Dr. Justin B. Phillips
Qualifications: BSc (Computer Science), BA (Political Studies), BA (Hons), MA (Politics and International Relations), PhD
University of Auckland
About Justin
Dr Justin Phillips is a political scientist and lecturer in the School of Social Sciences. He specialises in political communication research, particularly on social media utilising big datasets. His recent articles on political communication during US & NZ & AUS election campaigns on traditional and social media have been published in Mass Communication and Society, Politics & Gender, Australian Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Language and Politics. Justin’s ongoing collaborative and individual research has been funded by MBIE, Facebook, and the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Expertise
American Politics; Communication; Data; Data mining; Gender; Machine Learning; New Zealand Politics; Politics; Social Science Research
Research Interests
Featured Publications
Forthcoming Publications
Recent Publications
Carson, A., Gibbons, A., Martin, A., & Phillips, J. (2022). Does third-party fact-checking increase trust in news stories? An Australian case study using the “sports rorts” affair. Digital Journalism. doi:10.1080/21670811.2022.2031240
Carson, A., Gibbons, A., & Phillips, J. B. (2021). Recursion theory and the ‘death tax’. Journal of Language and Politics. doi:10.1075/jlp.21030.car
Phillips, J., & Woodman, V. K. G. (2020). Party system fragmentation, social cleavages, and social media: New Zealand’s 2017 election campaign on Facebook. Australian Journal of Political Science. doi:10.1080/10361146.2020.1774506
Phillips, J. (2020). Leave the attacking to others: Assessing the effectiveness of candidate endorsed and independently sourced televised attack ads in the 2016 Presidential Election. Mass Communication and Society. doi:10.1080/15205436.2020.1788602