🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Pics or it didn't happen! 📱
@olgaeisele.bsky.social, @hdnrch.bsky.social & @phoebemaares.bsky.social
look at a decade of EU social media posts to show that how images are used strongly shapes user engagement
Good news! 🎉
The registration issue has been resolved — everything should now work smoothly.
🔗 Direct link: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...
🗓 Registration is open until April 5, 2026
Looking forward to seeing you at the ICA Hackathon 2026 @SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! 🚀💡
Welcome aboard! 🛶
We’re excited to welcome Matt Minich (University of Wisconsin–Madison), who has joined the department as an ÖAW APART-USA Research Fellow.
A former social scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Matt is now researching digital health communication here in Vienna 🇦🇹
🚀 Save the Date!
If you're considering joining us, now is a great time to block the dates and start planning your #trip.
We can’t wait to see you at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd and 4th June 2026 for this year's #Hackathon! 🌍✨
📢 AUTHLIB webinar
How do illiberals challenge democracy in Austria, Italy & France?
🗓️ Jan 26 |🕒 10:00 CET
🎙️Batuhan Eren (Scuola Normale Superiore), @caterinafr.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger (Uni Vienna) & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social
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Have you ever explored our toolkit? This is where you'll find our favourite tools for digital investigations. From tools that help you dig through historic court cases to exploring nighttime satellite imagery. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
Do you have colleagues interested in Computational Methods? Help us spread the word and invite them to join our first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social.
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It's out!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
Very grateful to spend a productive and inspiring week with this wonderful team in Konstanz 🫶
WHAT-IF researchers during their coffee break in Konstanz
Developing the first simulation prototype based on the systematic literature review in beautiful Konstanz 🏔️ ☀️
with Stephen Tyndel, Giordano de Marzo, @aytalina.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & Taehee Kim
Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟
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What, a content analysis dataset that you could, for example, combine with survey data and manifesto data? 😱
As part of AUTNES, we have data for the six weeks preceding Austria's last election in 2024, enabling research on topics such as media agendas, campaign dynamics, and opinion formation.
Group picture of researchers at the WHAT-IF workshop in Vienna: Rupert Kiddle, David Garcia, Giordano de Marzo, Nikolaus Pöchhacker, Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr, Taehee Kim, Jula Lühring, Max van Drunen, Wouter van Atteveldt, Sophie Reisinger, Max Pellert, Daisuke Nakamura, Constantine Boussalis
(How) can AI help build better online spaces? ✨
Last week, 16 researchers from 8 institutions gathered in Vienna to explore exactly that question. Between the Christmas markets, the WHAT-IF team discussed how LLMs can power agent-based simulations to tackle online hostility and harmful content 👇
Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world
A very short 🧵
Picture of the three volumes of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication stacked one on the other. https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781035301447/9781035301447.xml
CCL contributions to the new #ElgarEncyclopedia of #PoliticalCommunication, edited by
@alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, &
@dominiquewirz.bsky.social! 🤝
CCL authors include @hosseinkermani.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @fabiennelind.bsky.social, & @jamoeberl.bsky.social 📝
Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Top conditions, environment & colleagues.
Candidates welcome across places and disciplines.
🗓️ DL: March 15, 2026
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.
It was a wonderful week: insightful keynotes, high-quality presentations, and lots of food for thought 🤩 Very grateful for the opportunity to present @what-if-horizon.bsky.social and for the amazing organization of the event! 🙌
Big congrats, Daniela!! 🤩🥳
Time to share some news I've been sitting on: starting in January, I will lead a @dfg.de Emmy Noether Group at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! We will investigate how local public spheres are constituted under conditions of digitalization & globalization.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...
Good morning from Graz winter school on modeling opinion dynamics and social change ☕️☀️
Preprint alert! 🥳
How are social bias and CSS interconnected? 🤔
@aytalina.bsky.social, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, and I argue that social bias shapes CSS as a field and as a methodology. Progress in CSS depends on engaging with both dimensions! osf.io/preprints/so...
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
Fabulous online seminar organized by @algosoc.org
Algorithmic Effects on #Elections: Using Social Media Data Donations to Study Elections
🗓️ Fri 12 Dec, 14:00–15:30 CET
@ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @antmandan.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social
Registration ⬇️
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After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
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