Using #ECREA2024 to soft launch our Volkswagen Stiftung project studying the relationship between media and polarization. Here, Mike Farjam presents a computational analysis of newspaper articles from Germany, Sweden & UK, but in the larger project we'll have also Poland & Spain

Today at #ecrea24, @louprsl presented our analyses on intermedia-agenda setting processes between social media and journalism in debates concerning disruptive climate protest -- great ending of the conference! With Michael Brüggemann (inaktiv#ausGründen)

63 algorithmic interventions designed to make #Facebook temporarily provide less polarizing and more reliable content likely distorted the data sets that Meta fed to academic researchers and helped get publish with Meta employees as co-authors. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Had a great time presenting work I did about automated hypocrisy accusations detection with Hendrik Meyer @_paugc @myrthereuver ankekat1000 and Xiaoyue Yan at #KONVENS in Vienna! We were excited to see our LLM models did well at identifying allegations of hypocrisy.

How does #polarisation manifest in media & communication at breaking points? Our new icsjournal article identifies 5 key symptoms of destructive polarisation🔓: rb.gy/fp5akv co-a's: Tariq Choucair, sam vilkins, Sebastian Svegaard, Axel Bruns, Carly Lubicz, Kate O'Connor.