📜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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Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the #UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

UZH: Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation

An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation zu besetzen. Die künftige Stelleninhab...

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New publication in Review of International Studies! Jelena Cupać and I examine how feminist and conservative NGOs differ in their legitimacy beliefs about the UN, and how perceptions shape their engagement amid growing ideological polarization. Open-access article here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

📣 New Publication - 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐁𝐂 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝: Conducted 22 expert interviews & a workshop in London to explore the principles-to-practices gap of responsible AI at the BBC. 🧵 with some findings 👇

Thanks to @annaschjoett.bsky.social, for helping me ‘see’ this paper. (Stay tuned for our co-authored study!). And thanks to @natalihelberger.bsky.social for your comments on the manuscript. @aimediademlab.bsky.social, Responsible Innovation Centre, @cos-ascor.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social /9

🚨 Job alert 🚨 My colleagues are looking for a PhD Candidate for the project "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" DL: Oct 22nd @cos-ascor.bsky.social @christianburgers.bsky.social @tonivdmeer.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position: "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk"

Are you motivated to protect those most vulnerable against misinformation and to develop new interventions against misinformation? Do you want to know more about how mis- and disinformation impact at-...

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🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...

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Great PhD position open at Maastricht Uni in political behavior/political econ - Important project, awesome supervision team 🔥

Luana Russo@luanarusso.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 We are hiring! 👇 This PhD position is part of a research project that examines how growing income inequality can reshape the way democracy functions by influencing both political discourse and public opinion. More info here: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3542...