Going to ICA? Join the SECAC's Bluesky Workshop on building a long-term research agenda! Friday June 5 at 4-6pm - CTICC Ballroom East.

Join the @icamobile.bsky.social's Student + Early Career Scholar Lunch at #ICA26! On Saturday at 12pm (6 June), we'll meet at the Bartolomeu Dias statue 🗽, stop for food at Woolworth's 🍽️ + chat at a nearby fountain ⛲ @icahdq.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social

📣 Extension of Deadline for Travel Grants Applications! We invite applications for travel grants from ICA attendees without sufficient funding. These grants are especially directed at students and junior scholars from Tier B/C. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The persuasive impact of AI chatbots on voters. The effects found are large but likely also an effect of the design. Regardless, AI is part of election campaigns now. My comments include reference to recent @algosoc.org data @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mean for democracy?

Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but it seems that AIs rely on facts to influence people

newscientist.com

Fabulous online seminar organized by @algosoc.org Algorithmic Effects on #Elections: Using Social Media Data Donations to Study Elections 🗓️ Fri 12 Dec, 14:00–15:30 CET @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @antmandan.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social Registration ⬇️ algosoc.org/events/algos...

We’ve assembled a stellar line-up of scholars to discuss how digital trace data donations can help us study elections across a wide variety of platforms and contexts! @claesdevreese.bsky.social @favstats.eu @algosoc.org Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4

10% of surveyed Dutch citizens told us they are likely to ask AI for election advice. They shouldn't! This is especially problematic as we know that the people who usually consult advice applications are undecided and are doing so right before casting their vote. algosoc.org/results/1-in...

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...

Our CampAIgn Tracker got featured in this brilliant piece of investigative journalism by @groene.nl. They reveal the prompts behind an extremely disturbing AI-powered campaign by Dutch politicians that we find is one of the top producers & spreaders of AI-generated content in this election #tk2025.

Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wordt generatieve AI gebruikt door politieke partijen en aanhangers? Ja. Maar vooral door sommige partijen. Zie uitgebreid stuk ik de @groene.nl met belangrijke bijdragen van Jelle Postma en collega @favstats.eu #tk2025 www.groene.nl/artikel/maak...

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden. 👉 buff.ly/MFNFcU3

🚀 And this marks our launch of the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱! @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & other actors during the election #tk2025 See here www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

Fabio Votta📊🐧@favstats.eu · 10mo ago

Our CampAIgn Tracker got featured in this brilliant piece of investigative journalism by @groene.nl. They reveal the prompts behind an extremely disturbing AI-powered campaign by Dutch politicians that we find is one of the top producers & spreaders of AI-generated content in this election #tk2025.

If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can. See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here: www.campaigntracker.nl/en/ #tk2025

Fabio Votta📊🐧@favstats.eu · 10mo ago

🚀 And this marks our launch of the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱! @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & other actors during the election #tk2025 See here www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut! Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread

As GPT-5 announcement is underway, know that a majority of Dutch people already make use of ChatGPT (and similar Gen AI models), 43% percent even say they use it "often" (5-7 on our 1-7 scale) -> the graph below

Fabio Votta📊🐧@favstats.eu · last yr.

Data we are collecting with @algosoc.org in the Netherlands shows similar and even starker trends and age gaps. Everyone is using ChatGPT more. But 82% of 18-29 year olds now report having used in the past year whereas a still sizeable but comparatively lower amount of 65+ year olds have (19%).

For your correlation ≠ causation collection

SKELLYTON@pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Good morning Sunday morning

We've been tracking the rise of ChatGPT use in the Netherlands! Our third update of the AI Opinion Monitor shows a meteoric rise in use amongst youth, with 43% reporting to use it regularly. Check it out yourself: monitor.algosoc.org

Fabio Votta📊🐧@favstats.eu · 12mo ago

As GPT-5 announcement is underway, know that a majority of Dutch people already make use of ChatGPT (and similar Gen AI models), 43% percent even say they use it "often" (5-7 on our 1-7 scale) -> the graph below

Data we are collecting with @algosoc.org in the Netherlands shows similar and even starker trends and age gaps. Everyone is using ChatGPT more. But 82% of 18-29 year olds now report having used in the past year whereas a still sizeable but comparatively lower amount of 65+ year olds have (19%).

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · last yr.

34% of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT, about double the share in 2023 www.pewresearch.org/...

Honoured to have been awarded this year's ASCoR Baschwitz Faculty Article of the Year award for my work with Mykola Makhortykh and Silke Adam! Check out the paper, "Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait", below!

ASCoR@ascor.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics? Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social. Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues. 🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️) www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Another windowless room (but this time way bigger) in which I got to present first preliminary findings on how strategic politicians can *actually* be about their emotions in election campaigns 📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social

@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).

Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is

More on data donation and tracking data. Don’t miss this panel #ica25 @ernesto-deleon.com @dougaparry.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social Yangliu Fan @lionw.bsky.social & more @ascor.bsky.social @algosoc.org @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Happening now #ICA25: @ernesto-deleon.com presenting work on influencer-hyperpartisan info networks. Shows the importance of sourcing and linking to a wider variety of sources, all serving to propagate anti-system narratives. Awesome stuff by these colleagues! Right up my alley. 👏

And I am finally on Bluesky 🥳!!

Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · last yr.

Zilin Lin presenting the @aimediademlab.bsky.social project she led (w Gabriella Trogrlic @natalihelberger.bsky.social and 🙋) #ica25 On Dutch LLMs and how they reinforce harmful representation

Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level. I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

Daniel Angus@antmandan.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey #ica25, introducing The Mobile Observation of Advertising Toolkit, a new app for capturing ads in the wild from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, & YouTube. @icacm.bsky.social Data Collection Tools & Datasets Sunday 15th | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Colorado B (Grand 2) @internetobservatory.org.au