The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Our volume is out now! “Video‑Analysis and Knowledge on Rewind” (Routledge, 2025) Edited by Ajit Singh, Christian Meier zu Verl & René Tuma Thanks to all contributors & supporters of this truly collaborative effort! @hill90210.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social #sociology #videoanalysis #emca

Last week, A-K. Watolla, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social & P. Zerrer presented "The Societal Impact of Systemic Risks" to @ec.europa.eu & Digital Services Coordinators. It shows how #disinformation spreads, affects #democracy & reveals #research gaps. 👉 Study (in German): www.dsc.bund.de/DSC/DE/Aktue...

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes

The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the @univie.ac.at is now recruiting for a full professor in Science and Technology Studies! 📅 Deadline for Application 17 September 2025. Please share widely with your colleagues and those who may be interested! #STS Apply now: ⤵️

New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:

I am excited about the upcoming publication: #Video #Analysis and #Knowledge on Rewind (co-edited together with Ajit Singh & René Tuma) #sociology #emca #interaction #music #dementia #space #science #gaming #data etc. Preview PDF is already available on the T&F page: doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics? Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social. Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues. 🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️) www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann und Dr. Miira Hill vom DCID-Lab erhalten den Communication History Division Top Paper Award der ICA für ihr Paper „Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember Liberal Values”. zemki.uni-bremen.de/ica-communic...

ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID-Lab will give a lecture on the communicative construction of visibility and subjectivation under the socio-technical conditions of the digital at the University of Milan-Bicocca on May 8, 2025. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/?p=7906

@cbpuschmann.bsky.social and @hill90210.bsky.social from the DCID Lab were awarded with the Communication History Division Top Paper Award at the ICA Conference 2025 🎉

@rscarlets.bsky.social will present the paper on policy specifications in AI governance on behalf of a team with @reynoldscj.bsky.social Vasilisa Kuznetsova @ckatzenbach.bsky.social + me in an excellent panel on platform governance from @ica-clp.bsky.social

This morning started off with a little workshop on LLMs as tools and objects of research with input by @hill90210.bsky.social, Jiahui Xing, Vasilisa Kuznetsova, @gorwa.ca & Tarleton Gillespie. Super glad so many showed up and definitely a discussion to continue! #AoIR2025Symposium

#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2025 – Call now open! 🚨 Are you a #postdoc looking to take the next big step in your #academic journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️ More here: ⤵️

Call for Papers: Sociology of Knowledge Meets Human Rights #cfp #soziologie

Wie kann #KI Milliarden Posts moderieren? Wo stößt sie an Grenzen? Hendrik Heuer (@hheuer.bsky.social) & weitere Forschende diskutieren am 27.5. die Grenzen automatisierter Erkennung von Hassrede & machen Moderationsprozesse transparent. re-publica.com/de/session/t... #rp25 #GenXYZ @re-publica.com

San Diego spends $2.5 million a year on Flock ALPR, exposing data about us to feds, while they close parks and libraries for those who need it for AC, wifi, and actual safety. @sandiegotrust.bsky.social, Community Budget Alliance and so many others demanded safe places, not surveillance tonight.

46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media. It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.

What if platforms decided what you should search for, without telling you how or why? In this position paper co-authored with @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @gorwa.ca, Jacob van de Kerkhof & @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social, we explore the TikTok Search feature and the governance challenges it creates.

📢 Unser Postdoc-Netzwerk „Das Junge ZiF“ nimmt wieder Fellows auf: Wenn ihr interdisziplinäres Arbeiten weiterentwickeln und Kontakte mit WissenschaftlerInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen aus der ganzen Welt knüpfen wollt, bewerbt euch bis zum 22. Mai! 🔗 www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

Unsere Professorin Pfadenhauer und Team organisierten heuer zum 80. Jubiläum von Schütz' berühmtem Essay "On Multiple Realities" die VII. Konferenz des International Alfred Schutz Circle an der Uni Wien. Vielen Dank an den Herbert von Halem Verlag für die Unterstützung der Konferenz! Weitere Infos ⤵️

Musk and Zuckerberg claim to champion free expression—but surveys across 10 countries reveal a troubling gap between billionaire rhetoric and public expectations on social media, content moderation, and free expression, write Yannis Theocharis, Spyros Kosmidis, Friederike Quint, and Jan Zilinsky:

…& TM Signal is a 3rd party signal capture app whiuch seems like it's a workaround to both have Signal's e2ee but *also* keep a regulatorily compliant archive? At which point, I mean… just use the defense department's literally millions-if-not-billions of dollars of secure communications systems. …

Call for Papers! 📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop 🏫 University of Zurich 📅 13-14 November 2025 ⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025 democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/...

Some statements from the last two days of #COMPTEXT2025 worth discussing…🧐 🤓 come to the TOP cinema bar tonight to keep the conversation going and to 🥳 party with us after an inspiring conference! 🥂After Drinks & After Thoughts starting at 7pm🥂 @compcommlab.bsky.social @comptext.bsky.social

Important topic! On after lunch in BIG Hörsaal at #COMPTEXT2025 with @indiiigo.bsky.social @krangelie.bsky.social @ahrabhikat.bsky.social

As this amazingly successful #COMPTEXT2025 comes to an end, it’s time for a bit of self-reflection 🔥

Call is open until 24.04.25 Ad hoc group "Digitale Diskurstransitionen und algorithmische Macht/Wissen-Regime. Analysen zur digitalen Umordnung der Diskurses" at DGS Congress kongress2025.soziologie.de/calls-for-pa... #cfp #dgs #foucault #digital #discourse

The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Miira Hill @hill90210.bsky.social and Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember the past”.

Das Programm der @re-publica.com 2025 wird nach und nach veröffentlicht – und ich freue mich, dieses Jahr wieder dabei zu sein: „Jenseits der Wut-Maschine: Wie digitale Plattformen demokratischen Diskurs fördern können“ 👉 re-publica.com/de/session/j...

Call is open until 24.04.25 Ad hoc group "Digitale Diskurstransitionen und algorithmische Macht/Wissen-Regime. Analysen zur digitalen Umordnung der Diskurses" at DGS Congress kongress2025.soziologie.de/calls-for-pa... #cfp #dgs #foucault #digital #discourse

Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science April 2–4, 2025 TU Berlin, Germany & Online 16 contributed talks on LLM use cases & implications Free and open to the public—registration encouraged! #AI #HistoryOfScience #PhilosophyOfScience #LLMs

The first articles of the special issue of Die Publizistik “Public Dissent and its Evaluation in Change”, guest edited by me and my colleagues @schwarz3n3gg3r.bsky.social and @erikkoenen74.bsky.social , are now available online and open access. link.springer.com/journal/11616 More will follow.

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

🚀 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...

An opportunity for US-citizens who qualify as "faculty of all academic ranks with a PhD, appropriate teaching experience, and relevant expertise" in the social sciences #socsci #STS #Vienna #Wien

⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰ Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST! Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community. Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳 👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP

📢 🚨PHD POSITION📢🚨 lnkd.in/dxVWYx4c ⚡❤️ Computational anthropology, 🤖😀 human-centred AI, and 🏴‍☠️🗿 cultural value alignment with LLMs. Come work with me (supervisor), @britwinthereik.bsky.social (co-supervisor), and the team @echodtu.bsky.social and HCI. Deadline May 1, 2025 Starting August 1, 2025

📢 Looking for #postdoc researcher on #sciencecommunication ➡️ researching communicators and/or effects ➡️ quantitative methods, e.g. surveys or experiments ➡️ 3-year position, can likely be extended ➡️ Deadline & more: see below It this appeals to you - do apply! If not: Pls pass it on! 🙏

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

@pzerrer.bsky.social did a great job at #DGPUK2025 presenting initial findings from our #trackingdata research investigating how #climatechange topic consumption is linked to political participation & mobilization! With Vasilisa Kuznetsova, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social, @lisamerten.bsky.social

INDI möchte unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann ein Bewusstsein dafür schaffen, wie soziale Medien als Plattform für Wissensvermittlung dienen, und gleichzeitig herausfinden, in welchem Umfang Nutzer*innen regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Inhalte konsumieren. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

Die ZeMKI-Mitglieder Cornelius Puschmann, Paul Pressmann und Patrick Zerrer möchten mit INDI u. a. das gesellschaftliche Verständnis und die Möglichkeiten von Social Media Plattformen bei der Vermittlung von Wissen, Ideen und Informationen in den Vordergrund heben. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

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

"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."

Postdoc position for Digital Vulnerabilities in Södertörn university DL April 3. The full job opening is available here eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Das Forschungsprojekt wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) finanziert und läuft noch bis 2027. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

„INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” erforscht unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann die Art und Weise, wie klimawandelrelevantes Wissen auf sozialen Netzwerken verbreitet und konsumiert wird. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...