Our study on the strategic narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 7 EU countries, co-authored with @eddahumprecht.bsky.social, is out in the IJoC. We trace pro-Russian messages across countries, platforms, and actor types ahead of the 2024 EP election. Check it out: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Excited to share our new pub in New Media & Society, co-authored with my supervisors @qfzhu.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We explore how social norms are formed and guide prosocial behaviors within location-based meso-spaces. Link👉: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌟New pub led by @yichen1001.bsky.social on how social norms guide interaction in neighborhood groups on instant messaging platforms! If you're interested in meso spaces, online group dynamics or how IM groups function as civic infrastructure, check out our paper in NMS with @mjbroersma.bsky.social🔓👇

Yichen Zhao@yichen1001.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our new pub in New Media & Society, co-authored with my supervisors @qfzhu.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We explore how social norms are formed and guide prosocial behaviors within location-based meso-spaces. Link👉: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧨new pub! CHAT GROUPS AS LOCAL CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE💬⚙️🆘 w/ @buehling.bsky.social and Emilija Gagrčin pro-democratic participation on German Telegram, scalable mixed-methods chat log analysis, open access, IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER PAPER ABOUT COVID: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

My first academic paper is out (open access). It's a study of the organisation of Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group, based on a dataset of 818 CVs of its employees downloaded shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. doi.org/10.1080/1075... The main findings are in the thread below.

Trolls Behind the Mask of Journalists: How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot Media Group Was Organized

The Patriot Media Group, sponsored by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Kremlin’s “troll farm,” represents a distinct type of media organization that does not fit any of the contemporary Russia...

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There are many (21!) cool PhD's opportunities in my faculty, in topics such as Latin America, AI, TikTok wars, gendered misinformation, and many more. Check them out here: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

❗PhD job opportunity! 🔎 Media literacy as resilience for Ukrainian refugees: 4-year, fully-funded project at the University of Groningen (NL). 🤓 Potential candidates speak Ukrainian, have experience with qualitative/ethnographic methods, and have excellent social skills. Deadline: April 30th❗

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Exciting news! 🎉 Starting in March, I’ll take on a new role as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Political Communication at UZH’s IKMZ. Even better and please share!: We’re hiring a PhD candidate to join my group on news audiences & political participation! 🎓 jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Doctoral Position (3-6 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on Researching News Audiences and Political Participation

The IKMZ (Institute of Communication and Media Research) is a leading center for communication studies and research with a strong international standing. At IKMZ, communication and media research is e...

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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-checking policies

Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect "fundamental rights" on its platforms.

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Dr. Daniela Dimitrova@profdimitrova.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is a good summary of the importance of fact-checking based on recent research 🧐 #commsky #factchecking journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Just in time (be)for a holiday break: our contribution with brilliant @gehrke.bsky.social Marília Gehrke is out in polcomm report: politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...! Proud to be a part of this vibrant community💪🏽 and thanks a lot to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for bringing us together!

⭐ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 open PhD Positions at the newly founded Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism, funded by the WWTF, @univie.ac.at , Technische Universität Wien and WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). All information here: t.ly/836lz

📢CALL FOR PAPERS: The 9th GIG-ARTS Conference will take place in Salerno, on 26-27 May 2025. #GIGARTS25 Theme: "The Rise of Digital Sovereignty: Ambiguities and Challenges" Info & submissions: gig-arts.eu/salerno-2025/ 🗓️Deadline for abstract: 31 January 2025 #netgov #internetgovernance

Our Department of Communication @univie.ac.at is seeking a new colleague to join us in beautiful Vienna! 🎓Tenure-track Professorship of Media & Communication History 🔗Job announcement: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... 📆Application deadline: January 10, 2025 Please share! #commsky #mediahistory