We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

You don’t “engage”, you amplify, mainstream and normalize. Don’t pretend you do this for anything else than 💰💰💰

🎉 New to PolComm? Join our Welcome Webinar! 🗓️ Monday, Oct 27 🕕 6:15 AM (PDT) | 9:15 AM (EDT) | 3:15 PM (GMT+2) | 9:15 PM (GMT+8) 💻 Zoom: arizona.zoom.us/j/84832196943 Meet the PolComm Division’s Executive Committee and get your last-minute questions answered! #PolComm #ICA

📣 Event tip: "Invitation Kick-Off Vienna Doctoral College on #DigitalHumanism" 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 @wwtf.at @tuwien.at @wuvienna.bsky.social 🗓 November 19, 2025 | 🕙 10:00–16:00 | 📍 Vienna ‼️ The registration deadline is November 3. More information about the program & registration here: ⤵️

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Last day to apply! 👇

2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics. Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/... PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/... PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚫📰 Can we use nudges to mitigate news avoidance? Yes and no — it depends on what nudges we use! Together with @hajoboo.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social I wanted to test whether nudges can reduce news avoidance as limited news consumption—and to do so beyond established Western democracies. 🧵👇

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

🎓Introducing *DR.* Rasmus Schmøkel 🎓 Today, our incoming Postdoctoral Researcher / former PhD student @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social expertly defended his thesis... The Impact of Algorithms on News Consumption: The Power of Social Media as Democratic Infrastructure and its Potential for Public Value

🎓 DDC DISSERTATION UPDATE 🎓 Please welcome ✨Dr.✨ Emil Bakkensen Johansen, who today expertly defended his PhD Thesis on... Complex Dynamics in Digital News Ecosystems: Collaboration and Imitation in the Age of Al

🎙️ New @ccspod.bsky.social episode! I unpack how computational methods transform the study of opinionated communication + share insights from my work on studying climate change campaigns on social media with @cidape.bsky.social Listen here 👉 aboutccs.net/opinion/

In case you are an ECR and you are already in Innsbruck 🏔️ for ECREA PolComm section conference, consider attending this preconference organized by the ECR representatives @amplanitzer.bsky.social & Andreea Stancea 🙂

People in Denmark have varied concerns about tech giants: - Impact on young people's development (83.5% concerned) - Role in spreading misinformation (81%) - Ability to influence public opinion (79.5%) - Economic power (79%) - Collection of personal data (78%) - Impact on social cohesion (75%)

Presented the @what-if-horizon.bsky.social project today at #SSC2025 in Delft 🙌 Very grateful for the helpful feedback from the social simulation community! Looking forward to implementing it w/ @anniewald.bsky.social and Taehee Kim ✨

In beautiful Thessaloniki to talk about salience and patterns of racist language in German news media (yeah… 🥳) at #ecpr25 Catch the last chapter of my PhD work in this exciting panel put together by @stefaniewalter.bsky.social on Thursday, 3.45pm

New week, new school year, new publication! In this paper, @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, & I develop a scale to measure how audiences feel alienated by the provision of news and what implications this has for inequalities. 🧵 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair! @jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026. Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉

I guess I can make it official now: On September 1st, I will start a new position as professor of "Digital Social Science" @unidue.bsky.social ( @ifp-ude.bsky.social ) and leader of the team "Research Data & Methods" at @cais-research.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to many exciting new projects!

This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads. So beyond repulsive.

Last day, everyone!

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

Here’s a link to Trump’s new AI executive order. It bans AI models from generating content related to DEI topics, including critical race theory and transgender issues. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

We are happy to share the newest issue of the Political Communication Report! 🎉 This issue brings together six contributions on teaching political communication and also features interviews with recent award winners. 🧵 Read the full issue here: politicalcommunication.org/issue/summer...

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

Had so much fun at our workshop on incivility and content moderation, based on our @wwtf.at Digital Humanism project, at the Vienna children’s university today! @amplanitzer.bsky.social @allanhanbury.bsky.social @julianeidhardt.bsky.social 😎🫶🏼😆

Today @ #ViennaChildren'sUniversity 🧒 How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔 Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛

June was a month of celebration at CCL! 🎉 Three of our brilliant colleagues successfully defended their dissertations – huge congrats to Dr. Noëlle Lebernegg, Dr. Aytalina Kulichkina @aytalina.bsky.social , & Dr. Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social ✨ All three are now officially postdocs 🚀

Reminder: Great job opportunities at Aarhus University! Please help spread the word before everyone disappears for summer break! 🏖️

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

Big congrats to Biying Wu-Ouyang (CUHK), runner-up for the 2024 #JMCQ Outstanding Article Award! Her study reveals how social media use, fake news concerns & media systems shape news engagement in 17 countries. #commsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Big news from our last business meeting in #ICA25! We’re launching the Political Communication Teaching Database, a shared space where educators can upload and download course materials on #polcomm. 👉 Submit your materials here: tally.so/r/mDMGb5 #TeachingResources #ICA #APSA

Big congratulations to Dr. @dbetakova.bsky.social, who defended her dissertation today with excellent results! Thank u so much to the reviewers @skruikemeier.bsky.social & @antoniskalog.bsky.social, & committee chair @desireeschmuck.bsky.social ! @hajoboo.bsky.social and I are more than proud. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨ Great studies ahead 👀 #CSS #polcom

What kinds of content do users themselves want to see moderated on platforms? 👀 Surprisingly, it's less about the incivility of language and more about authorial intention, target vulnerability and platform affordances /w @solecheler.bsky.social, @pia-p.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer 🙂 #ICA25 #PolComm

Another windowless room (but this time way bigger) in which I got to present first preliminary findings on how strategic politicians can *actually* be about their emotions in election campaigns 📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social

Just assumed this was a paraphrase but no our leaders really are this ridiculously absurdly awful... ¯\_🇺🇲_/¯

Special day today at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social with @itsjeggers.bsky.social defending her PhD dissertation 'The New(s) need for Authenticity. Digital signatures and content labels to promote authentic information in the online sphere'. Go Johanna 🍀 www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Now happening: @itsjeggers.bsky.social defends her phd @ddc-sdu.bsky.social with an impressive lineup of 5 studies in which she (and her co-authors) used social media diaries, eye tracking and behavioral experiments to study labels indicating the authenticity of visual content #veryCoolWork

👩‍🎓DDC PHD DEFENSE👩‍🎓 Happening now: our very own @itsjeggers.bsky.social defends her impressive 5-article thesis on "The New(s) Need for Authenticity". Opening words by @claesdevreese.bsky.social, questions by Nete Nørgaard Kristensen. Go Johanna! 😊👏❤️

What are the content-level characteristics of selectively avoided news? 🤔 @dbetakova.bsky.social presenting her impressive two-study research using computational text analysis and baysian modelling /w @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social at an engaging #ICA25 panel on news avoidance 👏

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver! From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

#ica25 chair tip - ASK people how to pronounce their name phonetically (even in email first) and/or ask AI how to pronounce it. There is really no excuse for people stumbling over names anymore. This is a matter of respect.

Today I was lucky enough to present my master‘s thesis on climate solutions journalism in the same panel at #ica25 as Kathryn Thier, who I cited so much in my thesis 😁 Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱 📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social

@lyngemoller.bsky.social presenting our paper on journalistic roles and AI in a panel on the complex relationship between tech & journalism #ica25 @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

☀️ Thrilled to be at #ICA25 in sunny Denver! Presented our paper on how news drives conspiracy beliefs w/ Peter Van Aelst. Grateful for the great discussion & proud of our YouVoice team – incl. Top Student Paper winners Matthias, @margotlissens.bsky.social, & @babettehermans.bsky.social! #75yearsICA

Attn #ICA25 tragically I lost an earring in the Hyatt Regency. It is a very cool earring. No reward except good karma but do let me know if you find it. :)