SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "Operationalising the Audiovisual Turn in Digital Journalism." 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2026. More info at:🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1C-sA...

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

🚨 Publication alert (CHBR): Together with colleagues from the University of Navarra, I investigated what role the quality of mobile media use (gratification and situation variety) plays when measured alongside screen time. Result: quality may be more important than quantity. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium at #ICA26! 🇿🇦 Submit your abstract for the event happening on 📅 June 3. ✅ Individualized feedback on your thesis or article ✅ Mentorship from senior scholars ✅ Career & publishing workshops

Super excited to see my first solo-authored publication out!✨ Thank you so much to the interviewees, the anonymous reviewers, and the (special issue) editors (@sarahsoutlook.bsky.social, Karoline Ihlebæk, @annikasehl.bsky.social, and @oscarwestlund.bsky.social) for their time and valuable input 🙏🏻

🗞️ At the Weizenbaum Institute today: workshop “What is News? Platforms, Audiences & Algorithms.” With colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, we’re exploring how societies get informed in the digital age. Plus a hybrid lunch talk on how changing ideas of “news” may reshape journalism.

🤖 📚 Wie viel #KI braucht die #Schule? Lieber ganz verbieten oder das beste dabei rausholen? Das diskutieren wir nächsten Dienstag (18.11.) bei der Weizenbaum Debate in Berlin mit Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft. Jetzt anmelden 👉 buff.ly/7jcpppQ

On last day of #aoir2025 @lionw.bsky.social presents our @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social work on TikTok data donation from the 2025 German Federal Election - only 5% of content was political and the Left party could capitalize most in reaching voters of other parties with their content on TT.

#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025 @lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.

Out now: Our latest Policy Paper dives into the key provisions of the Digital Services Act #DSA on data access, highlighting its goals, procedures, limits, & external factors impacting implementation: 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/WI....

🚨 Wave 6 (2024) of the Weizenbaum Panel is now available in the Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer. Check it out if you‘re interested in Germans‘ media use, political participation, civic norms, and more! panel.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/findings/...

"From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere." We spoke to @lionw.bsky.social & Linda Coufal about how extremist views take hold and spread within digital communities: 🔗 t1p.de/sqii5 #DigitalExtremism #OnlineHate #PlatformAccountability #Misogyny

For Tech Policy Press, the Collaboratory's core team and @claesdevreese.bsky.social outline key provisions, changes from the draft version, and stakeholder responsibilities clarified by the recently adopted delegated act on data access.

Wanna know what changed between the Draft of the Delegated Act on Research Data Access in the #DSA? We've aligned the relevant passages and just published the comparison on our website: dsa40collaboratory.eu/dda-da-compa... Data & code used are available on our github: github.com/access-colla...

Am 20./21.11.25 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social einen Workshop zum Thema "GenAI&Power". Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen, die eine theoretische & konzeptionelle Perspektive auf das Wechselverhältnis von GenAI&Macht werfen. Alle Infos zum Workshop finden sich im CfA:

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

Do Alternative News users also use legacy media? Yes they do, shows a study by @gongbaobao.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social but a small fraction - around 1.3% of the German population - live in alternative news enclaves

It’s a wrap! #ica25 ends for #DigitalNewsDynamics team @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social with presentation by Felix Gaisbauer, showing that the more people use alternative news media, the more they share them, but still have the highest fear of reputation loss as reason to not share alt news

Look at all these smart people from @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) and @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. #ica25

At the 9am Sunday #ica25 panel, Felix Gaisbauer @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social presented work showing that news sharing on platforms in the German context is less fragmented and highly driven by intermediaries from the political right Find method preprint here: arxiv.org/html/2505.08...

Insanely proud of @atmayer.bsky.social and @maakesalonen.bsky.social who both gave excellent presentations on ongoing research projects at the intersection of TikTok and journalism, where I am very fortunate to be a part of! #ICA25

@atmayer.bsky.social with another 🔥 presentation at #ica25 How do news values and visual representations of news differ between public and private news media on TikTok? Dataset paper on this out now! doi.org/10.1609/icws... with @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social ! @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

@atmayer.bsky.social rocking the stage at #ica25 . Presenting work on identifying (non-)intermediation practices of digital journalists on social media. #silentintermediation @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

📍Day 1 at #ICA25 for our Digital News Dynamics team: 🕛 12:00 | @lionw.bsky.social & Jakob Ohme 🧹 User Deletion & Data Quality in Data Donation Studies 📍 Capitol 3 🕒 15:00 | @atmayer.bsky.social , Lion Wedel, Jakob Ohme 🕸️ Journalistic Intermediation on Platforms 📍 Grays Peak A

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

Felix Gaisbauer presenting first insights into political content suggested too and seen by actual German users around the German election earlier this year. Debunking assumptions of asymmetrical algorithmic curation on #tiktok in recent years. #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Axel Bruns @snurb.info talks at #WIConf2025 about #SocialMedia Practice Mapping in #ClimateChange debates in Australia, from climate policy advocates to the local fire departments.

Returning from second visit as @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Fellow. What a privilege to spend time with @dscheykopp.bsky.social’s group and the inspiring and friendly WI community (including the Berlin ‘staffel run’) 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🇩🇪 Honoured to deliver the Weizenbaum conference #WIConf2025 keynote 🎙️

Platforms need to be researched on the risks they pose to society, like our civic discourse or our mental health. But the relationships between researchers, platforms and regulators are complicated. @lkseiling.bsky.social presenting their work on the #DSA at #WIConf2025

What is the role of digital infrastructures in the current challenges for liberal democracies?
What do they mean for vulnerable people, for activists and for democracy as a whole? The #WIConf25 offers insights into the latest Research with speakers from over 25 countries and multiple diciplines.

Taking place now: @claesdevreese.bsky.social giving the #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Keynote Speech on “Are we, citizens, ready for an AI democracy?”. Spoiler: we are not!

🚨 Publication alert: Android log data are increasingly used in research, so @dougaparry.bsky.social and I have developed the first step-by-step tutorial on how to actually extract behavioral metrics from them. Read it now in Computational Communication Research: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

📢 Neue Publikation: Wie beeinflusst alltäglicher Social-Media-Konsum politische Einstellungen und Beteiligung? Damit befasst sich das neue Buch von WI-Forscherin Merja Mahrt in der gemeinsamen Publikationsreihe des Weizenbaum-Instituts mit @belapobi.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/2n98v964

New paper out! What impact had the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns on radicalization processes in the incel community? Find out now, the answer may suprise you! -> doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Empowering People in Online Spaces ✊🏼 📱 We're very excited about this amazing Weizenbaum Conference program 🤩 Here's the first batch of sessions focussing on Participation and Political Communication. #WIConf25 Find out more and register (for free) 👉 www.weizenbaum-conference.de

Our #DSA40 Data Access Q&A is finally out! If you're still not sure what Art. 40 is about, we hope that our summary provides some clarity! Take a look - and let us know if we're missing something!

Am Dienstag, 15.4., 18 Uhr veröffentlichen wir den neuen Weizenbaum Report mit Ergebnissen unserer jüngsten Repräsentativbefragung zur politischen Partizipation in Deutschland. Es gibt einen Vortrag von mir und eine Podiumsdiskussion zu digitalen Bezahldiensten und neuen Risiken der Überschuldung.

✨ Join us on June 4 & 5, 2025 for the 7th Weizenbaum Conference “Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies” ✨ 👉 🔗 Register now: www.weizenbaum-conference.de #Democracy #Empowerment #Community #Power #DigitalResearch #WIConf25

📱 🪧 Wir stellen am 15. April mit dem Weizenbaum Report 2025 die neusten Zahlen zur politischen #Internetnutzung in Deutschland vor. Diskutiert mit uns über #PolitischePartizipation und #FinanzielleTeilhabe! ➡️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

As European leaders face pressure from the second Trump administration that is hostile to tech regulation, Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that Europe must protect the Digital Services Act (DSA) to ensure a democratic future, both online and offline:

Das Weizenbaum -Institut auf der #dgpuk25: Beiträge der Forschenden @buehling.bsky.social @gongbaobao.bsky.social @strippel.bsky.social @mjemmer.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social @tothrol.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Interessierte sind an unserem Infostand im Henry-Ford-Bau willkommen

Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts! Join us and @wikimediade.bsky.social at the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons," April 10 in #Berlin. Details and Registration ➡️ https://buff.ly/41vueAT #AcademicSky

New TikTok Content Scraper out there github.com/Q-Bukold/Tik...

🗳️Soziale Netzwerke beeinflussen, welche Inhalte Nutzer:innen sehen – doch was bedeutet das für Wahlen? Das neues Forschungsprojekt „Dein Feed, Deine Wahl“ untersucht, wie politische Inhalte auf TikTok auftauchen. Mehr Infos und das Interview mit Lion Wedel: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Our new project is finally out! dein-feed-deine-wahl.de Share, like, and participate. Donate your data to get a personalized report on political party activities in your feed!

In einem neuen Diskussionspapier untersuchen Weizenbaum-Forschende die jüngsten Veränderungen bei der Inhaltemoderation großer Social-Media-Plattformen und analysieren sie mit Blick auf die krisenhafte Entwicklung der liberalen Demokratie. ➡️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder at Amsterdam University werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts: SAVE THE DATE for April 10! Together with @wikimediade.bsky.social we invite you to join the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" in #Berlin. More details soon!