In case you are an ECR and you are already in Innsbruck 🏔️ for ECREA PolComm section conference, consider attending this preconference organized by the ECR representatives @amplanitzer.bsky.social & Andreea Stancea 🙂

📣👀Early-Career Researchers @ ECREAs PolComm Section Conference 2025! A few last-minute spots for the ‪@yecrea.bsky.social‬ pre-conference workshop just opened. Want to join a great lineup of speakers on early-career profile building, network development, and transience? Just drop us a message! 🙂

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

Today @ #ViennaChildren'sUniversity 🧒 How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔 Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛

Had so much fun at our workshop on incivility and content moderation, based on our @wwtf.at Digital Humanism project, at the Vienna children’s university today! @amplanitzer.bsky.social @allanhanbury.bsky.social @julianeidhardt.bsky.social 😎🫶🏼😆

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver! From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

What are the content-level characteristics of selectively avoided news? 🤔 @dbetakova.bsky.social presenting her impressive two-study research using computational text analysis and baysian modelling /w @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social at an engaging #ICA25 panel on news avoidance 👏

What kinds of content do users themselves want to see moderated on platforms? 👀 Surprisingly, it's less about the incivility of language and more about authorial intention, target vulnerability and platform affordances /w @solecheler.bsky.social, @pia-p.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer 🙂 #ICA25 #PolComm

@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!

Our team showed up strong for the #PolcommPreconference25 🥳 @dominikhokamp.bsky.social shared his work on emotional ties of journalists & politicians, @amplanitzer.bsky.social presented her work on personalised algorithmic platform moderation and @solecheler.bsky.social was a discussant & panelists👏

These are the participants of the #PoliticalCommunicationPreconference25. It was an amazing day, full of interesting insights and great research. Although it's hard to say goodbye to a great day, #ICA25 is now officially starting! Let's enjoy the conference together! ❤️

🙂 Kicking off #ICA25 this week in beautiful Boulder, CO ⛰️ @amplanitzer.bsky.social presents our ongoing work on political information needs across neurodiverse cognitive profiles at the 2nd Disability, Communication, and Media Preconference w/ @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social 👏

📣 POLCOM Vienna @ #ICA25 Happy to see eight of our team members at ICA in Denver, CO this week - mentoring and sharing their latest research 🙂 Come say 👋 if you are around!

At #DigHum2025 conference this week in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier🌞 and excited to kick off Day 2 themed around AI, platforms & power! Happy to also contribute by discussing our ongoing project on algorithmic content moderation /w @pia-p.bsky.social @solecheler.bsky.social @julianeidhardt.bsky.social 🙂

Even though COMPTEXT2025 closed last weekend, its spirit will live on in the splendid photography of our dedicated group of colleagues from the University of Vienna: @jamoeberl.bsky.social, @amplanitzer.bsky.social, @apeksha.bsky.social! We thank and appreciate their work!

The success of COMPTEXT 2025 was made possible by the indefatigable and amazing work of the local organising team led by @fabiennelind.bsky.social + @hajoboo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @compcommlab.bsky.social. The COMPTEXT Association is grateful for their work and to our sponsors (bit.ly/430VUye)!

This was a blast! Really enjoyed discussing bias in knowledge production, LLMs and CSS in general with @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social! Thank you @comptext.bsky.social and @compcommlab.bsky.social for providing space for these important topics! 🙌

Absolutely fascinating and packed panel on enhancing and (critically) evaluating LLM performance at #COMPTEXT2025 this morning. w/ great work by @zacdgreene.bsky.social, Laura Liebig, Lukas Erhardt, and @christianpipal.bsky.social. Excellently chaired by @amplanitzer.bsky.social! 👏

🔥second-to-last panel at #COMPTEXT2025 on Hate, Counterspeech & Algorithmic Influence! @simonkarg.bsky.social on tracking hate/counterspeech Thomas Kirchmair on cross-platform variations of hate Chico Camargo on (in)effective user agency Chaired/discussed by Travis Coan & @jadevrielink.bsky.social 👏

Excellent computational research on the Russia-Ukraine war 📊🔎 Multiple perspectives & exciting results by Mykola Makhortykh, @aytalina.bsky.social, & @maikovska.bsky.social, Elizaveta Chernenko, Valentina Feklyunina & @maarja.bsky.social , Julian Theseira. Chair @stauberj.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025

Happening now at #COMPTEXT2025 in a fantastic panel on "Advances in Misinformation, Toxicity & Hate Speech Detection" 👏 @pia-p.bsky.social presenting our latest work on how a more Perspectivist approach to NLP for algorithmic moderation could account for users’ differing views on what is harmful 🤔

📣 PolCom Vienna @ #COMPTEXT2025 Happy to see six of our team members at COMPTEXT this week - organizing, chairing, and sharing their latest research on text-, image-, and video-as-data. Come say 👋 if you are around! 🙂

Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌 We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

Call for applications! 📣 #CfA #Fulbright Visiting Professor 2026/27 at the Faculty of #SocialSciences for a 4-month teaching & research stay aiming at #UScitizens. 📅 Deadline: 15.09.2025 More information here: ⤵️

🚀 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...

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc) with a focus on Internet Use and Society details here: webuse.org/postdoc/

🚨 Only one week left to register for #COMPTEXT2025! 🚨 Interested in the latest research on text-, image-, or video-as-data + some cool workshops? Join us in Vienna from April 24–26! 🙂 ⏳ Registration Deadline: April 10, 2025 🔗 www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...

📆 Reminder! 📆 🚀 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is just over two weeks away! (April 18, 2025, Anywhere on Earth!) 🔗 CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html We're excited to see your submissions! 🤩 #ACL2025 #NLProc

🚨 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/...

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...

So excited to reveal the cover of my book Trans Technologies, coming out on Feb. 25 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social! Now accepting pre-orders at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186..., but will also be available free open-access. Half of all author royalties will be donated to trans BIPOC organizations.

🚨New Publication in New Media & Society🚨 Co-First-Authored w/ @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social & @markriedl.bsky.social Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. jlukito.com/s/brown-et-a...

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

The #ecreapolcom25 section conference goes to Innsbruck! The call is out, deadline for submission is 🚨 30 March! Spread the word and join the fabulous #ECREAPolComm community at this event. Thank you so much @lorehayek.at @utarussmann.bsky.social for hosting this event 🙏!

🚨The deadline for applications to the Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism has been extended to Jan. 31, 2025 ✨ You can find more information here: t.ly/836lz

Schnittstelle zwischen Diskriminierung und Algorithmen/ KI scheint (leider) aktueller denn je. @amplanitzer.bsky.social und ich freuen uns umso mehr, dass wir nächsten Freitag bei der VHS Wien einen Einblick aus unserer wissenschaftlichen Perspektive geben können: www.vhs.at/de/k/280697749

🚨 Last chance to submit to #COMPTEXT2025 🚨 Working on computational analysis of text-, image-, or video-as-data? Submit your 250-word abstract today and join us in Vienna this April! 🙂 ⏳ Deadline: January 15, midnight 📍 Details: www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...

Attention #ECRs! @yecrea.bsky.social is searching for 16 new YECREA section representatives. It’s a great opportunity for pre- and postdoctoral researchers to engage in academia and broaden their network. I enjoyed my time in YECREA very much - happy to answer any questions! tinyurl.com/cfpyecrea

@amplanitzer.bsky.social will be giving some input from our scientific perspective on this great project on counterspeech on news platforms! Join if you are in Vienna and interested in strategies against hate speech! 🙌

Ein wichtiges Projekt geht zu Ende! @ahrabhikat.bsky.social & ich durften es wissenschaftlich begleiten und ich freue mich, gemeinsam mit dem tollen Team von @vereinzara.bsky.social und spannenden Panelists über Strategien gegen Hass im Netz zu sprechen. Das Event ist für alle offen 🙂 come join us!

Thanks to the great @yecrea.bsky.social Team for organization of such an important pre-conference! We are happy that the two members of our team, @amplanitzer.bsky.social & @dbetakova.bsky.social, together with @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, could participate and network with like-minded peers 🙏

😊😊 very excited to take on the role of the new @yecrea.bsky.social representative for the PolComm Section of ECREA w/ Andreea Stancea! Looking forward to supporting early career researchers and working with the PolComm Section and YECREA management team 🙌 #ECREA2024

In a highly relevant #ECREA2024 panel on ‘Autonomy in the Age of Big Data,’ @amplanitzer.bsky.social shared her latest research on automated technologies in content moderation, and the emerging shift toward personalisation w/ @hannahgreber.bsky.social , Svenja Schäfer & @solecheler.bsky.social 👏🙌

#ECREA2024: Thanks to all the stellar🌟speakers and attendees of the “Conspiracy theories, beliefs and media” panel where our @dbetakova.bsky.social presented her fourth dissertation study on news consumption, avoidance & conspiracy beliefs and vaccine opposition🚫💉

#ECREA2024: Shout out to @dominikhokamp.bsky.social , our and @jscvienna.bsky.social ’s PhD candidate who presented his work w/ Melanie Haberl, Folker Hanusch, Iveta Jansova & Lenka Waschkova Cisarova on emotional communities in the journalistic age 🙌🏼

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!

POLCOM heads to #ECREA2024 this week! @amplanitzer.bsky.social @andiisto.bsky.social @danielwiesner.bsky.social @dbetakova.bsky.social @dominikhokamp.bsky.social will present, starting today to discuss navigating precarity and early career networks. Find more at c-in.floq.live/event/ecrea2...