🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

How to map digital news sharing environment in multi-party systems? New preprint led by Felix Gaisbauer from @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social suggests a pipeline to arrive at a sharing cartography. Check it out!

🎉 We #congratulate ASCoR researchers @feloe.bsky.social, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, and @theoaraujo.bsky.social, along with other researchers, who have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to increase the sharing and reuse of digital trace data in a safe and ethical manner.

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

🔍📰 "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof et al. (@mariekevhoof.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net @judith-moeller.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social). Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

While Berlin transformed into a little winter wonderland I had the pleasure to teach a very interested group a thing or two about automated image analysis. Thanks for the invite @bachl.bsky.social !

Super excited to have @feloe.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today for our first DiMES workshop on automated image and video analysis. W/ @bcastanho.bsky.social @vivifabrien.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social

Study by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al.(2024) compares 5 methods for detecting political searches in browser histories: Zero-shot AI (like GPT) achieves highest recall but needs human validation for accuracy. Best approach is AI-human collaboration: use AI to filter searches, then human review. 🧪

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich 🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee) 👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc. 🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

✨Time for meta reflection✨ In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young people’s exposure to electoral campaigns content using a combination of data from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO) and YouTube data obtained via data donation using the software PORT #ODISSEI2024

A truly exciting development in research on fx social media platform usage is data donations. Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others. #ODISSEI

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

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Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️ Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile. 📆: deadline February 17! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky? That's the research question I want to answer. Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min. Everyone, please share the link. Thanks! forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...

Based on dataset linking behavioral webtracking and 4 survey waves during 2022 Brazilian Presidential election, @reutersinstitute.bsky.social work led by @camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice

We made a (far from complete) Starter Pack of Assistant Professors in the Netherlands across all scientific disciplines: go.bsky.app/AYBAKDp If you want to be added (or removed), please reply to this post. And while you are at it, consider joining APNet: ap-net.nl/register/

Disclosure of AI-Generated News Increases Engagement but Does Not Reduce Aversion, Despite Positive Quality Ratings New version, with @emmahoes.bsky.social et al. arxiv.org/abs/2409.035...

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Ok folks in higher education, science and generally in 🇳🇱 Demonstration November 25, 13.00 Den Haag Stop 🛑 the irrational and shortsighted cuts in highered and science 🛑 woinactie.blogspot.com/2024/11/steu...

AI is not always hallucinating… Grok, owned by Musk, concludes: “Based on various analyses, social media sentiment, and reports, Elon Musk has been identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X since he acquired the platform” fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...

With the protests against massive spending cuts in the background, I wrote something on the state of Dutch higher education: alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/the-state-...

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

The Dutch government has been in office for only 4 months and a bit and the second NSC junior minister has just resigned over conflict with the other governing parties, and especially Wilders PVV. So far, the cabinet characterized by instability, inaction, and pushing the boundaries of rule of law

I wrote an op-ed in one of the main Dutch newspapers today, highlighting that the 1 billion budget cuts to Higher eduction can only be explained as a way to make our universities more submissive. The piece has now been translated into English, and can be read here: crookedtimber.org/2024/11/09/t...

Open post-doctoral researcher position in Computational Social Science @TU_Muenchen - please share the information! #CSS More info here: www.hfp.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Scholars are under attack. Also those who study #disinformation, #elections, #democracy and #socialmedia. The changing political climate in many places makes it important to know what you can do. As funders. As institutions. As colleagues. Share and support this resource: researchersupport.org

‼️ Two excellent PhD scholarship opportunities with the great @cbpuschmann.bsky.social at the wonderful @ZeMKI.bsky.social in Bremen, Germany: www.bigsss-bremen.de...

🚨No better day to announce the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami is hiring for 4 new positions in computational social science (2xPhD, Postdoc, Software Engineer) to investigate disinformation & propaganda. Come help shape climate accountability for the next four years. ⬇️ 1/n

What a nice way to be welcomed back in Amsterdam: winning the VU faculty of social science dissertation award! Also happy about the beautiful flowers and about meeting many colleagues again.

Welcome 🎉 to our new ASCoR member @feloe.bsky.social! Felicia studies the diversity of news and information people are exposed to and consuming. She uses various (computational) data collection strategies such as data donations. 👋

*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!

One for the 2024 calendar: 🗓️ Data donation symposium @ @ascor.bsky.social in Amsterdam in May ☀️ 🌷 Abstract deadline: January 26 DSA DataAccess commsky polisky csssky datadonation.eu/community/sy...

Starting on March 1st, our Department Computational Social Science at GESIS is looking for a Team Leader for the “Digital Society Observatory” (15 TV-L, 4 years with possible tenure): hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... @sebstier.bsky.social @schochastics.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social

Job news! 📣✨ In a month, I’ll start as assistant professor @UvA_ASCoR ! I cannot wait to meet familiar faces and many new colleagues. 7 years, a PhD, a job abroad and deteriorating eye sight since this photo taken on the first day of my master’s degree at said department 😉

#rstats service announcement: #TikTok changed their data structure. I just updated {traktok} to deal with it and it works even better now 😀. You just have to update to the new version (the old format is also still supported, if you aren't served the new version yet): github.com/JBGruber/tra...

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

One of the core AI dilemmas for journalistic organizations. Audiences want publishers to flag the use of AI in reporting. But when they do, trust is not the reward. @felixsimon.bsky.social @benjamintoff.bsky.social commsky polcomm journalism AI www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/most...

Are you researching TikTok? Or do you want to? Major update to #rstats `traktok`: search and download videos with just a regular account or use the full Research API: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2023-12...

Finally, the data sources must be brought together to estimate effects. @lukotto.bsky.social et al. contributed "Linkage Analysis Revised – Linking Digital Traces and Survey Data" ( doi.org/10.1080/1931... ), an overview of current options in linkage analysis.

Are you interested in doing media effects research in the digital and social media environment? We have a special issue for you in CMM doi.org/10.1080/1931.... @loespouwels.bsky.social, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com, @bachl.bsky.social and Patti Valkenburg share our perspective here:

If you care about open science and you teach methods and or programming, please please teach using open tools! It's really hard to implement open practices when schools teach using proprietary software (looking at you MATLAB/STATA/SPSS)

‼️Come and work with us! ‼️ Annelies Bloom and I are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher with a focus on Social Data Science 💻📊📚 (full-time, TV-L13, for a period of 3 years) at the SOCIUM Research Center in Bremen. Please don‘t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! shorturl.at/twMY8

Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 All details: tinyurl.com/45ryj32t RT=🧡 @ascor.bsky.social, # commsky # polsky