Our team retreat last week included the best of both worlds: after discussing our long-term goals and visions on Thursday 🎓, we spent Friday by going to Bratislava 🛳️ , enjoying the beautiful city 🏙️ and delicious food! 🌯 We all had a wonderful time! 😊

🎉 Congrats to Dr. @heleendekoninck.bsky.social for obtaining her PhD in Communication Sciences at ‪KU Leuven‬! 👏 Her dissertation, supervised by @desireeschmuck.bsky.social ‬, explores how greenfluencers affect young people’s pro-environmental attitudes & behaviors. 🌱📲 Excited to see what’s next! 🎓🚀

Today at #ViennaChildrensUniversity: @kleslmax.bsky.social's & @desireeschmuck.bsky.social's seminar “Politics? Social Media? Who can I believe there?” With a group of 10–12 y/o, they discussed what politics are, who posts about them on socials, and how to tell who’s trustworthy. #KinderuniWien

Shortlisted for the Univie Teaching Award of Social Sciences! 🧑🏻‍🏫 The research seminar of @desireeschmuck.bsky.social, Christine Liebenwein and @kleslmax.bsky.social was voted as one of the faculty’s top three courses in the last year! We are delighted by this recognition! 🎉 🥳

During the last weeks, we hosted @lcjacobs89.bsky.social at our lab for a research stay. During this terrific time, she gave an insightful talk on authenticity in political communication! It was a pleasure hosting you and we all look forward to seeing you again soon, Laura!

The VMCI lab is very happy to welcome @lcjacobs89.bsky.social for a research stay! We hope you enjoy your time at our department and we look forward to exciting collaborations!

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!

Honored to showcase our team's and our affiliated researchers' (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) work at #ICA25 🎓✨ Catch us in sessions with the CAM, @icacat.bsky.social, @ica-hmc.bsky.social, MassComm, and @polcomm.bsky.social crowd 🤝

🌟 New year, new horizons: We’re extending our social media presence to BlueSky and LinkedIn 🔗 (www.linkedin.com/company/vmci...)! Excited to connect with fellow researchers and share updates on our research 😊✨ For more information, check out our website: mediainnovation.univie.ac.at