"The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information." @felixsimon.bsky.social has written about our recent report, including rapid growth in how many (and how) people use generative AI to get information www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

Rückblick auf die Medienberichterstattung ist auch spannend, wenn die Abstimmungsresultate bekannt sind. Gegner des E-ID-Gesetzes haben vmtl. davon profitiert, dass die Vorlage kaum ein Thema war und es keine sehr aktive Pro-Kampagne gab. Grundlegende/diffuse Skepsis gegenüber Digital-Projekten? 1/

Neue fög-Studie: 87% der CH Medienschaffenden nutzen KI 🤖 – meist unterstützend. 63% finden KI-Tools nützlich. Doch: 38% sehen keine Qualitätssteigerung ⚠️ 75% fürchten Abhängigkeit von Tech-Plattformen 💡 80% verlangen branchenweite Standards. 👉 www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/jahrbuch-... Bild: istock/hapabapa

Spotted in Zurich, Switzerland yesterday. So reassuring to see that this international transport company knows exactly what it‘s talking about.

📉 Fast die Hälfte der Schweiz nutzt kaum Nachrichten – und wenn, dann meist über Social Media. Was bedeutet das für Demokratie & Medien? 👉 Präsentation des Jahrbuchs Qualität der Medien 2025 📅 27. Okt | UZH Zürich & Livestream 🔗 Infos/Anmeldung: www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/jahrbuch-...

"Eigenmietwert" und "E-ID" ?? Der Blick auf die Medienresonanz legt nahe, dass die nächste Volksabstimmung in der Schweiz (28.9.) nicht sehr stark bewegt. Mehr im Abstimmungsmonitor Zwischenbericht: Tonalität und die Resonanz von Akteur:innen und deren Positionen. www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/research/...

Das wäre eine schöne Alternative zu den wenig nachhaltigen Mitbringseln wie Blumen oder Wein.

Trinkpause im Son Moix in Palma. Im Moment ist Hierbas besser als Helbing. Mallorca - HSV 1:0 #MALHSV

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Welchen gesellschaftlichen Auftrag hat die Kommunikationsforschung in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche ❓ Das neue Themenheft „Öffentliche, Transdisziplinäre & Transformative Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft“ bietet dazu Reflexionen & Impulse #OpenAccess 👉 netlibrary.aau.at/medienjourna...

Immerhin stimmen bei Spiegel Online die Farben… #WEURO25

Recommended reading: interview with @eunjikim.bsky.social about her multi-faceted research on (non-)political narratives, news, attitudes and effects.

Der Digital News Report 2025 ist da! Die Schweiz ist eines von 48 untersuchten Ländern. Wir haben die wichtigsten Daten untersucht und zusammengestellt. Ein Resultat: Interesse an lokalen Nachrichten, aber nicht unbedingt Nutzung von lokalpolitischen Themen. www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/research/... 1/

News is too much and too negative according to growing shares of the audience. In 2025, 40% say they sometimes or often avoid the news (up from 29% in 2017). Switzerland & Germany right on trend. Why? • 39%: “negatively affects my mood” • 31%: “worn out by the amount” • 30%: “too much conflict”

Today, the new Digital News Report 2025 came out. It again shows the very high reach of a cost-free print newspaper in Switzerland. And just this morning, 20 Minuten announced it will stop its print production - it will become digital-only (where its reach is higher). @reutersinstitute.bsky.social

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out! 📊48 markets 🌏Almost 100K respondents 📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers 📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg 🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

Launching @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2025 in a few hours! Stay tuned and follow our launch event on Tuesday morning #DNR25

🚨 Mark your calendars! 🚨 Our Digital News Report 2025 will be published on Tues 17 June. This year’s report is based on a survey of almost 100,000 news consumers from 48 markets and will be presented at six global events with these 15 speakers All you need to know in this thread buff.ly/WTfoMls

50 years ago today, on 5 June 1975, the UK held its first referendum on membership of the European Community. It was the first national referendum in British history, and produced a landslide for staying in. So why did the referendum happen? How was it won? Here's a thread to get us going...🧵

Aus aktuellem Anlass (für alle, die an der Medienpolitik in der Schweiz interessiert sind)

And just like that, over a year of work from our team is out in the world! Our latest @pewresearch.org data essay, part of the Pew-Knight Initiative, explores how Americans decide what "news" means to them – and how it fits into their lives in the digital era. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...

The decline of local news is undermining the volume of coverage of political scandals and the electoral consequences of them for politicians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. You only live 4 times

Addressing European reliance on US American technology “is a lot more complicated than ditching your Tesla and buying a Renault [What] do you want this more than? What are you willing to do? What are you willing to pay? What will you sacrifice for this alternative?” www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/nord...

New Minnesota Journalism Center report just published on the @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social website on how Americans are thinking about news organizations’ growing use of generative AI. Bottom line: AI remains abstract to most people and a source of considerable anxiety. hsjmc.umn.edu/news/2025-04...

I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky. I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast. Short 🧵 1/n

🚀 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...

Open #postdoc position in @mss7676.bsky.social's team at #IKMZ! 📣 Consider applying by 15.05.25 if you do research on #science #communication – including communication about science-related topics like #AI, #health, and #climate. Also, please spread the word! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

One thing I absolutely cannot stand, both as a person, but also as a media analyst, is whenever a newspaper reports about the stock market. Especially, when reporting it in the short-term. It's pointless because what the newspaper are reporting about are minor fluctuations.

This week, my colleagues and I organised an event on AI and news, where we brought together some of our researchers and colleagues from the university and the news industry. Thanks to our fabulous comms team, there is a full write-up: buff.ly/aSqGvFq Some reflections…

Auf der @dgpuk2025.bsky.social habe ich Ergebnisse unseres Projekts zur Nutzung generativer KI für politische Informationen gezeigt. Dazu wurde nun auch der Projektbericht vorgestellt: leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/pre... 📚 mit Eva Knor, Ezra Stöwing, @lisamerten.bsky.social & @judith-moeller.bsky.social

Brilliant! Please watch! 🙏

Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

Very happy supervisor with the publication of Pietro Nickl's article on global trends in online headlines: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Züri Züri dudl dö?

📝 New study: With migration being a key issue in the recent German elections, I’m glad to share this piece led by Melanie Magin (& with @linardsudris.bsky.social), in which we suggest measures to assess migration coverage grounded in deliberative democratic theory: doi.org/10.1080/1520...

I never would have thought that Rocky 4 would somehow foreshadow a boxing match between a politician from Ukraine (left) and from the US (right).

"The public doesn’t miss yesterday’s news, but journalists miss the public. Without people willing to pay attention to the work that they do, journalism will fade." Wrote for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about how the social contract btw public & news is fraying www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Doomscrolling break... SNL take on that meeting With a guest appearance by Mike Myers, who is of course Canadian

Am 1. März vor zehn Jahren starb Kurt Imhof. Er prägte viele Jahre das fög, brachte uns zum Nachdenken - und zum Lachen. In öffentlichen Debatten pochte er immer auf Argumente. Er kritisierte, dass oft die lauten (populistischen) Stimmen mit viel Aufmerksamkeit belohnt werden. Mehr zu Kurt Imhof 👇

Ein Artikel von Tamedia bezeichnet die „Ausländerkriminalität“ in Deutschland als „Tabuthema“ (ohne Anführungszeichen). Und ich dachte immer, ein „Tabuthema“ sei eines, über das man NICHT spricht. Verstehe ich mit Blick auf diesen intensiven Wahlkampf also nicht wirklich. Ihr schon?

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

The @niemanlab.org just published this piece on our new paywalls study. @speppered.bsky.social does a great job presenting the findings comprehensively, accurately, and with stylistic flair. Thanks Sophie! www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/less... Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗳️ Die Volksinitiative vom 9. Februar 2025 verlangt mehr «Umweltverantwortung» – und erhält in den Schweizer Medien im Vergleich sehr, sehr wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Mehr Analysen und Einordnungen im Schlussbericht Abstimmungsmonitor www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/research/...

Truth Sandwich 🥪 Reporting on politics these days is a challenge. Use the Truth Sandwich. State facts, then the falsehood, then facts again. Facts first and last. Don’t amplify falsehoods without context. This is a useful reminder for journalists and in public discussions Graphic @newslit.org

Excellent short piece by @ryanenos.bsky.social that explains why Americans are not more alarmed by the authoritarian actions of its government. open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

Verdrängen öffentliche Medien wie die SRG private Medien, wenn es um Online-Nachrichten geht? Unsere Studie zeigte: nein. 👇 Zusammenfassung der Resultate, Stand der Forschung - und Diskussion der Kritik an unserer Studie. @markeisenegger.bsky.social @sfuerst.bsky.social medien.epd.de/article/2560

Aus der in der Schweiz eigentlich seltenen Reihe "Stell dir vor, es ist bald Volksabstimmung und fast keiner berichtet darüber ..." 👇 Empirie zur Medienresonanz und Tonalität zur Volksabstimmung vom kommenden 9. Februar 2025