German political parties leave X: should other European politicians follow? Yes. cybernews.com/tech/erman-p...

Die Zahlen im Überblick: 2023: 2,20 % (Das Erste) / 1,95 % (ZDF) 2024: 1,49 % / 1,43 % 2025: 1,29 % / 1,29 % 2026 bisher: 0,80 % / 0,70 % Die Klimaberichterstattung hat sich seit 2023 mehr als halbiert. Bei beiden Sendern. 2/6

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Ich hatte kürzlich die Gelegenheit,bei einer wunderbaren Initiative dabei sein zu können. Wenn ihr auch der Meinung seid, offizielle Stellen sollten neben kommerziellen Social-Media-Plattformen selbstverständlich auch auf offenen informieren, dann schaut doch vorbei u. zeichnet mit: savesocial.eu

The relationship between social media and democracy is complex but important and there is a lot of debate. For coordination, I wanted to gauge the community with a discussion thread about what, in my view, we do know and the ones we do not know (yet), please add your thoughts and/or disagree: 1/n

Ganz genau! 🫵Wir suchen für kommenden Sonntag (20:15 Uhr) Teilnehmende, die Lust haben während des TV-Duells (ARD/ZDF) die Kontrahenten zu bewerten. Einfach die App RealSmart herunterladen und mitmachen. 📲 www.rheinpfalz.de/politik_arti...

'Going all in': in #Germany, the leader of the opposition & centre-right candidate for the chancellorship claims that asylum seekers commit acts of gang-rape on a daily basis. There is zero evidence for this, and it is unrelated to the bill they are discussing. Another field day for the #farright

Die Medien und Corona. Dazu ein (ziemlich ausführliches) Gespräch mit dem Journalisten Georg Mascolo, Kathrin Kühn von DLF-Wissenschaft und mir beim Deutschlandfunk... www.deutschlandfunk.de/fuenf-jahre-...

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

Von der TAZ wurde ich zum Stellenwert von Social Media und KI im Bundestagswahlkampf 🗳️interviewt. Ich sehe das Gefahrenpotential von generativer KI im Wahlkampf am ehesten darin, dass „gefühlte Wahrheiten“ bebildert werden und vorhandene Einstellungen dadurch verstärkt werden. taz.de/!6061178/

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?

Meine Meinung zu Elon Musk in der „Weld“: amp.focus.de/politik/gast...

Just published a website for {metatargetr}📦 and added more functionalities, including retrieving *historical* ad targeting and report data from the Meta Ad Library. Created an archive for this because Meta does not make historical data available. #rstats favstats.github.io/metatargetr/

📣 4 PhD scholarships at the Department of Communication, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen - more info here: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky. 🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci 👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social

Thrilled to host Prof Betsi Grabe at @ifkw.bsky.social this week! She shared brilliant insights on the visual dynamics of US campaigns, urging journalists to point cameras away from politicians more often to take the audience behind the scenes of campaigns - behind the desired image of politicians.

Another look at the "law of dispersion": In the German city of Bremen, the turnout rates of different neighbourhoods in Bundestag elections have diverged quite dramatically over the past four decades.

The Meta Ad Library is now lagging behind 12 (!) days. It has never been this bad. Elections are going on in multiple countries including Romania, Sri Lanka, Urugay, and soon Ireland and Iceland. Absolutely unaccepable.

This is a fantastic resource with scientific analyses of the US election. It's impressive how fast the editors and contributing authors are.

✨Introducing the POLCOMM WHO-TO-FOLLOW List✨ (Bluesky Edition) bsky.app/profile/did:... Please respond to this post, in case you would like to be added!

To all the researchers here on @bsky.app for whom the topic data access from online platforms is relevant, please consider writing a short feedback on the draft of the delegated acts for the DSA: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Great news! @dfgpublic.bsky.social will fund our (w Thomas Koch & Nora Denner @ifpmainz.bsky.social) project on sociopolitical positioning of companies. I am thus looking for a phd student (3 year 75%) with basic knowledge in computational social science. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

Zwecks Übersichtlichkeit habe ich mal ein Starter Pack für die Kommunikationswissenschaft in der DACH-Region angelegt. Gerne teilen und kommentieren, wenn ihr auf die Liste möchtet oder Leute kennt, die noch fehlen. go.bsky.app/KjdAw75

Hello everyone! I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯 Let me know if you'd like to be included! go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH

December 2000: thriller writer Caleb Carr writes a “cautionary tale about leaving the Internet unregulated… Killing Time: A Novel of the Future is set in 2024 - 17 years after the U.S. govt has been bailed out by a tycoon for its promise not to regulate e-commerce.” <apollo-gift-of-prophecy.gif>

Plus einiger schlauer Bonustracks 💿von kompetenten Leuten, die ich sehr schätze, wie z.B. @jhillje.bsky.social, @luefkens.bsky.social & @joerghassler.bsky.social Und ich durfte auch #2Cents da lassen 👇

Vielen Dank an das gesamte Klima-Memes-Team, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social & @marhai.bsky.social . @ifkw.bsky.social @BIDT_Muenchen. Der 3. und abschließende Report zur #COP28 ist nun online. Mehr Details 👇 klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/co...

Ich freue mich, für einen Beitrag in der SZ Einblicke in die Ergebnisse unserer Forschungsgruppe DigiDeMo (digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de) @ifkw.bsky.social gegeben haben zu können: www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/afd-t...

Unser zweiter Report zur #COP28 ist online. Wie wird die #COP28 auf Social Media begleitet? Mehr dazu unter klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/co.... Vielen Dank an @simonluebke.bsky.social und unser Klima-Memes-Team (w/ @marhai.bsky.social & @nadjaoz.bsky.social) @ifkw.bsky.social. Mehr Infos 👇

I was very happy to welcome @pjost.bsky.social as a guest in my lecture "Political Communication" today. Pablo, who currently is Interim Professor for Empirical Communication Research @ifkw.bsky.social, gave a very exciting lecture on the mobilization of radical movements on Telegram. Many thanks.

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

Auf kimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de geben @simonluebke.bsky.social und unser Klima-Memes-Team (w/ @marhai.bsky.social & @nadjaoz.bsky.social) diese und die nächsten beiden Wochen Einblicke, wie die #COP28 auf Social Media begleitet wird. Mehr Infos 👇

Many thanks to Hedvig Tønnesen for the excellent lead and to her and all the co-authors for the wonderful collaboration #DigiWorld

🌟 Seid dabei bei unserer FG-Tagung: "Politik Multimedial"! 🗓️07.02-09.02.24 📍FH Graubünden, Bern. Programm, Anmeldung: www.fhgr.ch/politik-multimedial-2024 🚀 Spannende Einblicke, Austausch mit Expert*innen über die Zukunft der politischen Kommunikation! 💬🤝 #PolitikMultimedial

📣 Einladung zur Tagung: «Politik Multimedial. Kanäle, Inhalte und Wirkungen politischer Kommunikation in (Bewegt)Bild, Ton und Text 🗓 Datum: 07.02-09.02.24 📌 Fachhochschule Graubünden | Holzikofenweg 8 | 3007 Bern Programm (👇 ) ] Anmeldung: www.fhgr.ch/politik-multimedial-2024

Wer möchte das Team meiner wunderbaren Kollegin im Forschungsprojekt „Herausforderungen der Regulierung digitaler Kommunikationsplattformen“ unterstützen (SHK-Stelle, Frist 11.12.)?

Surprising move by X ... the company has launched, with no notifications, a procedure to apply for data access on systemic risks to EU based scholars. Quiet compliance? Please share your experiences! commsky csssky polisky polcomm dsa @academic-chatter.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/x...

Is it Christmas already?! Really happy: Emptied the letterbox today and saw that @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social had sent me her new book with @dkreiss.bsky.social and Bruce Mutsvairo. I'm looking forward to reading it. Thank you very much.

🆕Update to metatargetr #rstats 📦! Now fetches spending data from Google Transparency Report. Get aggregated data over time or daily spending - a level of granularity that is not available in Google's CSV exports but can be queried via internal API. 👇👇👇 github.com/favstats/met...

We had the pleasure of having Betsi Grabe from IU Bloomington with us @ifkw.bsky.social to work on the bidt-funded research project KLIMA-MEMES. Thank you Betsi for your visit and a great talk on "The Implications of Visual Primacy for Climate Messages". 👉 klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/ne...

Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 All details: tinyurl.com/45ryj32t RT=🧡 @ascor.bsky.social, # commsky # polsky

We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵:

**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY** Two excellent new articles drawing on experimental research designs to study memes and their relation to forms of political communication: 🧵⤵️

Hallo Welt 🌍, wir sind nun auch auf Bluesky und informieren hier gerne über Stellenangebote, Calls und alle weiteren Neuigkeiten aus der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik.

Welcome to the other side, LMU Department of Media and Communication! @ifkw.bsky.social

Want to join our department @univie.ac.at? We are hiring!👇 Ping me or my colleagues if you have questions regarding the position.

One! That is the number of content moderators X has who speaks Dutch. One. That person will be busy ahead of the national elections in the Netherlands on November 22 🗳️ 🇳🇱 commsky polcom polisky eusky Source: transparency DSA files transparency.twitter.com/dsa-transpar...

Bei mir im Team ist eine Doktorand:innenstelle frei, 75%, bei Fragen gerne melden und gerne weiterleiten 😊 www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/do...

It's impossible to condense over 3 decades of research and writing about trust and safety and internet governance into a 14 week class... but here's a first draft of the syllabus and reading list for my course next semester: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I'd love your feedback and suggestions.