Thanks (Danke!) to @lisamerten.bsky.social, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social & Helena Rauxloh for visiting us at @qutdmrc.bsky.social for our UA-DAAD project on mapping destructive polarisation across news media outlets in Germany and Australia! Lots of progress! Next stop: Hamburg in September.

My great colleague @tariqchoucair.bsky.social doing the @qutdmrc.bsky.social proud at his alma mater UFMG today.

Congratulations to @tariqchoucair.bsky.social on his newly published paper, "Mapping and Measuring Listening in Public Communication Settings" in Media & Communication. Tariq outlines the key elements of listening and how it is critical for political communication. www.cogitatiopress.c...

Mapping and Measuring Listening in Public Communication Settings | Article | Media and Communication

Tariq Choucair

cogitatiopress.com

Excited to share my new article, "Mapping and Measuring Listening in Public Communication Settings", now published in Media and Communication (@CogitatioMaC)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess

Mapping and Measuring Listening in Public Communication Settings | Article | Media and Communication

Tariq Choucair

cogitatiopress.com

“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens. What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation. It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.

Today on the US fascism escalation… a PhD student being kidnapped by the State because of her political opinions.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Great read theconversation.com/three-years-... @kkasianenko.bsky.social

Three years after Russia’s invasion, a global online army is still fighting for Ukraine

The North Atlantic Fella Organisation has devised creative ways to support the Ukrainian cause – while navigating the complexities of content moderation.

theconversation.com

Translating the Destructive Polarisation work to help us think the next Australian elections ⬇️

Katharina Esau@kathaesa.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 5 signs of toxic division – and how to beat them 🚨 Australia’s election season heats up, destructive polarisation threatens to drown out public debate. In our 360info piece, we break down how to spot these tactics and push back. 360info.org/5-signs-of-t... @snurb.info @tariqchoucair.bsky.social

🚨 5 signs of toxic division – and how to beat them 🚨 Australia’s election season heats up, destructive polarisation threatens to drown out public debate. In our 360info piece, we break down how to spot these tactics and push back. 360info.org/5-signs-of-t... @snurb.info @tariqchoucair.bsky.social

5 signs of toxic division — and how to beat them - 360

Australian voters are being targeted by divisive ‘them vs us’ strategies that overshadow policy debate. Here are the signs and ways to move past the soundbites. Politicians and media organisations are...

360info.org

Last week we held our workshop on #Polarization –Conceptualization and Methodological Approaches. It was a blast, bringing together brilliant and highly motivated minds! 🤓

Be stolen during an international trip brings the ambiguous feeling of frustration for my lost items and bureaucracy for the consequences of those, but relief that at least phone, id documents, and laptop (and myself, of course!) are safe 😅

We keep saying that political polarisation is not always bad... But when it becomes a problem? A few weeks ago, we published this at Information, Communication and Society, where we define destructive polarisation and identify its symptoms in online communication:

We are very thrilled to host you, and ready for a thought-provoking discussion on conceptualizing #polarization! 🤓

Tariq Choucair@tariqchoucair.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have the luck to, while visiting Germany for a Fellowship at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, catch a short train ride and join CAIS + @scide.bsky.social for a full two-day workshop about Political Polarisation. And here is the topic of my 10-minute provocation:

I have the luck to, while visiting Germany for a Fellowship at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, catch a short train ride and join CAIS + @scide.bsky.social for a full two-day workshop about Political Polarisation. And here is the topic of my 10-minute provocation:

Loosing a bit of control at Berlin bookstores 👀

Reasons to be angry about the Social Media Ban for Children bill in Australia include all the arguments scholars have pointed out, PLUS the added heartbreak of finding yourself in agreement with Elon Musk... sadness

Only by being in a different place do we start to think so differently about our objects of analysis... Berlin has given me many new ways of looking at political polarisation and deep disagreements 👀

Smart Bluesky move to create an outrage: fan service for early Twitter nostalgics. Affective memories ✨💗🐳

The best thing I've done for my mental health in years has been to start spending two hours a day working from my local library. Those places have healing energy.

O Bluesky é uma plataforma extremamente mais saudável do que todo o resto que estávamos experienciando por aí. A questão é: o usuário quer uma experiência mais saudável? Honestamente não sei a resposta dessa pergunta.