📣 New year, new job alerts 📣 The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense 🇩🇰 is hiring a PhD and postdoc in an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” at an interdisciplinary and international workplace. 🌐

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 🎉from the Media Psychology Division of the DGPs! We wish everyone a happy and successful 2026. Some activities and opportunities in our community were already highlighted in our December newsletter, in case you missed it:

5 days left to register for the Winter Writing School! ❄️✍️ The Workshop is jointly organized by MiRezFo (DGPuK) and #MediaPsych youth representatives —designed to help junior scholars make progress on their writing projects. Free of charge + 2 travel grants (150 €)! 👉 Sign up kurzly.de/wvsce

Boost your writing this winter! ❄️✍️ We’re thrilled to launch our first-ever Winter Writing Workshop, jointly organized by MiRezFo (DGPuK) and Media Psych youth representatives —designed to help junior scholars make progress on their writing projects. 👉 Sign up by Dec.15th: forms.gle/kPBUDZsVfyHh...

🚀 Call for Applications: Fellowships & Working Groups 🚀 @cais-research.bsky.social is now accepting applications for innovative projects exploring the societal impact of #digitaltransformation. Open to experts from academia and practice, all career stages, disciplines, and research approaches. 🔎👩‍💻📈

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Two PhD positions in an @erc.europa.eu project at @uni-muenster.de with @thorstenquandt.bsky.social om "Dark Nerd Communities". Check out and share! 👇

Please consider submitting a paper to our special issue in the Journal Entertainment Computing (Elsevier): Digital Worlds, Real Impact - The Evolving Role of Games in Society. Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026. The full call can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📢 Call for blog posts! The #DiversPrivat project is looking for short articles, opinions & creative pieces on diversity-sensitive online privacy. Deadline: 14 Dec 2025. Submit (DE/EN) to: [email protected] 👉 privacy4all.de/blog

@hannahdecker.bsky.social is a postdoc at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social . She holds a PhD from @unidue.bsky.social, for which she analysed online political campaigning on social media and the role of personalised content. Currently, she focuses on positive effects of #digitalmedia and #medialiteracy.

Great opportunity! Professorship in Communications Sciences with a Concentration on Change and Innovation in Communication. Start: August 2027 Where: @ikmz.bsky.social Infos: 👇

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 @tilburg-university.bsky.social is looking for a Full professor of Communication, Cognition, and Information. You can find the full description here. 👇 urlr.me/qUpCMS

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social is a PhD candidate and researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on digital disconnection, mental heatlh, digital self-regulation, technology use at work, and intensive longitudinal methods.

@dpossler.bsky.social is a Postdoc at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) at @hmtmh.bsky.social. His research focuses on the use and effects of (digital) media, e.g. how and why digital media offer meaningful entertainment experiences as well as methodological research.

@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.

Özen Odağ, Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin, studies how media can impact users’ identity, political agency, values, and beliefs, especially in vulnerable groups. As Chair, she plans to embed topics like digital resilience, media literacy, and social responsibility in the division.

@romohseni.bsky.social is a postdoc in the #MediaPsychology and Media Design group at TU Ilmenau. He holds a PhD from the University of Osnabrueck, for which he experimentally investigated in-game aggression and helping. His current research focuses on sexist online hate speech on video platforms.

📣Job alert 📣 11 positions for PhD candidates (100%) open in the RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age"(Wuerzburg). You can apply for 3 areas: ✅ Immersive virtual reality ✅New (Para-)Social Encounters ✅Epistemic challenges Topics: VR/XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation 👇

The newly elected young scholar representatives of the @dgps.bsky.social met up to start their work. 💪 For the #mediapsych division @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @janadreston.bsky.social will be representing young scholars wishes and needs and bring their perspective into the association. 📢

! JOB ALERT ! 👇 The @rptu.bsky.social is looking for a Professor of Political Psychology.

Returned from this year's #MediaPsych25 conference in Duisburg with lots of inspiration, food for thought, & new ideas (note to self: no, you cannot start 2 more projects). Got valuable feedback on my theoretical work on #disengagement - why & how do users stop exposure? @mepsy.bsky.social (1/3)

New division chairs incoming! #MePsych25 marked the end of the chair team's term. Huge thanks to @lenafrescamente.bsky.social(Chair), @stephanwinter.bsky.social(Vice Chair), @romohseni.bsky.social(Treasurer), @dpossler.bsky.social & @lunafrauhammer.bsky.social(ECR Representatives) for their work!

And this year’s #mepsy25 best paper award goes to Marie Sophie Hunze and colleagues! 👏👏👏

Prof. Dr. Adrian Meier (FAU WiSo) hat als einer von zwei Forschern der FAU einen Starting Grant des European Research Councils (ERC) zugesprochen bekommen. Für ihre Projekte werden beide Forscher mit jeweils 1,5 Millionen Euro gefördert. 👏 Weitere Infos hier: go.fau.de/1cad @adrianmeier.bsky.social

🚨TODAYS #mepsy25 POSTER SESSION WILL BE MOVED TO 5.45 pm 🚨

Excited to be attending @mepsy.bsky.social #MePsy25 for the first time, this week! I’ll be sharing work in progress & findings from 3 projects on: (1) online risks and digital literacy (interviews) (2) digital disconnection discourses (NLP) (3) digital trace data methods (position) ⬇️ for details:

Doug will present our current project on digital #disconnection discourses at the #MediaPsych25 conference this Thursday! @mepsy.bsky.social @chrdrn.bsky.social @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @dougaparry.bsky.social

Kicking off #MePsy25 by @mepsy.bsky.social with a look into the future: at the doctoral workshop (organized by @germanneubaum.bsky.social and @sabinetrepte.bsky.social ), the next gen of media psychologists will discuss their dissertations with mentors & peers &get insights into all things academia

Always wonderful to be at #MediaPsych. Thank you to @germanneubaum.bsky.social and his @unidue.bsky.social team who arranged such a strong conference!

🏆 The Media Psychology Division is once again awarding its Best Paper Award! We’re recognizing the best media psychology article published in a peer-reviewed journal since Jan 1, 2023. Prize: €500 Deadline: June 30, 2025 Details below ⬇️

It'll be here soon! Register now for #MediaPsych25!

🎉 Registration is now open for MediaPsych 2025! 📍Duisburg | 📅 Sept 10–12, 2025 Register now via the conftool: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... #MePsy25 #AcademicSky

🚨EVENT ALERT🚨 PhD students and postdocs with an interest in futuristic (social scientific) research are cordially invited to the 2025 Summer School "How much science is in science fiction?" at #TUChemnitz (August 28-29) 👩‍🚀 Great keynotes, workshops, & discussions await! Deadline + Event Website ⤵️

🚀 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...

Two phd positions on media effects in Germany‘s capital!

Jobs! Susanne Baumgartner @ascor.bsky.social is hiring a PhD student and a Post doc for her new project "The Effect of Digital Media on Youth" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... And werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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...

🔎 #MediaPsych In meinem Team an der @unidue.bsky.social suchen wir Verstärkung in Form einer Doktorand:in-Stelle (100%) im Bereich Medienpsychologie mit Fokus auf Bildung, Politik, Moral und vieles mehr! www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Bitte an geeignete Kandidat:innen weiterleiten!

This looks like such a great event on #openscience and #theory! Full programme available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1GvGh...

Pretty excited about this one. For several years, @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social has partnered with @mepsy.bsky.social on various conference programs, from debate panels and open science competitions to special collections directly in the journal. We'd love to see your submissions, folks! See in you DE.

A few facts and thoughts on fact-checking 🧵 • Fact-checking is NOT in opposition to free speech and debates. It is a significant contribution to public discourse. • Fact-checking works. Research shows how fact-checking can affect public perceptions and contribute to corrective mechanisms. [1/4]

Submissions to #mediapsych25 are open!

Curious about what German-speaking media psychologists and our international friends are up to? Then this list might be for you. go.bsky.app/V9A2gEp You are a member/friend and we've forgotten you? We're sorry! Please comment and we'll add you.

We have *very* exiting news to share - we are inviting applications for a full professorship in digital communication - comw work with us on the digital future of democracy and society #jobAlert #academicSky @mepsy.bsky.social @polcomm.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social @icacat.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/CgiYns4 Hey, FYP addicts! Join into this list if you’ve got your scholarly sights set on TikTok—or if you just want to keep tabs on those who do! 🔎✨

These are pretty good tips! Especially about creating a real profile, investing some start energy, exploring starter packs, and getting used to a low-algorithm space 🦋🌈 #academicsky #academicchatter #commsky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

My very first dissertation paper is 🚨 now published 🚨 in JCMC! With @aliciagilbert.bsky.social and @adrianmeier.bsky.social we investigate motivations for digital disconnection in the moment. You can find the open access paper here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc...

Great opportunity for a PhD in Media Psychology -- consider applying!

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Am 11. April im 📽️Livestream: Wie verändern #ChatGPT und Co. unser Berufsleben, unseren Alltag, unsere Gesellschaft? Darum geht es in einer #Podiumsdiskussion (auf Englisch) mit hochkarätigen Expert*innen, zu der das IWM alle Interessierten einlädt. Moderation: @ewo.name. ⬇️