🎓 This Friday (19.09), we are honored to welcome professor @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social to the #HotPoliticsLab! She will present her work on Facebook user reactions to party campaigning. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

Discussing #AI and #democracy at the German Foreign Office‘s Open House, with Andreas Nitsche, Siyuan He and Thomas Mann House Los Angeles. 🤖@germany.diplo.de

What I wouldn't give to have access to data on use of this - "Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” ... which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section [of] search results." techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/g...

„Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent (…). That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates“ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Keine politische Werbung mehr bei Google & Meta – was soll das und was ist das Big Picture? Heute war ich Studiogast bei #Breitband im Deutschlandfunk Kultur, mein Interview ab ca 15:30 min. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/mehr-ueberwa... @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy

Zorgwekkend 🫠 TikTok staat op het punt om zijn moderatieteam in Berlijn te ontslaan en te vervangen door onderaannemers en artificiële intelligentie. Ook de Nederlandstalige moderatoren van TikTok werken in Berlijn 👇🏻 @dorienvanmeldert.bsky.social vrtnws.be/p.0Yl9ylZdM

It’s been a while — but our newsletter is finally here! In this edition, we skip the “risk in focus” to bring you: 🛠️ An update on what we’ve been doing 📊 Our top 5 insights data access highlights 🗓️ An overview of upcoming calls, workshops, and ongoing surveys dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...

First: regulation is not the opposite of innovation when it comes to AI Second: citizens want AI to be regulated. 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 and elsewhere: listen to your citizens. See evidence from 5 continents 🌍 in our @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece @aimediademlab.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/governments-...

Fantastic PostDoc opportunity @gesis.org in a stellar team 👇

To all the #DSA experts and data access enthusiast out there, before you go on holiday, sign up & save the date for the #dsa40 data access days in Berlin, September 25 & 26! 2 days with keynotes, panels, expert insights and practical guidance 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...

Entscheiden ChatGPT & Co bald, wen wir wählen? Meine Antwort im @tagesspiegel.de (Spoiler: Wir sollten Sprachmodelle nicht zur Meinungsbildung und für Wahlempfehlungen nutzen, erst recht nicht aus Bequemlichkeit.) www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/digi...

„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” – @lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social: 🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️ #dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social

✨NEW PAPER OUT✨ “Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: ‘indexing by proxy’ in a German immigration debate” together with Lance Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Why do far-right issues keep making the news? 🧵⤵️ academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

What will make the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) work? @lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, & @claesdevreese.bsky.social team up in @techpolicypress.bsky.social to give us this overview!

In this piece for Tech Policy Press, @dscheykopp.bsky.social , @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social and I argue that it's time for regulators, researchers, and platforms to fulfil their roles and standards set by the delegated act on data access.

✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties” @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵

AI is *not* the biggest threat to democracy. Anti-democratic politicians are. But AI is changing the information ecosystem, also ahead of elections. And we need ways of dealing with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...

📝 Top Paper Award 🏅 @curdknupfer.bsky.social, W. Lance Bennet, & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social 📄 Challenges to Liberal Democratic Press Norms From the Far Right: “Indexing by Proxy” in a German Immigration Debate

We won something: A @polcomm.bsky.social Top Faculty Paper award at #ica25! 🥳 Hooray! And massive thanks to my co-authors Lance Bennett and & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social! ❤️ Watch this space for the full paper, accepted for publication at the Journal of Communication!

🎉 We are proud to share big news from #ICA25 in Denver: @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, Professor at ASCoR, has been announced as a candidate for ICA President! A dedicated leader and scholar with deep ties to the ICA community. Election this Fall — stay tuned! #ICA25

Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!) Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy Friday at #ICA25! If you are free around 3 pm this afternoon, come to Centennial H (Regency 3) to see me present research with Lance Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social at the @polcomm.bsky.social Top Papers Panel.

Wilders breaks up the Dutch government coalition, and I learn a lot of cool Dutch words from the news: sprakeloos, verbijstert, superonverantwoord! www.dutchnews.nl/2025/06/far-...

Just putting this here for no reason whatsoever

⏰ Two days left to apply: Fully-funded 4year PhD position in fabulous Amsterdam! Interested in visual politics and the emergence of angry publics? Apply now! All info here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... @lindabos.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social #polcom #commsky #polisky

PhD opportunity! ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4 shorturl.at/YeXpf

This Executive Order is a prime example of how to pretend to use principles of transparent science while in fact putting science and scientific conduct in the hands of ‘Senior appointees’ which means “an individual appointed by the President”

Come join us in Amsterdam for a fully funded 4-year PhD position on the topic of "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics", with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social! All info here, deadline is June 4 👇👇👇 (Please share!) #polcom #commsky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

🚨 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

🥁My first interview in a Dutch newspaper, on the WH digital strategy 🥁 eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Happy to announce my first publication! 🚨 We extend an existing framework on disinfo resilience towards aspects that should be considered in dynamic contexts of backsliding democracies and especially investigate strengths and weaknesses in this regard in the Visegrád countries.

Which structural features are important in shaping countries' vulnerability and resistance to disinformation amid democratic decline? New #wjds paper by A Peißker, @mikecowburn.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social: ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi....

🚨 New Publication 🚨 w/Antonia Peißker & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social We extend a framework examining disinformation resilience in consolidated democracies to countries experiencing democratic backsliding, demonstrating the need to add civil society & institutional capture doi.org/10.34669/wi....

Found this in the pockets of my jacket for spring. A time capsule from only four months ago but feels like an entirely different era, a paradise lost. 🥲

Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff

Extremely excited about this *new preprint*, where we use a collective field experiment with our own subreddits, which allowed us to uncover diverging factors for online participation between the very active and the passive. More details by the (as usual) *amazing* lead @lfoswaldo.bsky.social below👇

The day when all academics realised that their publications had been used for something ... it turned out Meta used them to train their AI models... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

We're trying to have a society here people

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...

Innsbruck vibe.

Parties that won the most spent the least on digital ads. Together the parties that won seats make up 30% of all the money spent on digital. Parties that lost seats made up 70% of the ad spend. Obviously that is not causal. But increased spending does not automatically translate to election wins.

Seeing various versions of the take "the AfD didn't really benefit from foreign boosting." BUT: a) Campaigns & media effects are complex. b) It actually has a very unpopular platform when you look at actual policies. b) It still doubled its results. ...

I see a lot of desperation about German election. #BTW25 Let me provide a perspective from Trumpland: AfD will win at most 25%, which means that 75% do NOT vote for far right! That is still a strong democratic mandate. Use it to strengthen democracy! Don't empower the far right unnecessarily!

Young urban women vs old rural men. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So this is where we are. In many election districts in the East, AfD is way above 40, even 45 percent. Citizens over 60 least likely to vote AfD, among youngest cohort under 30, the Left leads. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Wer wohl dieser „Mertz“ ist, gegen den derzeit Bots laufend mit richtig schlechtem Text schießen? Das wird doch kein Transkriptionsfehler des kyrillischen Ц in „Фридрих Мерц“ sein?

It’s ironic that the country that underfunded public service media for decades, because of unwarranted fears of a government funding and media nexus, ends up having one of the strongest state media platforms with a direct link between the white house and X.

In recent weeks, we've seen a wave of AI-generated images of white, blonde families presented by neo-fascist online accounts as models of a desirable future. As disgusting as this is, it seems no coincidence that AI is being used for reactionary propaganda 1/5 M