Featuring @ayayadlin.bsky.social @idoramati.bsky.social Ilan Manor and Lidor Ivan
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Featuring @ayayadlin.bsky.social @idoramati.bsky.social Ilan Manor and Lidor Ivan
"How do we imagine Big Dataβand why does our imagination matter?"
The Special Section on Big Data Discourses, guest edited by Christian Pentzold and Charlotte Knorr, probes this question through a collection of 11 interdisciplinary papers, newly published in the IJoC. Read at ijoc.org
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The next octopus conference is coming to town π
βInfluence, Manipulation, Seductionβ 3d edition at Tampere Uni, co-organised with @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @domini.bsky.social - this time it is face to face!
Send us your persuasive abstracts by July 1
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Zohar Kampf and I contributed a chapter on lapdog interviewers, and how their on-air flattery towards politcal leaders creates an undemocratic model of leadership
Montgomery, 2010 and your 2015 paper for narrative analysis, Kampfβs βnon-apologiesβ for speech acts, and Bridges, 2017 for pragmatic-based CDA. I have plenty more!
PLEASE SHARE
π£ Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticityβ
Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).
Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.
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#commsky
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
The cover looks so much like the one for Ministry of Time! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Mi...
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Language, Speech, and AI: FACTOR Summer School 2025
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28-30 July 2025
π Lancaster University, UK
πΌ Theme: Fraud & the (Mis)use of AI
Countless frauds and scams are being perpetrated all around us right now, and AI has made it easier than ever. And we'd like to fight back...
Come work with us! Our project on "Visual Gendered Disinformation" is hiring a PhD student in a fully-funded position, co-supervised by @gehrke.bsky.social, @seldridge.com and myself, and embedded into the wonderful CMJS research community in Groningen.
>>>> DM or email me for more information!
Sounds fantastic, canβt wait to read it!
βPhD job opportunity!
π Media literacy as resilience for Ukrainian refugees: 4-year, fully-funded project at the University of Groningen (NL).
π€ Potential candidates speak Ukrainian, have experience with qualitative/ethnographic methods, and have excellent social skills.
Deadline: April 30thβ
Please share: @ninamarkl.bsky.social and I are convening a track at the Academic Mindtrek Tampere www.mindtrek.org/academic-min... >> Linguistic Horizons. We invite contributions on how linguistic analysis of interaction can shed light on human-computer interaction and tech applications
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Sounds fascinating, looking forward to reading it!
Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.
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Wonderful! Just what I needed for my Intercultural Communication seminar next semester
Two new Assistant Professorships in our department
Language and New Media:
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Intercultural Communication:
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