New OA paper: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" by @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, & @timoroettger.bsky.social, and me (originating from our @meta-rep.bsky.social group). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨Time for meta reflection✨ In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky. 🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci 👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social

For our new project "Fostering Proactive Replicability in Computational Communication Science via Frontloading Effort and Automating Protocols" within @meta-rep.bsky.social , @marhai.bsky.social and I are looking for a Ph.D. student: rrr.is/repccs2job Deadline: Dec 6, 2024 Start: March 1, 2025

New paper with @marhai.bsky.social out: „Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies" 👉 Article: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view... 👉 Supplement with Preregistered Report, Data, Code, etc: osf.io/vfazc

@marhai.bsky.social and @jajuenger.bsky.social & Chantal Gärtner have written books about Computational Communication Science #ccs #css. @mscharkow.bsky.social and I think they are good; go read them or give them to your German students. Also, please don't publish (exclusively) with springer.com.

Er war einer der führenden Köpfe der Verhaltensforschung: Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben. In seinem Werk erklärte er, warum Menschen sich entgegen den Annahmen oft nicht rational verhalten.

In our new episode, we discuss the impact of digital media on well-being with @dougaparry.bsky.social. We look in particular at measuring media use and the new opportunities offered by digital data and CCS methods, but also the challenges involved. Listen here: t1p.de/ogbna

Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication @LMU_Muenchen Application deadline: May 2, 2024 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

We are super happy to have you on board, Jana! First episodes on #aBitOfCCS with Jana are also already online.

Join us in Vienna! 3-year PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods. Exciting collaboration awaits in the H2020project CIDAPE! Apply until: January 9, 2024 Job starts: March 1, 2024 Questions welcome via email! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/75-PhD-p...

Excited to present the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities"! 13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como (see pic!) With a stellar team of organizers and lecturers! More info: css.lakecomoschool.org

Surely, you've seen this already but www.threads.net is now also available in the EU.

Note that this awesome special issue is not only entirely open access but that it also CONTINUES in SCM's upcoming issue with two bonus "tracks" (papers!)

Fake news and the hybrid media system as well as malicious language online -- interesting phenomena we package under the umbrella term of (in quotation marks) "'contemporary' news". @jolukito.bsky.social guides us through these phenomena in our recent podcast episode! 📻🎧

And what a great contribution this is -- thanks Annemarie!

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

Unser erster Bericht zur #COP28🌏 ist online! Darin geben @joerghassler.bsky.social @marhai.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social und ich Einblicke in Inhalte, die während der ersten Tage der Klimakonferenz auf Instagram, Facebook, TikTok und YouTube gepostet wurden: klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/co...

ChatGPT & Co.: Uni in Prag schafft Bachelorarbeiten ab https://www.heise.de/news/ChatGPT-Co-Uni-schafft-Bachelorarbeiten-ab-9546851.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.bluesky.bluesky.bs_beitraege.bs_beitraege

We had the pleasure of having Betsi Grabe from IU Bloomington with us @ifkw.bsky.social to work on the bidt-funded research project KLIMA-MEMES. Thank you Betsi for your visit and a great talk on "The Implications of Visual Primacy for Climate Messages". 👉 klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/ne...

It's (soon) all about data access! 133 responses to the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data access were submitted. Paddy Leerssen summarises the submissions; what are researchers’ data access needs? DSA commsky csssky polcomm digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

The events around Sam Altman's removel from OpenAI are unfolding and escalating quicker than an AI could create a similar storybook. Luckly, Wikipedia keeps track: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal...

Aller Protest der Zivilgesellschaft hat nicht geholfen. Die Schließung der Goethe-Institute in Italien, Frankreich - aber auch in Washington ist beschlossene Sache. Um 24 Millionen Euro einzusparen. Welch Borniertheit, welch bodenlose Dummheit.

Über 200 Absolvierende aus vier Studiengängen wurden heute feierlich verabschiedet - mit einem lachenden und einem weinenden Auge. Wir hoffen, Sie bleiben uns erhalten und wünschen Ihnen nur das Beste für Ihre Zukunft! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Friday afternoon shocker: Sam Altman is out as CEO of OpenAI for deceiving the company board. Is there a scandal about the drop that they’re trying to get ahead of?

Our podcast @ccspod.bsky.social is also here, now. And we have a new episode, together with Christian Baden, in which we discuss how nasty some places of online debate could become, why this is important for our research, and how we can tackle that, both theoretically and methodologically.

Interesting - partially randomising grant awarding increases diversity of awardees ‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of awardees and institutions given funding www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...

Welcome to the other side, LMU Department of Media and Communication! @ifkw.bsky.social

It was a pleasure having you!

Science Magazine coverage: "Preregistering, transparency, and large samples boost psychology studies’ replication rate to nearly 90%" www.science.org/content/arti...

Vor 25 Jahren starb Niklas Luhmann, der wohl kreativste deutsche Soziologe der Nachkriegszeit. Hier erinnern Dirk Baecker, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Alexander Kluge, Maren Lehmann und Rudolf Stichweh an ihn und ergründen die Aktualität seines Denkens.

🚨 #JobAlert! Are you an expert in political communication and journalism? Do you have a passion for research and education? Join ASCoR and become our new full professor in this field. 📆 The deadline is December 5. Visit the website for more information ➡️ vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Full...

Yet another paper casts doubt upon the YouTube algorithmic radicalization theory. It still can't rule out emergent effects, IMHO, but it adds to an increasingly strong pile of evidence that algorithms are not the key driver of polarization (at least in the U.S.). dcknox.github.io/files/LiuEtA...

Tiktok gibt erstmals lokale Nutzerzahlen bekannt. Snapchat will mit Exklusivität für Marken glänzen.

"Alle Menschen sind spezifisch diskriminiert – nur wenn Gewalt gegen Juden passiert, dann reicht schnöder, allgemeiner Weltschmerz als Reaktion." Lesenswerte Analyse von Anna Mayr bei www.zeit.de/2023/44/poli...

Der Sohn einer Radiolegende hat das erste deutsche #ki Radio programmiert. Es kommt völlig ohne Menschen aus und übertrifft die amerikanische Konkurrenz. Ich habe mir von ihm erklären lassen, wie es funktioniert - neu im Blog. www.janeggers.tech/eeblog/2023/...

New #rstats package incoming! 🚀 With the fantastic @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social, I introduce: {atr} A package to get and post things here on BlueSky! jbgruber.github.io/atr/index.html

Dabei sollte man als "Protagonist*in" aber auch nicht vergessen, dass Europa für X noch nie der große Markt war.

Commission recommends Member States to fast-track DSA governance to enhance response to illegal online content ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Periodic reminder for folks working on German politics and using #rstats : The #Bundestag deployed an API about a year ago. {tidybundestag} is your new friend to query all sorts of parliamentary documents and metadata. github.com/benjaminguin...

This is a friendly pointer to @ccspod.bsky.social so that, when you're moving from X to over here, you can easily find your favorite scientific podcast :) Also, don't forget to follow @emesedomahidi.bsky.social, the greated co-host on earth!

Do social media algorithms affect segregation in the U.S.? It's complicated: + Yes, partly, said a range of articles in Science and Nature earlier this year. - Not really, says @solmg.bsky.social now in an open letter in Science. ~ Oh, but yes, say some of the original authors in a response.

Based on the findings in the project by @marhai.bsky.social and me on replicability in computational communication science, I would very much assume that comm is not faring any better than sociology #commsky #openscience #reproducibility #replicability

Election results in for ICA 🗳️ Congratulations to our new President Elect Select, Thomas Hanitzsch. Huge 🙏🏽 to everyone who ran and volunteered time and energy to the Association. Commsky All results ⬇️ www.icahdq.org/page/Electio...

Thanks @marhai.bsky.social - super helpful summary. I use the opportunity to re-up our policy paper that also shows what researchers need to hold platforms accountable: doi.org/10.34669/wi.... 🤞DSA will indeed be the sharp sword that @thierrybreton.bsky.social makes it look like right now.

With EU commissioner @thierrybreton.bsky.social 's open letters to X/TikTok reminding them of their duties, I thought it might be helpful to some to re-iterate recent legal changes to platforms and, yes, scholars. 1/🧵

Has the #commsci / #ccs / #css / #ica / #dgpuk community now decided on bluesky? Transaction costs from X are so high(*) I don't want to invest them yet another time. (*) What happened to this portability aspect in the GDPR. Wasn't that supposed to lower said transaction costs for individuals?

Die @republica.bsky.social hat zwei Kurator:innen-Stellen im Programmteam ausgeschrieben. Im Ideallfall für die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte Medien/Öffentlichkeit sowie Netzpolitik/Digitales. re-publica.com/de/news/jobs...