Where do people go to unplug? 🍽️📚🎬 With Nils S. Borchers, I explore dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters as spaces of digital disconnection — and how physical environments shape our relationship with screens.
Out today in Media, Culture & Society!
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While the decision to stay or go lies with the individual, it carries significant weight. Our American colleagues are in need of solidarity from the international scientific community.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
Intergen. homesharing offers many benefits: reducing loneliness, supporting aging individuals, and enhancing housing affordability. It also fosters sustainable practices across generations. My niece Louisa, living in London, is featured in this story I am proud of her.
atmos.earth/three-crises...
Social media platforms TikTok and X ('For you') show evidence of substantial far-right bias in Germany ahead of Sunday's elections.
Study published by Global Witness and w/ important points about lack of transparency and data access in the article. #DSA #CommSky #AfD
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
Tübingen: Protest Against Right-Wing Extremism
After a heated Bundestag debate, the CDU’s migration law, reliant on AfD support, failed. In response, thousands protested against rising right-wing extremism, demonstrating civil society’s strong opposition to extremist ideologies.
Getting rid of 'under-performers' or an ideological purge? Shameless. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Nice article in Nature about what the research says about Meta's decision to stop their fact-checking program. My 2 cents;
“Studies provide very consistent evidence that fact-checking does at least partially reduce misperceptions about false claims.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As I wrote, this is why Zuck abandoned content moderation. He’s using Trump, not fearing Trump.
It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
Trump’s 34 felony charges ain’t going anywhere, just like the Moon ain’t made of green cheese—just a thought while jamming to my song of the day — open.spotify.com/intl-de/trac...
@catherinehapper.bsky.social, thank you for visiting Tübingen and delivering such an insightful talk on your new book, "The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age.“ What a stimulating exchange of ideas and thought-provoking discussions.
Finally! My new book, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age is out, order it here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180223/
It offers a new perspective on digital media & social change, connecting the dots between media engagement, socio-economic conditions & lived experience.
if you are interested in digital disconnection research, here is a mapping research of recent research firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
In this paper, we used our audio observation method to examine how parents and children talk about problematic media content such as advertising.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We have developed a board game on the topic of advertising and sent it to families together with a dictation machine in order to analyze the conversation transcripts afterwards. This paper describes this methodological approach to audio observations
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Here are some things I have been working on – like this project with my wonderful colleagues from sport science: media coverage of elite athletes’ mental illness between 2010 and 2023 in Germany.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/spo...
