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In a new correspondence in nature, I argue that regulations should mandate data access for social media researchers: nature.com/articles/d4158…

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…

The ANTS 2024 proceedings are online! Find them here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #swarm #robotics #optimization #ant #konstanz

My article on Generative AI and Sociology is out now in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World! I explore the applications of GenAI across computational, qualitative, and experimental research, and discuss important issues including bias, reliability, and interpretability. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Universiteterne uddanner i dag primært til det private arbejdsmarked. Over 60% af kandidatuddannede arbejder i det private erhvervsliv, og siden 2015 er væksten her dobbelt så stor som i det offentlige. Det er dog stadig en vigtig opgave for universiteterne at uddanne til den

Breaking: Meta just changed how it sends WhatsApp, Instagram & Facebook data to Deutsche Telekom internet customers. That might not sound exciting, but it's a actually big deal. I wrote about what's happening & what's at stake: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/09/a… #netneutrality

Sammenholdt med erhvervslivets ønske om flere dygtige kandidater er det svært at se meningen med en #kandidatreform, der både fjerner 2700 kandidater og samtidig forkorter 25% af de resterende kandidatuddannelser med et år. Please make it make sense 🤔 politiken.dk/danmark/art100…

Misinformation more likely to be believed by ideological extreme... Study: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva… "...users who are both exposed & receptive to believing false news tend to have more extreme ideologies." "...interventions are only modestly effective at reducing exposure among

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New article in Journal of Communication on changes to trust in news across 46 countries in last 10 years. Trust declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar… Thread:

Has structural change in the media environment – rise of platforms and decline of offline media – contributed to eroding trust in news? In new piece of research led by Richard Fletcher, we show it has, highlighting decline of TV and the rise of social academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar… 1/4

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

Misinformation isn't a general condition resulting from social media: it's an expression of a deliberate political strategy pursued by the populist radical right. 🧵 Paper out now in The International Journal of Press/Politics. with Juliana Chueri doi.org/10.1177/194016…

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Facebook News Feed is not a black box. Changes to the algorithm can reduce user engagement with news content, particularly with hard news content. The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

ONLINE FIRST! How have Facebook’s News Feed algorithm changes (2011-2020) impacted user engagement with news content? This study by Naoise McNally and Marco T Bastos finds that changes to the algorithm reduced user engagement with news content. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…