The 2 Best Social Media and Politics Podcast Episodes
1) Social Media Influencers and Political Campaigns, with Madeline V. Twomey
Madeline V. Twomey, President at Rufus and Mane, discusses how social media influencers can benefit political campaigns (and vice versa). Madeline forged digital influencer partnerships for Joe Biden'...Show More
2) Tracking Attention on Social Media for the 2020 Democratic Primaries, with Neal Rothschild
Neal Rothschild, Associate Director of Growth at Axios, guests to discuss the Axios-NewsWhip 2020 Attention Tracker. The attention tracker monitors candidate and issue mentions across Facebook and Twi...Show More
3) When AI Systems Meet Democratic Governance, with Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders
Bruce Schneier and Dr. Nathan Sanders discuss Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship (MIT Press). Bruce and Nathan share how AI becomes viable for governme...Show More
4) Independent Journalism in a Fragmented Media System, with Jacob Ward
Jacob Ward, accomplished journalist and host of The Rip Current, joins the podcast to discuss independent journalism in today’s fragmented media environment. We begin with a conversation about whether...Show More
5) Publicity Politicians, Public Opinion, and the Birth of Media Politics, with Dr. Betto van Waarden
Dr. Betto van Waarden, Assistant Professor of History at Maastricht University, discusses his new book Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire. We begin by charting the technological developme...Show More
6) 2025 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
The 10th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! This year, we cover the platforms’ year in review reports, the EU's regulation on transparency of targeted ads, meta approaches to platforms, ...Show More
2025 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
1:46:29 | Dec 21st, 2025
7) Digitally Organizing People Power: Inside Solidarity Tech, with Ivan Pardo
Ivan Pardo, Founder of Solidarity Tech, shares how tech can solve organizing bottlenecks for political campaigns. We discuss how Solidarity Tech was used for digital organizing in Zohran Mamdani's may...Show More
8) Temporal Validity, Knowledge Decay, and the Meta 2020 Election Research Partnership, with Dr. Kevin Munger
Dr. Kevin Munger, Assistant Professor and Chair of Computational Social Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, discusses the concept of tempor...Show More
9) Crafting Political Storytelling with Qualitative Methods and AI, with Frank A. Spring
Frank A. Spring, founding partner at Altum Insight and managing partner of Undaunted Ventures, shares how qualitative methods can understand the stories voters tell themselves about politics. Frank di...Show More
10) Teaching Political Communication: A Database, Game, and Assignment
In this episode, I share some initiatives to help in improving the teaching and learning of political communication. 1) Political Communication Teaching Database and the upload page. 2) Meta Oversi...Show More