Privacy Cynicism, Apathy and Resignation: Why People Stop Believing They Can Protect Their Data Most people today know that their personal data is constantly collected, analyzed and traded. They know their online behavior is tracked by platforms, advertisers, apps, employers and governments. And…

Privacy Cynicism, Apathy and Resignation: Why People Stop Believing They Can Protect Their Data

Most people today know that their personal data is constantly collected, analyzed and traded. They know their online behavior is tracked by platforms, advertisers, apps, employers and governments. And yet, despite growing awareness of digital surveillance, most people continue using the same digital services every day.

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📢 New OA paper out on the quality of #finfluencer content. In collaboration with colleagues from accounting, Henning Zülch & Marius Mölders, we develop a framework for assessing finfluencer quality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Navigating the rise of finfluencers: a multidimensional quality framework for strategic partnerships - Journal of Financial Services Marketing

The rise of financial influencers, or “finfluencers”, on social networks like Instagram and their impact on consumer financial decision-making (especially investing) has raised concerns about their qu...

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📣 New publication in New Media & Society on the use of alternative social media platforms in five countries (🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧) w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Christina Mandl. We find that use of alternative platforms is driven by politics, not privacy concerns. 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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What is the role of data in mis- and disinformation? Very helpful and insightful publication (scoping review) by my PhD-student Julia Blaß in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social 👇🙂 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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🚨 New OA publication in Journalism on the impact of #deepfakes on journalistic practice (incl. products, skills, staffing, norms), based on interviews in 🇩🇪 w/ Alexander Godulla Daniel Bendahan Bitton & Hannah Oetting journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Implications of deepfake technology for journalistic practice: A technology at the crossroads of challenges and opportunities - Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Ötting, Alexander Godulla, Christian Piet...

This study applies a practice theory lens to explore how deepfake technology impacts journalism. Based on an interview study of journalists and media and journa...

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Very happy to see this special issue on "The age of synthetic media" out in OA 🥳 Many thanks to our great contributors, the SCM team and my co-editor Alexander Godulla!

Studies in Communication and Media (SCM)@scmeditor.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We’re kicking off the year with the announcement of our 2025 special issue on how #SyntheticMedia challenge epistemic institutions. Many thanks to Alexander Godulla and @cphoffmann.bsky.social for their excellent work as guest editors. doi.org/10.5771/2192...

📣New article with @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social in @icsjournal.bsky.social on digital media & pandemic activism. Information from political actors (e.g., parties) & engaging with perceived misinformation, but not populism relates to activism (on the left & right) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pandemic activism in comparative perspective: exploring the roles of populist attitudes, direct online political sources, and misinformation

Managing the COVID-19 pandemic required governments to act quickly with little input from legislatures, civil society, and citizens. This crisis created a critical opportunity for populists to fuel...

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New & OA w/ @lutzid.bsky.social in @icsjournal.bsky.social: The role of personality in bystander reactions to online pol. hostility. We find that both active (counterspeech) & passive (silencing) reactions negatively relate to agreeableness & conscientiousness 1/3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Active vs. passive bystander reactions to online political hostility: the role of personality in counterspeech and silencing among German facebook users

Hostility is an important obstacle to constructive online political discourse. Combating online political hostility often involves mobilizing the behavior of bystanders. Bystanders can react active...

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Propensity for impression management, mostly in assertive or confrontative manner (often independent of political interest), predicts political engagement on Facebook, German research by @cphoffmann.bsky.social & @lutzid.bsky.social suggests: buff.ly/6XNEbDJ TL;DR:🧵https://buff.ly/8AEaN58

Deepfakes don’t just fool us. They make us cynical. Study finds that perceived exposure to deepfakes increases media cynicism, &. that confidence in one’s ability to detect them may worsen mistrust. By Christian Pieter Hoffmann et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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📢 New publication on the positioning of executives on LinkedIn. We analyze more than 4'500 posts of CEOs and CEOs of EURO STOXX 50 companies and find distinct communicator profiles (re. content, timing, frequency, audiences and engagement). 🔗 www.emerald.com/ccij/article...

📢 New OA publication w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social Do privacy concerns inhibit political posting on social media? Yes, but. We examine FB, X & Insta in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦 and find that highly politically interested users discount privacy concerns and seek large audiences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Blasting and posturing: How impression management contributes to inequalities in political expression on Facebook

Social media provide opportunities for political engagement. Yet, previous research has shown that political engagement on social media remains social…

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📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Blasting and posturing: How impression management contributes to inequalities in political expression on Facebook

Social media provide opportunities for political engagement. Yet, previous research has shown that political engagement on social media remains social…

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📢 New publication on the emergence of the #financialcommunication function in #startups. We interviewed both founders and investors to develop a model of how investor relations initially emerge - and then evolve across funding stages. w/ Lea Knabben & Torben Krueper www.emerald.com/jcom/article...

The emergence of the financial communication function: exploring investor relations in start-ups

Purpose. Start-up companies need to attract the interest of investors to grow and mature. Yet, little is known about the investor relations (IR) of start-ups. This study applies a neo-institutionalist...

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New OA article out @journstudies 📢 We conducted interviews with journalists in Germany and Switzerland to explore the compatibility of #deepfake technology with journalistic norms. We identify boundary conditions for the use of deepfakes in journalism 1/2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deepfakes and Journalism: Normative Considerations and Implications

The possibility of using deepfake technology to create synthetic media content in journalism requires careful ethical deliberations. Being that journalism is a norm-oriented social institution, the...

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New open access publication on deepfakes in journalism together with Patric Raemy, Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Ötting, @cphoffmann.bsky.social & Alexander Godulla doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Deepfakes and Journalism: Normative Considerations and Implications

The possibility of using deepfake technology to create synthetic media content in journalism requires careful ethical deliberations. Being that journalism is a norm-oriented social institution, the...

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Grateful to be part of this wonderful special issue 👇🏼 Congratulations to the editors!

Dima Epstein@thinkmacro.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

📢 New paper out @JITP /w @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler: Who uses Twitch for politics? Based on a survey in 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 we present descriptive data for an underresearched platform & delve into the personality of those who see & post political content👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Using Twitch for politics? The role of personality across five countries

Twitch is a popular live-streaming platform primarily used in the context of gaming. Streamers tend to be very sensitive to the content shared in their streams, often eschewing political content. A...

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Danke für das (ausführliche) Gespräch, @tomcoal.bsky.social!

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@cphoffmann.bsky.social hat bei #MachineAgainstRage des @idz-jena.bsky.social über #Echokammern in den sozialen Netzwerken geschrieben. Diese werden befördert durch die Abwanderung zu #bluesky und #Mastodon. Ich habe dazu mit ihm gesprochen. www.l-iz.de/bildung/medi... #SocialMedia #Kommunikation

📢 New paper out @JITP /w @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler: Who uses Twitch for politics? Based on a survey in 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 we present descriptive data for an underresearched platform & delve into the personality of those who see & post political content👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Using Twitch for politics? The role of personality across five countries

Twitch is a popular live-streaming platform primarily used in the context of gaming. Streamers tend to be very sensitive to the content shared in their streams, often eschewing political content. A...

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Der »Engine Room« im @machine-vs-rage.net-Blog füllt sich: Neu dabei ist eine Quick-Response-Analyse von Matthias J. Becker zum Antisemitismus auf YouTube sowie ein Meinungsbeitrag von @cphoffmann.bsky.social über den sog. X-odus und seine Bedeutung für Polarisierungsdynamiken.📍Digitales im Fokus ⬇️

Machine Against the Rage@machine-vs-rage.net · last yr.

Emanzipatorisch verklärte Gewaltlegitimation: Der erste Insight-Beitrag auf dem MATR-Blog ist da. In einer Quick-Response-Analyse widmet sich Matthias J. Becker von Decoding Antisemitism den unmittelbaren Reaktionen auf den Anschlag in Washington, D.C., vor wenigen Wochen. 1|2

New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Freue mich, diese „Hottakes“-Reihe eröffnen zu dürfen - mit einem für Bluesky-Nutzende vielleicht provokativen Einwurf 😉 Macht Bluesky die Linke weniger diskursfähig?

Machine Against the Rage@machine-vs-rage.net · last yr.

Alternativplattformen im digitalen Lagerkampf: Mit einem Meinungsbeitrag von @cphoffmann.bsky.social starten wir die Op-Ed-Sparte unseres Blogs. Der Text behandelt die Frage, was der sogenannte X-odus mit Blick auf Polarisierungsdynamiken bedeutet. 1|3

📢 New OA publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social from our #DeepfakeProject. We find that perceived exposure to deepfakes is linked to media cynicism, and that detection self-efficacy positively moderates this relationship. No effect for intellectual humility :/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📢 New OA publication out at JEPOP w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social on concerns about misinformation on #Instagram. We find evidence of a third-person effect. Perceived ability to spot misinfo and exposure to (even like-minded) political content drive concerns. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Concerns about misinformation on Instagram in five countries

Use of Instagram has proliferated over recent years, as have concerns about misinformation. Yet, most misinformation research has focused on Facebook and Twitter. Based on a survey of more than 400...

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Desinformation – ein überschätztes Problem? Am vergangenen Montag (19.5.) fand in Leipzig die Demokratiekonferenz statt. Thema: »Desinformation & Demokratie«. Auf einem Panel zu »Perspektiven auf Desinformation« sprach Holger Marcks mit @cphoffmann.bsky.social. 1|15 (Bild: © Marvin Frommhold)

Happy to report that this paper is now available open access 😊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Christian Pieter Hoffmann@cphoffmann.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New publication 📢 w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Michael Bossetta on the adoption and political use of seven social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat, and WhatsApp) in four countries (🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...