Daniel Pfurtscheller

Armin Wolf and Jeff Jarvis sitting on stage in Seefeld discussing media and politics against a backdrop of snowy mountains, with the audience visible in the foreground.

At the 17th European Media Summit, listening to the first panel:

A standout debate as @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and @arminwolf.at unpack Trump, rising authoritarian threats, media fear narratives, and what this could mean for Europe’s future.

#Mediengipfel

17th European Media Summit — first time in Tyrol!

Kickoff in Seefeld with alpine backdrop and opening remarks by Stefan Kröll & @meretbaumann.bsky.social.

#Mediengipfel

Reseachers from all over are coming together to talk about how news media quote & remix voices, from old-school newspapers to tiktok

I personally can't wait!

Hosted by @danielpfurtscheller.at and me

More infos: www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/...

#linguistics #bblinguistik #quotation #uniinnsbruck

What a delight it was to work with @danielpfurtscheller.at, @klobinger.bsky.social, @nataliialaba.com, & @kathchr.bsky.social on this newly published study: Visual literacies in transition: multimodal co-production with generative AI.

🔗 You can read our open access study here: lnkd.in/gZwZr83g

Grimes [@Grimezsz]. (2025, July 7). Ok I’ve basically been entirely off social media and returning here it is overwhelmingly abundantly and profoundly clear that this place – and all of these places – are a poison – a prison of utterly short form deep sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard imaging its learning. The entire thing is a theatre. A shitty pale simulacra of a life. [Tweet]. X. https://x.com/Grimezsz/status/1942235857068638564

Building on Grimes’s (2025) critique, I understand microblogs as digital spaces defined by brevity, ephemerality, and performative expression. Rather than fostering meaningful dialogue, they often prioritize immediacy over depth, virality over reflection. In what follows, I show how media shape the

#Journalismusfest25

Benedikt Sauer, Leiter des Journalismusfests Innsbruck, spricht auf der Bühne im Treibhaus zur Festivaleröffnung am 16. Mai 2025.

Es geht los im Treibhaus! Benedikt Sauer eröffnet das @journalismusfest.bsky.social Innsbruck 2025. Drei Tage voller Gespräche, Debatten und Perspektiven rund um Journalismus und Gesellschaft starten jetzt. #JFI2025

Dok 1: Red Deitsch, Oida! Ist Österreich Lost? Hanno versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Sein junger Kollege Finn spricht nur mehr in englischen Abkürzungen oder per Sprachnachricht mit ihm. Bundesdeutsch wird in Wien zur Umgangssprache, gönn dir. Und M...

des wiad leiwaund, homies!

in "red deitsch, oida!?", der neuen dok1 von @hashtagjetzt.bsky.social, gehen @settele.bsky.social sky.social und regisseurin lisa-marie gotsche im heutigen "hauptabendprogramm" dem wandel der deutschen sprache auf die spur.

schon jetzt on:
on.orf.at/video/142726...

My talk also features a small data tool I built: dpfu.github.io/reddit-data-...

It helps you collect and archive Reddit comments for research or corpus building – no coding skills needed.

I built it with linguistic fieldwork and multimodal data studies in mind. Give it a try, feedback welcome!

In Dresden today for the second day of #LinguisTikTok conference – excited to be presenting later today.

(Yes, it’s not lost on me that I’m here to talk about Reddit at a TikTok-themed event – but that’s exactly what makes cross-platform discourse so fascinating. 😌)

A screenshot of an interaction with OpenAI's Operator feature. The user requested a drawing of a pelican riding a bicycle using Paint.js. The interface of Paint.js is visible, showing a mostly blank canvas with a small, diagonal black scribble. Below the screenshot, a message states that there were difficulties drawing the requested image.

Testing OpenAI's Operator with the @simonwillison.net benchmark—asked for a pelican on a bicycle, got abstract art instead. The agent gave it a valiant effort, trying multiple tools before failing miserably. 🚲🦩🤖

jemand ist da.

International Workshop "Quotation practices in news media across time, formats and cultures", 6-7 November 2025, Innsbruck

📣 CFP: Quotation Practices in News Media across Time, Formats & Cultures
🗓️ 6–7 Nov 2025 | Innsbruck

📄 Abstracts - 30 June 2025
📧 lucia.assenzi@uibk.ac.at | daniel.pfurtscheller@uibk.ac.at

CfP: fileshare.uibk.ac.at/f/76c7f13371...

#CFP #Quotation #MediaStudies #Linguistics #Medienlinguistik

The second day of #WhoTalks2024 kicks off with @lieven.bsky.social and his keynote. From the linguistics of quoting and stance to multimodal forms—and even the Beckham ‘be honest’ meme

Now listening to Patricia Moy’s keynote at #WhoTalks2024: “Cutting through the clamor: Revisiting voices in today’s political landscape.” A deep dive into the primacy of voice as a STEEP concept (touching Society, Technology, Economics, Environment, Politics).

At the opening session of the Look Who’s Talking conference, exploring how voices and sources shape journalism and public discourse. Excited for critical insights into bias, diversity, and authority in the news. #whotalks2024

wait for it ;)

Flyer for the ICA 2025 Preconference hosted by the International Communication Association's Visual Communication division. The event is titled "Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in Times of Social Change" and will take place on June 11, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Denver, Colorado, USA. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is February 1, 2025. The objective is to contribute to academic scholarship and practical applications, exploring how visual communication helps navigate and make sense of social change. Themes include phenomena-oriented, actor/agent-oriented, and method-oriented approaches. Formats include traditional research (1000 words) and a research escalator (500 words with mentorship). Contact information for organizers Nataliia Laba (n.laba@rug.nl), Saumava Mitra (saumava.mitra@dcu.ie), and Kareem El Damanhoury (kareem.eldamanhoury@du.edu) is provided. Co-sponsored by the ICA Global Communication & Social Change Division. A black-and-white image of a person painting is included on the right side of the flyer.

📢 CfP: Join us for the #ICA 2025 Pre-conference: Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in Times of Social Change on June 11, 2025, at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA!

Please check our full CfP and spread the word: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o...

#ICA2025 #VisualCommunication 1/2

spannend ist an dem paper die methode: wir zeigen modellen bildern von plots und schauen, ob dabei was sinnvolles rauskommt. so würde ich mit bescheidenen mitteln das auch machen. und research labs bei google fällt auch nix besseres ein. hashtag very reassuring

multimodal models understand time-series data better through their vision encoders than through the textual representation of long arrays of floating point numbers

Daswani, Mayank, et al. "Plots Unlock Time-Series Understanding in Multimodal Models." arXiv preprint
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Poster zum 2. Gastvortrag in unserer Serie: "Analysen von Medienkommunikation" mit einer gelben Sprechblase und verschieden farbigen geometrischen Formen.

2. Runde unserer Vortragsreihe: Zu Gast sind die "Innbrucker #Medienlinguistik" - a.k.a. Katharina Christ, Daniel Pfurtscheller (@dpfu.bsky.social) & Ina Pink - mit einer Werkschau ihrer Forschungsprojekte 🔥 5. Dezember - 17-18 Uhr - Unipark Nonntal 3.205 - Salzburg #multimodality #medialinguistics

Die Ankündigung grandios wie immer, vielen Dank Jana! … let’s see if we can live up to the promise …

City Tour! Through rainy, cold, beautiful Bremen

(Btw, you can find the whole conference program–and all the speakers not mentioned here–on the website gi.uni-bremen.de)

@nataliialaba.bsky.social analyzing a YouTube comments on AI-art debates.

Key Themes:
1️⃣ AI as a Tool
2️⃣ AI as a Threat
3️⃣ Inspiration vs Theft: Is training learning or stealing?
4️⃣ Ethical AI: Debating genAI’s role in culture.

Lots to unpack in the AI-art debate! #GenerativeAI

The conference program is packed: 7 high density panels, each featuring 4 papers á 12 min. So I am not going to live blog it (getting old I guess).

Now: #DGPuK and #ICA VisCom Conference on „Generative Images“ in Bremen @zemki.bsky.social started with an inspiring keynote by @wasielewski.bsky.social on the relationship between text and images in the age of generative AI

i see what you did there

Universitätsassistent:in - Dissertationsstelle Chiffre PHIL-KULT-14598

#jobs #medienlinguistik #Phd im wunderschönen Innsbruck beim großartigen @dpfu.bsky.social

#BLinguistik