Neues Show-und-Tell-Format der AG “KI in der KoWi” der DGPuK: Erster Termin: 26.06. von 13:00–14:00 Uhr mit Dr. @mikefarjam.bsky.social und @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social (beide Uni Hamburg) sowie Prof. Dr. @cbpuschmann.bsky.social (Uni Bremen). Anmeldung: forms.gle/47wHUE5tAPT4...

Danke an das Team von @w-i-d.de (Wissenschaft im Dialog) für die Ausrichtung des Multistakeholder-Dialogs in Berlin! Sehr bereichernder Austausch und wichtiger Beitrag zum Verhältnis von #Wissenschaftskommunikation und #Polarisierung von gesellschaftlichen Debatten!

Wissenschaft im Dialog@w-i-d.de · 6mo ago

🆕 Unser neues WiD-Perspektiven-Papier untersucht, welche Rollen Wissenschaft und #Wisskomm in polarisierten Debatten spielen können. Es bündelt sechs Rollen und acht Handlungsperspektiven für Forschende, Wissenschaftseinrichtungen und externe Akteur*innen: wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/ressourcen/#...

New #OpenAccess paper in #EnvironmentalCommunication 🎉: “Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests” (w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de) 🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication is out & we (w/ Michael Brüggemann) contributed an entry on 💥 "Discursive #Polarization" 🗯️ Many thanks to the editors @alessandronai.bsky.social, Max Grömping & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social! 🛜 #OpenAccess accepted preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Alessandro Nai@alessandronai.bsky.social · 8mo ago

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

Proposed methods teaching material regarding network analysis: could there be a nicer way of teaching students what nodes and edges in a network are?

Jennifer N. Victor@jenvictor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com 🧵 1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim. epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

New mixed-methods study out in Media International Australia! We compare 🇦🇺 & 🇩🇪 news framing of climate movements — revealing media polarisation: right-leaning outlets often frame activists as threats, while centre/left ones portray them less negatively. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1329...

Polarised media framing of climate movements: A comparative mixed-methods analysis of Australia and Germany - Katharina Esau, Hendrik Meyer, Mike Farjam, Axel Bruns, Helena Rauxloh, Michael Brüggemann...

This study investigates the media framing of climate movements in Australia and Germany. Media frames are powerful tools for shaping public perceptions of socia...

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Excited to share our new #OpenAccess article in Information, Communication & Society: “Beyond anti-elitism and out-group attacks: How concerns shape the AfD’s #populist representation on German #TikTok during the 2024 #EU #elections” /w @julialenz.bsky.social, L. Rodeck & @drfell.bsky.social (⬇️ 🧵)

📢 Happy to see this #OpenAccess paper out in #Journalism! "From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests" with @mikefarjam.bsky.social, Helena Rauxloh & Michael Brüggemann

A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct #LLMs for Automated Coding During #ContentAnalysis |@mikefarjam.bsky.social, ‪@hendrikmeyer.bsky.social‬, Meike Lohkamp journals.sagepub.com... #GenerativeAI

New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:

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My favorite part of #ica25 thus far

Looking forward to attending #ICA2025 in Denver! I’ll be in panels from Friday to Monday and am excited to share/attend presentations of our recent work on #LLMs, (populist) #PoliticalCommunication on #TikTok, and #ClimateProtest movements in the media. Here’s where you can find me:

FYI #ICA25 if you want to get in on the national day of action on Saturday but will be away from your home, here is the Denver event

NO KINGS Denver - Power to the People Activist Fair by CO 50501 and Solidarity Warriors · No Kings

Location: NOT the West Steps. We'll be in Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park (Between the West Steps of the Capitol and Civic Center Park). Come and get plugged into the organizations that are fighting f...

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#ICA25 In case you're interested in attending a special non-academic event during your stay in Denver...

International Communication Association@icahdq.bsky.social · last yr.

A peaceful “No Kings” protest rally is planned for this Saturday in the general vicinity of the ICA25 conference. Please read more for details, including advice for those who wish to avoid the area and those who may wish to participate. buff.ly/Mcs3Wdq

Two groups, one protest strategy Yet we find that 🇩🇪 respondents are more supportive of stripping away fundamental democratic rights for Green activists compared to Farmers ⚠️This goes as far as shifting their willingness to sign a petition requesting immediate jailing without trial Results 👇👇

Danbischof@danbischof.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

Kicked off our #Fuel2Fire 🔥 project in Hamburg! In this cross-country collaboration, we're studying polarization across Europe — from meta discourse to polarizing topics & practices — with partners from Spain, Sweden, Poland & @netzwerkrecherche.org. #Polarization #Journalism

New in Social Media + Society: How do (non-)disruptive #climate #protests shape social media debates? We analyzed ~5M Twitter/X posts on #FFF & #LetzteGeneration: Disruptive protests generate more engagement—but also more polarization, driven by right-wing/conservative users: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

@pzerrer.bsky.social did a great job at #DGPUK2025 presenting initial findings from our #trackingdata research investigating how #climatechange topic consumption is linked to political participation & mobilization! With Vasilisa Kuznetsova, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social, @lisamerten.bsky.social

Das erste Mal dabei — danke an alle die dabei waren (und mich unterstützend angeschaut haben @kudusch.de) & besonders an mein unschlagbares Team @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social @MichaelBrüggemann @mikefarjam.bsky.social :-) #dgpuk25

Inspiring study showing how LLMs can be leveraged to combine large-scale #NLP research with deeper (qualitative) perspectives on social media, #CommSky, and #polcomm!

Julia Mendelsohn@jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦

This pledge for a European and/or transnational, non-commercial social media platform, which I originally posted on a now-defunct platform in 2023, has aged like fine wine ... So I decided to repost it here.

As part of ongoing research projects on #polarization and #depolarization in times of inevitable societal transformation, we have launched a website presenting our collective work -- feel free to check it out or follow @transform-comm.bsky.social for updates! www.transformativecommunication.net/en/

Transformative Communication @transform-comm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Polarized debates on climate change or migration, fueled by populists, media dynamics, and digital networks, can stall political progress. But disagreement is not the problem: democracy thrives on diversity of opinion, exchange, and debate!

A DDOS attack on our minds.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's going to be four long years of this shit. Day after day, batshit idea after batshit idea, just a Bataan Death March of the mind.

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature

We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

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

Virtual Torches, Real Fires?🔥 In an interdisciplinary collaboration, we explore the spatial and temporal linkages between protest mobilization on Telegram and politically motivated crime offline across German districts from 2020 to 2022. 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

With rightwing populism rising and German elections coming earlier, feels like the perfect time to share our working paper: 'Beyond Anti-Elitism & Out-Group Attacks: How Concerns Shape the AfD’s Populist Representation on TikTok During 2024 EU Elections' w/@julialenz.bsky.social @drfell.bsky.social

What is Discursive Polarization and how does it relate to established #polarization concepts within (political) communication studies? Michael Brüggemann and I illustrated this in an entry for Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Accepted OSF preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Want to learn about the current literature on definitions, methods of measurement, predictors, effects, and the ethical challenges surrounding #ConspiracyTheories? Check out @lenafrescamente.bsky.social and my preprint from the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication! osf.io/preprints/os...

In the next panel, Henrik Meyer from the University of Hamburg addresses challenges to societal cohesion, looking at discursive polarization (polarized framing if issues, polarized issue networks, polarized group-related communication and polarized group-related networks). #SMO24