Twitter’s users are not representative of the wider population As the chart shows, audiences using Twitter for news are more likely to be men, and tend to be more well-off, well-educated and more interested in news and politics More in the piece below reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/heres-wha…

Audiences who follow climate news every week are more likely to think people are affected by climate change now This is one of the findings of a report by Waqas Ejaz, PhD📊 @MitaliLive Richard Fletcher with data from 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇵🇰🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪 #COP28 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-change… 🧵10 charts below

I’ve written this piece for the FT about the challenges we face globally with disinformation and the urgent need of a systematic approach to address the root causes of the creation and spread of disinformation, and the positive opportunities that offers.

🚨New paper: In "A Panel Study on the Dynamics of Social Media Use and Conspiracy Thinking" (MediaPsychMEP), we probe the nature of the relationship between social media use and conspiracy thinking. Available at: doi.org/10.1080/152132… Ungated: osf.io/gc5wy/ A 🧵...

🚨 #publicationalert Our systematic review on #misinformation interventions by Tobias Rothmund and me is finally available at Journal of Media Psychology. Here some key findings... econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Our new paper describes that "The Identity-based Model of Political Belief" and explains how social identity shapes information processing and contributes to the belief and spread of #misinformation Partisanship involves cognitive and motivational aspects that shape party

How do people perceive #science and its role in society? Do they #trust scientists? 🧑🏾‍🔬 We did a global 67-country survey (n=71,417) to test this, working with 239 researchers from all continents – the #TISP #ManyLabs study. It’s now available as #preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

In the coming months, we will publish the global #TISP dataset (n=71,417 in 67 countries) on: - public perceptions of #science 👩‍🔬 - science #communication behavior 🗣️ - #climate change attitudes 🌍 This #preprint provides more information on our dataset: osf.io/preprints/psya…

How do people use #social #media if they overestimate their knowledge about scientific topics like #COVID19? Our new study shows: In 🇩🇪🇹🇼, overestimation is not linked to social media exposure, but to more engagement – and to #populist views of #science 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Our recent preprint on trust in scientists was featured in nature News 📰 Thanks for reporting about it Carissa Wong ! nature.com/articles/d4158…

📢 I am very excited that our paper “Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Online News Consumption during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic” is now published! 🎉👍 @Yannis_Theo Jan Zilinsky Franziska Pradel (see thread 🧵⬇️)

Freude an Kommunikationswissenschaft, Onlineforschung und Methoden? In meinem Team in Münster ist eine Stelle zu besetzen. Wir untersuchen die Raumzeit von Likes 👍, #hashtags und 💬 Kommentaren🙂 stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/4e2… @[email protected] DGPuK Methoden

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

After we developed the concept of "source proximity," Mark Coddington and I wondered if outlets could be distinguished by their mix of sources and evidence: Do alternative media also have alternative epistemologies? Our research suggests yes: tandfonline.com/eprint/BA2FNWD…

📢 Our new study that digs into the Facebook-content of alternative media across five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, UK, US) has just been published #OpenAccess 📢

Jüngst wird viel geredet über #TikTok-Dominanz der #AfD und deren (möglichen) Einfluss auf #Europawahlen. Oft ohne empirische Belege. Unsere Daten (Befragung, Mai/Juni, 2879 👥) zeigen einen Zusammenhang (≠Effekt!) zwischen der Informationsnutzung und #AfD-Präferenz.

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

Am IfK der Uni Münster starten wir eine neue Studie im Bereich Journalismusforschung.🧑‍🔬🎙️📻🎥 Es geht darum, online einen journ. Artikel zu einem spannenden Thema zu lesen und zu bewerten.👍👎 ⏰10min⏰ Freue mich über jede Beteiligung!🙏 Gern teilen! Zur Studie➡️t.ly/JAYFG

New Study with @die_Gwen and Julia Metag finds: Negative evaluations of topic-specific coverage such as migration do not lead to a loss of trust in the media in general. More in the paper here: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Interesting new study with three-wave panel data examining the relationship between hostile media perceptions and trust in news by Florian Wintterlin @die_Gwen Julia Metag ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…