New paper out on trust in science in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 🙏 to @nielsmede.bsky.social and @colognaviktoria.bsky.social for initiating the TISP project and to @juliametag.bsky.social for her helpful input throughout the project. Free-access link: shorturl.at/4VBAJ

First publication of the News Beat Project is now out in Journalism! If you're interested in geographically defined news beats from an international perspective, you should have a look. Read it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/1464...

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

New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:

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Meet the #CAISfellows: Florian Wintterlin, University of Münster @wintterlin.bsky.social 🔍His Research at CAIS: “Framing Scientific Evidence – A Qualitative Analysis of Micro-Frames in Comments on Climate Change” 🗓️His Talk: May 28 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht... #SciComm

Social media has reshaped political communication—but how diverse is the research behind it? Our systematic review published in SComS answers this question. Together with the wonderful co-authors Kira Klinger, @juliametag.bsky.social, and Lukas Lindenschmidt. doi.org/10.24434/j.s...

🔍 Who are the users of alternative scientific media? 🔍 New study published in Science Communication. Lead by the wonderful Lena Zils, and together with @juliametag.bsky.social, @nielsmede.bsky.social and @mss7676.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1075...

Daten zum TikTok-Wahlkampf der Parteien und Spitzenkandidierenden: Im Durchschnitt erreichten die Videos der AfD (Kanal der Fraktion) die meisten Aufrufe während des Wahlkampfs (7.11. - 23.2.), dicht gefolgt von der Linken. Bei den Kandidierenden liegt Reichinnek vorne. #TikTok #BTW25

Beeinflussen Social Media das Wahlverhalten? Johanne Burkhardt hat das für Wissen Weekly recherchiert und mich dafür interviewt. Das Ergebnis gibt es hier: open.spotify.com/episode/0XCc...

Bundestagswahl: Beeinflusst Social Media, wen wir wählen?

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Auch diese Bundestagswahl war es mir eine Ehre zusammen mit @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social und @whotargets.me an einer @zdfmagaz.in Folge zum digitalen Wahlkampf mitzuwirken! Falls ihr noch nicht genug zum Thema haben schaut doch mal beim Dashboard vorbei: shorturl.at/A10q9 #Grauburgunderbereich🍷

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𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫ä𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐦 𝐙𝐃𝐅 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐞: 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐦 #𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡🍷 Ich habe das ZDF-Team mit @favstats.eu & @whotargets.me bei der Recherche für ihre Sendung zum digitalen Wahlkampf unterstützt & landete im Studio Ehrenfeld Das Ergebnis im Stream: www.zdf.de/comedy/zdf-m...

Excited to share our new article, "A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder", now published in Media and Communication (@CogitatioMaC)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess

A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder | Article | Media and Communication

Felix Reer, Lena Maria Küpper, Florian Wintterlin, Thorsten Quandt

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We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢 It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡

Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Recommend two good pieces of reporting on misinformation, research on it, and debates around it that came out around the turn of the year Laurie Clarke dismantles lazy "bad actors" framing www.politico.eu/article/nobo... & @claradoodle.bsky.social AI deepfake panic www.ft.com/content/62d8... 1/3

‘Nobody was tricked into voting for Trump’: Why the disinformation panic is over

Eight years ago, Trump and Brexit sparked fears social media was corroding reality. Now, that narrative is crumbling.

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This emerging hot take that misinformation was just some academic panic is mind-numbingly bad and reminiscent of attempts to frame climate science, etc… as hysteria. www.politico.eu/article/nobo...

‘Nobody was tricked into voting for Trump’: Why the disinformation panic is over

Eight years ago, Trump and Brexit sparked fears social media was corroding reality. Now, that narrative is crumbling.

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With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

Interesting new study with three-wave panel data examining the relationship between hostile media perceptions and trust in news by @wintterlin.bsky.social Gurr @juliametag.bsky.social ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Improving access to high-quality scientific information can fill information voids that exist for topics of interest to people and reduce exposure to and uptake of misinformation about science. Read more in our report: nap.nationalacademies.org/27894 #scicomm #medialiteracy

Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

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New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

Are you looking for the latest examples of AI deepfakes in the wild? We got you. #medialiteracy #factchecking lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/f8...

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The number of risk assessments are coming in #DSA #commsky #eusky Check this overview ⬇️ X, Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, TikTok are there docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

DSA: Risk Assessment & Audit Database

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𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries

Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

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Unsere Studie 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹-𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗶 𝗔𝗳𝗗? ist heute erschienen. Wir untersuchen die digitalen Landtagswahlkämpfe in BRB, SN & TH. Unser Fazit: Die digitale Performance der AfD wird in der Öffentlichkeit häufig überschätzt. Sie hängt von medialer Resonanz ab. www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/social-media...

AfD-Wahlkämpfe 2024: Social Media im Fokus

Die OBS-Studie zeigt, wie die AfD ihre Social-Media-Wahlkämpfe in Sachsen, Thüringen und Brandenburg gestaltete. AfD-Accounts auf TikTok richteten sich eher an ältere Generationen. Besonders in Brande...

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New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10

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New Study with Gwendolin Gurr and @juliametag.bsky.social finds: Negative evaluations of topic-specific coverage such as migration do not lead to a loss of trust in the media in general. More in the paper here: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Mainstreaming the Far Right in Public Debates – I have summarised some findings of my dissertation on the Oxford University Politics Blog. Polisky bit.ly/41ney0M

The Drivers of Far-Right Mainstreaming in Public Debates

The far right is gaining power in many liberal democracies. Far-right actors threaten democracy by spreading their nativist, exclusionary and authoritarian ideas through various means (Mudde 2019). Th...

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