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German Spiegel has the nice and fitting headline: "Vance accuses EU of campaign interference in Hungary as he interferes in Hungarian election campaign" via www.spiegel.de/ausland/unga...
Very pleasantly surprised to see my recent preprint being discussed in this NYT article on silicon sampling and its implications for opinion polling. More forthcoming work on this coming soon!
(H/T @rohanalexander.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...
The Trump administration is seeking to cut more than half of the science foundation budget.
A NSF budget proposal โwould dissolve the agencyโs Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorateโ
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Two weeks left to apply ๐
Interesting new bot-detection strategy in online samples:
academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-...
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.
Is there a place for (professional) news on TikTok? Based on 99 interviews w/ young people, I.Costera Meijer, @kenzalamot.bsky.social & I find that adapting to the platform risks diluting journalismโs distinctive value and blurring it with less reliable content โฌ๏ธ
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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(SELF)NOMINATIONS OPEN
@apsa.bsky.social Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication in โ25
Low threshold, email to me by 1 March with link to article
The same article cannot be nominated in successive years
Self-nominate, really!
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Stubb in Munich:
โ5 countries are in top ten, whether it's justice, whether it's least corrupt, whether it's open, whether it's welfare,โฆ environment, whether it's open media, gender equalityโthey are the Nordics. So I don't buy the argument that we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happyโ
๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ธ
Trump job approval rating by news platform
๐ข Twitter/X: +9
๐ด Facebook: -7
๐ด Cable TV: -10
๐ด Podcasts/YouTube: -14
๐ด Local TV: -17
๐ด Instagram: -21
๐ด Broadcast TV: -28
๐ด TikTok: -28
๐ด Newspapers/news sites: -33
๐ด Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
โThese findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.โ
๐ Weโre hiring a Postdoc!
Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If youโre excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you.
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This paper is now out in Artificial Intelligence Review
Bottom line: using LLMs to "simulate humans" sits in a no-manโs-land between theory and empiricsโtoo opaque to function as a model, too ungrounded to count as evidence.
Validation remains the core challenge.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
๐นExps in US Canada Poland & UK
๐นMore โfactsโโmore persuasion (not psych tricks)
๐นIncreasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
๐นRight-leaning bots=more inaccurate
My Nieman Lab prediction for 2026: The AI bubble may pop but peopleโs use of AI for information wonโt and it's better if we start taking this seriously.
Unser Highlight am Ende unseres Jubilรคumsjahrs zum 75. Geburtstag des Instituts: ๐๐ช๐ถ๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐บ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐๐ฟ๐ด๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎร๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป! ๐ ๐๏ธ #HBI75
Wir freuen uns auf alles, was wir hier bewegen kรถnnen! ๐
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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/
๐ข CCR needs a new Editor in Chief! ๐ข
@vanatteveldt.com is rotating out so we are inviting (self)nominations to lead our journal through its next phase. Deadline 15 January, see link for details: journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
Woops, sorry Moritz, wasn't aware of your account here @moritzbuchi.bsky.social
Super important and dear to my heart! Also a good opportunity to remind people of the super helpful systematic list of open science/access media and communication research journals by Moritz Bรผchi and @tobiasdienlin.com here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
๐จ Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
โฑ๏ธ Apply by 15/12/2025
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Interesting and important, thanks for doing this!
Interesting insights that align well with what we found for Germany with 63% having used GenAI in May 2025, up from 44% in 2024.
Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
This week, we have @lorenzspreen.bsky.social visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out: css-synosys.github.io
Elmo just started #Grokipedia. I took a quick look at the "racism" entry since I was wondering if it might be slightly(!!) biased. I asked #Grok, who would be a fairer judge, to compare the entry with #Wikipedia. The results speak for themselves...
