Matthew Wall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5689048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Wall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wall |
| SIGNATURE | WALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8265-4910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Health Crisis Racism and Medical Scapegoating
Public health crises caused by infectious diseases have long been racially charged in Western countries, frequently functioning as vectors for the stigmatisation and othering of ethnic minorities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge of Sinophobic sentiment and violence against Chinese and East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities brought renewed attention to these dynamics. Although communication scholarship has examined overtly racialised ne…
Faces of Europe
Social media platforms have become central arenas for election campaigning, pushing political actors to adapt to their attention‐driven logics. One prominent strategy is visual personalization, reflecting the platforms’ person‐centered, image‐driven design. This study offers the first large‐scale, cross‐national analysis of how political parties across 23 EU countries strategically employed two dimensions of visual personalization—individualizati…
High hopes? Precision psychedelic addiction medicine
Despite decades of neuroscience research and significant investment in addiction neuroimaging, clinical outcomes for individuals with substance use and behavioural addictions remain poor. Only 1.8% of people with substance use disorders receive effective treatment, highlighting a major disconnect between mechanistic understanding and clinical utility. This paper calls for a reorientation of addiction neuroscience, from a predominantly diagnostic …
Assessing the Viability of the Function Acquisition Speed Test (Fast) Method as a Social Research Tool for Indexing Socially Sensitive Verbal Relations
Comparing drug policies
We conclude that the GDPI project demonstrates that robust comparative evaluation of drug policy at a global scale is possible. However, we also reveal that this project will necessarily be subject to continuous refinement - especially when it comes to standardising expert country evaluations. We outline practical challenges and suggestions for future work in this direction
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications
Voting advice applications (VAAs) have proliferated in recent years. However, most VAAs only match their users with parties, at least in part because creating a VAA matching voters to individual candidates tends to be more labour‐intensive. This could be an important missed opportunity. Candidates may deviate from the party line, but voters are often unaware of the policy platforms of individual candidates and therefore rarely hold them accountab…
Brexit as a critical juncture in the politics of UK devolution
In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UK politics and analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit raised the option of re-balancing the self-rule and shared rule dimensions of regional authority present in UK devolution. We generate hypotheses regarding parties’ territorial strategies and test them against a content analysis of 2015 and 2017 UK general e…
Setting the stage
Whilst the importance of securing effective governance has been widely researched, seating configurations and the design of governance settings have not. Taking a dramaturgical perspective, this paper uses the conceptual language of scenic design to examine the relationship between meeting size, seating configurations, actor positioning and perceptions of public governance quality in UK council meetings. Using both quantitative and qualitative da…
Covid-19 and viral anti-Asian racism
This article examines how internet memes both enacted and reproduced racialization of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were motivated to undertake this work by a surge in hatred towards and violence against people with East Asian heritage following the outbreak of COVID-19. We focus on memes because of their ubiquity in contemporary culture and their capacity to both reflect and shape discourses. We conduct a multimodal critical discourse analysis of tw…
Prosumers in a digital multiverse
This article examines how WeChat, contemporary China’s most popular mobile phone application, is affecting digitally enabled citizen journalism. Based on focus-group research with WeChat users, and building on the insights of previous studies of digitally enabled citizen journalism within and outside of China, we find that WeChat’s integration of multiple communicative networks renders it a multiversal space where citizen journalistic practice ca…
The ties that bind
Despite the market dominance of WeChat in contemporary China, we currently know little about its significance for Chinese politics. WeChat enables strong-tie communicative networks, which prior research indicates is consequential for contentious political engagement. Drawing on evidence from focus groups conducted with Chinese citizens in the United Kingdom, we reveal that although WeChat users are often connected through offline social and profe…
Seeking Evidence for a Welsh Progressive Consensus
This article provides a detailed analysis of the policy positions advocated by the five political parties that won seats in the 2016 elections to the National Assembly for Wales (Welsh Labour; Plaid Cymru; the Welsh Conservatives; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democrats). It takes advantage of a unique dataset of party positions and justifications created for a Voter Advice Application website that ran during the …
The miracle of the markets
Internet Effects in Times of Political Crisis
This paper evaluates the influence of online news consumption on attitudes toward the European Union in a context of protracted economic crisis. Using data from the 2011 Irish National Election Study, we combine location-specific information on broadband availability with respondent geo-location data, which facilitates causal inference about the effects of online news consumption via instrumental variable models. Results show that Irish citizens …
Wired Voters
This article examines whether voters’ use of the internet as a source of political news affects the extent to which they are certain of their vote choice in national-level elections. It employs data pertaining to the 2011 general election in Ireland, linking geographical information on broadband coverage with individual-level public opinion data from the 2011 Irish National Election Study. The resultant dataset allows the adoption of a quasi-expe…
Do voters follow the recommendations of voter advice application websites? A study of the effects of kieskompas.nl on its users’ vote choices in the 2010 Dutch legislative elections
In this article we investigate the electoral effects of a prominent Dutch Voter Advice Application site ( www.kieskompas.nl ). Our research design combines factual data on the recommendations received by users from the site’s log files with users’ responses to pre-advice and post-election survey items. We find that the effects of online recommendations on vote choice depend on the congruence of the recommended party with the users’ pre-existing p…
Is It What You Say, or How You Say It? An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Invitation Wording for OnlinePanel Surveys
In this article, we present results from a study of how varying e-mail “cover letters” in the implementation of an online survey can influence response rates. Historically, there is little evidence that the content of survey cover letters has a strong effect on response rates in off-line survey environments (Harvey, 1987), although empirical research on this question is limited and some research has pointed to small, but significant, effects due …
Why bother campaigning? Campaign effectiveness in the 2009 European Parliament elections
How do candidates spend their money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification
Matrix Revolutions
This article investigates the characteristics of political parties' websites in the Republic of Ireland and seeks to evaluate whether parties' organizational structures influence the manner in which they present themselves online. Ireland has been chosen as a research environment because there is significant variation among political parties in the political system in terms of size, age, ideological coherence and organizational structure. Ireland…
Every Little Helps”
This article explores the impact of cyber-campaigning on candidates' electoral performance in the 2007 Irish general election. As such, we investigate the extent to which previous findings in this area are generalizable, testing them in a new political context. Our methodological approach seeks to deal with some of the critiques that have been leveled against the validity of previous findings regarding the electoral effects of cyber-campaigns. We…
Rewarding the Wealthy’ versus ‘Looking After the Poor
This research examines cross‐party patterns of affective perception of the concepts of ‘left’ and ‘right’ by candidates in the 2007 Irish general election. This is done using original data collected in the 2007 Irish module of the Comparative Candidate Studies Project. The authors code candidates' responses to an open‐ended question which asks them to describe what the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ mean to them in contemporary politics as indicating e…
Keeping Up with the Murphys? Candidate Cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election
This article addresses the factors that influenced candidates' likelihood of cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election. We consider the roles of party affiliation and support as well as intra-party competition, candidates' monetary and political resources and the marginality of the electoral race. We also provide the first empirical test to date of whether candidates' decisions to cyber-campaign are influenced by the behaviour of their…
Picking your party online – An investigation of Ireland's first online voting advice application
Online voting advice applications (VAAs), which help voters to decide in elections, have become commonplace in many European countries. However, their use and reliability is under-researched. This paper analyses the data generated by a VAA deployed in the run-up to the May 2007 general election in Ireland. The website was designed to allow users to compare their own placement on a number of policy dimensions with those of the main parties competi…
Do voters follow the recommendations of voter advice application websites? A study of the effects of kieskompas.nl on its users’ vote choices in the 2010 Dutch legislative elections
In this article we investigate the electoral effects of a prominent Dutch Voter Advice Application site ( www.kieskompas.nl ). Our research design combines factual data on the recommendations received by users from the site’s log files with users’ responses to pre-advice and post-election survey items. We find that the effects of online recommendations on vote choice depend on the congruence of the recommended party with the users’ pre-existing p…
Every Little Helps”
This article explores the impact of cyber-campaigning on candidates' electoral performance in the 2007 Irish general election. As such, we investigate the extent to which previous findings in this area are generalizable, testing them in a new political context. Our methodological approach seeks to deal with some of the critiques that have been leveled against the validity of previous findings regarding the electoral effects of cyber-campaigns. We…
Picking your party online – An investigation of Ireland's first online voting advice application
Online voting advice applications (VAAs), which help voters to decide in elections, have become commonplace in many European countries. However, their use and reliability is under-researched. This paper analyses the data generated by a VAA deployed in the run-up to the May 2007 general election in Ireland. The website was designed to allow users to compare their own placement on a number of policy dimensions with those of the main parties competi…
How do candidates spend their money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification
Keeping Up with the Murphys? Candidate Cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election
This article addresses the factors that influenced candidates' likelihood of cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election. We consider the roles of party affiliation and support as well as intra-party competition, candidates' monetary and political resources and the marginality of the electoral race. We also provide the first empirical test to date of whether candidates' decisions to cyber-campaign are influenced by the behaviour of their…
Why bother campaigning? Campaign effectiveness in the 2009 European Parliament elections
The ties that bind
Despite the market dominance of WeChat in contemporary China, we currently know little about its significance for Chinese politics. WeChat enables strong-tie communicative networks, which prior research indicates is consequential for contentious political engagement. Drawing on evidence from focus groups conducted with Chinese citizens in the United Kingdom, we reveal that although WeChat users are often connected through offline social and profe…
Wired Voters
This article examines whether voters’ use of the internet as a source of political news affects the extent to which they are certain of their vote choice in national-level elections. It employs data pertaining to the 2011 general election in Ireland, linking geographical information on broadband coverage with individual-level public opinion data from the 2011 Irish National Election Study. The resultant dataset allows the adoption of a quasi-expe…
Is It What You Say, or How You Say It? An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Invitation Wording for OnlinePanel Surveys
In this article, we present results from a study of how varying e-mail “cover letters” in the implementation of an online survey can influence response rates. Historically, there is little evidence that the content of survey cover letters has a strong effect on response rates in off-line survey environments (Harvey, 1987), although empirical research on this question is limited and some research has pointed to small, but significant, effects due …
Brexit as a critical juncture in the politics of UK devolution
In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UK politics and analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit raised the option of re-balancing the self-rule and shared rule dimensions of regional authority present in UK devolution. We generate hypotheses regarding parties’ territorial strategies and test them against a content analysis of 2015 and 2017 UK general e…
Internet Effects in Times of Political Crisis
This paper evaluates the influence of online news consumption on attitudes toward the European Union in a context of protracted economic crisis. Using data from the 2011 Irish National Election Study, we combine location-specific information on broadband availability with respondent geo-location data, which facilitates causal inference about the effects of online news consumption via instrumental variable models. Results show that Irish citizens …
The miracle of the markets
Rewarding the Wealthy’ versus ‘Looking After the Poor
This research examines cross‐party patterns of affective perception of the concepts of ‘left’ and ‘right’ by candidates in the 2007 Irish general election. This is done using original data collected in the 2007 Irish module of the Comparative Candidate Studies Project. The authors code candidates' responses to an open‐ended question which asks them to describe what the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ mean to them in contemporary politics as indicating e…
Keeping Up with the Murphys? Candidate Cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election
This article addresses the factors that influenced candidates' likelihood of cyber-campaigning in the 2007 Irish General Election. We consider the roles of party affiliation and support as well as intra-party competition, candidates' monetary and political resources and the marginality of the electoral race. We also provide the first empirical test to date of whether candidates' decisions to cyber-campaign are influenced by the behaviour of their…
Picking your party online – An investigation of Ireland's first online voting advice application
Online voting advice applications (VAAs), which help voters to decide in elections, have become commonplace in many European countries. However, their use and reliability is under-researched. This paper analyses the data generated by a VAA deployed in the run-up to the May 2007 general election in Ireland. The website was designed to allow users to compare their own placement on a number of policy dimensions with those of the main parties competi…
Matrix Revolutions
This article investigates the characteristics of political parties' websites in the Republic of Ireland and seeks to evaluate whether parties' organizational structures influence the manner in which they present themselves online. Ireland has been chosen as a research environment because there is significant variation among political parties in the political system in terms of size, age, ideological coherence and organizational structure. Ireland…
Every Little Helps”
This article explores the impact of cyber-campaigning on candidates' electoral performance in the 2007 Irish general election. As such, we investigate the extent to which previous findings in this area are generalizable, testing them in a new political context. Our methodological approach seeks to deal with some of the critiques that have been leveled against the validity of previous findings regarding the electoral effects of cyber-campaigns. We…
Rewarding the Wealthy’ versus ‘Looking After the Poor
This research examines cross‐party patterns of affective perception of the concepts of ‘left’ and ‘right’ by candidates in the 2007 Irish general election. This is done using original data collected in the 2007 Irish module of the Comparative Candidate Studies Project. The authors code candidates' responses to an open‐ended question which asks them to describe what the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ mean to them in contemporary politics as indicating e…
How do candidates spend their money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification
Is It What You Say, or How You Say It? An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Invitation Wording for OnlinePanel Surveys
In this article, we present results from a study of how varying e-mail “cover letters” in the implementation of an online survey can influence response rates. Historically, there is little evidence that the content of survey cover letters has a strong effect on response rates in off-line survey environments (Harvey, 1987), although empirical research on this question is limited and some research has pointed to small, but significant, effects due …
Why bother campaigning? Campaign effectiveness in the 2009 European Parliament elections
Do voters follow the recommendations of voter advice application websites? A study of the effects of kieskompas.nl on its users’ vote choices in the 2010 Dutch legislative elections
In this article we investigate the electoral effects of a prominent Dutch Voter Advice Application site ( www.kieskompas.nl ). Our research design combines factual data on the recommendations received by users from the site’s log files with users’ responses to pre-advice and post-election survey items. We find that the effects of online recommendations on vote choice depend on the congruence of the recommended party with the users’ pre-existing p…
Wired Voters
This article examines whether voters’ use of the internet as a source of political news affects the extent to which they are certain of their vote choice in national-level elections. It employs data pertaining to the 2011 general election in Ireland, linking geographical information on broadband coverage with individual-level public opinion data from the 2011 Irish National Election Study. The resultant dataset allows the adoption of a quasi-expe…
Internet Effects in Times of Political Crisis
This paper evaluates the influence of online news consumption on attitudes toward the European Union in a context of protracted economic crisis. Using data from the 2011 Irish National Election Study, we combine location-specific information on broadband availability with respondent geo-location data, which facilitates causal inference about the effects of online news consumption via instrumental variable models. Results show that Irish citizens …
The miracle of the markets
Seeking Evidence for a Welsh Progressive Consensus
This article provides a detailed analysis of the policy positions advocated by the five political parties that won seats in the 2016 elections to the National Assembly for Wales (Welsh Labour; Plaid Cymru; the Welsh Conservatives; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democrats). It takes advantage of a unique dataset of party positions and justifications created for a Voter Advice Application website that ran during the …
Prosumers in a digital multiverse
This article examines how WeChat, contemporary China’s most popular mobile phone application, is affecting digitally enabled citizen journalism. Based on focus-group research with WeChat users, and building on the insights of previous studies of digitally enabled citizen journalism within and outside of China, we find that WeChat’s integration of multiple communicative networks renders it a multiversal space where citizen journalistic practice ca…
The ties that bind
Despite the market dominance of WeChat in contemporary China, we currently know little about its significance for Chinese politics. WeChat enables strong-tie communicative networks, which prior research indicates is consequential for contentious political engagement. Drawing on evidence from focus groups conducted with Chinese citizens in the United Kingdom, we reveal that although WeChat users are often connected through offline social and profe…
Covid-19 and viral anti-Asian racism
This article examines how internet memes both enacted and reproduced racialization of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were motivated to undertake this work by a surge in hatred towards and violence against people with East Asian heritage following the outbreak of COVID-19. We focus on memes because of their ubiquity in contemporary culture and their capacity to both reflect and shape discourses. We conduct a multimodal critical discourse analysis of tw…
Setting the stage
Whilst the importance of securing effective governance has been widely researched, seating configurations and the design of governance settings have not. Taking a dramaturgical perspective, this paper uses the conceptual language of scenic design to examine the relationship between meeting size, seating configurations, actor positioning and perceptions of public governance quality in UK council meetings. Using both quantitative and qualitative da…
Brexit as a critical juncture in the politics of UK devolution
In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UK politics and analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit raised the option of re-balancing the self-rule and shared rule dimensions of regional authority present in UK devolution. We generate hypotheses regarding parties’ territorial strategies and test them against a content analysis of 2015 and 2017 UK general e…
Assessing the Viability of the Function Acquisition Speed Test (Fast) Method as a Social Research Tool for Indexing Socially Sensitive Verbal Relations
Comparing drug policies
We conclude that the GDPI project demonstrates that robust comparative evaluation of drug policy at a global scale is possible. However, we also reveal that this project will necessarily be subject to continuous refinement - especially when it comes to standardising expert country evaluations. We outline practical challenges and suggestions for future work in this direction
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications
Voting advice applications (VAAs) have proliferated in recent years. However, most VAAs only match their users with parties, at least in part because creating a VAA matching voters to individual candidates tends to be more labour‐intensive. This could be an important missed opportunity. Candidates may deviate from the party line, but voters are often unaware of the policy platforms of individual candidates and therefore rarely hold them accountab…
Health Crisis Racism and Medical Scapegoating
Public health crises caused by infectious diseases have long been racially charged in Western countries, frequently functioning as vectors for the stigmatisation and othering of ethnic minorities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge of Sinophobic sentiment and violence against Chinese and East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities brought renewed attention to these dynamics. Although communication scholarship has examined overtly racialised ne…
Faces of Europe
Social media platforms have become central arenas for election campaigning, pushing political actors to adapt to their attention‐driven logics. One prominent strategy is visual personalization, reflecting the platforms’ person‐centered, image‐driven design. This study offers the first large‐scale, cross‐national analysis of how political parties across 23 EU countries strategically employed two dimensions of visual personalization—individualizati…
High hopes? Precision psychedelic addiction medicine
Despite decades of neuroscience research and significant investment in addiction neuroimaging, clinical outcomes for individuals with substance use and behavioural addictions remain poor. Only 1.8% of people with substance use disorders receive effective treatment, highlighting a major disconnect between mechanistic understanding and clinical utility. This paper calls for a reorientation of addiction neuroscience, from a predominantly diagnostic …
Political science (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Irish (7 works)