Emiliano Treré, describing the physical setting in which his ethnography of a student movement's information took place, sounds outright romantic! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022 with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social >> 2020-2022 >> 715 channels & 229 public groups >> 5,641,026 messages >> Manually curated >> Open for researchers

Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow (van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.) I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists. www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...

Medical cannabis suppliers in Berlin are now using Telegram‘s notorious image as a stepping stone… (Cannabis has recently been de-criminalized in Germany)

Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/

Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪. (Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍) #IJPP2025

Day 2 of #IJPP2025: Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.

Re-reading Chadwick's classic work on "The Hybrid Media System" feels wild, when it shows pre-TikTok/Reels media consumption: "By 2011 [...] Americans were watching video on a mobile phone for an average of four hours per month. These figures may be small [...] but they are still significant"

🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social

The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.

Wie haben sich die Netzwerke von Rechtsextremismus & Co. und deren Kommunikation während unseres dreijährigen Telegram-Monitorings entwickelt? In der neuen MATR-Ausgabe wagen Christian Donner, @wynbrodersen.bsky.social, @maik.machine-vs-rage.net & Michael Schmidt den Rückblick. 1|13

The times are dire, but some online platforms still seem to deplatform right-wing extremists. The head of the Austrian far-right „Identitarian Movement“ Martin Sellner reports to be cut off of his crypto monetization channels.

Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback! (11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...#AoIR2025

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

Economist goals

Paper titles from different fields sometimes sound very niche. But this one caught my attention and I was very lucky to continue reading. This is so insightful and enriching for my own work. Highly recommend! doi.org/10.1002/asi....

“Science in fact is only just beginning, and almost all scientists who have ever lived are still alive.“ Stafford Beer starting strong in his “Brain of the firm“

You wouldn't know this from following mediated debates in Germany, but it turns out there are reasons beyond illdefined anxieties about immigration for where and why the far right wins votes...

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

How many citations in scholarly papers are ERRONEOUS CITATIONS? (citations that do not support the statement they are cited against) Comment your guess before reading the answer in the next post.

Russia starting to crack down on Telegram and Whatsapp by banning voice calls on both apps. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ein rechtsextremer Burschenschaftler arbeitet für CDU-Amthor, ein paar Büros weiter sitzen seine Kameraden aus der gleichen Kameradschaft in Lohn und Brot bei AfD-Abgeordneten. What could possibly go wrong? Für Amthor: Privatleben.

✨ New open-access paper ✨ We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics. Full paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

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Important preprint by @pietronickl.bsky.social @msultan.bsky.social Caedyn Stinson, @fstock.bsky.social Ralph Hertwig @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, touching so many points to move the misinfo discussion forward, like feedback-loops, systemic factors and rhetoric, great work! osf.io/preprints/so...

#Telegram research is about to be changed: Telegram introduced a global keyword search. (Not yet implemented in telethon)

Update: Russia plans to go through with their plans to control digital communication. Whatsapp and Telegram possibly face bans, as the govt builds a Chinese-style everything-app together with VK. It’s called ’Max‘. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...

Das Compact-Verfahren hat eine Solidarisierung in der rechtsalternativen Szene gebracht. Es gibt aber auch Momente des Streits. Was das mit „Remigration“ zu tun hat, klärt diese Quick-Response-Analyse von @machine-vs-rage.net www.belltower.news/bruchstellen...

Ich wollte diesen Artikel mit einem prägnanten, pointierten Zitat reposten. Aber ich kann mich nicht entscheiden, es sind so viele.

Für die @taz.de habe ich aufgeschrieben wie man mit den Kulturkampf-Kampagnen der extremen Rechten und des radikalisierten Konservatismus umgehen soll. Andere Wange hinhalten und „we go high“ ist der falsche Ansatz, man muss schnell und scharf reagieren. taz.de/Seid-schnell...

🧨new pub! CHAT GROUPS AS LOCAL CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE💬⚙️🆘 w/ @buehling.bsky.social and Emilija Gagrčin pro-democratic participation on German Telegram, scalable mixed-methods chat log analysis, open access, IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER PAPER ABOUT COVID: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Pro-democratic participation on German Telegram? This paper is the result passionate and harmonic work by three happy co-authors (see below). Honestly, I could not be prouder.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... We conclude that the role of “soft” factors in motivating information seeking on political actors remains underexplored.

Was viele nicht zu verstehen scheinen: Hier wurde ein Drehbuch durchgespielt, mit dem Ziel, eine für die AfD und damit für die schwarz-blaubraunen Träume gewisser Kreise bedrohlich wirkende Richterin zu verhindern und ein nur der AfD nützendes Kulturkampfszenario nach US-Vorbild durchzuziehen.

🙄🙄🙄 www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

On incel filter bubbles, meme transference, cult linguistics... An excerpt from "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language" by Adam Aleksic (etymologynerd), out July 15th

✨NEW PAPER OUT✨ “Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: ‘indexing by proxy’ in a German immigration debate” together with Lance Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Why do far-right issues keep making the news? 🧵⤵️ academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

New article! 📚 "German Politics in #Times of #Crises: The Success of the Post-Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election" is out in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social. Not the Scholz government, but the CDU's return may deepen the break with Merkel's legacy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Snoop Dogg monetizes on Telegram now and makes shoutouts to Durov on X? 💸💸💸 I don’t know if this is really the way to gain traction in the western influencer economy.

(1/5) Der neue EFBI-Digital Report in Kooperation mit der @amadeuantonio.bsky.social widmet sich Tiktok, der Rolle der Social-Media-Plattform während des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2025 und der Mobilisierung junger extrem rechter Gruppen. Zum Report 👉 efbi.de/details/tikt...

My summer read has finally arrived @nayafia.bsky.social

Wow, I cannot wait to dig into this new edited volume by @sahanaudupa.bsky.social and Herman Wasserman 👀

✨Call for Papers✨ Die Publizistik widmet sich in einem Special Issue den Verfahren der Sekundäranalyse, Datenverknüpfung, Metaanalyse (quant. & qual.) und der Replikation. Konzeptionelle, empirische und methodologische Beiträge sind willkommen. Abstract bis 15.08. link.springer.com/collections/...

For those who are interested in sustainable methods in communication science, such as secondary analyses, meta-analyses, replications, and data linkage – this CfP might be of interest. Deadline for abstracts: August 15th! Spread the word 👉 link.springer.com/collections/...

“There’s no one fix, it’s all moving together.“ — @zephoria.bsky.social on contemporary challenges in academia. I really appreciate these kind of interviews! www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-...

Excellent visualisation of slime molds reaching for food 🧀🫜🥒🍗 Loving the picky one! 🧪 #science #biology

✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties” @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵

I might be late to the party, given the citation count, but: I really enjoyed this exceptional piece on deplatformization and core-periphery dynamics of (far right) platform ecosystems. By José Van Dijk, Tim de Winkel and @mtschaefer.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Ein drohendes AfD-Verbotsverfahren und das Compact-Urteil haben große Auswirkungen auf die AfD und ihr politisches Vorfeld. Seit Wochen mahnt Maximilian Krah zum radikalen Kurswechsel und greift den Remigrationskurs scharf an. Am Wochenende eskalierte der Streit.

A big big thank you again to Randa Ashour, @jamoeberl.bsky.social, Petro Tolochko & @hajoboo.bsky.social for making this possible ☺️🎉