Deepfakes don’t just fool us. They make us cynical. Study finds that perceived exposure to deepfakes increases media cynicism, &. that confidence in one’s ability to detect them may worsen mistrust. By Christian Pieter Hoffmann et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New publication on the positioning of executives on LinkedIn. We analyze more than 4'500 posts of CEOs and CEOs of EURO STOXX 50 companies and find distinct communicator profiles (re. content, timing, frequency, audiences and engagement). 🔗 www.emerald.com/ccij/article...

📢 New OA publication w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social Do privacy concerns inhibit political posting on social media? Yes, but. We examine FB, X & Insta in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦 and find that highly politically interested users discount privacy concerns and seek large audiences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New publication on the emergence of the #financialcommunication function in #startups. We interviewed both founders and investors to develop a model of how investor relations initially emerge - and then evolve across funding stages. w/ Lea Knabben & Torben Krueper www.emerald.com/jcom/article...

New OA article out @journstudies 📢 We conducted interviews with journalists in Germany and Switzerland to explore the compatibility of #deepfake technology with journalistic norms. We identify boundary conditions for the use of deepfakes in journalism 1/2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New open access publication on deepfakes in journalism together with Patric Raemy, Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Ötting, @cphoffmann.bsky.social & Alexander Godulla doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Grateful to be part of this wonderful special issue 👇🏼 Congratulations to the editors!

3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

📢 New paper out @JITP /w @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler: Who uses Twitch for politics? Based on a survey in 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 we present descriptive data for an underresearched platform & delve into the personality of those who see & post political content👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Danke für das (ausführliche) Gespräch, @tomcoal.bsky.social!

📢 New paper out @JITP /w @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler: Who uses Twitch for politics? Based on a survey in 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 we present descriptive data for an underresearched platform & delve into the personality of those who see & post political content👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Der »Engine Room« im @machine-vs-rage.net-Blog füllt sich: Neu dabei ist eine Quick-Response-Analyse von Matthias J. Becker zum Antisemitismus auf YouTube sowie ein Meinungsbeitrag von @cphoffmann.bsky.social über den sog. X-odus und seine Bedeutung für Polarisierungsdynamiken.📍Digitales im Fokus ⬇️

New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Freue mich, diese „Hottakes“-Reihe eröffnen zu dürfen - mit einem für Bluesky-Nutzende vielleicht provokativen Einwurf 😉 Macht Bluesky die Linke weniger diskursfähig?

📢 New OA publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social from our #DeepfakeProject. We find that perceived exposure to deepfakes is linked to media cynicism, and that detection self-efficacy positively moderates this relationship. No effect for intellectual humility :/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📢 New OA publication out at JEPOP w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social on concerns about misinformation on #Instagram. We find evidence of a third-person effect. Perceived ability to spot misinfo and exposure to (even like-minded) political content drive concerns. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Desinformation – ein überschätztes Problem? Am vergangenen Montag (19.5.) fand in Leipzig die Demokratiekonferenz statt. Thema: »Desinformation & Demokratie«. Auf einem Panel zu »Perspektiven auf Desinformation« sprach Holger Marcks mit @cphoffmann.bsky.social. 1|15 (Bild: © Marvin Frommhold)

Happy to report that this paper is now available open access 😊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

We've just published a NEW REPORT by @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others on the role of digital platforms in today's media environments. It's funded by @knightfdn.bsky.social and based on survey data from 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇸🇩🇪🇧🇷🇦🇷🇯🇵🇰🇷 🧵 Findings in thread 🔗 Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-peop...

🚨 New publication out at CCIJ in which we examine the role of the CFO and CEO in #financialcommunication - and their relationships with the PR and IR departments w/ Sandra Binder-Tietz & Daniel Bendahan-Bitton www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

@theatlantic.com's lack of fact checking in this article about (among other things) the need for fact checking is ironic. But mostly it's depressing. These tired, bad, and wrong tropes about platforms and the law are a big reason we don't get better laws. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Published in November 2024: Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the cross-national and over time trends in self-identifying as feminist:

🎆 New Publication on comparative privacy research! After almost 5 years, we (that is @thinkmacro.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, @lutzid.bsky.social and myself) are proud to have published this article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new article “Ripping the public apart? Politicians’ dark personalities and affective polarization” is now out at EJPR

"no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with [...] better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day [...]" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

⏱️ Two weeks left to submit an abstract to this exciting new conference on financial communication in beautiful Vienna 📝👇🏼

If you are interested in digital #privacy and resignation, this collection will be a treasure trove. Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.

What a pleasure it was to work with the editors of this collection, now out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, on the topic of Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism. Thread ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ (contribution by Zelly Martin, Sam Woolley, and myself is on encrypted messaging apps & abortion activism & surveillance)

📣 We are very happy to announce that our special theme in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism is complete! 👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy. journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...

Einmal mehr hilfreiche Einschätzungen von Kolleginnen und Kollegen zu Zuckerbergs jüngsten Ankündigungen, angeboten durch das @sciencemediacenter.de👇🏼

Question: What would you consider the best empirical evidence (studies/analyses) for the assumption that hate speech and/or misinformation has increased on Twitter/X since the Musk takeover?

Every time a EU politician gets news coverage for saying "something must be done" about spectacle of Musk amplifying domestic rivals, I hope journalists will ask the follow-up "on what legal basis"? Neither the DSA nor any other framework gives anyone the power to simply shut him up? 1/3

Zuckerberg says Meta plans to eliminate its fact-checking program, move content moderators to Texas to address claims of bias, raise the bar for enforcing its terms and lift certain “restrictions” on immigration and gender talk. Huge shift in platform policy.

⏱️ Four weeks left to submit your abstract for this special issue on synthetic media 😊👇🏼📝

Really like this @politico.com article about the post-disinfo era…. www.politico.eu/article/nobo...

During the US Election 2020, on Facebook, misinformation (strictly defined) spread more slowly than true information, mostly relying on few very active users. Also, contrary to a repeated complaint, content moderation was used and effective to curb it. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

"Many experts now believe there is little evidence that AI disinformation was as widespread or impactful as was feared." The FT's @claradoodle.bsky.social takes a final look at the hype around AI and the 2024 elections, with input from myself & others. https://on.ft.com/40mQT21

@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

Now live: “The relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs and political violence” by Adam Enders, Casey Klofstad, and Joseph Uscinski @klofstad.bsky.social misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-...

“My point is that Haidt claims strong scientific support from a large number of studies that range from appallingly bad to weak. He has a few good studies, but none that support his view, and the best ones contradict it.”

🚨 Publication alert I am so glad my publication "Political Attitudes and Sexual Identity in Germany: Examining the Sexuality Gap" has now been published in Swiss Political Science Review. While there is an increasing literature on political behaviour, research on... #LGB #LGBTQ

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

People were more likely to be able to recall Trump's proposed policies, with self-reported cable news exposure playing a role, finds @janzilinsky.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social & Nagler doi.org/10.1177/1532...

"Politically neutral scientists are viewed as the most credible" "On both the left & right..., there is a penalty for scientists displaying political affiliations: the stronger their posts, the less credible their research [is] perceived & the lower the public’s willingness to read their content"