Felix Victor Münch
@flxvctr.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @GESIS, Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences Department. Interdisciplinary hybrid (physics, journalism & mediacom). Now into Computational Social Science with a focus on Network Science. https://felixvictor.net
You know that you’ve been conferencing enough when you start looking for your #ICA badge to get through airport security 🥱
Same route, same ☀️, same beauty 🇿🇦, different crowd 🏃🏼 Join again tomorrow 730 in fromt of Cullinan Hotel ⏰ 5k leisurely run Everyone welcome. #RunningWithPresidents #ica26
Im Artikel „Riding the Spider: A Network-Sampling Framework for Multi-Platform Data Collections“ befassen sich Philipp Kessling @pekasen.bsky.social und Felix Victor Münch @flxvctr.bsky.social mit der systematischen und transparenten Datenerhebung über mehrere Plattformen hinweg.
🔊 Heft 1/2026 unserer Zeitschrift Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (M&K) ist als Themenheft zur "Datafizierung der Kommunikation" mit dt. + engl. Beiträgen im Open Access erschienen ➡️https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/221e9f85-368e-3cdf-90a9-b253a7121d35?page=1&toc=5783358
It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual
Special thanks to our great keynote speakers: @jasminriedl.bsky.social @flxvctr.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen@lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 7mo agoWe are in the midst of many fascinating talks that all take a different perspective on the question of the "Impact of Social Media on Democracy and understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship". This is the concluding conference of the @some4dem.bsky.social some4dem.eu/activities/e...
Bärbel Bas: "Wer mitmacht, der hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten." Nichts außer Druck & Existenzangst:
Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback! (11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...)
Neuer Blogbeitrag zu Art. 40 DSA und der Datentransparenz im Vorfeld der deutschen Bundestagswahlen. fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/6040 #DSA #META #TikTok @thejanrau.bsky.social @grenwi.bsky.social @pekasen.bsky.social @flxvctr.bsky.social
Art. 40 DSA and Research data access in the German Federal Election: A mixed experience at best
Article 40 of the DSA aims at enabling research data access and strengthening transparency in the context of very large online platforms. However, the reality of our research in the run up of the...
fgzrisc.hypotheses.org
„Es spricht sehr viel dafür, dass solch eine Art der Kriegsführung langfristig einen wirklichen Frieden nahezu verunmöglicht und damit auch konträr zu den israelischen Sicherheitsinteressen steht.“ www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
Lage im Gazastreifen: Eine halbe Million Menschen steht vor dem Hungertod. Punkt. | ZEIT ONLINE
Die Not in Gaza ist riesig. Doch eine angemessene Reaktion fehlt. Es gibt Gründe, warum Deutschland Druck auf Israel ausüben sollte. Und die sind nicht nur moralisch.
zeit.de
💡 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 💡 My article with @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kkasianenko.bsky.social, @vishneww.bsky.social, @essideh.com, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social is now out in Social Media + Society. We introduce a new analytics method: #PracticeMapping. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks - Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vod...
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping, using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjun...
journals.sagepub.com
Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬 “[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.” ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Too big to regulate? Some first instruments are now in play, under the Digital Services Act #DSA. And the @ec.europa.eu is using it! The EC opens proceedings against #TikTok to investigate how it handles risks to elections (recommender systems and political ads/content) ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission opens formal proceedings against TikTok on election risks under the Digital Services Act
Today, the Commission has opened formal proceedings against TikTok for a suspected breach of the DSA in relation to TikTok's obligation to properly assess and mitigate systemic risks linked to electio...
ec.europa.eu
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Exciting news. The Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut received a significant, structural strategic increase in funding to expand our research and transfer activities. www.hamburg.de/politik-und-...
Hans-Bredow-Institut erhält umfangreiche Förderung von Bund und Ländern
Mit dem Beschluss der Gemeinsamen Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK) erhält das Hamburger Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in den Jahren 2026 bis 2029 zusätzliche Mittel in ...
hamburg.de
Australische Forscher wollen den Tag ausgemacht haben, an dem X, ehemals Twitter, merklich nach rechts gerückt ist. Es war ein Wendepunkt im US-Wahlkampf. #Social Media
Analyse: X/Twitter rückte offenbar an identifzierbarem Datum nach rechts
Australische Forscher wollen den Tag ausgemacht haben, an dem X, ehemals Twitter, merklich nach rechts gerückt ist. Es war ein Wendepunkt im US-Wahlkampf.
heise.de
If you, like me, don’t want to divide your attention between several apps and timelines, check out @openvibe@mastodon.social . Using it for a few days now and I love the combined Mastodon & Bluesky timeline (Threads & Nostr is also an option). Feels like 2009er Twitter again 🤓
My Mastodon profile says: “if it is interesting, boost it. You are not on Twitter”. 📣 Same thing here 🦋 Share what’s interesting. A like is nice, but just a like for the author. No algorithmic amplification. 💥
There's been an influx of new followers & new people on this platform. Perhaps not a coincidence as staying in the other one is becoming less and less justifiable...
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
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Are u working on social media data in 🇩🇪 - the social media observatory smo.leibniz-hbi.de has your back - @flxvctr.bsky.social presents a really impressive overview about the great service, the project offers
Ich habe mich mit @johannasebauer.bsky.social über Krieg und Elmo unterhalten: leibniz-hbi.de/de/blog/naho...
Happy that one of my favourite science channels "Kurzgesagt" wades deep into my research field (social media, networked public spheres, (myth of) filter bubbles, polarisation) (even 'cites' my PhD supervisor @snurb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFl... )
Das neue M&K-Themenheft beschäftigt sich mit #Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit. Herausgegeben von mir, @janschmidt.bsky.social, Jan Rau, @flxvctr.bsky.social und Philipp Kessling. Als Open Access verfügbar. www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615...
