M Reveilhac
Biographic Data
| ID | 6359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Reveilhac |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reveilhac |
| SIGNATURE | REVEILHAC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9769-6830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Longitudinal Study of Media Repertoires and Political Engagement in Switzerland
This study uses Swiss panel data between 2011 and 2020 to explore changes in media repertoires and the reciprocal effects of individuals with a minimal media consumption and their level of political engagement (including interest in politics, political participation, and frequency of political discussions). Media repertoires are based on the combination of common sources (including traditional news, free news, magazines, internet news, etc.), thu…
Unpacking social scoring systems and their impact on fairness and digital dignity
Governments worldwide are increasingly deploying algorithmic systems that influence citizens’ rights, benefits, and opportunities. These systems often resemble social scoring systems (SSSs) in functionality and societal impact. While extensively studied in China and the United States, SSS remain underexplored in other regions, and no systematization to compare SSS projects within and across regions exists. Moreover, the gap extends to the lack of…
How French alternative media channels on YouTube portray the government and mainstream media on YouTube
In an increasingly fragmented media landscape, YouTube has become a pivotal platform for alternative media channels that challenge mainstream media and governmental narratives. This study investigates how French alternative media channels on YouTube shape their identities and discourse regarding the government. The study analyzes content from these channels to understand their impact on the media ecosystem. Using word embedding and correspondence…
Mapping ignorance
The study of ignorance has attracted a lot of attention from academics in recent decades, especially in the fields of political science and political communication science, to address social issues and improve decision-making processes. This study provides a summary of the growing body of research that explores the meanings, consequences, and origins of ignorance in relation to larger political and communication contexts. It identifies major them…
Government Communication on Social Media
Social media have become essential channels for government communication with the public, creating opportunities for engagement with citizens, greater complexities in messaging and interactions, and distinct challenges in addressing government-citizen relations. This thematic issue brings together several articles that explore how governments, officials, and citizens interact on social media platforms. Collectively, the contributions illuminate h…
Mapping Government Use of Social Media Influencers for Policy Promotion
This study explores how national governments leverage social media through influencer partnerships and digital campaigns to promote cultural values and policy goals. Covering a broad spectrum of governmental bodies (e.g., ministries and officials), the research highlights the variety of influencer–government partnerships and collaborations. The study comes at a time when diverse regulatory frameworks are emerging globally to govern influencers’ a…
Media, Digital Engagement, and the Dynamics of Attitude Change Toward Foreigners in Switzerland
This study investigates the influence of media coverage on public attitudes and engagement related to migration and asylum issues, using both survey data and Google search behavior as complementary indicators. Utilizing autoregressive panel models with individual and year fixed effects (1999–2021), the study examines the impact of specific media frames, including economic, welfare, and security, on shifts in Swiss public opinion. Results show no …
News media and citizens’ trust toward authorities in times of crisis
Trust in public authorities can be crucial for a country to navigate through times of crisis. Such crises put news media into the spotlight as crucial information brokers between authorities and the public. It is argued that media coverage should affect trust in public institutions and that such effects are likely to be conditioned by individuals’ crisis risk perceptions. This article investigates the dynamics of public trust in the government du…
Evaluating a transparent and interpretable approach to stance detection using linguistic markers in social media data
Our study focuses on replicability, which entails researchers’ ability to achieve similar results to a prior study using identical methods but a different yet comparable dataset. We address the challenge of stance detection (determining whether a document is “favorable,” “against,” or “neutral” toward a target), building on prior research underscoring the value of linguistic markers as complementary features for sentiment detection that enable mo…
Analyzing the share of media followers of government Twitter accounts across Western European countries
The study investigates which democracy dimensions impact the share of (foreign) media followers of European governments’ Twitter social media accounts. To achieve this target, a network analysis and a data-linking strategy are relied upon to conduct three multilevel regression models. The first model reveals that while overall government media attention is positively associated with gross domestic product and internet penetration, it is negativel…
ChatGPT as a voting application in direct democracy
The study examines the potential role of ChatGPT as a tool for popular voting. It assesses ChatGPT's positions on four voting objects (three initiatives and one referendum) by simulating various Swiss voter profiles (neutral, centrist, left, right, progressist, and conservative) and comparing these to its default stance. Additionally, ChatGPT's responses to arguments for and against each object were analyzed for consistency with its voting patter…
YouTube as an information source on politics and current affairs
This study examines YouTube channels reporting on French news and current affairs. After identifying the relevant channels, the study identifies the top 10 viewed videos of each channel during the year 2023. Manual annotation has been conducted for content, presentation format, engagement style, and position regarding the government and mainstream media. Each channel has also been coded for its business and communication strategies. Correspondenc…
Augmenting surveys with social media discourse on the workings of democracy from a cross-national perspective
This paper introduces an unsupervised framework that illustrates how insights gathered from opinion surveys regarding the functionality of democracy can be connected to social media messages of politicians on an international scale. By concentrating on the influence of social media messages from elected officials, the study adopts a “top-down” theoretical approach that links citizens’ attitudes towards democracy with the viewpoints about democrac…
Comparing and mapping difference indices of debate quality on Twitter
Albeit the measurement of debate quality is not a new endeavour, this paper raises two research questions for which we still have limited knowledge: What are important and reliable indicators of debate quality on social media? How does debate quality relate to individual factors on social media? First, we empirically analysed how two well-established discourse’ quality indices (the DQI and CC index) correlate to each other using a random sample o…
The Influences of Political Strategies and Communication Styles on Political Candidates’ Online and Offline Visibility
The main aim of this study is to investigate how political strategies (issue ownership, issue trespassing, and issue extremeness) and communication styles (responsiveness and mobilization) affect political candidates’ ability to trigger other users’ engagement (in terms of likes and retweets) as well as traditional media attention (in terms of news articles and of the proportion of media-related followers). Theoretically, the study links these st…
The Impact of Social Media Use for Elected Parliamentarians
Notwithstanding growing research on how using social media for political campaigning impacts politicians' chances of winning votes, we still have limited knowledge about whether and how the use of social media and online styles of communication affect political success over successive legislatures. We address this deficit by analyzing a panel dataset about the Twitter activity of politicians who have had a parliamentary mandate at least once. We …
The deployment of social media by political authorities and health experts to enhance public information during the Covid-19 pandemic
Social media have increasingly been used by political bodies and experts to disseminate health information to the public. However, we still know little about how the communication of these actors on social media is received by other users and how it reflects trends in public trust. We examined social media dynamics in the communication of information by major actors (n = 188) involved in COVID-19 online discussions in Switzerland. These actors ar…
Dictionary-based and machine learning classification approaches
Automated text analysis methods have made it possible to classify large corpora of text by measures such as frames and tonality, with a growing popularity in social, political and psychological science. These methods often demand a training dataset of sufficient size to generate accurate models that can be applied to unseen texts. In practice, however, there are no clear recommendations about how big the training samples should be. This issue bec…
Political Polarisation on Gender Equality
Social media platforms constitute an indispensable tool for social movements to mobilise public opinion to promote social change. To date, however, little is known about the extent to which activist and political claims formulated on social media echo what the general public thinks about gender equality. This is especially important given that social movements often use social media to develop their actions and to build long-standing support arou…
Populism in an Identity Framework
Drawing upon the social psychology concept of identity entrepreneurs (Haslam et al., 2010), we develop a feedback model between politicians and the public that strongly emphasizes the circumstances in which public opinion may facilitate populist discursive elements and politics. We thus consider the success of populism as neither inherently driven by political leaders nor primarily driven by increasing populist attitudes in the public and acknowl…
Digital Shift in Swiss Media Consumption Practices
Relying on the 2013 and 2016 rounds of individual questionnaires from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), we use multiple correspondence analysis to map Swiss media consumption practices while making use of the longitudinal character of panel data in an innovative way. Our results show that individual practices can be distinguished along two main dimensions: on the one hand, the reliance on new media, which is explained mainly by the age cohort, and…
Collectif du Cira, Refuser de parvenir. Idées et pratiques
Jean Pierre Tabin, René Knüsel & Claire Ansermet, Lutter contre les pauvres
Dictionary-based and machine learning classification approaches
Automated text analysis methods have made it possible to classify large corpora of text by measures such as frames and tonality, with a growing popularity in social, political and psychological science. These methods often demand a training dataset of sufficient size to generate accurate models that can be applied to unseen texts. In practice, however, there are no clear recommendations about how big the training samples should be. This issue bec…
The Influences of Political Strategies and Communication Styles on Political Candidates’ Online and Offline Visibility
The main aim of this study is to investigate how political strategies (issue ownership, issue trespassing, and issue extremeness) and communication styles (responsiveness and mobilization) affect political candidates’ ability to trigger other users’ engagement (in terms of likes and retweets) as well as traditional media attention (in terms of news articles and of the proportion of media-related followers). Theoretically, the study links these st…
The Impact of Social Media Use for Elected Parliamentarians
Notwithstanding growing research on how using social media for political campaigning impacts politicians' chances of winning votes, we still have limited knowledge about whether and how the use of social media and online styles of communication affect political success over successive legislatures. We address this deficit by analyzing a panel dataset about the Twitter activity of politicians who have had a parliamentary mandate at least once. We …
Populism in an Identity Framework
Drawing upon the social psychology concept of identity entrepreneurs (Haslam et al., 2010), we develop a feedback model between politicians and the public that strongly emphasizes the circumstances in which public opinion may facilitate populist discursive elements and politics. We thus consider the success of populism as neither inherently driven by political leaders nor primarily driven by increasing populist attitudes in the public and acknowl…
Jean Pierre Tabin, René Knüsel & Claire Ansermet, Lutter contre les pauvres
Collectif du Cira, Refuser de parvenir. Idées et pratiques
Digital Shift in Swiss Media Consumption Practices
Relying on the 2013 and 2016 rounds of individual questionnaires from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), we use multiple correspondence analysis to map Swiss media consumption practices while making use of the longitudinal character of panel data in an innovative way. Our results show that individual practices can be distinguished along two main dimensions: on the one hand, the reliance on new media, which is explained mainly by the age cohort, and…
Populism in an Identity Framework
Drawing upon the social psychology concept of identity entrepreneurs (Haslam et al., 2010), we develop a feedback model between politicians and the public that strongly emphasizes the circumstances in which public opinion may facilitate populist discursive elements and politics. We thus consider the success of populism as neither inherently driven by political leaders nor primarily driven by increasing populist attitudes in the public and acknowl…
The deployment of social media by political authorities and health experts to enhance public information during the Covid-19 pandemic
Social media have increasingly been used by political bodies and experts to disseminate health information to the public. However, we still know little about how the communication of these actors on social media is received by other users and how it reflects trends in public trust. We examined social media dynamics in the communication of information by major actors (n = 188) involved in COVID-19 online discussions in Switzerland. These actors ar…
Dictionary-based and machine learning classification approaches
Automated text analysis methods have made it possible to classify large corpora of text by measures such as frames and tonality, with a growing popularity in social, political and psychological science. These methods often demand a training dataset of sufficient size to generate accurate models that can be applied to unseen texts. In practice, however, there are no clear recommendations about how big the training samples should be. This issue bec…
Political Polarisation on Gender Equality
Social media platforms constitute an indispensable tool for social movements to mobilise public opinion to promote social change. To date, however, little is known about the extent to which activist and political claims formulated on social media echo what the general public thinks about gender equality. This is especially important given that social movements often use social media to develop their actions and to build long-standing support arou…
Comparing and mapping difference indices of debate quality on Twitter
Albeit the measurement of debate quality is not a new endeavour, this paper raises two research questions for which we still have limited knowledge: What are important and reliable indicators of debate quality on social media? How does debate quality relate to individual factors on social media? First, we empirically analysed how two well-established discourse’ quality indices (the DQI and CC index) correlate to each other using a random sample o…
The Influences of Political Strategies and Communication Styles on Political Candidates’ Online and Offline Visibility
The main aim of this study is to investigate how political strategies (issue ownership, issue trespassing, and issue extremeness) and communication styles (responsiveness and mobilization) affect political candidates’ ability to trigger other users’ engagement (in terms of likes and retweets) as well as traditional media attention (in terms of news articles and of the proportion of media-related followers). Theoretically, the study links these st…
The Impact of Social Media Use for Elected Parliamentarians
Notwithstanding growing research on how using social media for political campaigning impacts politicians' chances of winning votes, we still have limited knowledge about whether and how the use of social media and online styles of communication affect political success over successive legislatures. We address this deficit by analyzing a panel dataset about the Twitter activity of politicians who have had a parliamentary mandate at least once. We …
YouTube as an information source on politics and current affairs
This study examines YouTube channels reporting on French news and current affairs. After identifying the relevant channels, the study identifies the top 10 viewed videos of each channel during the year 2023. Manual annotation has been conducted for content, presentation format, engagement style, and position regarding the government and mainstream media. Each channel has also been coded for its business and communication strategies. Correspondenc…
Augmenting surveys with social media discourse on the workings of democracy from a cross-national perspective
This paper introduces an unsupervised framework that illustrates how insights gathered from opinion surveys regarding the functionality of democracy can be connected to social media messages of politicians on an international scale. By concentrating on the influence of social media messages from elected officials, the study adopts a “top-down” theoretical approach that links citizens’ attitudes towards democracy with the viewpoints about democrac…
How French alternative media channels on YouTube portray the government and mainstream media on YouTube
In an increasingly fragmented media landscape, YouTube has become a pivotal platform for alternative media channels that challenge mainstream media and governmental narratives. This study investigates how French alternative media channels on YouTube shape their identities and discourse regarding the government. The study analyzes content from these channels to understand their impact on the media ecosystem. Using word embedding and correspondence…
Mapping ignorance
The study of ignorance has attracted a lot of attention from academics in recent decades, especially in the fields of political science and political communication science, to address social issues and improve decision-making processes. This study provides a summary of the growing body of research that explores the meanings, consequences, and origins of ignorance in relation to larger political and communication contexts. It identifies major them…
Government Communication on Social Media
Social media have become essential channels for government communication with the public, creating opportunities for engagement with citizens, greater complexities in messaging and interactions, and distinct challenges in addressing government-citizen relations. This thematic issue brings together several articles that explore how governments, officials, and citizens interact on social media platforms. Collectively, the contributions illuminate h…
Mapping Government Use of Social Media Influencers for Policy Promotion
This study explores how national governments leverage social media through influencer partnerships and digital campaigns to promote cultural values and policy goals. Covering a broad spectrum of governmental bodies (e.g., ministries and officials), the research highlights the variety of influencer–government partnerships and collaborations. The study comes at a time when diverse regulatory frameworks are emerging globally to govern influencers’ a…
Media, Digital Engagement, and the Dynamics of Attitude Change Toward Foreigners in Switzerland
This study investigates the influence of media coverage on public attitudes and engagement related to migration and asylum issues, using both survey data and Google search behavior as complementary indicators. Utilizing autoregressive panel models with individual and year fixed effects (1999–2021), the study examines the impact of specific media frames, including economic, welfare, and security, on shifts in Swiss public opinion. Results show no …
News media and citizens’ trust toward authorities in times of crisis
Trust in public authorities can be crucial for a country to navigate through times of crisis. Such crises put news media into the spotlight as crucial information brokers between authorities and the public. It is argued that media coverage should affect trust in public institutions and that such effects are likely to be conditioned by individuals’ crisis risk perceptions. This article investigates the dynamics of public trust in the government du…
Evaluating a transparent and interpretable approach to stance detection using linguistic markers in social media data
Our study focuses on replicability, which entails researchers’ ability to achieve similar results to a prior study using identical methods but a different yet comparable dataset. We address the challenge of stance detection (determining whether a document is “favorable,” “against,” or “neutral” toward a target), building on prior research underscoring the value of linguistic markers as complementary features for sentiment detection that enable mo…
Analyzing the share of media followers of government Twitter accounts across Western European countries
The study investigates which democracy dimensions impact the share of (foreign) media followers of European governments’ Twitter social media accounts. To achieve this target, a network analysis and a data-linking strategy are relied upon to conduct three multilevel regression models. The first model reveals that while overall government media attention is positively associated with gross domestic product and internet penetration, it is negativel…
ChatGPT as a voting application in direct democracy
The study examines the potential role of ChatGPT as a tool for popular voting. It assesses ChatGPT's positions on four voting objects (three initiatives and one referendum) by simulating various Swiss voter profiles (neutral, centrist, left, right, progressist, and conservative) and comparing these to its default stance. Additionally, ChatGPT's responses to arguments for and against each object were analyzed for consistency with its voting patter…
A Longitudinal Study of Media Repertoires and Political Engagement in Switzerland
This study uses Swiss panel data between 2011 and 2020 to explore changes in media repertoires and the reciprocal effects of individuals with a minimal media consumption and their level of political engagement (including interest in politics, political participation, and frequency of political discussions). Media repertoires are based on the combination of common sources (including traditional news, free news, magazines, internet news, etc.), thu…
Unpacking social scoring systems and their impact on fairness and digital dignity
Governments worldwide are increasingly deploying algorithmic systems that influence citizens’ rights, benefits, and opportunities. These systems often resemble social scoring systems (SSSs) in functionality and societal impact. While extensively studied in China and the United States, SSS remain underexplored in other regions, and no systematization to compare SSS projects within and across regions exists. Moreover, the gap extends to the lack of…
Political science (15 works) · Social Media and Politics (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Social media (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political communication (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)