Our department (@ikmz.bsky.social) is looking for a new post-doc working on AI, machine learning, and Digital Transformation in communication! Can only recommend applying! Deadline: August 15. More information: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

This fall semester, there's a cool lecture series at UZH titled "Fake Science". Presenters include @yesuncomm.bsky.social, @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and @heldleonhard.bsky.social. Takes place every second Tuesday at 6.15 pm, open to the public. More information: www.uzh.ch/de/events/rv...

The Davos Tech Summit was actual fun! A great opportunity to connect with researchers, industry and governmental representatives. Thanks @uzhai.bsky.social for the opportunity to attend #Davos_Tech_Summit 2026.

New preprint: "Open science in Communication: How are we doing?" In this commentary, I provide a short narrative overview of how #openscience is developing in Communication. Feedback welcome! #openscience #opencomm osf.io/preprints/so...

Spent the day in Bern at a workshop organised by the Swiss Young Academy on innovative teaching tools. I joined as a speaker to share a teaching format I developed where students created digital health content for an Instagram profile Always inspiring to exchange ideas on creative ways of teaching✨📚

🎉 We were very happy to host @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social for a guest talk on digital behaviourism, a fascinating approach grounded in operant conditioning that can help explain digital behaviour beyond aggregate measures of screen time. 📖 You can read the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#ICA26 highlight ✨ Presented my scoping review of mental health content creators in the session I chaired: “Mental Health Discourse on Social Media: Creators, Content and Effects”. Great panel, great discussion with @danilkowa.bsky.social and Yueliang, grateful to everyone who joined!

New preprint out! 🎉 “From Wounded Healers to Commercialized Caregivers”: a scoping review of mental health content creators on social media. We reviewed 59 empirical studies on mental health content creators across platforms. Main findings below 🧵 Feedback very welcome! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

End of last year, the Open Access Open Scholarship Committee of @icahdq.bsky.social started a new term, and I was happy to be invited as new chair. Next to other activities we’ll write a column for ICA‘s newsletter — and here I copy-pasted the first entry where we introduce ourselves!

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

Ist das auf TikTok virale Phänomen #cheatingfruits und #fruitloveisland problematisch? Hier meine Einschätzungen: www.srf.ch/play/tv/redi...

Viraler AI-Trend: Warum «Fruit Love Island» polarisiert - SRF News Videos - Play SRF

AI-Früchte, die Affären haben – dieser absurde Trend geht gerade auf Tiktok viral. Unter Namen wie «Fruit Love Island» schauen Millionen zu. Doch hinter dem scheinbar lustigen Brain-Rot-Content stecke...

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Invitation to join the PROMISE Youth Advisory Board! We’re looking for young people (10–25 years old) from Austria, Estonia, Germany, Spain & the UK to contribute to research on digital well-being across Europe (1/3)

Title: "Ban, Improve, or Ignore? Social Media Regulation From a Communication Research Perspective". Last week I gave my inaugural lecture at University of Zurich, @ikmz.bsky.social. Now online on YouTube.

Ban, improve, or ignore? Social Media Regulation from a Communication Research Perspective

YouTube video by Prof. Dr. Tobias Dienlin

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Seminar lecturer here 👋 Quick tip 💁‍♀️ I recommend sending students a pre-course survey to assess their theoretical and methodological background before the seminar begins. Two key advantages (see thread) 🧵👇

New book review by @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social on the book "Tecnopanico" by Prof. @acerbialberto.com

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Happy to share that my book review of Prof. @acerbialberto.com "Tecnopanico" is now published in Studies in Communication Sciences @sgkm.bsky.social 🎉

Monday next week, 5 pm, I’ll deliver my UZH inaugural lecture. Title: „Ban, improve, or ignore? Social Media Regulation from a Communication Research Perspective“ The talk is open to the public: you can join either on-site or via live-stream. Details, see: www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag...

Welche Rolle spielt die SRG SSR im Mediensystem der Schweiz? Als Beitrag zur Debatte über die "Halbierungsinitiative" haben wir ein Factsheet zusammengestellt - mit Daten zur Mediennutzung (@reutersinstitute.bsky.social) und zur Qualität der Berichterstattung. www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/news/2026... 1/x

Our first issue of the PROMISE 3+3 Newsletter is out - a new way to follow our research on social media policies, and youth well-being! 1/4

We are facing a transformative phenomenon in digital space: AI chatbots. Are they perceived as social beings...or just machines? How does that shape how we chat—and whether we end up bonding with them? We tackle these questions with the AI Relationship Process Framework: arxiv.org/abs/2601.17351

New preprint by @naru96.bsky.social and @tobiasdienlin.com!

Nadja Rupprechter@naru96.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are facing a transformative phenomenon in digital space: AI chatbots. Are they perceived as social beings...or just machines? How does that shape how we chat—and whether we end up bonding with them? We tackle these questions with the AI Relationship Process Framework: arxiv.org/abs/2601.17351

Very much looking forward to reading this 🍿

Sabrina Norwood@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our preprint has evolved! v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives. It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours. osf.io/preprints/ps...

To help our @ikmz.bsky.social students write their master thesis, we developed a guide with tips and tricks. If you're interested, you can download it here👇 drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/... Feel free to reuse it or provide feedback!

Today, we presented the main results of the mental health days study 2025 (N = 8.177). Results > In May 2025, Austria implemented a nationwide smartphone-ban at schools > Compared to 2024, smartphone use went down by 30 mins > Life satisfaction went up (5.36 to 5.52) > Depression sank (15% to 12%)

Starting now: press conference where we present the Mental Health Days Study 2025. Livestream/rewatch: www.mentalhealthdays.eu

Have you conducted a content analysis and want to share your variable operationalizations? Or are you about to start one? If so, check out DOCA: a great openscience initiative offering a shared database of content-analytical variables for communication science. ➡️ www.hope.uzh.ch/doca

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 🎉from the Media Psychology Division of the DGPs! We wish everyone a happy and successful 2026. Some activities and opportunities in our community were already highlighted in our December newsletter, in case you missed it:

A belated post: @shinyikang.bsky.social also co-published “A quarter century of advances in collaboration sensing: a comprehensive review of high-frequency metrics and their connection to collaborative constructs from 2000 to 2025” in ijCSCL 📊👏 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A quarter century of advances in collaboration sensing: a comprehensive review of high-frequency metrics and their connection to collaborative constructs from 2000 to 2025 - International Journal of C...

The increasing availability of multimodal sensing technologies has opened new avenues for studying human interactions. However, there remains a lack of systematic synthesis regarding which multimodal ...

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Starting off 2026 with a publication! @shinyikang.bsky.social co-published a paper on creative AI literacy education and ethics, titled “Ethical Thinking: Integration and Measurement in an AI Curriculum for Middle-High School Students” in Informatics in Education 🎨🤖🌍 infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFE...

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"Finding hope in Hegel" Wrote a short post for @acadianjprof.bsky.social's end of year newsletter on "what's bringing you hope". Strongly inspired by Alain de Botton and Hans Rosling.

Finding Hope in Hegel

By Tobias Dienlin, University of Zürich

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