Difficult times, but amazing people, and so much to do...

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · 3d ago

⭐ Tenure-Track Position in Communication and Journalism The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding candidates in communication to apply for an open-rank tenure-track position starting July, 2027.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

📢 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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🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories

Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

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“I am not a conspiracy theorist, but . . .” @cbaden.bsky.social, Nina Springer, Nina Steindl and I analyze how conspiracy theories are discussed in mainstream forums. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Introducing JoC Forum contribution: “How to fight the data grab”, by Sara Bannerman. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

🚨Wir suchen eine Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für das Media Research Methods Lab am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social: Wir bieten 💡spannende Themen 🕙flexible Arbeitszeiten 🏢Homeoffice oder Büro 👨‍💻super Team (@grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social, @thejanrau.bsky.social) leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/ste...

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Bereich Computational Social Science

Am Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in Hamburg ist ab dem 1. April 2026 eine Stelle zu besetzen: Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im Bereich Computati...

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Why do people who oppose conspiracy theories help disseminate them? That is one key question in the new article "Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories", written by myself and Luna Gao and published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Wir stellen ein 🚨 Das Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social sucht zwei Doktorand:innen im CCS-Bereich! Digitale Methoden, jede Menge spannende Daten und ein fantastisches Team mit @grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social und @thejanrau.bsky.social … was will man mehr? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026 📍 University of Leeds 🗓 13–17 July 📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026 📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026 Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/

I spoke with Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stepinska on the Smart Institute Podcast about our OPINION COST Network and how digital discourse and computational tools challenge and enable us to rethink public opinion. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6XEn...

Rethinking Public Opinion - A Conversation with Christian Baden, Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stępińska

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Do you have colleagues interested in Computational Methods? Help us spread the word and invite them to join our first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social. Share the registration link 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟 Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆 Register 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

Look, it is our special issue :)

AEJMC-CTM (Communication Theory and Methodology Division)@aejmc-ctm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Currently in Volume 19, Issue 4 of Communication Methods and Measures #CMM: “Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science” by @valeriehase.bsky.social @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis Read this SI editorial: doi.org/10.1080/1931...

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building. doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements

Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors

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#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot. 📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025 More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C

🚨 A free ad for Maximilian Linde, Chung-Hong Chan & Paul Balluff's important Public Service Announcement for communication researchers: 🛑 Stop competing on text corpus size! Scale is rarely needed and often compromises quality. Thank you for your attention to this matter. doi.org/10.1177/1077...

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

🚨New Publication! Public opinion happens on digital media, but it's very different from what we see in surveys. Here's how: doi.org/10.1093/ijpo... 10 members of the pan-European OPINION network put together to discuss how we can understand public opinion processes in a digital media ecosystem.

Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract. Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital

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➡️List of OA journals in Communication! Excellent resource if you want to publish open access (and you should!) and can't or don't want to pay off the big publishers' "Gold" (gilded indeed 💰💰💰🦹‍♂️) open access deals. Many thanks to @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social for curating this!

Tobias Dienlin@tobiasdienlin.com · 10mo ago

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...

GitHub - thieled/easieRnmt: R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally.

R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. - thieled/easieRnmt

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📚 Publication Friday This week, we highlight the winner of the Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award. "The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments" by @nicolaiberk.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments

To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...

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🔍 Outstanding Reviewer Award 👏 Congratulations to @cbaden.bsky.social for exceptional service in this year's peer review process. Your dedication to scholarly rigor is deeply appreciated. #ICA25 #Polcomm

For part of what appears in Amplifying Extremism (below), check out Nik Usher's piece for Nieman Lab: www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...

How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)

American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.

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Stuart Soroka@snsoroka.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out this new Element by Nik Usher & Jessica Hagman, which "...provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news." The free download period is extended to June 13th! #politics #commsky #polcom

🚨PhD vacancy in Computational Communication Science in Vienna🇦🇹 this is a 4 year pre-doc position at my former team, CCL—can wholeheartedly recommend, feel free to get in touch in case you have questions☺️

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗 📍 Vienna 🗓️ Start: September 2025 📌 Apply by June 26 #AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

PhD opportunity! ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4 shorturl.at/YeXpf

Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"

Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

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Getting ready to launch the 6th OPINION Joint Working Groups Meeting and 2nd Computational Opinion Analysis (COpA) Training school at University of Elbasan Aleksandër Xhuvani! 🇦🇱 www.opinion-network.eu

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

Rebekah Tromble@rebekahtromble.bsky.social · last yr.

I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...

📍 "Propaganda as a Social Process: Erecting Monopolies of Truth in a High-Choice Digital Information Environment" by Christian Baden 📆 8 May 2025, Thursday 15:00 - 16:30 CET Follow ecpr.eu/Events/Stand... for registering. @ecpr.bsky.social

For $240,000 per year, I - an actual PhD - will come to your office and hallucinate shit with an utterly unfounded air of complete confidence.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last yr.

OPENAI BELIEVES IT CAN CHARGE $20,000 PER MONTH FOR DOCTORATE-LEVEL AI- THE INFORMATION

🏆 Think your best PolCom article in the past year was better than others' best article? Let's find out! 10 days to submit to the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year: 📬 c.baden@mail.huji.ac.il Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKe...