Experimental Social Media Platforms: A New Methodology to Study the Implications of Algorithmic News Curation @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social presenting our @ddc-sdu.bsky.social infrastructure 🚀 #ica26 Great stuff AND many challenges to further development and scale, in collaboration #TeamScience

Clear paradox: The Paradox of Negative News: Disentangling the Dual Role of Negativity Bias in News Selection and Avoidance @luciacores.bsky.social @kimandersen.bsky.social @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social Morten Skovsgaard

Selective news avoidance is not only a between-person construct, it also fluctuates within-person over time as people respond to individual and contextual changes, finds @kimandersen.bsky.social, Shehata, Skovsgaard & @jesperstromback.bsky.social in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

Does negative news relate to worries about being personally harmed by violent crimes and climate change? Yes, but it depends on whether people prefer mainstream or alternative news media.   New study with Djerf-Pierre and Shehata in Mass Communication and Society: doi.org/10.1080/1520...

New pub with Shehata, Skovsgaard and @jesperstromback.bsky.social Is news avoidance a personal “trait,” adhering to a group of consistent news avoiders, or is it rather a volatile “state” reflecting temporal variations in audience practices? Our answer: both! Out now in CR: doi.org/10.1177/0093...

New publication in Journal of Communication with @leneaaroe.bsky.social et al. What explains the journalistic preference for extreme exemplars in news reporting? Our answer: clickbait oriented editorial policies Access here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...