It’s not a privilege, it’s a researchers right! #DSA40
@lkseiling.bsky.social and I summarize what the European Commission decision in their case against X (I feel we should follow John Oliver and from now on call it Twitter again) means for researchers right to platform data access [in German]
Wer hat schon Vorfreude auf den #39c3 POWER CYCLES? Das Weizenbaum-Institut ist auch wieder dabei! Unsere Wissenschaftler:innen @rainer-rehak.mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org.ap.brid.gy, @lkseiling.bsky.social, Ann Katzinski und Marlene Kulla haben Vorträge und Workshops im Gepäck 👉
SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "Operationalising the Audiovisual Turn in Digital Journalism." 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2026. More info at:🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1C-sA...
🚀 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.
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📣 Job alert! 📣
For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
🚨 Publication alert (CHBR): Together with colleagues from the University of Navarra, I investigated what role the quality of mobile media use (gratification and situation variety) plays when measured alongside screen time. Result: quality may be more important than quantity.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium at #ICA26! 🇿🇦
Submit your abstract for the event happening on 📅 June 3.
✅ Individualized feedback on your thesis or article ✅ Mentorship from senior scholars ✅ Career & publishing workshops
Super excited to see my first solo-authored publication out!✨
Thank you so much to the interviewees, the anonymous reviewers, and the (special issue) editors (@sarahsoutlook.bsky.social, Karoline Ihlebæk, @annikasehl.bsky.social, and @oscarwestlund.bsky.social) for their time and valuable input 🙏🏻
🗞️ At the Weizenbaum Institute today: workshop “What is News? Platforms, Audiences & Algorithms.” With colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, we’re exploring how societies get informed in the digital age. Plus a hybrid lunch talk on how changing ideas of “news” may reshape journalism.
"KI ist kein Ersatz für eine Lehrkraft. Es kann aber für Lehrkräfte ein Unterstützungswerkzeug darstellen, das dabei hilft, der Vielfalt, beispielsweise Lerngeschwindigkeit, sprachlichen Voraussetzungen oder der Neurodiversität im Klassenraum zu begegnen.” Jana Gonnermann-Müller, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Weizenbaum-Institut
Weizenbaum Debate: KI gehört ins Klassenzimmer! 18.11.2025, 18:00 - 22:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast Souterrain (QCC)
🤖 📚 Wie viel #KI braucht die #Schule? Lieber ganz verbieten oder das beste dabei rausholen? Das diskutieren wir nächsten Dienstag (18.11.) bei der Weizenbaum Debate in Berlin mit Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft.
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On last day of #aoir2025 @lionw.bsky.social presents our @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social work on TikTok data donation from the 2025 German Federal Election - only 5% of content was political and the Left party could capitalize most in reaching voters of other parties with their content on TT.
#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025
@lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.
Cover: LK Seiling, Clara Iglesias Keller, Jakob Ohme, Ulrike Klinger, Claes de Vreese. Data Access for Researchers under the Digital Services Act: From Policy to Practice. Weizenbaum Policy Paper 15, September 2025.
Out now: Our latest Policy Paper dives into the key provisions of the Digital Services Act #DSA on data access, highlighting its goals, procedures, limits, & external factors impacting implementation: 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/WI....
🚨 Wave 6 (2024) of the Weizenbaum Panel is now available in the Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer. Check it out if you‘re interested in Germans‘ media use, political participation, civic norms, and more! panel.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/findings/...
"From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere." We spoke to @lionw.bsky.social & Linda Coufal about how extremist views take hold and spread within digital communities: 🔗 t1p.de/sqii5
#DigitalExtremism #OnlineHate #PlatformAccountability #Misogyny
For Tech Policy Press, the Collaboratory's core team and
@claesdevreese.bsky.social outline key provisions, changes from the draft version, and stakeholder responsibilities clarified by the recently adopted delegated act on data access.
A visual comparision between Recital 12 of the draft delegated act (DDA) and Recital 13 of the adopted version (DA), which cover the same content. Multiple highlights show text removed from the DDA in red, text added in the DA in green, and changes in references (e.g. article numbers and/or paragraph labels) in yellow.
Wanna know what changed between the Draft of the Delegated Act on Research Data Access in the #DSA?
We've aligned the relevant passages and just published the comparison on our website: dsa40collaboratory.eu/dda-da-compa...
Data & code used are available on our github: github.com/access-colla...
Am 20./21.11.25 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social einen Workshop zum Thema "GenAI&Power". Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen, die eine theoretische & konzeptionelle Perspektive auf das Wechselverhältnis von GenAI&Macht werfen. Alle Infos zum Workshop finden sich im CfA:
dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
Do Alternative News users also use legacy media? Yes they do, shows a study by @gongbaobao.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social but a small fraction - around 1.3% of the German population - live in alternative news enclaves
It’s a wrap! #ica25 ends for #DigitalNewsDynamics team @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social with presentation by Felix Gaisbauer, showing that the more people use alternative news media, the more they share them, but still have the highest fear of reputation loss as reason to not share alt news
IfPuK and WI team group pic
Look at all these smart people from @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) and @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. #ica25
At the 9am Sunday #ica25 panel, Felix Gaisbauer @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social presented work showing that news sharing on platforms in the German context is less fragmented and highly driven by intermediaries from the political right
Find method preprint here: arxiv.org/html/2505.08...
Insanely proud of @atmayer.bsky.social and @maakesalonen.bsky.social who both gave excellent presentations on ongoing research projects at the intersection of TikTok and journalism, where I am very fortunate to be a part of! #ICA25
@atmayer.bsky.social with another 🔥 presentation at #ica25 How do news values and visual representations of news differ between public and private news media on TikTok?
Dataset paper on this out now!
doi.org/10.1609/icws...
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@jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social !
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@atmayer.bsky.social rocking the stage at #ica25 . Presenting work on identifying (non-)intermediation practices of digital journalists on social media. #silentintermediation
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
📍Day 1 at #ICA25 for our Digital News Dynamics team:
🕛 12:00 | @lionw.bsky.social & Jakob Ohme
🧹 User Deletion & Data Quality in Data Donation Studies
📍 Capitol 3
🕒 15:00 | @atmayer.bsky.social , Lion Wedel, Jakob Ohme
🕸️ Journalistic Intermediation on Platforms
📍 Grays Peak A
From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨
Felix Gaisbauer presenting first insights into political content suggested too and seen by actual German users around the German election earlier this year. Debunking assumptions of asymmetrical algorithmic curation on #tiktok in recent years. #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social