The @bredowinstitut.bsky.social, Media Research Methods Lab is hiring! Two PhD positions with TV-L EG13, 100%. Apply if you fancy digital methods, multimodal content analysis and working with @azadekakavand.bsky.social, @grenwi.bsky.social and @thejanrau.bsky.social.
06.03.2026 13:13
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🚨Wir stellen ein 🚨
Das Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social sucht zwei Doktorand:innen im CCS-Bereich!
Digitale Methoden, jede Menge spannende Daten und ein fantastisches Team mit @grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social und @thejanrau.bsky.social … was will man mehr? 👩💻👨💻
06.03.2026 16:39
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Find out more and apply
Summer School of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, University of Bologna, 6 – 10 July 2026
📣 @ecpr-ead.bsky.social invites applications for it's Summer School on Extremism and Democracy!
🗓️ 6 – 10 July, University of Bologna
🎓️ Present your research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the field
✅️ Open to all students enrolled in a PhD programme
⌛ Deadline: 25 February
13.02.2026 16:00
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Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from January 2, 2025, to January 16, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity remains lower than normal most of the time period due to protests, with a sharp drop on the evening of January 8. The drop in connectivity aligns with protests across the nation. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption.
⚠️ Update: At 180 hours, the total internet blackout in #Iran now exceeds the core duration of the 2019 shutdown, and there is still no partial or regional restoration.
in 2019, it was only after connectivity was restored that the scale of the brutal crackdown became known.
16.01.2026 04:28
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#aBitOfCCS – What is it about CCS
Back from the holidays and into office mode? 🎧
Our latest #aBitOfCCS episode reveals how a 19th-century society magazine isn’t that different from social media today.
We talk AI-driven digitization and the Wiener Salonblatt (1870–1938) with @dchr.is
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
07.01.2026 08:07
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We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:
- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
07.01.2026 09:26
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Musks X ermöglicht es gerade jedem, per KI sexualisierte Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern zu erstellen, direkt unter ihren Fotos & öffentlich sichtbar. Die EU-Kommission "prüft" und nimmt die Sache "sehr ernst". Das reicht nicht. Der Digital Services Act gibt euch die Mittel: Macht den Laden dicht.
06.01.2026 17:58
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Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
16.12.2025 08:07
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🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc!
Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you.
💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!
12.12.2025 06:45
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TikTok Starter Workshop
Das Social Media Observatory (SMO) des Hamburger Standorts des Forschungsinstituts Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) veranstaltet einen Starter Workshop zum Thema TikTok. Der Workshop findet onlin...
📣 Das Social Media Observatory am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social und @fgz-risc.bsky.social lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein!
🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr
🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom)
👨💻 mit @boesch.bsky.social, @julianhohner.bsky.social & @lionw.bsky.social
Infos 👉 leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...
17.11.2025 14:30
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Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press
Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
11.11.2025 14:31
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Vielleicht haben „die Töchter“ auch keinen Bock mehr darauf, dass ihre Rechte und ihre Sicherheit für Friedrich Merz immer genau dann von Bedeutung sind, wenn er sie nutzen kann, um seine vollkommen rückwärtsgewandte Politik zu rechtfertigen?
20.10.2025 11:58
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Dankeschön, Katjana ☺️
30.09.2025 16:17
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Lukito & Friends Job Market Materials - Google Drive
For those on the #polcomm academic job market this year, I am sharing the job market material folder that I put together a few years back.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
29.09.2025 21:15
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ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
29.09.2025 12:07
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Last week, I defended my dissertation! 🎉
A big thank you to everyone who made this possible—especially (but not exclusively) @anniewald.bsky.social, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social & the whole @compcommlab.bsky.social! 🫶
26.09.2025 14:47
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Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
New publication, out in Political Analysis:
There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?
I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
19.08.2025 07:52
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Tenure-Track Professorship in Interactive Communication
Tenure-Track Professorship in Interactive Communication
Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication.
📆 Apply until September 17!
👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
#AcademicSky #CommSky
23.07.2025 13:44
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I'm giving a talk tomorrow! Come join 👩🏫
21.07.2025 10:08
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Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐
👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
21.07.2025 06:43
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🔊 Invitation: #LeibnizMediaLunchTalk
How do right-wing extremists network and communicate on social media platforms?
📅 22 July 🕛 12-1 noon (CEST) 📍 via Zoom
@azadekakavand.bsky.social will present findings from her dissertation.
ℹ️ ➡ leibniz-hbi.de/en/hbi-event...
@fgz-risc.bsky.social
14.07.2025 12:18
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Thank you 🥰
10.07.2025 15:52
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Some personal news 🎉
Last week, I started a new position as a Postdoc for computer-based methods in the Social Media Observatory of @fgz-risc.bsky.social and the Media Research Methods Lab at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social 👩💻
I'm super excited to continue researching social media and social cohesion 🙌
08.07.2025 13:45
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🎉 Wir feiern 75 Jahre Hans-Bredow-Institut #HBI75!
... jetzt auch auf BlueSky! #firstpost
🎂 75 Jahre Medienforschung – das bedeutet 75 Jahre Forschung über medienvermittelte öffentliche Kommunikation, interdisziplinär & international vernetzt.
🙏 Wir sagen Danke und freuen uns auf alles, was kommt!
17.06.2025 09:32
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Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌
We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
23.04.2025 09:07
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