The GRIPES project CLASP, University of Gothenburg SOM-institutet WASP-HS welcomes Gregor Rettenegger to Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg this fall to pursue a PhD in the media studies program on political dogwhistles in the context of AI and social media. Gregor will bridge media studies and NLP in an interdisciplinary collab

Very happy to announce that You Are Here, co-authored with @rmmilner, will be available from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social on March 2! We finished the book as 2020 unfolded; as a perfect project bookend, we wrote our foreword the day after the election, still unsure who won mitpress.mit.edu/books/you-are-…

Our last PNAS Paper explores the key differences between the main social media platforms and how they are likely to influence information spreading and echo chambers’ formation. Feed algorithms may burst polarization. PNASNews Sapienza Università di Roma pnas.org/content/118/9/…

Very happy that my latest article "Dog whistling far-right code words: the case of ‘culture enricher' on the Swedish web" is now out and available open access in Information, Communication and Society icsjournal. Check it out! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨🚨How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics 🚨🚨 All colleagues that are interested in (communication) dynamics, such as the Reinforcing Spirals Model, please have a look at this nice paper in Journal of Communication 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️ academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar… /1

"Choosing an appropriate statistical model to analyze reciprocal relations between individuals’ attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors over time can be challenging." Thomas et al. explore longitudinal models in their recent JoC article. Read it here: glimpse.link/l/OjUpWwF

📢📽️1/2 The UK will convene the world’s first Global Vaccine Confidence Summit on 2 June as part of our #G7UK Presidency to help bring an end to the pandemic and protect lives around the world 💉#globalvaccineconfidence #GVCSummit

Think you have what it takes to GO VIRAL? Learn about the tactics used by misinformers in this fun 5-minute game by Sander van der Linden and the folks at Cambridge University. goviralgame.com/en #ScienceUpFirst

correction of misperceptions of the views of outpartisans & invitations to think about interpartisan friendships reliably reduce affective polarization, but do not reduce support for undemocratic practices, undemocratic candidates, or partisan violence osf.io/7evmp

Feel free to check out that summary of the paper with Nicky Krause, dietram a. scheufele, and dominique brossard on #anxiety and believing and sharing true, false, and fact-checked info on #COVID19. And if you're interested in the details, here's the paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Register today for the 3rd Weizenbaum Conference entitled "Democracy in Flux", to be held 17-18 June. Keynote speaker Daniel Ziblatt | Harvard University WZB will present "The Boomerang Effect: The Paradoxical Effect of Digital Technologies on Democracy". 👉 weizenbaum-conference.de

In Austria's DER STANDARD derstandard.at/story/20001270…, reporting on the indigenous children's graves in Canada leads to a comment thread mainly on atheism vs. Catholicism, with a subtext of deflection from minority and indigenous rights.

Folgen der von Integrationsministerin Susanne Raab präsentierten "Islam-Landkarte": Ein @falter_at Leser hat mehrere dieser Tafeln in Wien entdeckt, in Meidling und in der Praterstraße.

Just received Howard Tumber’s and silviowaisbord new edited book on Media Disinformation and Populism. Thankyou for the opportunity to contribute two chapters on alternative media and journalistic responses to misinformation with Maria Kyriakidou Declan McDowell-Naylor - account on hiatus and Richard Thomas

Wer vorbereitet Thomas auf sein Pöbel-Leben? #öbag #schmid #OEVPkrise #Ruecktritt

"Man sollte akzeptieren, wenn die Zeit gekommen ist zu gehen": Armin Laschet empfiehlt Sebastian Kurz zurückzutreten

Posting DER STANDARD: „wieder a Arbeitsloser mehr im Waldviertel..............“ derstandard.at/permalink/p/10… :D

New preprint w/Jakob-Moritz Eberl: COVID-19 vaccination created affective polarization around strong social identities. In Austria, these were stronger than partisanship, and linked to extensive stereotyping as well as pandemic-related attitudes + behaviour. See: osf.io/zcas8/

Internet: USA und EU wollen Freiheiten im Netz gegen China und Russland absichern handelsblatt.com/politik/intern…

Incredibly happy to announce that our book on "Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research" is finally out! 🥳 The volume contains 27 great articles by amazing colleagues from numerous disciplines and countries. And it's #openaccess!! Check it out! digitalcommunicationresearch.de/v12/