several very problematic actors lost a key ally today...

Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings by Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans

📢 New publication!

My dissertation paper "Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings" co-authored with 🌟 @anniewald.bsky.social and Nanda Wijermans 🌟 is now out in @jasssjournal.bsky.social

Read the full #openaccess article: www.jasss.org/29/2/4.html

#ABM #CSS #dreamcollab

great work (as usual), Alice. thanks! & cited.

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A main difference is whether institutional validation (by science, courts, journalism) is considered relevant. Most people think so, conspiracy theorists don't.

“I am not a conspiracy theorist, but . . .” @cbaden.bsky.social, Nina Springer, Nina Steindl and I analyze how conspiracy theories are discussed in mainstream forums. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Introducing JoC Forum contribution: “How to fight the data grab”, by Sara Bannerman.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Bereich Computational Social Science Am Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in Hamburg ist ab dem 1. April 2026 eine Stelle zu besetzen: Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im Bereich Computati...

🚨Wir suchen eine Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für das Media Research Methods Lab am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social:

Wir bieten
💡spannende Themen
🕙flexible Arbeitszeiten
🏢Homeoffice oder Büro
👨‍💻super Team (@grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social, @thejanrau.bsky.social)

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Why do people who oppose conspiracy theories help disseminate them? That is one key question in the new article "Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories", written by myself and Luna Gao and published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social.

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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? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026

📍 University of Leeds
🗓 13–17 July

📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026
📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026

Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/

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The paper mentioned: doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...

OPINION Network: www.opinion-network.eu

Rethinking Public Opinion - A Conversation with Christian Baden, Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stępińska

I spoke with Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stepinska on the Smart Institute Podcast about our OPINION COST Network and how digital discourse and computational tools challenge and enable us to rethink public opinion.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6XEn...

Do you have colleagues interested in Computational Methods? Help us spread the word and invite them to join our first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social.
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Mazal Tov with this new adventure! May Birmingham welcome you warmly! We (OPINION) will come visit and check on you in April :)

Look, it is our special issue :)

The last funny thing I saw were some journals that were named identically with major Q1 journals but published in Kolkata, Johannesburg, etc., by predatory publishers. There is even a Journal of Communication there somewhere. Someone who "published" there applied for a program... 😳

Hm if not the study, at least the fraud was original... 🤔

item is gone... what was there?

Awesome news, huge congrats, Daniela! And to WI, they will be so lucky to have you!

I made a decision tree...

Thanks a lot, Curd!

That was definitely the ambition. 🙃

Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
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#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot.

📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025

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🚨 A free ad for Maximilian Linde, Chung-Hong Chan & Paul Balluff's important Public Service Announcement for communication researchers: 🛑 Stop competing on text corpus size! Scale is rarely needed and often compromises quality. Thank you for your attention to this matter. doi.org/10.1177/1077...

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

with: @netakv.bsky.social Nina Springer @marcjungblut.bsky.social @astaze.bsky.social Aukse Balcytiene Susana Salgado Artur Lipinski Aleksandra Krstic & Anna Baczkowska

OPINION is an international network of researchers collaborating to develop and integrate conceptual foundations, computational measurement strategies, and research agendas for the study of textual expressions of evaluative opinions.

▶️ Check out OPINION for more relevant content: www.opinion-network.eu
For instance, we recently released a Glossary for transdisciplinary opinion research: www.opinion-network.eu/glossary

Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework Abstract. Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital

🚨New Publication!
Public opinion happens on digital media, but it's very different from what we see in surveys. Here's how:
doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...
10 members of the pan-European OPINION network put together to discuss how we can understand public opinion processes in a digital media ecosystem.