In diesem Jahr wurden auf der Methodentagung in Salzgitter wieder drei herausragende studentische Arbeiten mit den forsa / Paul Lazarsfeld-Stipendien ausgezeichnet. Die prämierten Masterarbeiten überzeugten nicht nur methodisch, sondern setzten auch inhaltlich Maßstäbe. Die Stipediatinnen waren:

Earlier this month, @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @veronikaebner.bsky.social had insightful cross-fertilization sessions within @cidape.bsky.social about social media data on climate change, emotions, and inequalities 🌐 It’s great to see the project moving forward! 🙌

Great to see this out! With @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu we analyse the DSA “Statement of Reasons” database, the EU-mandated archive of moderation decisions by online platforms. We examine what kind of platform observability the database affords & find large regional and cross-platform differences.

Die Mittelbauveranstaltung ~Pizza & Perspektiven~ der DGPuK Fachgruppen Methoden und Medienökonomie, moderiert von @buehling.bsky.social und Miriam Bernhard war ein voller Erfolg!

🍕 Pizza & Perspektiven: Diss – und dann?! 🚀 Was kommt nach der Promotion? Darüber sprechen wir beim Career Lunch am 📅 17.09.2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:30 Uhr 📍 Ostfalia Hochschule, Salzgitter Mit dabei: Postdocs & ehem. Promovierende, die über Karrierewege in Wissenschaft & Praxis berichten. Anmeldung 👇

🍕 Pizza & Perspektiven: Diss – und dann?! 🚀 Was kommt nach der Promotion? Darüber sprechen wir beim Career Lunch am 📅 17.09.2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:30 Uhr 📍 Ostfalia Hochschule, Salzgitter Mit dabei: Postdocs & ehem. Promovierende, die über Karrierewege in Wissenschaft & Praxis berichten. Anmeldung 👇

✨ New open-access paper ✨ We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics. Full paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (Bochum. Germany) is looking for PreDoc/PostDoc researcher!

For those who are interested in sustainable methods in communication science, such as secondary analyses, meta-analyses, replications, and data linkage – this CfP might be of interest. Deadline for abstracts: August 15th! Spread the word 👉 link.springer.com/collections/...

✨Call for Papers✨ Die Publizistik widmet sich in einem Special Issue den Verfahren der Sekundäranalyse, Datenverknüpfung, Metaanalyse (quant. & qual.) und der Replikation. Konzeptionelle, empirische und methodologische Beiträge sind willkommen. Abstract bis 15.08. link.springer.com/collections/...

Want to easily scrape data from TikTok? There's an R package for that! traktok "While it is neither the first nor only tool to do so ... the [package provides] ... an easy-to-understand consistent syntax [meant] to encourage TikTok research" osf.io/preprints/so...

Job alert! 🔥 Prae/Postdoc-Stelle am Arbeitsbereich „Medien- und Wirtschaftskommunikation“ der Universität Würzburg von Prof. Dr. Holger Schramm (100%, 3 Jahre). www.mcm.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...

Bei Prof. Adrian Meier @adrianmeier.bsky.social an der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg ist gerade eine Doktorand:Innenstelle (75%, 4 Jahre) im ausgeschrieben! Schwerpunkt: pos. & neg. Folgen digitaler Kommunikation und Medien für Wohlbefinden, Gesundheit und Selbstregulation. www.kowi.rw.fau.de/team/jobs/

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

Please spread the word about this fantastic job-opportunity at the UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social ✔️ permanent contract ♾️ ✔️ 100% paid (123K CHF p.a.) 💰 ✔️ best city 🏞️ ✔️ fantastic colleagues 🤩 ✔️ research with a purpose ⚕️ jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

🚨 Publication alert: Android log data are increasingly used in research, so @dougaparry.bsky.social and I have developed the first step-by-step tutorial on how to actually extract behavioral metrics from them. Read it now in Computational Communication Research: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

📣Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Computational Approaches to Researching Short Videos co-edited by Jing Zeng, @lrossi.bsky.social, and @rupertkiddle.com Abstract deadline: 25-Jul-2025 See announcement for more information - journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...

Are you interested in social science methods training? Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...

Together with Jing Zeng and @rupertkiddle.com we're guest editing a special issue of the Journal of #Computational #Communication Research on "Computational Approaches to Researching Short Videos": journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...

I absolutely loved @holnburger.bsky.social‘s presentation of his tool crowdbucket.io! What a well-designed service to have LLM topic modeling results validated by humans in a convenient and fun way…like swiping on Tinder. Will definitely use it for my historical gossip! #COMPTEXT2025

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

📣 CfA on Public Discourses on AI We're guest-editing a SI of the International Journal of Press/Politics on "Global Myth and Magic around AI", focusing on timely issue of public discourses on AI. Deadline is June 15. Happy to answer any questions. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/glo... #IJPP

Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort! w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279

✨ CALL FOR PAPERS ✨ Fachgruppentagung Methoden der DGPuK - Das diesjährige Tagunsthema ist "Nachhaltige Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft: Sekundäranalysen, Metaanalysen, Replikationen und Data Linkage" 17.-19.09. 2025 Einreichungsfrist: 15.06.2025 Call: www.ostfalia.de/cms/de/k/fak...

‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️ 3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅 I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Jobs! Susanne Baumgartner @ascor.bsky.social is hiring a PhD student and a Post doc for her new project "The Effect of Digital Media on Youth" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... And werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 One week left to submit to #ECREAPolComm25 🚨 Working on anything political communication - empirical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, or applied? Submit your 3000-character abstract & join us in Innsbruck, Austria, this September! 🙂 ⏳ Deadline: March 30, 2025 📍 CfP: www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀 Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested? ✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀 Spots are limited—secure yours now: forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC... 📅 June 11-12, 2025 📍 UC Boulder (shuttle from Denver available) No coding skills required! Join us to explore methodological & substantive challenges in communication science. See you there! 🍻

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!

Tolle Karrieremöglichkeiten für methodenorientierte Postdocs im Bereich Computational Social Science am HBI!

Our team at the Leibniz-Institut has two 100% vacancies! Deadline is 23.03.2025! @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/ste... leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/ste...

📢 Der DGPuK Mittelbau führt eine Post Docs-Befragung zu Unterstützungsbedarfen für diese spezifische Karrierephase durch. Die AG lädt alle Post Docs nochmals zur Teilnahme bis Ende nächster Woche ein! Spread the word! 👉 www.soscisurvey.de/dgpuk_unters...

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

⏰ New Dashboard Time! Tracking AI content in the 2025 German elections! The CampAIgn Tracker is live! 🤖 📊 What it does? - Tracks AI posts & ads from parties - Shows whether use of AI was disclosed - Lets you explore AI content by party, platform, & more! 🔍 Check it out: www.campaigntracker.de

We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢 It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡

📝 "Cracking the LinkedIn API through R" 👤 Athanasia Monika Mowinckel (@drmowinckels.io) 📖 Conquer LinkedIn's API with R! OAuth, posts, & triumphs. 🔗 https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2025/linkedin-api/ #rladies#rstats

Exciting news! 🎉 Starting in March, I’ll take on a new role as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Political Communication at UZH’s IKMZ. Even better and please share!: We’re hiring a PhD candidate to join my group on news audiences & political participation! 🎓 jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

🚀 Unbefristete Stelle am imwk Uni Augsburg Wir suchen bei uns im Team Verstärkung: in Vollzeit, unbefristet (yay!) und mit vielfältigen Aufgaben! Was dich erwartet: 📅 Beratungsaufgaben 📚 Lehre (6 SWS) 💡 Eigene Forschung 🤗 Tolles Team Zu den Details 👉 www.uni-augsburg.de/de/jobs-und-...

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...

🌍 Applications Open: CAIS #Fellowships in Bochum, Germany! Explore the social, cultural, or technical aspects of digitalization in a 3–6 month funded program. Enjoy private offices, rent-free housing & interdisciplinary exchange with experts worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: February 28, 2025 #Research

PolComm crowd, mark your calendars! This year's ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference will take place at the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, September 4-5. Call for submissions is now open: www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/... Looking forward to welcoming you all! #ecreapolcom25

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich 🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee) 👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc. 🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

Dataset alert ⏰ We just uploaded the preprint for a novel dataset of German politicians' public broadcast interviews (around 100 interviews, 30 politicians, 28k sentences) sourced from YouTube & manually validated + speaker identification and timestamps, ready for re-use 👍 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04484?

Neue Stellenausschreibung am IKMZ @ikmz.bsky.social der Universität Zürich (Prof. Dr. Thomas Friemel, @friemel.bsky.social) im Bereich Mediennutzung & Medienwirkung: Pre-Doc: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Post-Doc: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... #healthcomm #PolComm #compsocsci

🎉 CfP verlängert! 🎉 Die Deadline für die ICA Pre-Conference “Boon or bane? The role of digital media in disease prevention and management” wurde auf den 31. Januar 2025 verlängert! Mehr Infos unter: www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA25-...