AI producing news? Interesting article in Nau.ch about @chanel1_ai's AI journalism featuring our own Tobias Rohrbach. Article here: nau.ch/news/amerika/k…

How should we think about the role of bots in digital memory communication? Check out this conceptual contribution by Mykola Makhortykh. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

How does AI influence what information Swiss citizens see during public vote or electoral campaigns? Check out this new white paper with Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Maryna Sydorova & Hannah Schoch together with Reatch reatch.ch/publikationen/…

📢 How consumes hyperpartisan, alternative & conspiracy media and how do they access them? New publication by Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh and Silke Adam. Out now in Political Communication 📓: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 New research by Chiara Valli in Switzerland & the US reveals that political incivility may not always hinder message persuasiveness, especially among populist voters🪧 and darker personality 😈 doi.org/10.1111/pops.1…

🚨 out now: "Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information" with our own Silke Adam, Mykola Makhortykh, Ernesto de León and colleagues. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Russia's war on Ukraine has laid waste to several cities. In this open access paper, Mykola Makhortykh uses forms of digital mapping to track the impact of the war on urban scpaces in Ukraine. trialog-journal.de/en/journals/tr…

Eine Beitrag mit wissenschaftlicher Einordnung von Mykola Makhortykh zu Trumps Friedenspläne in der Ukrainie: blick.ch/ausland/als-us…

🚨 new publication: How should digital platforms be archived? Mykola Makhortykh and colleagues discuss the ethics and practices in archiving communication platforms, such as telegram, during Russia's war in Ukraine. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Just out! Mykola Makhortykh and colleagues discuss the potential of digital archives in memorializing mass atrocities in this white paper. gsp.yale.edu/white-paper-ar…

🎉Big congratulations to Tobias Rohrbach (Tobias Rohrbach) for winning the Dissertation Award 2024 Swiss Assoc. of Communication and Media Research! 🎖️ #SGKM2024

Happy to have our paper on user attitudes to content moderation in web search finally out in CSCW proceedings! It's open access too (thx to the generous publication agreements of University of Zurich :)dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Wie gut informieren ChatGPT & Co über die EU-Wahlen? Massig gut. Details in diesem Artikel mit Einordnung von Mykola Makhortykh und Aleksandra Urman : correctiv.org/aktuelles/2024…

🚨Is #incivility persuasive? You bet (for some)! Check out the Society for Personality and Social Psychology blog about our recent paper for Political Psychology with Chiara Vargiu & Chiara Valli Blog: tinyurl.com/k9e7z2m8 Original paper: tinyurl.com/ytadhvcs Open data: osf.io/e28xh/

The latest issue of The SPREAD is now out: tinyurl.com/yz9amut3 Articles on #biobanking for #biopreparedness, #PathogensProject, conspiracies theories gone wild?, #microbiota & #malaria and PhD student interviews

Thank you to all contributors!: Dr Filippa Lentzos, Aline Dousse, Stephen Leib, Jörg Jores, Tobias Rohrbach, Silke Adam, Melanie Schmid, Jule Ksinsik, Negar Vahdani Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Institute of Comm. and Media Studies (UniBE), IZB_unibern, Universität Bern #TheSPREAD

✨Out now with Chiara Valli and Mykola Makhortykh (Institute of Comm. and Media Studies (UniBE))! ✨ We reevaluate the relationship between personality and political news consumption, finding large differences across self-reported and webtracked measures. 🔗 Check it out: shorturl.at/3oFMl

How is AI Involved in how we write and think the history of the Holocaust? See this white paper for the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 by Mykola Makhortykh below for answers. unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…

Really comprehensive dive into the research Chiara Valli Mykola Makhortyhk and I have done on personality, news consumption, and misreporting. 👇 Via Nieman Lab niemanlab.org/2024/06/does-c…

🚩 publication out: Tobias Rohrbach investigates the incongruity between stereotpyes of women and political leaders. Paper Political Behavior: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Full thread below.