✨ MORGEN ✨ #Wissen und #Macht: Welche Rolle kann die #Wissenschaft in der #Politikberatung spielen - und wo liegen die Grenzen? 15.10. ab 9.30 Uhr 🔗 www.ethikrat.org/live @ue-umweltethik.bsky.social @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @schroep.bsky.social @jud1th.bsky.social @ethicswinkler.bsky.social

Our study on the strategic narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 7 EU countries, co-authored with @eddahumprecht.bsky.social, is out in the IJoC. We trace pro-Russian messages across countries, platforms, and actor types ahead of the 2024 EP election. Check it out: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research

The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...

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💫 New Open Access Special Issue in IJPP! Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms The SI explores how misinfo spreads, is perceived & countered across political systems, info environments & platforms. Read the intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms—Introduction to the Special Issue - Edda Humprecht, Sebastián Valenzuela, Frank Esser, Edson Tandoc, 2025

The global spread of political misinformation poses serious challenges to democracies, eroding trust and distorting public discourse. However, research has larg...

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Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Here's why fact checking matters. Trump gives misleading and false statements about the war in Ukraine. @theguardian.com provides the facts on five of these statements. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine

As US-Russia talks continue in Saudi Arabia, we look at the US president’s misleading and outright false statements

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Science is under a wide-ranging attack in the U.S. From arbitrary and catastrophic funding cuts to censorship based on keywords, scholarship is no longer free from government interference. How can scientists respond? 1/n

AP @apnews.com denied access to White House. For not taking orders on Gulf of Mexico 🤯 “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment” www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Western European men in their twenties show the sharpest rise in considering the far right. Women in their twenties remain less likely to consider the far right. Great article from @tabouchadi.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

What 10 years of education can do to combat disinformation. The Finland 🇫🇮 case! Education, literacy but also strong media and trustworthy politicians edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy

Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

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1/ I promised some research for team #Bluesky. Here we go. Unpopular opinion: #Debunking doesn't stop #polarization. In fact, our research (and others') shows it can *add* to it. #Prebunking works better—timing is key. Our #simulation studies shed light on this. 👉

We're looking for a colleague at📍European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 📣Professorship for Digital Political Communication 📆 Apply by 29/04/2024 #polisky #commsky Full Ad (english): www.europa-uni.de/de/struktur/...

📣 Database of Variables for Content Analysis (DOCA) looks for authors for specific variables/constructs in #ContentAnalysis 🔭 hope.uzh.ch/doca #openaccess #openmethod 💡 Suggestions: 20.3.24 📅 Submission Deadline: 1.5.24 👉 Call for Authors: t.uzh.ch/1Bn

🚀 🤖I'm very much looking forward to Sophie Morosoli‘s talk as part of the Speaker Series at IfKW Jena! Today she will talk about "Individuals' attitudes and perceptions towards AI in journalism and generative AI". #AIinJournalism #generativeAI

Hey #PolCom community! 🚀 My bookshelf’s in need of a refresh and I need your help. 📚What are your go-to reads from the last couple if years? Share those gems! 💡

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IKMZ is looking for an Assistant Professor in Political Communication (Tenure Track) If you have a strong record in teaching & research in polcomm, pls apply by February 14, 2024 - we're looking forward to it! More info 👉 jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Pls distribute widely!

Open AI announces policies to prevent abuse and increase transparency leading up to all the elections in 2024 across the 🌏 First steps. But reading these, a lot of questions remain unanswered… Commsky polisky csssky openai.com/blog/how-ope...

How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

We’re working to prevent abuse, provide transparency on AI-generated content, and improve access to accurate voting information.

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Just out @europeansocieties.bsky.social: Koen Damhuis & I study how the divide bw far-right and liberal-left ideologies is anchored in moral and class-based forms of common sense reasoning. We also show what qualitative research can contribute to cleavage theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information. 👇🧵1/

Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - Nature

Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.

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Join us at LSE! 👇

Miguel Pereira@miguelpereira.bsky.social · 3y ago

🚨🚨Two tenure-track positions in the European Institute @LSE: 1. European Politics and Policy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 2. Political Economy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... It's a really great place to work. Consider applying! I won't be in the search committee but happy to chat. 1/2 polisky

What is DOCA ❓❓❓ www.hope.uzh.ch/doca/ We explain the Database of Variables for Content Analysis: relevance, objective, content & participation possibilities ➡️ www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/articl... #contentanalysis #OpenMethod #OpenScience @voudigitou.bsky.social @eddahumprecht.bsky.social

Immer wieder passiert es, dass Menschen oder ganze Organisationen im Berufsleben damit auffliegen, insgeheim KI genutzt zu haben - hier gebe ich ein paar Beispiele dafür und beschreibe, wie wichtig es ist, 2 Grundregeln im Umgang mit KI zu befolgen: 1.) transparent sein 2.) kritisch bleiben 👇

Heimliche Mitarbeiterin: KI

Es wird Zeit, dass wir endlich eine Etikette für künstliche Intelligenz entwickeln – sonst passieren peinliche Fauxpas.

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One of the core AI dilemmas for journalistic organizations. Audiences want publishers to flag the use of AI in reporting. But when they do, trust is not the reward. @felixsimon.bsky.social @benjamintoff.bsky.social commsky polcomm journalism AI www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/most...

Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do

"We already expect quite a lot from the public in terms of media literacy to be able to navigate the contemporary information environment; the use of these technologies in news adds a whole other laye...

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Are you interested in doing media effects research in the digital and social media environment? We have a special issue for you in CMM doi.org/10.1080/1931.... @loespouwels.bsky.social, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com, @bachl.bsky.social and Patti Valkenburg share our perspective here:

✨OUT NOW:✨ 📰POLITICAL COMMUNICATION REPORT Issue 28 APSA & ICA’s #PolComm Divisions are happy to announce the 2023 Fall issue of the PCR, titled: “De-westernizing PolComm Theories and Research: More Perspectives, New Directions”! polsky commsky 🧵⤵️ politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

📢Calling all PhD candidates & early-career scholars working in #PolComm!🎓 Join us for the 8th International Summer School in Political Communication ✍️Theme: Political Communication & Conflict 📆Dates: 8-13 July 2024 📍Location: Milan, Italy 🔗More info: polcomm.unimi.it

Unser Schweizer Verlegerverband ist auf der Höhe der Zeit und organisiert *hochdivers besetzte* Veranstaltungen... www.schweizermedien.ch/agenda/2023/...

Input Session: KI - Verlegerverband Schweizer Medien

Der Verlegerverband SCHWEIZER MEDIEN ist die Branchenorganisation der schweizerischen Medienunternehmen mit Schwerpunkt Presse

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New Resource to Learn R for Social Science the gentle, fun, and accessible way - no hassle to install R(Studio). Dive right in - individualized feedback - code on your own, within the web browser - plotting, data wrangling and analysis #rstats dataskyence polisky adp-cvk.quarto.pub/r-for-social...