Hi #ica26. We have an open 4.5 yr Postdoc position @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Berlin in PolComm/Comp Social Scienes on opinion dynamics in climate topics. Hit me up if you want a to talk about it in CT or send to colleagues who might be interested. www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

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📣 Das Social Media Observatory am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social und @fgz-risc.bsky.social lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein! 🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr 🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom) 👨‍💻 mit @boesch.bsky.social, @julianhohner.bsky.social & @lionw.bsky.social Infos 👉 leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...

TikTok Starter Workshop

Das Social Media Observatory (SMO) des Hamburger Standorts des Forschungsinstituts Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) veranstaltet einen Starter Workshop zum Thema TikTok. Der Workshop findet onlin...

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On last day of #aoir2025 @lionw.bsky.social presents our @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social work on TikTok data donation from the 2025 German Federal Election - only 5% of content was political and the Left party could capitalize most in reaching voters of other parties with their content on TT.

#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025 @lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.

#datadonationsymposium2025 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social @lboeschoten.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social On the myth of the need for representative samples, public partnership recruiting, the value of specialty samples, and a value proposition to the public as an incentive.

Has anyone else recently received a reply from the #tiktok research API support team after just 6 months? They transitioned to a new communication system. God knows how that company is still running if they could not communicate for 6 months, or could they 👀. #capitalistprioritiesarewild

Goodbye Zürich once again. It was an absolute pleasure to engage with the participating scholars on visual communication at the Computational Visual Communication Research Symposium organized beautifully by Meg Jing Zeng. Take away - LLMs are too good and convenient to avoid them ...

I put together a list of scholars speaking at the Computational Visual Media Research Symposium in Zürich today. Maybe interesting for some of you. Let me know if I missed you/isn't find you! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Really excited to also present this work at #IC2S2 next week in Norrköping! 🎉 I'd love to discuss how to produce LLM survey responses at my poster on Wed at 13:30 (Poster Session 2, Poster ID 68) 📊

Georg Ahnert @IC2S2@ahnert.eurosky.social · last yr.

LLMs are trained to produce open-ended responses 📝, but most survey items require closed-ended responses instead 📊 This Wed 11:00–12:30 at #ESRA25, I'll discuss the large impact that Answer Production Methods have on prediction results + share recommendations for methods and parameters. 👈

Loving @ic2s2.bsky.social , but I wonder if we're asking the right questions. Is "How can I outsource this task to a proprietary, black box, resource-intensive, often un-validated LLM?" when fit-for-purpose classifiers abound a computational a computational research question? Or even scientific?

@ic2s2.bsky.social Thought provoking keynote by Arnout van de Rijt! What's a better proxy for economic success over lifetime - wage rank or wealth? Wealth might show the exact opposite results, with wage being rather another (un)lucky event instead of an outcome of the other (un)lucky events.

Poster presentation at #ic2s2 done. Inspiring talks and a sore throat come hand in hand. Looking forward to the remaining days!

"From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere." We spoke to @lionw.bsky.social & Linda Coufal about how extremist views take hold and spread within digital communities: 🔗 t1p.de/sqii5 #DigitalExtremism #OnlineHate #PlatformAccountability #Misogyny

From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere

Together with his colleague Linda Coufal, Weizenbaum researcher Lion Wedel recently published two studies on the radicalization of Incels – a group known for its misogynistic views. We spoke to them a...

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#ic2s2 getting started! A grand hall for a grand opening. Unsurprisingly LLMs make up their own strong topic among conference presentations. But amazing to see that CSS still maintains an identity and topical diversity beyond that! @ic2s2.bsky.social

A curious way to make use of so called AI for a change! Participation encouraged!

Hjalmar Bang Carlsen@hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · last yr.

In the context of #IC2S2 2025: I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science. What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead? It’s a short, AI-led interview. Interested? Start your interview here: www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...

#IC2S2: Join me tomorrow at my poster on how to measure information use on social media in #DataDonations! 🌐 Survey development, panel study, digital trace data, TikTok, and multimodal classification—it has it all! 📢 Perhaps we can even debunk the myth that the youth aren't informed no more 👀.

„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” – @lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social: 🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️ #dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social

Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss

Das letzte Puzzlestück für den Forschungszugang für nicht öffentlich verfügbare Plattformdaten ist da. Die Aufgaben für DSCs, Forschende und Plattformen sind nun klar verteilt. Die Wissenschaftler:inn...

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📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

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

At the 9am Sunday #ica25 panel, Felix Gaisbauer @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social presented work showing that news sharing on platforms in the German context is less fragmented and highly driven by intermediaries from the political right Find method preprint here: arxiv.org/html/2505.08...

@atmayer.bsky.social with another 🔥 presentation at #ica25 How do news values and visual representations of news differ between public and private news media on TikTok? Dataset paper on this out now! doi.org/10.1609/icws... with @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social ! @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

@atmayer.bsky.social rocking the stage at #ica25 . Presenting work on identifying (non-)intermediation practices of digital journalists on social media. #silentintermediation @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

📍Day 1 at #ICA25 for our Digital News Dynamics team: 🕛 12:00 | @lionw.bsky.social & Jakob Ohme 🧹 User Deletion & Data Quality in Data Donation Studies 📍 Capitol 3 🕒 15:00 | @atmayer.bsky.social , Lion Wedel, Jakob Ohme 🕸️ Journalistic Intermediation on Platforms 📍 Grays Peak A

Join us and be enlightened!

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

If you're at #ica25 consider a date with the hottest new method in town… Data Donation in Communication Research: Ethical, Practical, and Methodological Frontiers 📍 Friday, June 13 | 12 PM – 1:15 PM | Capitol 3 - Regency 4 @anjabechmann.bsky.social @tgrootkormelink.bsky.social @lionw.bsky.social

How or why does #political content spread on #TikTok? Is there a large supply by political actors, is there a high demand by users for political content or is that content preferred by the platform algorithms? Weizenbaum researcher Felix Gaisbauer takes the issue apart at #WIConf2025

Axel Bruns @snurb.info talks at #WIConf2025 about #SocialMedia Practice Mapping in #ClimateChange debates in Australia, from climate policy advocates to the local fire departments.