Gestern im vollen Audimax 🎓 Desiree Schmuck diskutierte mit @arminwolf.at, @klenkflorian.bsky.social und @brodnig.bsky.social über aktuelle Entwicklungen im Journalismus 🗞️ Viele Fragen, viel Interesse und richtig gute Einblicke für die Studierenden! Vielen Dank und bis nächstes Jahr! 🙌

Im Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects ist @univie.ac.at in Kommunikationswissenschaft heuer auf Platz 2 aufgestiegen. Weiterhin das bestplatzierte Institut unserer Universität. Ein starkes Zeichen, dank aller engagierten Kolleg:innen, Projektmitarbeiter:innen & Studierenden. 🤝

Neue FWF-Studie (vorgestellt im Sept.) zu Postdocs bestätigt, was wir seit Jahren sagen: - 82 % finden die Karriereperspektiven zu unsicher, - 91 % fordern mehr unbefristete Stellen unterhalb der Professur. Das Problem ist bekannt – wann wird es endlich gelöst? 🤷‍♀️ #IchBinHanna @nuwiss.bsky.social

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

New publication out in #IJPP! 📑 We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄. Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n

Die neue TikTok-Betreiberfirma in den USA wird von den Trump Bros Ellison und Andreessen kontrolliert werden & das Weiße Haus soll sogar einen Vertreter im Vorstand bekommen. Demokratiepolitisch verheerend. Bemerkenswerte Analyse von @saschalobo.bsky.social www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net...

📊 New publication! In this single-author piece, I present insights into political content from social media influencers (SMIs) on YouTube in Germany. In the article, I examine to what extent SMIs construct an opinion leader role in their communication. doi.org/10.1080/1520...

Intimate and Opinion-Oriented Communication? Examining Social Media Influencers’ Opinion Leader Potential Through Their Political Content by @darianharff.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1520...

📢 Happy to see this #OpenAccess paper out in #Journalism! "From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests" with @mikefarjam.bsky.social, Helena Rauxloh & Michael Brüggemann

NEW PAPER!! We study how the "AI slop" era could actually boost demand for credible news. In an experiment with thousands of Süddeutsche Zeitung readers, we found that AI misinformation made people *trust news less*, but *read it more*. 🧵

Excited to share our latest preregistered study with Christoph Klimmt and @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social about the role of adolescents’ favorite music artists for the internalization of a performance-oriented self-concept! 🎶 doi.org/10.1080/1520... 1/

Top social issues advertisers across various EU countries in the last 90 days - lots and lots of fundraising advertising, particularly for aid to Gaza. From October, Meta stops this.

Also Mia is on the job market and you should hire her, she’s an amazing scholar!

New in Social Media + Society: How do (non-)disruptive #climate #protests shape social media debates? We analyzed ~5M Twitter/X posts on #FFF & #LetzteGeneration: Disruptive protests generate more engagement—but also more polarization, driven by right-wing/conservative users: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Read all about how media enable social comparison with “attainable” role models here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... This study was authored by Darian Harff, Heleen Dekoninck, and Desiree Schmuck. @ipk-univie.bsky.social

🥳 New publication on the links between social media use and perfectionism in adolescence, as part of Prof. @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social 's MIMIc project (www.projectmimic.eu/)

The Media Psychology Lab has been awarded the Society Award 2025 by KU Leuven’s Humanities and Social Sciences Group, recognizing our research’s societal impact and public relevance. We are honored by this recognition and committed to continuing research that bridges media, well-being, and society!

📢 New Publication 📢 @rinatmeerson.bsky.social, @kevinkoban.bsky.social, Jörg Matthes review bystander research on content moderation, highlighting theoretical heterogeneity, a focus on cognitions, & lacking attention to content, moderation, context, & individual features. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Pub alert ⚠️ It’s not just about 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 to be like them—it’s about 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯. Our new PoMRA scale measures perceptions of media role models’ attainability. We found that influencers seem more within reach than celebrities, underscoring why attainability matters in media effects studies✨

2️⃣ In the concept paper, we argue that closeness to opinion followers in status can make opinion leaders seem *attainable*. In the second pub @jmcquarterly.bsky.social, we (w/ @heleendekoninck.bsky.social and @desireeschmuck.bsky.social) present a measure for attainability: doi.org/10.1177/1077...

📝📝 Excited to announce two new publications! 1️⃣ Together with Paula Stehr and @desireeschmuck.bsky.social, I wrote a conceptual paper that has now been published in New Media & Society. This article is all about opinion leadership & social media influencers! Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

📚✨ Publication Friday! We highlight the paper "Prevalence, Presentation, and Popularity of Political Topics in Social Media Influencers’ Content Across Two Countries" by @darianharff.bsky.social & @desireeschmuck.bsky.social , published in @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🗳️ doi.org/10.1080/1058... 🧵

Attending this amazing workshop on data donations by @valeriehase.bsky.social @frodewald.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻 #COMPTEXT2025

New paper in JCMC📃📢 With @laraschreurs.bsky.social & @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social we explored reciprocal longitudinal links between adolescents' perceived digital well-being & self-esteem + the role of digital inequality & smartphone screen time doi.org/10.1093/jcmc... @erc.europa.eu MIMIc project

This week, we had two exciting presentations in our VMCI research talk series by our visiting PhD students, @puckguldemond.bsky.social and Arianna Colombo! Puck presented effects of political microtargeting, Arianna a novel classification of political influencers. Bedankt & Grazie to you two!

Interesting look at news values and perceived misinformation across 24 countries by Nenno & @cbpuschmann.bsky.social in IJPP doi.org/10.1177/1940...

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

Schütz's Phenomenological Sociology helps to better conceptualize: 1) what news media trust consists of; 2) its situational character; and 3) how different levels of analysis are related to each other. With @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social & Folker Hanusch academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

👩‍💻 We offer a workshop on working with web tracking data 📊 2-3 June @gesis.org in Cologne 👇

Der Attentäter von Mannheim war offenbar Rechtsextrem. ARD-Brennpunkt in 3, 2, dafür doch nicht. Wir werden echt aufarbeiten müssen, wie der größte Teil der Medien bei dieser rassistischen Shitshow mitspielten & dabei die Rückkehr völkischer Politik mit ermöglicht haben. exif-recherche.org?p=12670

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Neben Microtargeting haben viele Parteien auch KI-generierte Posts im digitalen Wahlkampf verwendet. Mit dem CampAIgn-Tracker könnt ihr alle erkannten KI-generierten Posts sehen. https://zdfmagaz.in/campaigntracker #Grauburgunderbereich