🧨new pub! CHAT GROUPS AS LOCAL CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE💬⚙️🆘 w/ @buehling.bsky.social and Emilija Gagrčin pro-democratic participation on German Telegram, scalable mixed-methods chat log analysis, open access, IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER PAPER ABOUT COVID: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

🌟New pub led by @yichen1001.bsky.social on how social norms guide interaction in neighborhood groups on instant messaging platforms! If you're interested in meso spaces, online group dynamics or how IM groups function as civic infrastructure, check out our paper in NMS with @mjbroersma.bsky.social🔓👇

🚨New pub from our cross-country fact-checking project with @xzzhang2.bsky.social & @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social! Survey experiments in HK, US & NL reveal that political predispositions outweigh the impact of debunking messages—whether based on source, framing, or social cues @jmcquarterly.bsky.social

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

With fact-checkers being replaced by Community Notes on platforms, our cross-country comparative study on individual news authentication/verification published on IJPP offers some key insights. Check it out 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social & Xinzhi Zhang

Excited to start Bluesky with the special issue I edited with Cigdem Bozdag @cogitatiomac.bsky.social! From political unfriending and teen digital detox to migrant boundary-making and state-enforced disconnection, we explore disconnectivity across fields, contexts & disciplines: bit.ly/4aVvNep 🔓 🧵 👇