Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

Inspired and grateful after discussing our work on minimum cost multicuts for visual frame detection. Thanks to everyone at #wacv25! @margretkeuper.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social @stefaniewalter.bsky.social @keuper-labs.bsky.social

📣 Jetzt bewerben: 📣 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) für ein Forschungsprojekt zu KI im Wahlkampf an der Universität Bamberg. Mehr Informationen zur Stelle und dem Projekt gibt es hier. andreasjungherr.net/2025/02/20/j...

Jetzt bewerben: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) für ein Forschungsprojekt zu KI im Wahlkampf an der Universität Bamberg

Am Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft insbesondere Digitale Transformation suchen wir Verstärkung für ein neues Forschungsprojekt zur Rolle generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz im Wahlkampf. Die ausgesc...

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It's Black History Month! In recognition and celebration of #BHM, be sure to check out the latest journal articles and publications highlighting Black politics and research in the political science profession.

I spy with my little eye... a WACV paper. We investigate visual frame detection using Minimum Cost Multicut clustering. Check out the paper to see which embedding space works best: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.01296 @isaacbravo.bsky.social @stefaniewalter.bsky.social @margretkeuper.bsky.social

Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵 #PhD #ECR #Wissenschaft

Interested in updates from researchers who are committed to advancing the methods of communication research and related disciplines? The Count has something for you... go.bsky.app/ByqiKgq Feel free to share and comment, if you want to be added.

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 To what extent does the population of a former colonising country support political apologies for slavery? Inge Hendriks, @nielsspierings.bsky.social, and Marcel Lubbers explores the support for apologies of various groups. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4gchSCx

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 Francesca Sobande and Emma-Lee Amponsah analyse media (re)presentations of "Black joy" and related marketplace experiences, while reflecting on Black life in Belgium + Britain. Full article available here: https://buff.ly/3OPtb7F

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 The paper by de Carvalho, Santia and Ramasubramanian adopts a critical approach to examine how US news outlets framed the public health emergency among the Yanomami People in Brazil during the pandemic. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g9vDSJ

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 In this new paper, @drsarahliu.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social show that the Taiwan's COVID 19 only applies to native citizens as migrants' interests are rarely represented in legislative debates. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g6Uwyo

Very happy to see that this article lead by Alice Beazer found a home in our special issue

Ethnic and Racial Studies@ersjournal.com · 2y ago

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 Beazer, Palicki, ‪@stefaniewalter.bsky.social‬ & EldridgeIl combine topic models and informed grounded theory to explore representations of a minoritized group during the COVID-19 pandemic. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/3ZNleqa

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 The presence of minoritized representatives is considered essential to advance the interests and inclusion of minoritized groups. But do minoritized citizens prefer politicians like them? de Jong explores these representations. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/49ued0m

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 Some Dutch minorities are numerically well-represented, but exclusions mean they do not feel they are Dutch, shaped by boundaries and privileges in complex ways. Article by @nellageurts.bsky.social, Glas, Sipma & @nielsspierings.bsky.social is available here: https://buff.ly/3ZxzH84

✨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/...

Very happy to see our special issue and introduction published @ersjournal.com !

Ethnic and Racial Studies@ersjournal.com · 2y ago

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 In their introduction to the special issue, @stefaniewalter.bsky.social‬ & Glas explore the impact of #Covid19 on minoritized groups' political representation. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g6Uwyo

❗️Our next workshop will be on December 12th, 6 pm CET on Big data made small: Harness the power of #SQL via #Python (through DuckDB) by @alemartinello.com ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support 🇺🇦! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

We (@marikenvelden.bsky.social) are looking forward to receiving proposals for summer holidays / papers & panels for the @ecpr.bsky.social section on "Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion" #ecprgc25 More here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

👩‍🏫 Showcase your research on a prestigious global stage 🌎 📢 Call for Panels & Papers now OPEN for our General Conference https://buff.ly/3AMuRvm 🔍 Seeking contributions across 60 Sections covering all corners of political science 👉 Submit by 6 Jan https://buff.ly/34n6JwY #ecprgc25

ECPR General Conference 2025, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 26 – 29 August 2025

Call for Panels and Papers

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📆 21 November, 15:00-16:30CET 🗣️hybrid event at EUI on our edited volume w/ Routledge on the Parliamentary Dimension of #CoFoE with @simonhix.bsky.social chaired by Kalypso Nicolaidis. 👉 Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=57... Open Access: www.routledge.com/9781032747644 @sceus.bsky.social EUsky

As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here: jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/ And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...

Wrapper for the AT Protocol Behind Bluesky

Wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://bsky.social>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network or posting conten...

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Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

Happy to share the intro to our forthcoming special issue in @ERSjournal on the political representation of minorities during #Covid19. Saskia Glas and I look at past crises and present 7 exciting articles exploring the topic from different angles www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

Job Alert!🎓2 PhD positions in my research group 'Media Coverage of Majority & Minority Groups' at TUM with focus on automated text analysis/computational social science & qualitative content analysis. Apply by March 25th! ⬇️ portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens... portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

As fears of disinformation are making their way from #davos into headlines, this new publication might be timely: In a survey-experiment @adrauc.bsky.social and I show that alarmist warnings against disinformation carry significant unintended negative effects. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Negative Downstream Effects of Alarmist Disinformation Discourse: Evidence from the United States - ...

The threat of disinformation features strongly in public discourse, but scientific findings remain conflicted about disinformation effects and reach. Accordingly, indiscriminate warnings about disinfo...

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2-months Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer fellowship at LMU Munich. two teams of fellows collaborate on real-world data science projects, aiming to create a meaningful impact for the social good. sites.google.com/view/dssgx-m...

DSSGx Munich 2024

Call for 2024 Applications open

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Join us in two hours for @rebeccakittel.bsky.social's talk 😊 Zoom link ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

Verena Kunz@verenakunz.bsky.social · 3y ago

After a little break over the holidays, we're back next Wednesday with @rebeccakittel.bsky.social's talk on language complexity in parliamentary debate among populist politicians & their mainstream competitors. Join us on Jan 10 at 5pm (CET)! 🎉 Zoom link ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...