James Dennis

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About James Dennis

Researcher at the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT), Universidade Lusófona (Portugal), Co-Convenor of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group (UK), and Co-Editor of Political Studies Review (UK). I was previously a Senior Lecturer in Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Portsmouth for over eight years. My research interests lie in political communication and journalism, with a focus on social media, political participation and citizenship, and how young people experience news. My work has been published in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Journalism Studies, and Political Studies. My first monograph, Beyond Slacktivism: Political Participation on Social Media, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. This builds on my PhD research, for which I was awarded the American Political Science Association Information Technology and Politics Section Best Dissertation Award. I am currently working on my second book, examining how social inequality shaped the way young adults in England experienced political communication during the 2024 UK general election. I regularly work with industry partners, carrying out social media research with the BBC World Service and the British Council, and have provided expert commentary for local, national, and international media on over 30 occasions, including domestic outlets, such as BBC Radio and Television, the Big Issue, the Guardian, and the Financial Times, and international media, such as VEJA (Brazil), TBS (South Korea), El Periódico de Catalunya (Spain), Anadolu (Turkey), Forbes, the New York Times, and Newsweek (USA). I maintain a personal research website at jameswilldennis.com