🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

New paper on algorithmic gatekeeping & news engagement out at JOC! Lucien Heitz, @masurphil.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com & me ran a 1-week long field experiment to test if we can nudge people to read (and learn from) environmental news. doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

📣 It's #DNR day. Which means that one of the most important report on news in the digital age has been published. It contains data from 40+ countries 🙏. Some findings from the executive summary 👇🧵 @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field. 📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET). 📍 SPUI25 (or stream online). ➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...

🚨 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

🇪🇺 Why and How the European Union is protecting our right to access diversity of news diets online? Check the answers on the video summary of the first Symposium on Diversity of News Media Diets and its Effects on Democratic Citizenship. diversitynewsdiets.blog

In their silence against Trump, business leaders are saying their fear and idolatry of the dollar trumps all. Their silence is cowardice. www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

🚨New blog: 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐈 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 The question of whether & how to disclose AI use in news & journalism remains a unresolved issue. We offer 5 perspectives from research(-in-progress) 👇 medium.com/p/0969b3bcc489

Musks pronatalisme is onderdeel van de longtermisme-'filosofie', een ideologie met heel veel (eugenetische, racistische, anti-democratische) haken en ogen. Ik schreef er een langer stuk over: www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20220125-mar... (Erg veel zelfpromotie vandaag, sorry not sorry).

The Future of News Consumption panel at the @algosoc.org Conference featuring @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social. Some key takeaways 👇🧵

Stoked to finally see my research from the last four years in book form 😍

Happy to share my first solo-authored paper - now published in the Journal of Media Psychology. In this experiment, I investigated how thematic vs episodic news frames influence learning and explored the role of individual framing preferences in these effects. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

Today! The University of Amsterdam strikes against budget cuts in higher education 🆘 @woinactie.bsky.social @eppobruins.bsky.social www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says. TIME Magazine cover says it all (from 2017) www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

German digital campaigning is so weird. There's a fraction over three weeks to the election, and the biggest parties are doing *nothing* with digital ads. E.g. SPD and CDU are spending around 1/20th of what Labour and the Tories were spending in the UK with three weeks to go last summer.

Who could have guessed that DeepSeek is not the best place for learning about Taiwan's history and political leaders... Surprising though that even Chinese history brought up a filter unless specifically prompted to give me something uncontroversial.

🚨New publication Our new study, w/Sophie Morosoli & @aimediademlab.bsky.social folks, explores users' attitudes twd (generative) AI in journalism. What are perceived benefits and concerns? And what are individual acts of resistance against the application of AI? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two quick updates on the AfD on X after Musk took over: 1) The boost I highlighted late last week build down to Alice Weidel "suddenly" gaining a lot of impressions, after being boosted by Musk's engagement. Here's what this does to the cumulative sum of impressions. Zoom in on last week 📈 ...

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

What better way to start posting here than drumming up some excitement for #Etmaal2024. I'll be presenting insights from a two-week long field experiment where we nudged readers to engage with and learn from news on the environment. See you there!

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/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

🚨 PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT 🚨 We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences 150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them! Wanna know more? peerreviewstudy.com Plz repost!

Okay, Bluesky, here we go: We published a policy paper on #DSA40 today, with 20 points for successful researcher access to platform data #DigitalServicesAct: It must be fair, free, and accessible. commsky DE: doi.org/10.34669/wi.... EN: doi.org/10.34669/wi.... Support it: forms.gle/BbrpeFb4BTFy...

Die CSU hat in letzten 30 Tagen knapp 100.000 EUR für Facebook & Insta-Werbung ausgegeben. Die #NoAfD versucht dort Bundeswehrangehörige & 👩‍🚒👨‍🚒 anzusprechen. @favstats.bsky.social & @whotargetsme.bsky.social haben tolles Targeting-Dashboard zur #ltwby hingestellt favstats.github.io/LTW2023/baye...