitative, and/or computational approaches to studying social media and politics, apply! 😊
🔭🚨 One more week to apply to the fully funded (3.5 years) PhD position at the Observatory!
💻 Deadline: 2nd November
ℹ️ For more information, see the link below!
➡️ royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hq…
Andreu Casas retweeted
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?
Our paper, first view at @polanalysis, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, Lucid):
Andreu Casas retweeted
🎯 Understanding what interventions affect citizen misinformation effects is crucial to build evidence based policy
🤝 We're excited to collaborate with our partners on this, as part of WP3 of the What-If Horizon project, hosted at the Observatory
More ⬇️what-if-horizon.eu/2025/09/3…
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs
to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hq…
The candidate will join a very exciting work environment, work side by side with me and the team in our central London location, and have access to funding for conferences, training, and data collection, on top of the stipend. Help me spread the word!