Happening now @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

New paper on algorithmic gatekeeping & news engagement out at JOC! Lucien Heitz, @masurphil.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com & me ran a 1-week long field experiment to test if we can nudge people to read (and learn from) environmental news. doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

🔍📰 "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof et al. (@mariekevhoof.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net @judith-moeller.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social). Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Auf der @dgpuk2025.bsky.social habe ich Ergebnisse unseres Projekts zur Nutzung generativer KI für politische Informationen gezeigt. Dazu wurde nun auch der Projektbericht vorgestellt: leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/pre... 📚 mit Eva Knor, Ezra Stöwing, @lisamerten.bsky.social & @judith-moeller.bsky.social

New leadership in Germany :-) leibniz-hbi.de/en/hbi-news/...

Who is exposed to what? Our #OpenAccess book (by Peter Neijens, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social forms the basis of a symposium at @ascor.bsky.social today with a dozen state of the art presentations. #CommSky Link to the free OA book ⬇️ library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

@mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al., 2024 find algorithmic personalization alone doesn't lead to different political information when using search engines; results depend far more on the search query than search history 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/jcmc... @damiantrilling.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social

🚨New pub🚨 @feloe.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social @damiantrilling.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com used digital trace data to estimate the long tail of news consumption, beyond major journalism sources. Their new(s) taxonomy helps avoid blindspots in news diversity doi.org/10.1177/1464...

On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱 On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans. A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve. @woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky

Im Namen des gesamten Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Instituts: Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wohl verdient, seriös vorbereitet und dringend nötig. www.hamburg.de/politik-und-...

Exciting news. The Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut received a significant, structural strategic increase in funding to expand our research and transfer activities. www.hamburg.de/politik-und-...

A perk of old Twitter was learning about new papers. Let's use the momentum #commsky has right now! 🚨New algorithm audit by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social Corine Meppelink and me shows that *how* you google matters more than your history: academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

New study with Nils Bienzeisler. Based on experiments in three controversies, we show that an attitudinal polarization of trust in science can be mitigated when scientists adopt the styles of honest brokers versus that of epistocrats when giving public policy advice, i.e.... (1/2).

We started the #DSA40Collaboratory Data Access Tracker to collect rejected, pending, and accepted data access requests under #DSA40 - please list your experience and share with colleagues widely @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social www.soscisurvey.de/DSA40applica...

If you speak German and want to hear me talk about algorithms for 45 minutes, here is a recording of the talk I gave in Karlsruhe (KIT) in November: youtu.be/LfTFGnMpJDk

Das neue M&K-Themenheft beschäftigt sich mit #Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit. Herausgegeben von mir, @janschmidt.bsky.social, Jan Rau, @flxvctr.bsky.social und Philipp Kessling. Als Open Access verfügbar. www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615...

I gave my first academic keynote today at the MISDOOM conference. I was very nervous before I started and then very excited during the presentation. Thanks for being such a fantastic audience and a shoutout to my brilliant PhD students without whom I had nothing to talk about.

New publication! Since communication has changed dramatically in the last decades, one of the most powerful designs in communication research - linkage analysis - has been adapted, developed, and diversified! How? Find out in our new paper with Lukas Otto and Rens Vliegenthart. commsky cssky polcom

New article out today from me @snurb.bsky.social & @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues where we outline an extensible method stack for tracing link sharing practices on Facebook, to study the nature of problematic content throughout the platform https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231196880

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions.

missing algorithmically generated feeds or a feed of trending posts? 👇 excellent thread of replies by @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social delivering just that. helpful for us newbies 🐣:

🚨Job alert 🚨 We have 2️⃣ postdoc positions in our new interdisciplinary research priority area AI & Politics. We define both AI and politics broadly. Think 'impact of AI on politics' or 'politicisation of AI'. Please share.And apply by 🗓️ October 18 polisky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

Disinfo scholars, many of whom tracked both COVID-19 & 2020 election-rigging conspiracies are increasingly put under pressure. Meanwhile disinfo efforts from Russia/China have been increasing & leading platforms have decided to decrease content moderation. This is a very discouraging development.

The answer is: Not so blue if you forget your password.

Cautionary tale. I forgot my password and think support is a bit overwhelmed with the mass migration, so there is no way to get it back for the time being. So, hallo again :-)