Exciting news: @hajoboo.bsky.social will take over as Editor-in-Chief of CCR @computationalcommunication.org from June 7. Hajo is a dream candidate to take over and I have no doubt CCR will continue to flourish under his leadership. Welcome!

journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...

📢 CCR needs a new Editor in Chief! 📢
@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...

📢 Call for Papers!

Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era

Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2

co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social

More details below 👇

Picture of the WHAT-IF project consortium at the kick-off meeting in Amsterdam

Hello world! Meet our consortium—15 organizations, 10 countries—joining forces to rethink the digital political information space. 🚀

Last week, we kicked off our project WHAT-IF, setting the stage to build a digital twin that will help us test the impact of policy interventions.

More in the 🧵!

We're hiring! Does writing research software and promoting computational social science sounds like your dream job? We're looking for a postdoc / research engineer for the Societal Analytics lab: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po.... Email me or find me at #ica for Qs!

New Paper! @jana_bhard and @boomgaardenhg investigate the role of validation methods in topic model selection, showing how different approaches can influence the chosen model, impacting study results, and thus also theory development. Available here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

New Publication in Computational Communication Research Congratulations to Jana Bernhard, Martin Teuffenbach, and Hajo G. Boomgaarden on publishing a new paper in Computational Communication Research!

🚨New Publication in Computational Communication Research 🚨 
CCR has published a paper titled "Topic Model Validation Methods and their Impact on Model Selection and Evaluation", written by @janabernhard.bsky.social, Martin Teuffenbach, and @hajoboo.bsky.social