🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!
Mario Haim
@marhai.bsky.social
Professor of Communication Science, especially Computational Communication Research, at @ifkw.bsky.social at LMU Munich. Podcasts with @emesedomahidi.bsky.social at @ccspod.bsky.social.
New OA paper: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" by @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, & @timoroettger.bsky.social, and me (originating from our @meta-rep.bsky.social group). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Let’s talk about language—and its role for replicability - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Science strives towards a credible and comprehensive understanding of the world around us. Across disciplines within the social and behavioural sciences (and beyond), limitations in the implementation...
nature.com
✨Time for meta reflection✨ In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky. 🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci 👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social
For our new project "Fostering Proactive Replicability in Computational Communication Science via Frontloading Effort and Automating Protocols" within @meta-rep.bsky.social , @marhai.bsky.social and I are looking for a Ph.D. student: rrr.is/repccs2job Deadline: Dec 6, 2024 Start: March 1, 2025
New paper with @marhai.bsky.social out: „Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies" 👉 Article: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view... 👉 Supplement with Preregistered Report, Data, Code, etc: osf.io/vfazc
Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies | Computational Communication Research
journal.computationalcommunication.org
@marhai.bsky.social and @jajuenger.bsky.social & Chantal Gärtner have written books about Computational Communication Science #ccs #css. @mscharkow.bsky.social and I think they are good; go read them or give them to your German students. Also, please don't publish (exclusively) with springer.com.
Er war einer der führenden Köpfe der Verhaltensforschung: Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben. In seinem Werk erklärte er, warum Menschen sich entgegen den Annahmen oft nicht rational verhalten.
Daniel Kahneman: Ökonom und Nobelpreisträger ist tot
Er war einer der führenden Köpfe der Verhaltensforschung: Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben. In seinem Werk erklärte er, warum Menschen sich entgegen den Annahmen oft nicht rational verhalten.
spiegel.de
In our new episode, we discuss the impact of digital media on well-being with @dougaparry.bsky.social. We look in particular at measuring media use and the new opportunities offered by digital data and CCS methods, but also the challenges involved. Listen here: t1p.de/ogbna
Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication @LMU_Muenchen Application deadline: May 2, 2024 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication
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We are super happy to have you on board, Jana! First episodes on #aBitOfCCS with Jana are also already online.
🎙 Exciting News! 🚀 Thrilled to announce that I'm now officially part of the @ccspod.bsky.social podcast alongside amazing hosts @marhai.bsky.social and @emesedomahidi.bsky.social!
Join us in Vienna! 3-year PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods. Exciting collaboration awaits in the H2020project CIDAPE! Apply until: January 9, 2024 Job starts: March 1, 2024 Questions welcome via email! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/75-PhD-p...
75% PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods
75% PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods
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Excited to present the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities"! 13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como (see pic!) With a stellar team of organizers and lecturers! More info: css.lakecomoschool.org
Surely, you've seen this already but www.threads.net is now also available in the EU.
Note that this awesome special issue is not only entirely open access but that it also CONTINUES in SCM's upcoming issue with two bonus "tracks" (papers!)
Our Special Issue on „(Re-)Establishing Quality Criteria in Content Analysis“ is out in SCM. Guest Editors: @marhai.bsky.social, Johanna Schindler, @bachl.bsky.social, @emesedomahidi.bsky.social & me. 👉 More info & papers: doi.org/10.5771/2192...
Fake news and the hybrid media system as well as malicious language online -- interesting phenomena we package under the umbrella term of (in quotation marks) "'contemporary' news". @jolukito.bsky.social guides us through these phenomena in our recent podcast episode! 📻🎧
How to study "contemporary" news? Join our discussion with the wonderful @jolukito.bsky.social on hybrid media systems, different forms of political language and their impact, and the role of CCS. Listen in here: t1p.de/getq0
And what a great contribution this is -- thanks Annemarie!
Happy to have contributed to SCM's special issue on "(Re)Establishing quality criteria for content analysis" edited by @marhai.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, Johanna Schindler, @bachl.bsky.social & @emesedomahidi.bsky.social by discussing ethical challenges in contemporary content analysis
Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩🔬🖥️🇩🇪
Unser erster Bericht zur #COP28🌏 ist online! Darin geben @joerghassler.bsky.social @marhai.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social und ich Einblicke in Inhalte, die während der ersten Tage der Klimakonferenz auf Instagram, Facebook, TikTok und YouTube gepostet wurden: klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/co...
COP28 – KLIMA-MEMES
klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de
ChatGPT & Co.: Uni in Prag schafft Bachelorarbeiten ab https://www.heise.de/news/ChatGPT-Co-Uni-schafft-Bachelorarbeiten-ab-9546851.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.bluesky.bluesky.bs_beitraege.bs_beitraege
ChatGPT & Co.: Uni in Prag schafft Bachelorarbeiten ab
Überall müssen sich Hochschulen mit generativer KI auseinandersetzen. Bachelorarbeiten ergeben wenig Sinn – weg damit, sagt jetzt eine Universität.
heise.de
We had the pleasure of having Betsi Grabe from IU Bloomington with us @ifkw.bsky.social to work on the bidt-funded research project KLIMA-MEMES. Thank you Betsi for your visit and a great talk on "The Implications of Visual Primacy for Climate Messages". 👉 klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/ne...
It's (soon) all about data access! 133 responses to the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data access were submitted. Paddy Leerssen summarises the submissions; what are researchers’ data access needs? DSA commsky csssky polcomm digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...
Digital Services Act: Summary report on the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data ac...
Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) or search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic ...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
The events around Sam Altman's removel from OpenAI are unfolding and escalating quicker than an AI could create a similar storybook. Luckly, Wikipedia keeps track: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal...
Removal of Sam Altman - Wikipedia
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Aller Protest der Zivilgesellschaft hat nicht geholfen. Die Schließung der Goethe-Institute in Italien, Frankreich - aber auch in Washington ist beschlossene Sache. Um 24 Millionen Euro einzusparen. Welch Borniertheit, welch bodenlose Dummheit.
Schließung der Goethe-Institute besiegelt: Wie man Europa zersägt
Verheerend: Nach der Neuausrichtung der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik durch Annalena Baerbock beschließt Berlin endgültig das Aus für etliche Goethe-Institute.
sueddeutsche.de
Über 200 Absolvierende aus vier Studiengängen wurden heute feierlich verabschiedet - mit einem lachenden und einem weinenden Auge. Wir hoffen, Sie bleiben uns erhalten und wünschen Ihnen nur das Beste für Ihre Zukunft! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Friday afternoon shocker: Sam Altman is out as CEO of OpenAI for deceiving the company board. Is there a scandal about the drop that they’re trying to get ahead of?
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
Mira Murati will be the interim CEO.
theverge.com
Our podcast @ccspod.bsky.social is also here, now. And we have a new episode, together with Christian Baden, in which we discuss how nasty some places of online debate could become, why this is important for our research, and how we can tackle that, both theoretically and methodologically.
In our latest episode, we engage in an insightful conversation with Christian Baden, delving into the nature and prevalence of online disputes. We examine their implications for research methods and theories, and place a special focus on CCS. Listen in here: t1p.de/8394j
Interesting - partially randomising grant awarding increases diversity of awardees ‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of awardees and institutions given funding www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...
‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of...
Early results from an innovative new trial in how the British Academy awards its Small Research Grants suggests that introducing partial randomisation into the selection process could lead to a more e...
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Welcome to the other side, LMU Department of Media and Communication! @ifkw.bsky.social