🚨 Call for Papers🚨 Together with Aqsa Farooq I am editing a special issue of International Journal of Communication on Generative AI and disinformation. Details below, DL December 31, 2024 CfP builds on our European Digital Media Observatory scientific conference held at ASCoR | @[email protected] UvA Amsterdam 👉🏽edmo.eu/edmo-news/call…

📢Three weeks to the kickoff: 8 July. All is set to welcome the fabulous Class of 2024! 🎖 Check the lucky ones here: polcomm.unimi.it/about/particip… #MilanPolComm24 APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions Frank Esser Brian Weeks Kate Kenski Scott Althaus Eike Mark Rinke Sebastián Valenzuela Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Moran Yarchi Curd Knüpfer

Tonight I'm staying up late to discuss visual disinformation in the age of AI with my fantastic co-panelists Jaime Banks Kaiping Chen Michael Hameleers Saifuddin Ahmed and Jiyoung Lee! Unfortunately I can't be there physically - but I hope I'll be there mentally 😅🕓🕒

Another recap from friends joining remotely

Good morning 🌅 Now presenting our work on “The Effects of Different Forms of Visual Disinformation” w/Jana Laura Egelhofer & Sophie Lecheler Feeling slightly jet lagged - but I guess that makes the remote #ica24 experience all the more authentic 😅

Thank you to the APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions division for the Top Student Paper Award 😍 and a big thank you to my co-authors (and former supervisors 🥲) Jana Laura Egelhofer and Sophie Lecheler for supporting me with this paper and everything else ❤️

Big news! 📣 Super excited to return to Amsterdam to work with Claes de Vreese Marina Tulin (@marinatulin.bsky.social) and Michael Hameleers as a postdoc in the BENEDMO_hub Looking forward to joining this great team and seeing many familiar faces ASCoR | @[email protected] 🤗🌷🚲

Super interesting 9.00AM session about Trusting (...) News Media (#ica24), with Lina Buttgereit (ASCoR | @[email protected]) presenting her new taxonomy of online media critique and delegitimization by political actors.

🧨Thrilled to receive the "Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year Award" APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions with my co-authors Sang Jung Kim and Isabel Villanueva! I feel SO proud to see my former & current UW–Madison students growing into amazing stars!! Our article is 👇Welcome your suggestions! #ica24

Watching right now 🤓

Excited to join the APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions team and to start my tenure as the Student & Early Career Representative! Thank you very much Ernesto de León and best of luck in the ICA board elections 🤞🤞🤞

We have a new post-doc position in our research team at the University of Klagenfurt: jobs.aau.at/job/postdoc-as… It is a very supportive work environment and there is some degree of flexibility with the start date of the position. Feel free to contact me for insider insights!

🌟New Pub Alert with Nathan Walter, Jameson Hayes Guy Golan! Ever wondered if social media influencers "really" influence? Our meta-analysis compares influencers with other strategies and uncovers the "sweet spot" where influencer marketing truly excels. 🔗doi.org/10.1177/205630…

Azade presented a paper on user identity linkage exploring how far right actors exploit different social media platform affordances to form cross-platform communities 🧐 co-authored w/ Frederik Henriksen // @[email protected] Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam Marvin Stecker (@[email protected]) Alexander Dalheimer Annie Waldherr @[email protected] #ecprgc24

Grateful for the opportunity to present my work European Consortium for Political Research General Conference in Dublin! #ecprgc24 Political Communication

Many thanks to Political Communication Olga Eisele Martina Novotná Alena Kluknavska for putting together the panel on social media & their influence on crisis dynamics 🙌 Special thanks to Karolina Bielikova for the feedback and for motivating me to continue working on this project 🙏 #ecprgc24

📢 New Publication📢 Selina Noetzel, Alice Binder, & Jörg Matthes test experimentally whether citizens can be enabled to more critically evaluating targeted political ads via video-based training (& depending on targeting disclosure + political fit). 👉 doi.org/10.1080/026504…

Last week I started my new position ASCoR | @[email protected] as a postdoc in the BENEDMO_hub. Looking forward to addressing more questions around visual disinformation and fact-checking in the upcoming years. Thank you for the warm welcome everyone 🤗 (and to Aqsa Farooq for the picture!)

🌟New Pub Alert with Michael Hameleers at MediaPsychMEP 💡 Can deepfakes distort your health choices? Our study shows deepfakes increase misperceptions in health contexts and discourage fact-checking intents among specific groups. Free 50 copies below⬇️ 🔗tandfonline.com/eprint/45IBDTW…

Our very large ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION is out next year (2025) 📚 430+ entries (!) written by 570+ scholars across the world 🔥 Guess what? You can already access many entries as a preprint! Rolling 🧵with available open-access entries Watch & save this space