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Number of items: 56.
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  • Anstead, Nick, Edwards, Lee, Livingstone, Sonia, Stoilova, Mariya (2025). The potential for media literacy to combat misinformation: results of a rapid evidence assessment. International Journal of Communication, 19, 2129 – 2151. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, Magalhães, João C., Stupart, Richard, Tambini, Damian (2025). Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2025.2487085 picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (2022). The politics of communicating COVID in the United Kingdom. Journal of Media Ethics, 37(2), 151 – 153. https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2022.2057997 picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (2018). The idea of austerity in British politics, 2003-13. Political Studies, 66(2), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321717720376
  • Anstead, Nick, Chadwick, Andrew (2018). A primary definer online: the construction and propagation of a think tank’s authority on social media. Media, Culture and Society, 40(2), 246 - 266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443717707341
  • Anstead, Nick (2017). Data-driven campaigning in the 2015 UK general election. International Journal of Press/Politics, 22(3), 294-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161217706163
  • Anstead, Nick (2016). A different beast? Televised election debates in parliamentary democracies. International Journal of Press/Politics, 21(4), 508-526. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161216649953
  • Murthy, Dhiraj, Powell, Alison, Tinati, Ramine, Anstead, Nick, Carr, Leslie, Halford, Susan, Weal, Mark (2016). Automation, algorithms, and politics| bots and political influence: a sociotechnical investigation of social network capital. International Journal of Communication, 10, 4952-4971.
  • Anstead, Nick, O'Loughlin, Ben (2015). Social media analysis and public opinion: the 2010 UK General Election. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20(2), 204-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12102
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, Anstead, Nick (2014). The myth of youth apathy: young Europeans' critical attitudes toward democratic life. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(5), 645-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515992
  • Jensen, M. J., Anstead, N. (2013). Psephological investigations: tweets, votes, and unknown unknowns in the republican nomination process. Policy and Internet, 5(2), 161-182. https://doi.org/10.1002/1944-2866.POI329
  • Ampofo, Lawrence, O’Loughlin, Ben, Anstead, Nick (2011). Trust, confidence, credibility: citizen responses on Twitter to opinion polls during the 2010 UK general election. Information, Communication and Society, 14(6), 850-871. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.587882
  • Anstead, Nick, O'Loughlin, Ben (2011). Twenty20 as media event. Sport in Society, 14(10), 1340-1357. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2011.620376
  • Anstead, Nick, O'Loughlin, B. (2011). The emerging viewertariat and BBC Question Time: television debate and real-time commenting online. International Journal of Press/Politics, 16(4), 440-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161211415519
  • Anstead, Nick (2010). Book review: the Conservative party - from Thatcher to Cameron - by Tim Bale. British Politics, 5(4), 550-552. https://doi.org/10.1057/bp.2010.23
  • Anstead, Nick (2008). Internet and campaign finance in the US and the UK: an institutional comparison. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 5(3), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331680802425214
  • Anstead, Nick, Chadwick, Andrew (2008). The 2008 digital campaign in the United States: the real lessons for British parties. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 16(3/4), 86-98.
    • Book
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, Anstead, Nick (2016). Youth participation in democratic life: stories of hope and disillusion. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540218
  • Anstead, Nick, Straw, Will (Eds.) (2009). The Change we need: what Britain can learn from Obama's victory. Fabian Society (Great Britain).
    • Chapter
  • Anstead, Nick, O'Loughlin, Ben (2023). New frontiers in two-screen politics. In Coleman, Stephen, Sorensen, Lone (Eds.), Handbook of Digital Politics (pp. 155 - 167). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377585.00019
  • Jensen, Michael J., Anstead, Nick (2014). Campaigns and social media communications: a look at digital campaigning in the 2010 U.K. general election. In Grofman, Bernard, Trechsel, Alexander H., Franklin, Mark (Eds.), The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective (pp. 57-81). Springer International (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04352-4_5
  • Anstead, Nick, Chadwick, Andrew (2009). Parties, election campaigning, and the Internet: toward a comparative institutional approach. In Chadwick, Andrew, Howard, Philip (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics (pp. 56-71). Routledge.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Anstead, Nick (2015-05-21) Discourses about austerity among British political elites, 2003-2013 [Poster]. LSE Research Festival 2015, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
    • Dataset
  • Anstead, Nick, Wager, Alan (2016). Use of data in the 2015 British general election campaign. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852167
    • Report
  • Edwards, Lee, Stoilova, Mariya, Anstead, Nick, Fry, Andra, El-Halaby, Gail, Smith, Matthew (2021). Rapid evidence assessment on online misinformation and media literacy: final report for Ofcom. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, O'Loughlin, Ben (2012). Semantic polling: the ethics of online public opinion. (LSE Media Policy Project Series Media Policy Brief 5). London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Online resource
  • Tambini, Damian, Anstead, Nick, Magalhães, João Carlos (2017). Is the Conservative Party deliberately distributing fake news in attack ads on Facebook?
  • Tambini, Damian, Anstead, Nick, Magalhães, João Carlos (2017). Labour’s advertising campaign on Facebook (or “Don’t Mention the War”).
  • Tambini, Damian, Anstead, Nick, Magalhães, João Carlos (2017). How the Liberal Democrats are using Facebook ads to court ‘remainers’.
  • Anstead, Nick (2016). Transparency has to be open to all and designed with a purpose in mind.
  • Coleman, Stephen, Anstead, Nick, Blumler, Jay G, Moss, Giles, Homer, Matt (2016). “What is a referendum?” How we might open up pre-vote TV debates to genuine public scrutiny.
  • Anstead, Nick (2015). The debate about debates: there needs to be a clearer rationale for invitations.
  • Anstead, Nick (2015). New Research: How to save the 2015 televised debates.
  • Anstead, Nick (2014). We need to look at other parliamentary democracies for ideas about how to run televised debates.
  • Anstead, Nick (2014). The debates between candidates for Commission President have a long way to go if they are to generate real engagement with EU citizens.
  • Anstead, Nick (2014). Shouting across each other: post-debate coverage of the Clegg and Farage broadcasts.
  • Anstead, Nick (2013). Book review: the political web: media participation and alternative democracy.
  • Anstead, Nick, Mattoni, Alice (2012). Book Review: media practices and protest politics: how precarious workers mobilise.
  • Anstead, Nick (2012). Voter Advice Applications give the increasingly non-partisan electorate the means to choose the right political match.
  • Anstead, Nick (2011). We should beware the rhetoric of ‘tough talking’ politicians – they almost certainly have an agenda.
  • Anstead, Nick, O’Loughlin, Ben (2011). In the 2010 election, the online space was seen as a battleground to be fought over. In future elections it could be used as a method for better understanding the public.
  • Anstead, Nick (2011). The relationship between politics and the media has changed significantly since our last coalition government: we now need to ask more from politicians and their manifestoes.
  • Anstead, Nick, Straw, Will (2010). Two years on, does Obama’s election win still hold lessons for Ed Miliband’s Labour party, in austerity Britain?
    • Working paper
  • Anstead, Nick, O’Loughlin, Ben (2010). Emerging viewertariat: explaining twitter responses to Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC Question Time. (PSI working paper series no. 1). School of Political, Social and International Studies, University of East Anglia.
  • Straw, Will, Anstead, Nick (2009). Yes we can: how the lessons from America should change British politics. (Freethinking papers). Fabian Society (Great Britain).
  • Anstead, Nick, Chadwick, Andrew (2007). Parties, election campaigning and the Internet: toward a comparative institutional approach. (Politics and international relations working paper no.5). New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London.
    • Blog post
  • Anstead, Nick (29 December 2025) Jimmy Carter's malaise-ridden political fate is a warning to Keir Starmer's government. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (15 December 2025) What imaginary threats can tell us about the strategic estrangement between Europe and America. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (22 July 2025) Why does politics seem so chaotic? British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, Cammaerts, Bart (27 June 2025) Seeing is believing? The dangers of visual misinformation go beyond its credibility. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (25 June 2025) What the inevitable end of the Trump-Musk partnership says about the shifting influences within the White House. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, Cammaerts, Bart (19 June 2025) The challenges of studying visual misinformation during election campaigns. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, Edwards, Lee, Livingstone, Sonia, Stoilova, Mariya (22 May 2025) Is media literacy an effective tool against misinformation? Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (5 June 2024) Debates like this don't change voters' minds. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (23 May 2024) Sunak's election campaign message is contradictory. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick (23 January 2024) The UK needs an organised system for TV election debates. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf