India's student protests against corruption is being met with police brutality, internet shutdowns and misinformation from official sources. We're seeing official and government-allied sources using AI-generated and decontextualized images to vilify the protesters and the movement shorturl.at/BGCva

the leader of the opposition represents over 50% of the country that did not vote for the government. this is how the government of india responded to him peacefully protesting today.

thousands of indian students marched on parliament today. the incredibly democratic indian government responded by tear gassing them and shutting off the internet in the capital. www.bbc.com/news/article...

CJP's parliament march from Jantar Mantar: Thousands of 'cockroach' protesters take to Delhi streets

Some protesters demanding education reforms said they were injured in clashes with police who banned the march.

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📢 New publication! “Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter" w/ brilliant Paul Balluff, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @anniewald.bsky.social out in EPJ Data Sci. Read #openaccess👇 rdcu.be/feZzK

Connective action and digital repression during China’s COVID-19 protests: a computational analysis of multilingual coordinated activity on Twitter - EPJ Data Science

In authoritarian contexts, social media serve as critical platforms for coordinating both protest and repression. This study centers on the unprecedented COVID-19 protests in the People’s Republic of ...

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📢 New publication! My dissertation paper "Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings" co-authored with 🌟 @anniewald.bsky.social and Nanda Wijermans 🌟 is now out in @jasssjournal.bsky.social Read the full #openaccess article: www.jasss.org/29/2/4.html #ABM #CSS #dreamcollab

Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings

by Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans

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Check out @julaluehring.bsky.social 's novel study that uses causal inference to untangle if misinformation on social media truly leads to more engagement and more emotional discussions than reliable news. 👇

Jula Luehring@julaluehring.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

One postdoctoral Research Position

Deadline: November 15th, 2025

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We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects related to media trust, pluralism, media effects and/or political satire. Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Please help me share it 🙏

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher on themes related to journalism with an affinity for quantitative methods. Are you interested in topics, such as media trust, pluralism, media effects and/...

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After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

Learning about efficient LLM training at @comptext.bsky.social with @cklamm.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025 🤓

⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰ Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST! Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community. Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳 👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP

A CSH study challenges the widely held belief that #emotions make us more susceptible to #misinformation. The study, led by @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, reveals that emotions shape our perceptions, but don't impair our ability to distinguish between real and #falsenews. 👉 shorturl.at/FzHs1

Complexity Science Hub * News * Do Emotions Make Us More Susceptible To Misinformation? Not Per Se, According To A New Study

A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub challenges the belief that emotions make us more susceptible to misinformation, revealing that pre-existing

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First ever publication alert! Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀 In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited. Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

The timing of an emotion (before vs after news exposure) matters to understand if emotions influence misinformation belief. Further, it's not enough to say that people react emotionally to misinformation: People react with anger both when they believe and disbelieve false news items. More details 👇

Hannah May (née Metzler)@hannahmetzler.bsky.social · 2y ago

😡Emotions ≠ 🤓Reasoning?! Nope! 😎 @apeksha.bsky.social's & @julaluehring.bsky.social's first PhD paper on recognizing COVID-19 misinformation & links with emotions got accepted! If you haven't already seen the preprint, have a look at the paper or this 🧵! doi.org/10.1186/s412...

Cool work by @julaluehring.bsky.social on NewsGuard as a resource for misinformation research! The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇

⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025! Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀 Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project

While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.

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Time for the annual final sprint 📈 COMPTEXT2025 deadline is approaching (January 15, midnight). www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...

Johannes B. Gruber@jbgruber.bsky.social · 2y ago

As is probably normal for a conference, most people submitted their abstract on the last day (or even the last minute)

6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌 Setting expectations: - 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond -🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽‍♀️ (Social Programme preview)

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · 2y ago

Submission for #COMPTEXT2025 is still open until January 15! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers, panels, and data presentations! We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! See you at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April!

🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨 🧰 Data donations and digital trace data
📖 Narratives in large datasets
🖼️ Visual data analysis 
🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits 🧐 Bayesian text analysis …and more! Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX

🎉 Happy New Year! Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna! ⏳Submission deadline: January 15 More here: shorturl.at/AmocX #css #commsky #polisky

⏳ Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025 Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩 
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

I would interpret this as a result of "quantity before quality" design of social media (and ultimately reflects the business model), where everything, the velocity, the scrolling, the thumbnails, the share button, encourages this (+ motives of signalling identity rather than sharing information).

Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto.com · 2y ago

Not very surprising, but good to have an estimate: "shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX #css #commsky #polisky

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

🚨New publication alert on news avoidance (open-access) 🚫📰 With @hajoboo.bsky.social, @solecheler.bsky.social and Svenja Schäfer, we looked at which perceptions of media and politics predict intentional news avoidance or low news consumption (or both!). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I had a fantastic time at MISDOOM, learning about what's going on in the field of mis- and disinformation. I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.

M. Saïd H. Unger@mshu.bsky.social · 3y ago

🎉 Exciting News! My first #dissertation paper has just been published open access in Annals of the ICA! 📚🌐 🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.