Hey #commsky people: I am looking for papers employing thematic analysis to study alternative media for my syllabus this term. Let me know about your must-reads please! 🙌 Self promotion welcome!

Eine rechte US Regierung kündigt eine „Blitz Operation“ gegen die eigene Bevölkerung an - irre übrigens, das unkritisch als News abzudrucken btw. Und hierzulande überlegt der Feuilleton, ob nicht doch irgendwie der „linke Zeitgeist“ an allem Schuld sein könnte. www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...

Dreamt that I taught an elementary school class tonight and now I don’t know what to do with that in my teaching philosophy 🤷🏻‍♂️ At some point, all classes gathered in a big auditorium for lunch and each class sang in a choir.

Guess heavily AI „assisted“ reviewer comments are our brave new age of peer review now lol… we’ll only get overly generic recommendations in lists of three applicable to a wide range of input texts and odd typesetter-level punctuation from now on. Only consolation: The former we also got without AI.

Defrosted my freezer today and oh my the effort was ridiculous, but oh my the sense of accomplishment is insane. Wish I’d get that kick out of finishing my dissertation lol

You know what’s really relaxing after #ica25? Being able to sit in a café/restaurant as long as you wish, not being rushed out the second you put your fork down 🙌 (I know that’s because US staff can’t make a living without max. fluctuation - makes it all the more annoying/wrong on multiple levels)

I repeat: Do not come to the Amsterdam reception at 14Tabs Bar #ica25

#ica25 warning protests are escalating; police use tear gas. Stay away

#ica25 #Denver architecture appreciation post

Bored or awakened after the afternoon low? Come to our #ica25 presentation on algorithmic censorship, power and resistance based on a case study on pro-Palestinian digital content! 4:30pm in Capitol 2 (Regency 4). Hosted by the @acsj-ica.bsky.social division (yes, we’re a division now 🙌).

Now the big protest crowd in #Denver is coming. Chanting: „We want ICE off our streets - no justice, no peace“.

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Came for #ica2025 or #ica25 encountered #denver #protests happening right now - protesting against #ice

“How do I stop my students from cheating with AI?” Universal basic income, for starters

Dass das nicht die Titelseiten der Tagespresse füllt wundert mich leider nicht mehr. Eine Schande ist es trotzdem. Wenn sich nicht bald (lol) entschiedener Widerstand gegen die extreme Rechte aus der breiten Mitte der Öffentlichkeit formiert, sehe ich tiefbraun. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/asyl...

Ich sag’s euch wie‘s ist: Wenn der ÖR #cosmo einstellt, gibt es für Menschen unter 60 einfach einen Grund weniger, ÖR Radio zu hören. Mit ein/zwei Männer-Fußballspielen weniger wäre Cosmo doch ausfinanziert, oder nicht? www.radioszene.de/203320/cosmo...

Die AFD hasst diese Trick! Eine Stadtratsmehrheit unter Führung der AFD möchte die städtischen Gelder für das soziokulturelle Zentrum "Telux" in Weißwasser streichen. Nun werden Spenden gesammelt, nicht für das Telux, sondern für die Stadt Weißwasser - und zwar zweckgebunden 😎 Warum das clever ist🧵

Beileid an alle Wohnungssuchende in #münchen, die gerade auf #immoscout mit günstigen Wohnungspushnotifications zugespammt werden, um dann feststellen zu müssen, dass die nur für Angestellte der Stadt sind 🤦🏻‍♂️

✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨ The Phantom Counter-Public: Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication. doi.org/10.1007/978-... In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler. 🧵⤵️

New paper out! What impact had the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns on radicalization processes in the incel community? Find out now, the answer may suprise you! -> doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Die Zahl rechter Straftaten steigt um 40 Prozent, auf ein Rekordhoch. Die liegen weit vor den anderen Bereichen. Auch rechte Gewalttaten wuchsen um 17 Prozent. Es hatte sich abgezeichnet: Attacken in den Wahlkämpfen, neue Jungnazi-Gruppen. Wir berichteten schon im Feb: taz.de/Rekord-recht... #PMK

Einer muss es tun: Habemus Kanzler!

Die Rechte ist düster und rückwärtsgewandt? Nicht unbedingt. Sie entwirft auch eine erstrebenswerte Zukunft und verpackt rassistische Ideologie im Gewand von unscheinbarem Aufbruch. So argumentiere ich in der neuen sub\urban. Danke @ankeschwarz.bsky.social & @ohabra.bsky.social für die Einladung.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25

🚨 New Publication 🚨 w/Antonia Peißker & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social We extend a framework examining disinformation resilience in consolidated democracies to countries experiencing democratic backsliding, demonstrating the need to add civil society & institutional capture doi.org/10.34669/wi....

🆕 New article in Publizistik (OA): link.springer.com/article/10.1... I introduce the concept of counter-knowledge orders (CKOs) to better understand digital dissent & disruption + far-right knowledge strategies. (1/4) #commsky #misinformation #knowledge #farright

If you want to find our about our latest paper, ‘Eyo, mixed girl check’: The commodification of embodied performance in the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok, check out this thread by @ananzinga.bsky.social - amazing work!

Alle 13 Minuten eine rechte Straftat: Die @taz.de dokumentiert, was in diesem Jahr bislang kaum Thema war:

🚨 #commsky Publication alert Open Access in Platforms & Society One core takeaway: In platform studies, we need to pay close attention to the impositions and tensions of racial capitalism on racialized creators and how these issues are inscribed into the power and logic of platform corporations.

Yes and, that said, the hill I'm willing to die on: No "contemporary" societal issue—including the so-called "(mis)information crisis"—can be meaningfully solved by reducing it to a simple true/false info problem binary.

Wird den ein oder anderen schon im Straßenbild aufgefallen sein, aber Neonazis trauen sich wieder mehr öffentlichen Raum einzunehmen. Ganz im Stil von Gen-Z natürlich im 90er und Nullerjahre Look. Im Windschatten der AfD hält sich die Aufmerksamkeit bislang in Grenzen: taz.de/Rechtsextrem...

Klar! Hier ist ein Aprilscherz:

Thinking of it, „EditGenie“ is the perfect name for the Sage proofing tool, because it almost never does what you want 🤷🏻‍♂️ #AcademicChatter

Which won’t matter, unfortunately, because in conspiracy ideological spaces the reference matters more than the referent. „Look at the JFK files“. Same for recently recovered evidence for the Covid-19 lab origin theory. Doesn’t *actually* confirm conspiracy theorists, but as a reference it does.

Damn, why does it feel like this spammer is going to break up with me?

Not gonna lament grading duties this term, because my first term undergrad (!) students did cool stuff. Just two essay examples: „escapism is a form of knowledge resistance that’s structurally exploited as a tool for institutional control“ and „deepfakes are art forgery“ #commsky #academicchatter

German #digitalisierung in a nutshell: #Deutschlandsemesterticket laden jedes Semester anders in nur 2,3 mio. Schritten.

Encouraging signs. NOT every American is like #Trump, #Musk or #Vance. Some are guided by morals and values instead!

A few years from now, we will look at the #Trump kleptocracy no different than in Russia or Belarus. Stuff like the #crypto reserve won’t even make the main news anymore.

WTH #commsky people is that normal? I just received the review results of a paper I reviewed a couple of times. I and the other reviewer were okay with the paper now, but the editor literally tells the authors to „remove all low level (not Q1) references“ and „add target journal references“…

If you ever suffered from imposter syndrome: If that can be the president of the USA, you can be anything.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Y’all watched White Lotus, right? So in season 1 there is this young trophy wive who struggles with the idea of being a trophy wive until in the end of the season she gives up and says to her husband „I promise, I’ll be happy“. That’s the kind of „happy“ the peer review process leaves you with.

I wonder if it’s a good thing when politicians largely remain on Twitter while it’s rapidly becoming a far-right platform. At least for 🇩🇪 there’s not much parliament here yet (that I know of). Doesn’t seem much different even for the US where Bluesky is established much longer.

Die Dämonisierung von zivilem Engagement nimmt wirklich gespenstische Züge an. Mir macht es Angst, wie Einspruch gegen rechtsradikale, autoritäre Positionen angefeindet wird. Einspruch gegen Menschenverachtung ist nicht nur ein grundgesetzliches Recht - es ist unsere demokratische Pflicht.

People keep writing my name wrong as „PrimiNg“ instead of „Primig“ and I sometimes get the impression that this gets worse with some people when I have made them aware that this happens from time to time at some point; which makes the thing even worse because it’s also mildly interesting…

Die gesamte geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät an der TU Berlin soll geschlossen werden. Der behauptete Synergie-Effekt ist eine Farce. Wenn die TU-Ingenieure an der FU Philosophie studieren, braucht die FU dafür neue Stellen und Räume. Es geht um Abbau. tagesspiegel.de/wissen/senat...

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