Mediales Interesse für die Abstimmungen vom 30.11.25 bisher höchstens durchschnittlich. Die «Initiative für eine Zukunft» der Juso wird sehr negativ bewertet. Mit Ausnahme der Juso (und ihrer Mutterpartei SP) ist keine Akteursgruppe mit überwiegend zustimmenden Voten medial präsent. 1/2

📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the #UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Precious stones at home Berlin, November 1989

Journalists are increasingly viewing social media less as an audience-building tool and more as a threat to credibility. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/jour...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country 📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj 🧵6 findings in thread

The Yearbook Quality of the Media 2025 is here! 📊 Focus topic: News deprivation and its consequences for democracy. 👉 Learn more and find additional analyses, including on the sources used by AI chatbots: www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/... 1/3

Das Jahrbuch Qualität der Medien 2025 ist da!📊 Im Fokus: News-Deprivation und ihre Folgen für die Demokratie. 👉 Mehr dazu und weitere Analysen, u.a. zu Quellen von KI-Chatbots: www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/... 1/3

The EBU just published a new report on how well consumer AI chatbots function as gateways to news by public service media – an interesting piece, but with some big problems in my view that make me question its usefulness. buff.ly/X9ident

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what? @hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

"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 👇