🔊 Heft 1/2026 unserer Zeitschrift Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (M&K) ist als Themenheft zur "Datafizierung der Kommunikation" mit dt. + engl. Beiträgen im Open Access erschienen ➡️https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/221e9f85-368e-3cdf-90a9-b253a7121d35?page=1&toc=5783358

New #OpenAccess paper in #EnvironmentalCommunication 🎉: “Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests” (w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de) 🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:

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

2️⃣ “Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment” (presented by me, with @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner and @kudusch.de) A cross-platform study of the #Lützerath protests on Twitter/X, Telegram, & Mastodon — mapping how advocacy and antagonism unfold across digital spheres

Very honored to speak today at the European Comissions Knowledge Hub on the Prevention of Radicalisation Crisis Communication Event on "managing the online dimension after terrorist attacks", sharing, amongst others, @kudusch.de & my work on disinformation and conspiracy theories in times of crisis

Currently #dgpuk2025 a panel with Rebecca Ciesielski (Bayrischer Rundfunk), Sandra Wachter (Oxford Iternet Institute) and @ajungherr.bsky.social discussing with Christopher Neuberger about the democratic potential of #AI

Good question also by @kudusch.de - what price do we at society pay for the CO2 need of AI data centers? Indeed energy consumption is massive (www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1...) - even if Humans also *need* CO2 www.nature.com/articles/s41... - we need a more nuanced & sustainable approaches

There is a lot of work that detects and debunks AI hype. But what function does AI hype actually serve? Anna Schjøtt and I draw on 8 months of observations at the Associated Press to show how expectations on AI are leveraged to coordinate actors and mobilise resources: tinyurl.com/mwr2b6t3

1/ I promised some research for team #Bluesky. Here we go. Unpopular opinion: #Debunking doesn't stop #polarization. In fact, our research (and others') shows it can *add* to it. #Prebunking works better—timing is key. Our #simulation studies shed light on this. 👉

📢 Postdoc (100%) und Promotionsstelle (75%) im Bereich Rechtsextremismusforschung mit Schwerpunkt Medien und Öffentlichkeit an der Uni Tübingen bei Prof. Dr. Annett Heft. Bewerbungsfrist für beide Stellen ist der 10.1.2025. (links zu den Stellen 👇)

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

The Wayback machine is such a precious, unique resource - increasingly so as web search collapses. None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it. But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!

Dusting off my best work

A bit late to the Starter Pack Party, but here is a list of Alternative Media Scholars: go.bsky.app/NA5cJvW Feel free to share and comment if you want to be included!

Agreed. What I always liked about ABM is how simple rules can lead to complex emergent phenomena. Using black-box LLMs instead is a caricature of this idea. It may seem intuitive and produces interesting data, but it offers no explanation.

This is what happened in academia in 2016 - research on #disinformation, #misinformation and #fakenews exploded. The field was basically not existing before. I added a potential trigger element to our graph. From a presentation (and forthcoming paper) with @mshu.bsky.social and Johanna Klapproth.

New Study with Gwendolin Gurr and @juliametag.bsky.social finds: Negative evaluations of topic-specific coverage such as migration do not lead to a loss of trust in the media in general. More in the paper here: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Honored to speak today at the future cast of trendone and KPMG about disinformation and digital democracy

Using LLMs for solving your (small & large) coding Qs has consequences. It eats tons of fossil energy & threatens our future knowledge base "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms" 🧪💻🤖 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🔓

#RSS is a pretty neat way to stay up to date on your favorite news(-letters), social media accounts*, podcast and blogs. This piece by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy really drives this point home: pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/k... *e.g. #bluesky and #mastodon

#RSS is a pretty neat way to stay up to date on your favorite news(-letters), social media accounts*, podcast and blogs. This piece by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy really drives this point home: pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/k... *e.g. #bluesky and #mastodon

Another rapid analysis piece from our team today. This is a rapid research "note" — a short analysis of three misleading videos supporting allegations of "non-citizen voters" that have spread over the past few months: uwcip.substack.com/p/the-anatom...

Just discovered the Causal Quartet by @lucystats.bsky.social, @travisgerke.bsky.social, and @malcolmbarrett.malco.io: four datasets that have the same unadjusted casaul relationship between treatment/outcome but different true effects. This is great for teaching DAG-based causal inference! #rstats

I didn't even notice CRAN already approved it, but our (@benguinaudeau.bsky.social & @favstats.bsky.social) #rstats package to interact with 🦋 got an update 😁

I was on my new favorite podcast! Click below to listen to Matt and me talk about how microaggressions are often rumblings of a bigger problem in games. open.spotify.com/episode/03Sk...

Happy birthday :)

"If there is a specific problem with Scrum, something that I genuinely think makes it stand out as uniquely bad rather than just reflecting baseline organizational pathology, meetings are it. People are not good at running meetings, and mandating that they h...Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs

What is Discursive Polarization and how does it relate to established #polarization concepts within (political) communication studies? Michael Brüggemann and I illustrated this in an entry for Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Accepted OSF preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 New article 🚨 Open LLMs are powerful and reproducible alternatives to closed models like GPT or Gemini. This tutorial shows how LLMs work and how to apply open LLMs in behavioral science research using @huggingface.bsky.social. Article: doi.org/10.3758/s134... Repo: github.com/Zak-Hussain/...

Want to learn about the current literature on definitions, methods of measurement, predictors, effects, and the ethical challenges surrounding #ConspiracyTheories? Check out @lenafrescamente.bsky.social and my preprint from the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication! osf.io/preprints/os...

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT: The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.

Sure, passive measures of media exposure (tracking, logging, ...) are great and all, but in the end, we will continue using surveys in (political) communication research. If you need a "scientific citation" for this obvious truth, there is now this encyclopedia entry: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Zwei Parteien sind angetreten, um die AfD zu schlagen. Die CDU hat nur von demokratischen Parteien gewonnen und massiv an die AfD verloren. Das BSW hat fast keine Wähler*innen von der AfD gezogen, aber demokratische Kräfte heftig bluten lassen. Was für ein Versagen, und zu welchem Preis!

Before we take a (longer? ;-)) summer break, we discuss the concept of credibility and its special role in misinformation and disinformation with the wonderful Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen in the final episode of season 2. You can listen in here: t1p.de/79g3a

New open-access publication by @marco-waehner.bsky.social, Annika Deubel, @kwelle.bsky.social, and me: “Don’t research us”—How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1... #CommSky #mastodon #researchethics

New paper with @marhai.bsky.social out: „Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies" 👉 Article: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view... 👉 Supplement with Preregistered Report, Data, Code, etc: osf.io/vfazc

The early bird registration deadline for the #misdoom24 conference is right around the corner, check out 2024.misdoom.org for more information on the registration an the conference program.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

How can power relations be addressed and overcome in health psychology research? Power dynamics have a pervasive influence in health psychology: they shape health behaviour and health outcomes — but also how we do research in health psychology osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check out the full program of #misdoom24 at misdoom2024.uni-muenster.de/program/

One KEYNOTE speaker of #misdoom24 announced: Tine Ustad Figenschou! Super excited to welcome her as a main speaker. Conference will feature 30+ presentations, 2 keynotes, doctoral workshop and podium discussion. Early bird pricing and registration: misdoom2024.uni-muenster.de

What a fantastic #ica24 ✅ Attended amazing precon hackathon 🧑‍💻 ✅ Two presentations @ ICA ✅ Accepted prize for paper with @chainsawriot and @kudusch.de ✅ Learned a ton at post-API postcon ✅ Had such a good time meeting old and new Friends! ✅ Enjoyed seeing 🏖️🦘🐨🐋 ✅ Liked 🇦🇺 much more than I thought!

What makes computational communication science (ir)reproducible? That's the question Chung-hong Chan, @jbgruber.bsky.social and I are trying to answer in this paper that just got published in #ccr! Check out our recommendations for researchers and for the subfield at the end of the paper.

New publication🎉: @kudusch.bsky.social, Lena Clever and I report about challenges & solutions to collect and store social media data remotly for cross-university collabs: "Challenges in Remote Study Design: An Infrastructure Review of a Linkage Study" doi.org/10.1177/0002... #CommSky #PolSky

Lasst #Twitter brennen. Es gibt dort nichts zu verteidigen. youtu.be/rUiHo-Oo0DY #Xitter