The 9th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review!
This year, we cover the platforms’ year in review reports, election interference in Romania, the battle over text and the “eXodus”, and social media bans for teenagers.
Here are links to resources discussed in the episode, and see you in 2025!
Meta
TikTok
Snap
Pinterest
Twitch
Google
Pornhub
The 8th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review!
This year, we cover the platforms’ year in review reports, AI for political communication, the creator economy, and EU concerns around disinformation and cyberattacks.
Here are links to resources discussed in the episode, and see you in 2024!
Platform Reports:
Meta
Instagram
TikTok
Reddit
Pinterest
Snap
Twitch
Google
YouTube
Pornhub Insights
The 7th Annual Social Media and Politics Podcast Year in Review! A Mega Episode with lots of knowledge bombs – you’ll simply have to listen to hear them all!
Here is a gift of all the platform year in review reports:
Facebook: Protecting People from Online Threats in 2022
Instagram: 2023 Instagram Trend Report
Google: Year in Search
TikTok: 1) Year on TikTok: 2022, truly #ForYou
TikTok: 2) What’s Next 2023 Trend Report
Pinterest: Pinterest Predicts 2022
Reddit: Reddit Recap 2022
Snapchat: Year End 2022
Pornhub: 2022 Year in Review
And the two clips played in the episode:
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Here we go! A deep dive into the year’s latest trends in social media and politics, as well as predictions for the future. We cover various platforms’ year in review recaps, Telegram and Belarus, Facebook’s change to Meta and the Silicon Valley “Founder”, artificial intelligence and the virtual politician, Web 3 and Parler, and the enduring role of newsletters.
Here’s the platform year in review stats and bonus links for the episode:
Article with chart on social media’s impact on democracy
The greatest newsletter of all-time
See you in January for new episodes! <3
Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten joins for the 5th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! We answer listener questions and present six gifts, each representing big events that shaped social media and politics this year.
25:18 – Platform Year in Review Reports
53:08 – Platforms and Activism (Belarus and Thailand)
1:16:26 – Political Ad Effectiveness
1:38:00 – Platform Regulation (Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act)
2:02:31 – Tweets from the Dead
2:17:00 – Platform Fragmentation
Here’s a list of each platform’s year in review reports:
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Reddit, Reddit UK, Reddit Moderators, Pornhub Debate Night
Other supplementary material:
Margarethe Vestager on the Digital Services Act
Study Modelling Dead Social Media Accounts
The 2019 Year in Review! Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten and Dr. Michael Bossetta break down the top trends and developments of this year and look forward to the decade ahead. We talk about the posts that garnered the most engagement on platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Pornhub (no Facebook this year), look into the growing importance of TikTok, and chat about digital taxation, Epstein, and so much more.
Watch the video recording, including visual examples here!
Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Lund University, joins host Michael Bossetta for the 3rd Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! Each presents three “gifts”: nuggets of knowledge that look back to the key trends in social media and politics in 2018 or what to expect in 2019. We discuss politicians as influencers, most shared items on social media, artificial intelligence, clickbait, and much more!
Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Assistant Professor in European Studies and Lund University, returns to the podcast to recap the biggest trends in social media and politics from 2017. We discuss social media’s transnationalization potential, the most shared content this year on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as phishing cyberattacks and chatbots.
Here are the year in review reports from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Assistant Professor of European Studies at Lund University, and host Michael Bossetta discuss some of the hottest topics and controversies surrounding social media and politics from 2016. This year in review, Christmas episode tackles some of the key challenges facing policy makers and contemporary societies, from the explosion of political bots on Twitter to the spreading of fake news on Facebook. The two discuss how Snapchat was used as a digital marketing tool during the 2016 United States Presidential election, as well as what Donald Trump’s Twitter use might mean for future diplomacy. Other topics include the impact of live video streaming on social media for protest movements like Black Lives Matter and whether new social media platforms can compete alongside traditional giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
You can follow Dr. Segesten on Twitter @anamariadutceac.