Quick reminder that we have a great workshop coming up with @MasurPhil 🔥 if you ever wondered how your analytical choices might impact your results (and what to do about it 😎), this is for you!

STELLENAUSSCHREIBUNG! 📢 Wir suchen im DFG-Projekt „Empirische Analysen zum konstruktiven Journalismus“ ab Januar 2024 einen Post-Doc (100%, befristet auf 3 Jahre). Bewerbung bis zum 20. November. Mehr Infos: 👇 polkom.ifp.uni-mainz.de/files/2023/10/…

Automated image generators are often accused of spreading harmful stereotypes. We wanted to find out how biased different tools are and compared the results when using the same prompt across MidJourney, Kandinsky and Adobe Firefly. algorithmwatch.org/en/image-gener…

You in September: “let’s finish these projects no later than the end of November, so we can all enjoy a restful December” You in late November:

Large swaths of different kinds of elites continue to be invested in the narrative that the defining problem of our time isn't how elites exercise power and use their privileges but... the public's supposed susceptibility to misinformation? Funny how that deflects responsibility

Check out this R Shiny App designed to explore causality and multiple regression: pitt.shinyapps.io/Rottman_Causal… This tool helps you understand possible relationships between variables, including noise, confusion, alternative effects, mediation, and interaction/moderation. A very nice

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

Job alert: University Assistant Postdoc in the field of Computational Communication Science, work with @Annie_Waldherr, starting from 1.11.2024, hours: 40, limited until 31.10.2030 - Link: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University…

Our Digital News Report 2024 is out! 📊 47 markets 🌏 95,000 respondents ✍️ Authored by nicnewman Richard Fletcher Craig T. Robertson Amy Ross Arguedas Rasmus Kleis Nielsen & our partners 📱Explore now reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r… 🧵Findings in thread #DNR24

Come work with us! Full-time open-rank position of Professor in Digital Journalism at our department DCM Uni Fribourg SES UNIFR Uni Fribourg. The appointment begins in autumn 2025. Deadline for applications: 22 September 2024. Further information: unifr.ch/dcm/de/assets/…

🚨(Finally) out now in Communication Research: Distinguishing Person-Specific from Situation-Specific Variation in Media Use - A Meta-Analysis

💡Job Alert: Am Lehrbereich von @RuthFestl ist zum 1.12.2024 eine PhD-Stelle im Projekt „AWARE: Mental Health Portrayals on Social Media and Implications on Adolescents’ Awareness and Well-being“ zu vergeben. Bewerbungsschluss ist am 30.09.2024. Mehr unter job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/211…

Ist es wahrscheinlich, dass TikTok wesentlich zum Ergebnis der AfD beigetragen hat? Nicht wirklich. Und diese Analyse kann dazu auch keine Aussage machen. Ein paar (kritische/fragende) Anmerkungen 🧵1/ tagesschau.de/inland/regiona…

Für unser Team an Standort Mainz suchen wir zum 01.02.2025 oder früher eine*n Doktorand*in (TV-L 13, 75%, 36 Monate). Bewerbungsschluss: 31.10.2024. (medienstruktur.ifp.uni-mainz.de/anna-schnauber…)

My first preprint!🎉 Testing #MMT in the naturalistic setting of algorithmically curated music streaming, we find no effects of algorithmic curation & few mood-congruent effects, challenging MMT 👉 osf.io/preprints/psya… Felix Dietrich (@[email protected]) Benedikt Rohr Leonard Reinecke, Michael Scharkow