ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.

🔍 A glimpse into research life at CAIS This week, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social is hosting three fantastic guests at CAIS – all experts in Computational Social Science (CSS): @aytalina.bsky.social - University of Vienna @janabernhard.bsky.social - University of Vienna @valeriehase.bsky.social - LMU Munich

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

🔊 Invitation: #LeibnizMediaLunchTalk How do right-wing extremists network and communicate on social media platforms? 📅 22 July 🕛 12-1 noon (CEST) 📍 via Zoom @azadekakavand.bsky.social will present findings from her dissertation. ℹ️ ➡ leibniz-hbi.de/en/hbi-event... @fgz-risc.bsky.social

Ein Blick in die Geschichte zeigt: Nach Ungleichheit wird nur geforscht, wenn das politische System das will.

More than 880,000 workers will get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases. Anyone upset about this should consider the following: If the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨ Great studies ahead 👀 #CSS #polcom

Im modernen Sozialstaat sollte sich niemand dafür schämen, Leistungen anzunehmen, die ihm zustehen. Dass es aber doch so ist, ist mE. auch ein Versagen polit. Akteure—und zwar nicht der radikalen Rechten, sondern des Mainstreams—die keine Gelegenheit auslassen, Bürgergeldempfänger zu diskreditieren.

Last day of #ica25 🔥 Proud to have presented our work in progress on climate action salience on social media ahead of the 2024 EP elections 🇪🇺 for @cidape.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social @nhabelitz.bsky.social @sonjablum.bsky.social @tillhilmar.bsky.social @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver! From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

It still feels surreal, but on June 3, I defended my dissertation! 🎓 SO grateful to my reviewers @solecheler.bsky.social & Silke Adam, committee chair @hajoboo.bsky.social, advisors @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, co-authors Paul Balluff & Nanda Wijermans, & Team! 🙏✨ #PhDone

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗 📍 Vienna 🗓️ Start: September 2025 📌 Apply by June 26 #AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

Our team members @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social have presented their fantastic work at the CSS conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“ in Mannheim. Very well done! 👏

Absolutely fascinating and packed panel on enhancing and (critically) evaluating LLM performance at #COMPTEXT2025 this morning. w/ great work by @zacdgreene.bsky.social, Laura Liebig, Lukas Erhardt, and @christianpipal.bsky.social. Excellently chaired by @amplanitzer.bsky.social! 👏

Loved the roundtable led by @ahrabhikat.bsky.social "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" /w @krangelie.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social Everyone was taking notes! ✍️ #COMPTEXT2025

⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰ Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST! Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community. Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳 👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP

COMPTEXT 2025 – The Countdown is On! 🥳 ✅ The preliminary program is now available! Check out the amazing sessions, workshops, and speakers lined up for this year's event. Don't miss out – register today and secure your spot! 👉 Register here comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c... 👈

How inclusive is comparative communication research? We reviewed articles from 2003–2021 and found: 🔍 Growth in comparative studies, but still limited presence 🗂️ Quant methods dominate 🌍 Western cases & authors prevail Time for more global perspectives! #Comparative ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Diese Liste an "verbotenen Wörtern" verunmöglicht quasi jegliche Form der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften - nur falls sich wer fragt, wo das gerade hinführt. #StandUp4Science

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

America’s wealth gap is now more extreme than it’s been in over a century. Until this structural problem is remedied, the American economy will remain perilously fragile.

Die stv. Chefredakteurin @spiegel.de macht Geschäfte mit fragwürdigem Unternehmer. Der Immobilien-Hai ist ein alter Freund von ihr & feiert auf Spiegel-Party. Obwohl viele Medien kritisch über den Unternehmer berichtet haben,wird im SPIEGEL gefällig über in berichtet. Zufall? taz.de/Mangelnde-Tr...

🥳 Congratulations to our colleagues @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social & @maikovska.bsky.social on their latest publication! Their study, w/ @brupar.bsky.social, Zsófia Cseri & Sofia Iriarte is now out in Information, Communication & Society 📖

We are very excited to disseminate this CfP for a Special Issue titled, "Hidden, Yet Pervasive: Social Inequality in Journalism (Research)." Guest editors are Andreas Riedl, Thomas Hanitzsch, Thomas R. Schmidt & Nik Usher. Pls share! @aejmc.bsky.social #commsky journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

Vermögende und Konzerne haben bereits gewählt (via Großspende). Das offizielle Endergebnis: 👉 CDU/CSU: 8,5 Mio. Euro (35,4 %) 👉 FDP: 5,2 Mio. Euro (21,4 %) 👉 AfD: 4,8 Mio. Euro (20,1 %) 👉 SPD: 2,6 Mio. (10,7 %) 👉 GRÜNE: 1,4 Mio. Euro (5,8 %) (Die Namen aller Großspender im 🧵)

Großspende aus Österreich: Die AfD soll eine Plakataktion im Wert von 2,3 Mio. Euro erhalten haben. 6.395 Plakate sollen deutschlandweit aufgehängt werden. Finanziert wird das von einem Ex-Politiker der rechtspopulistischen FPÖ, berichten WDR und NDR. 🧵 www.tagesschau.de/investigativ....

Publication Alert 📣 Our experimental study shows that politicians’ intolerant (but not uncivil) Tweets cause negative emotions in young participants. 🏛 This, in turn, increased pol distrust & pol participation intentions. @adme-uvienna.bsky.social #OpenAccess 📌 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

First ever publication alert! Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀 In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited. Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Bei den reichsten 10 Milliardär:innen wuchs das Vermögen im Durchschnitt um 100 Millionen US-$ PRO TAG!! Selbst wenn sie über Nacht 99% ihres Vermögens verlieren würden, blieben sie Milliardäre - erklärt @oxfam-de.bsky.social im neuen Bericht. #TaxTheRich! Ein 🧵 www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...

Prioritäten.

🚀 #COMPTEXT2025 submissions are in! We’ve hit a record—256 submissions! 🎉 And yes, most arrived on the last day😉 Thank you all for your contributions! The review process is starting now, and notifications will go out by Feb 15, 2025. Stay tuned & have a fantastic week! 🌟