🤖 🔥 New preprint is out The paper, co-authored by Taehee Kim and @dgarcia.eu, demonstrates that AI-generated conversations can be remarkably convincing. 💡 For more insights check out the preprint: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do people watch the news they do not trust? We tried to bring nuance to this question in a new paper (w Frank Mangold, Michaela Maier). Like others before us, we argue that “media distrust” comes in two flavors: skepticism and cynicism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

I am proud to have presented my work with @eborbath.bsky.social on automating core sentence coding yesterday evening at @epssnet.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone there for a great panel and especially to @laiacastro.bsky.social for discussing our paper!

🚨 Our Digital News Report 2026 is out! Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, it is based on 100K interviews in 48 markets Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news... 7 findings in thread

From surveys to data donations: “Search and Stream” offers new research data on 🔍Google Search, 🎧Spotify streaming, and digital participation — linkable to the German ISSP 2024 survey. Now available at GESIS: 🔗ZA9079: doi.org/10.4232/1.14700 🔗ZA9080: doi.org/10.4232/1.14701

🚨 I'm recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social, to be based at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). These are both full-time positions for 2 years. Deadline for applications: June 23. Expected start date: September 2026. 🔁 Please share and help me spread the word! 🚀

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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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

Call for Authors 📣 Contribute to the Database of Variables for Content Analysis (DOCA) – thematic call on Digital Publics! We invite variable entries for the analysis of digital publics (manual & automated approaches). 🔗 Full call: t.uzh.ch/1Wn #DigitalPublics #ContentAnalysis #CommResearch

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

Collecting TikTok Data

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

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CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New CRAN package traktok with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=traktok

The Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL) is a collaboration by Southampton, Reading, and the LSE to leverage our strengths in public opinion research for academia and beyond. Today we've published our first methods brief— a short primer on conjoint experiments by the fantastic Thomas Robinson (LSE).

Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL)@poalab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"While testing one dimension at a time can yield simple results, those effects may not generalise to richer, real-world contexts." Read our new POAL Methods Briefs on Conjoint Experiments from Thomas Robinson! Link: www.poal.co.uk/research/met...

NEW - 'The Power of the Crowd: How the Public Can Both Spoil and Improve Social Media as a Source of Information' This Cambridge Element by F. Stöckel, S. Stöckli, B.A. Lyons, H. Kroker & @jasonreifler.bsky.social is free to read for 2 weeks. cup.org/4344Tyl #cambridgeelements #politics #Polisky

Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

How do people think different sectors’ use of generative AI will change their experience of interacting with them? More optimists than pessimists for e.g. science and search engines, but more pessimists than optimists for news media, government, and – especially – politicians 1/3

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵 In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👇

Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan

The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …

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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real… 🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

Proud to be part of such a productive research group! 🔎Looking for a panel survey? Feel free to use ours!

Roberto Pannico@robpannico.bsky.social · 10mo ago

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT). rdcu.be/eIkms

New publication with @abovet.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social @laiacastro.bsky.social With today’s political environment becoming increasingly complex, how can political selective exposure be measured beyond the traditional ‘left vs. right’ lens? Read more: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure

Selective exposure, individuals’ inclination to seek out information that supports their beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts them, plays an important role in the emergence of polarizat...

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🚨Call for papers for the 2026 Inequality conference in Konstanz. I'm co-organizing it and we welcome submissions from Computational Social Science. The deadline is approaching quickly! inequality-conference.de

In_equality Conference 2026

The "Politics of Inequality” research center invites interdisciplinary & international researchers to Konstanz, Germany, for the In_equality Conference, 15-17 April 2026.

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🧲 We are hiring! ✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social 🏁 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English 📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

📣 We’re launching the London Social Media Observatory! 🎉 ➡️ We are a new multidisciplinary research centre, directed by @andreucasas.bsky.social & funded by the @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship 🧵 [1/4]

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

How much can we blame social media for our polarized political climate? @danwphilosophy.bsky.social argues that the narrative that the platforms cause polarization “overlooks deeper political and institutional problems that are reflected on social media, not created by it.”

Scapegoating the Algorithm—Asterisk

America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.

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To all the #DSA experts and data access enthusiast out there, before you go on holiday, sign up & save the date for the #dsa40 data access days in Berlin, September 25 & 26! 2 days with keynotes, panels, expert insights and practical guidance 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out! 📊48 markets 🌏Almost 100K respondents 📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers 📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg 🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

Thrilled to share the program for the III Yale-UB HPE Workshop — a joint initiative bringing together HPE researchers across continents and disciplines. Huge thanks to our sponsors, presenters, and discussants. Can’t wait for a great conference! cc @cescamat.bsky.social (UB co-host)