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! 👏

I feel like an angel scholar! I accepted review request from a journal rejected my own submission! 😬😬😂😂

Dr. Khosravinik (U of Newcastle) and I are editing a special issue on Critical Discourse Analysis and GenerativeAI for Discourse & Society. Please share the call with your networks and submit your relevant work. You can find the call below: www.hosseinkermani.com/blog

🥁 Happy to launch the lecture series "The Many Faces of Digital Authoritarianism" ➡️ The first lecture "The #Digital Transformation of #Authoritarianism" will be by Professor Oliver Schlumberger of the IFP Tübingen. 📆February 4, 3-4pm CET 🎫DM us for the Zoom link. @ecpr.bsky.social

📣 Call for #ecprgc25 🔔We invite paper proposals on #GenAI and #digitalauthoritarianism 🔗https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/Content?ID=1482&EventID=269 📅Deadline: January 6 🪑 @hosseinkermani.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

Our research network on Digital Authoritarianism joined BlueSky. Support it and spread the word, please!

I'll soon discuss how pro-regime users suppressed #MahsaAmini movement on Twitter through hate speech, disinformation and strategic distraction at the @oegpw.bsky.social annual conference! Find the slides here: www.hosseinkermani.com/beyondcba-pr...

2025 was a productive year. I published nothing but learned a lot!

As the sky of the research community gets blue, let's start my activity here now with these two upcoming chapters in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (ed by @alessandronai.bsky.social et al :) on Computational Propaganda and Connective Action: tinyurl.com/6x9paym3 tinyurl.com/yc2dkves

POLCOM is back from the summer and fresh from a team retreat in rainy Neusiedl am See ☔️ where we brainstormed new research ideas, explored collaborations and knowledge transfer, and discussed team infrastructure. We are ready and excited for the coming semester!

Main takeaways of my new study: False info and social bots were not that prevalent on Persian Twitter during #mahsaamini movement. Incivility was found in half of the, and users were mainly ordinary accounts writing about everyday happenings, not politicians, journalists, or media!

The life after PhD:

A new paper is out there, open access : journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

There is a permanent struggle between Disappointment and Resilience and I am not the one who will lose, no matter how much the struggle gets harsh!

in less than an hour, i will discuss some critical questions about social medis research at the 'Alternative Platforms/Platform Alternatives' workshop in @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. Tnx Annett Heft, Barbara Pfetsch, and Ralph Schroeder for the organization of such a great event. polsky commsky

My mood: waiting for more rejections 😬😬