Featuring @ayayadlin.bsky.social @idoramati.bsky.social Ilan Manor and Lidor Ivan

"How do we imagine Big Data—and why does our imagination matter?" The Special Section on Big Data Discourses, guest edited by Christian Pentzold and Charlotte Knorr, probes this question through a collection of 11 interdisciplinary papers, newly published in the IJoC. Read at ijoc.org

The next octopus conference is coming to town 🐙 “Influence, Manipulation, Seduction” 3d edition at Tampere Uni, co-organised with @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @domini.bsky.social - this time it is face to face! Send us your persuasive abstracts by July 1 🐦🐦 events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

Zohar Kampf and I contributed a chapter on lapdog interviewers, and how their on-air flattery towards politcal leaders creates an undemocratic model of leadership

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Language, Speech, and AI: FACTOR Summer School 2025 📅 28-30 July 2025 📍 Lancaster University, UK 💼 Theme: Fraud & the (Mis)use of AI Countless frauds and scams are being perpetrated all around us right now, and AI has made it easier than ever. And we'd like to fight back...

Come work with us! Our project on "Visual Gendered Disinformation" is hiring a PhD student in a fully-funded position, co-supervised by @gehrke.bsky.social, @seldridge.com and myself, and embedded into the wonderful CMJS research community in Groningen. >>>> DM or email me for more information!

❗PhD job opportunity! 🔎 Media literacy as resilience for Ukrainian refugees: 4-year, fully-funded project at the University of Groningen (NL). 🤓 Potential candidates speak Ukrainian, have experience with qualitative/ethnographic methods, and have excellent social skills. Deadline: April 30th❗

Please share: @ninamarkl.bsky.social and I are convening a track at the Academic Mindtrek Tampere www.mindtrek.org/academic-min... >> Linguistic Horizons. We invite contributions on how linguistic analysis of interaction can shed light on human-computer interaction and tech applications More info 📲

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי פותח כמה משרות בצוות התשתיות הטכנולוגי - תפקידים מאתגרים עם אחריות גדולה ושליחות אמיתית בתוך צוות מנצח. זאת המשרה הראשונה, בקרוב ייפתחו משרות נוספות אז שווה לעקוב www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...