As the Deadline for the MISDOOM 2024 in Münster is fast approaching, a quick reminder that you can still submit your research on disinformation related subjects over at 2024.misdoom.org! More details below: 1/4

JOB ALERT 📢 We're hiring a PhD student at Digital Democracy Centre Syddansk Universitet for an exciting project titled 'High-choice platform environments and the spreading of intolerance' supervised by Lena Frischlich ➡️🟦🌤 Read more about the position here shorturl.at/byNQW

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 One of my dissertation papers published full access in Javnost-The Public 🎉 It’s a theory piece in which I develop a concept of “anti-systemic counterpublics” to study various forms of non-subordinate counterpublics 1/4

📢 New Publication! Aytalina, Nicola Righetti, & Annie Waldherr @[email protected]’s paper on connective protest-repression dynamics and coordination patterns on Russian Twitter is out in New Media & Society 🎉 #CSS #commscience Read open-access 👇 bit.ly/3Ksu8AI

This year, the AlterPublics #ICA24 team consists of Jakob Bæk Kristensen and Frederik Henriksen // @[email protected]. We've just finished the two-day hackingcommsci which involved a dangerous amount of coding as well as meeting great new people! Now, time for the main conference 🎉 1/3

The best news from Down under! Congrats, Jakob Bæk Kristensen 🎉 we’re so lucky to have you on the AlterPublics team

Looking for a good academic summer read? Bengt Johansson and @JesperStromback from Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg compare how political alternative media and mainstream news media covered the 2022 Swedish election campaign. doi.org/10.7146/journa…

Based on research with Eva Mayerhöffer and Jakob Bæk Kristensen, I have crafted a small piece on anti-systemic movements during the pandemic. Thanks to Mattia Zulianello for reaching out and the brilliant editors at The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR for a smooth review process! #populism #antisystemness

Looking for a postdoc position and interested in constructive journalism and climate change? Morten Skovsgaard I are looking for a talented communication researcher with an interest in experimental research to join our SoJOUR project. Application DL 1 Sep. …sd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Really comprehensive dive into the research Chiara Valli Mykola Makhortyhk and I have done on personality, news consumption, and misreporting. 👇 Via Nieman Lab niemanlab.org/2024/06/does-c…

Reposting this! Post-doc position on one of my projects at DIGSUM Umeå University. Deadline 23 Aug.

It’s a wrap for #ecprgc24 in lovely Dublin. Together with Frederik Henriksen // @[email protected], we presented two AlterPublics papers on information flows from fringe to mainstream platforms and anti-systemic discourse in digital far-right information environments.

✨New publication out (OA)!✨We show how the phenomenon alternative news media serves as a boundary marker for established journalists and editors in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to reaffirm what "real" journalism is about. @leifhp, AlterPublics doi.org/10.1080/146167…

The German interior ministry has recently tried to ban right-wing news outlet COMPACT. But who accesses alt. news sources and what is their relationship to conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda? Sebastian Stier Patrick Zerrer, H. Rauxloh & I had a look: doi.org/10.1080/088381…

Book review 📚 How influencers and algorithms mobilize propaganda — and distort reality go.nature.com/4eceoyH

Very interesting study that sheds new light on the discussion on news exposure, echo chambers and self-selection, showing that specifically for political news and in several countries exposure is quite segregated, by Sebastian Stier and colleagues GESIS @gesisorg.bsky.social : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Great to gather almost the entire _journalistica editorial board at #ECREA2024. @LeneHeiselberg Kristoffer Holt Leif H. Pedersen Steffen Moestrup Mette Bengtsson Miriam Kroman Brems Cecilia Arregui Aske Kammer @ Bluesky and Mastodon Karoline Ihlebæk and special guest Dr. Maarit Jaakkola

Great ending to a great conference day at #ECREA2024: Jakob Bæk Kristensen presents our AlterPublics paper on info. flows from fringe to mainstream platforms in a panel on extremist narratives with superb colleagues Pablo Jost - deactivated Leyla Dogruel Mike Cowburn Jullietta Stoencheva Karolina Bielikova

I debatten om algoritmers betydning for den offentlige samtale på sociale medier bør vi ikke glemme de digitale meningsdannere. Influencere, samfundsdebattører, alternative nyhedskanaler og debatgrupper har stor indflydelse på, hvad vi præsenteres for på sociale medier 1/2

Are you interested in social science methods training? Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at the Weizenbaum Institute Weizenbaum-Institut: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/method…