🇷🇸 Meet Zoran Gavrilović, WAPOR National Representative for Serbia and Executive Director of BIRODI. He proposes a new role: the “deliberator,” combining public opinion research, evidence checking and dialogue to help citizens form informed views.

🇵🇰 Meet Bilal Ijaz Gilani, WAPOR’s National Representative in Pakistan and Executive Director of Gallup Pakistan. For Bilal, scientific public opinion research is essential to distinguish citizens’ voices from populism, misinformation, and unverified claims.

Meet Burhanuddin Muhtadi, WAPOR National Representative for Indonesia. His research explores voting behaviour, clientelism and why citizens with democratic commitments may tolerate leaders who violate democratic norms. Burhan also hopes to bring more Indonesian research into global conversations.

We continue the WAPOR National Representative Series with Wai Yu See Toh CEO of Central Force Insights and WAPOR’s National Representative for Malaysia, Wai Yu shares his perspectives on public opinion and research in the country

🧵 4/4 The session will be chaired by Olga Kamenchuk, Associate Research Professor at @ipratnu.bsky.social and Associate Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. She is also a Co-Principal Investigator of @cnep-elections.bsky.social.

🧵 3/4 Keynote speaker Ayşe D. Lokmanoğlu of @comatbu.bsky.social and @bostonu.bsky.social will examine how synthetic and authentic political imagery shape credibility, trust, and polarization—and how AI-generated visuals and influencers enter electoral discourse.

🧵 2/4 AI is transforming public opinion both as an object of study and as a force acting upon research itself—from synthetic respondents and bot-driven data contamination to declining trust and growing anxiety over digital manipulation.

🧵 1/4 How is synthetic media reshaping public opinion—and what does its rise mean for the future of public opinion research? What must change in our methods?

🧵7/8 Daniel E. Moreno Morales, senior researcher at Ciudadanía, Comunidad de Estudios Sociales y Acción Pública, Bolivia, whose work examines public opinion, democratic attitudes, political behavior, and comparative survey research.

🧵6/8 Mary Losch (@maryelosch.bsky.social), Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Social and Behavioral Research at the University of Northern Iowa (@northerniowan.bsky.social ), with leadership experience in the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

🧵5/8 Robert Ting-Yiu Chung, Chairman and CEO of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, founder of the University of Hong Kong’s Public Opinion Programme, and former WAPOR President (2023–2024).

🧵4/8 Joining the conversation: Pablo Lemoine, President of the Centro Nacional de Consultoría, Colombia, with extensive experience in public opinion research, electoral polling, and large-scale survey projects.

🧵3/8 Session chairs: Sunghee Lee, Research Professor in Survey Methodology at @umich.edu ’s Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research. Chase H. Harrison, Senior Preceptor and Associate Director of the Program on Survey Research at @harvard.edu.