Fulbright Applications are open! 🌎🎉
U.S. scholars can apply for the Fulbright Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Vienna University) until September 15, 2026.
Start: October 2027 or March 2028
Duration: 4 months
Remuneration: €5000/month
Find out more below:
🏆 Congrats to department members @desireeschmuck.bsky.social and Jörg Matthes for winning the 2026 Arnold Barban Most Impactful Article Award with their study "Misleading consumers with green advertising? An affect-reason-involvement account of greenwashing effects in environmental advertising"!
📄🥳 New #OA paper by Melanie Haberl, @dominikhokamp.bsky.social, Marína Urbániková, Lenka Císařová, Folker Hanusch & @solecheler.bsky.social discuss "emotional communities" as an integrated lens to analyze the journalism–politics fields & explore new research avenues: 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1464...
📘 What can party manifestos tell us about party competition across democracies?
Our latest MEDem Data Network Focus spotlights the @manifestoproj.bsky.social with insights from Pola Lehmann (@wzb.bsky.social) and Simon Franzmann (@uni-goettingen.de).
Read more: www.medem.eu/medem-data-n...
Heading to #COMPTEXT2026 this week? Meet the CCL team sharing new work on social identities, political influence, environmental journalism, partisan polarization and more!
Details👇
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📢 Publication 📢
Youth perceive risks associated with generative AI, but it does not dampen their willingness to use it. These are the findings of a study in Austria, Serbia, Hong Kong, and Indonesia (J. Matthes, S. Hodzic, A. Stevic, A. Nanz, A. Binder, M. Chan).
👉 doi.org/10.1155/hbe2...
📄📣 New study from PhD candidate @clmron.bsky.social co-authored by @solecheler.bsky.social & POLCOM alumnae Dr. Jana Laura Egelhofer studied how scientists understand & communicate uncertainty about their research through 28 interviews in 🇦🇹. The #OA paper is avaialble w/ @natureportfolio.nature.com.
👩🔬 Save the Dates 👨🔬
April is showing its sunny side in Vienna 🌞 A fitting time to introduce our new AdME Research Colloquium. The series brings into conversation questions of emotions, democratic engagement, and the subtle ways in which AI can build relationships with humans!
Who talked about climate action? 🌱➡️Our multilingual multi-country 🇪🇺election campaign analysis shows the party families and countries that made this topic visible on social media. Details? Visit our poster #Klimatage 2026
📢 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
Workshop graphic for the CSDI Workshop 2026 in Vienna featuring the logos of CSDI, MEDem, the Generations & Gender Programme, and Meeting Destination Vienna above three event photos showing speakers presenting at the University of Vienna.
🌍📊 From survey data quality to research infrastructures:
The #CSDIWorkshop 2026 in Vienna brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss current challenges and innovations in comparative survey design and implementation.
Read more in our latest #MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/csdi-worksho...
Neuer Blog 🚨✒️
In einer aktuellen Studie untersuchen Jaroslava Kaňková und Jörg Matthes auf Social Media Misinformation zum Thema Gesundheit. Unser Blog-Artikel beleuchtet ihre Ergebnisse und erklärt, warum kritische Reflexion notwendig ist. 📱
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🚨Special Guest Talk by Professor Terry Flew (Univ. of Sydney) @terryflew.bsky.social on "The Horizon of Social Cohesion: Trust, Social Communication and the Legitimacy of Difference"
Monday, April 13, 11:30
Seminar Room 4, Währinger Str. 29
Find out more: publizistik.univie.ac.at/en/news/late...
Researcher Julie de Jong introducing CSDI
Sylvia Kritzinger welcoming words for CSDI workshop
🌟 Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) workshop kicks off in Vienna!
Hosted by MEDem, it brings together researchers and practitioners to advance survey data linkage and harmonization.
Looking forward to the discussions ahead, especially our panel tomorrow.
Stay tuned!
Panel session at the Comparative Survey Design workshop at the University of Vienna: four speakers stand at the front of a conference room, one presenting with a microphone while others stand beside a podium and projection screen displaying the university website.
Key takeaway from our panel at #CSDI with @jamoeberl.bsky.social, @paulbederke.bsky.social & @ggp.bsky.social on data linkage and interoperability:
Better connected research communities 👉 better connected data 👉 more comparable research across countries and time!
I present speaking into a handheld microphone while gesturing. Behind me, a slide titled “The MEDem Workflow” outlines continuous dataset annotation work, with a large arrow diagram highlighting operationalisations, variable-to-concept mappings, and real-world entities. The image captures a live academic presentation setting.
No day without some excitement. Today I presented @medem.bsky.social at the #CSDI workshop 2026 - currently being held at @univie.ac.at: truly comparative research requires a research infrastructure for data harmonisation and data linkage… and that’s where #MEDem comes in. ⚙️
Ich habe mit @heideanna.bsky.social von @diepressecom.bsky.social über den ORF gesprochen. Unser Gespräch war deutlich länger, als in einem Interview Platz hat, daher hier noch einmal ein paar wichtige Gedanken die wir auch besprochen haben. Nicht von der Headline abschrecken lassen. Thread 🧵 1/n
Was a pleasure to present our work-in-progress about environmental journalism on TikTok this week at the @cidape.bsky.social conference in Florence 🌍🌱📱Thanks for the super interesting exchange with the other panelists, the audience and my discussant @tillhilmar.bsky.social
New #aBitOfCCS episode 🎙️
I talked with Miriam Milzner & @thieled.bsky.social about detecting coordinated disinformation in the age of AI.
They introduce coorsim, an open-source R package that finds semantically similar coordinated posts!
🎧 Listen here: aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Research Talks: Summer Semester 2026
Once again, renowned international scholars as well as colleagues of our department will present their research agenda: @kathrinkarsay.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social, Laura König, and Kathleen Beullens.
publizistik.univie.ac.at/en/news/late...
How do we connect election studies across countries?
The Consortium of National Election Studies links national election study teams and supports comparative research on elections and voting behaviour.
On our blog, Olga Gyafarsova explains how the network started and what it offers.
Read more 👇
Great to have @ecpmf.bsky.social supporting #MEDem
Media freedom is a core part of democracy research, and we are excited to see the #MEDemCommunity continue to grow. 🗳️📊
@hosseinkermani.bsky.social took part in the #LunchtalksSommersemester2026 at the #ParisLodronUniversitätSalzburg about how authoritarian regimes such as in Iran use incivility and false information to suppress online democratic movements. More on the talks here: lnkd.in/ejuyE255 👏📣
Should teenagers put their phones down? Not so fast! 📱
We reached out to health communication and media-effects expert @mattminich.bsky.social, who studies how media affect minds and behaviours at #univie, to discuss his behavioural research on teenage digital media use. 👆
@ipkw.bsky.social
Really enjoyed sitting for this interview with the Rudolphina science magazine. Thanks for some excellent questions, @lfreese.bsky.social!
rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/what-rese...
The Research Group for Entertainment and Digital Media Effects (REEL) has launched its new website.
Learn more about our research, discover our ongoing projects, and meet the team: reel.univie.ac.at
MEDem attended the #ESFRIroadmap2026 hearings ✅
This crucial step was only possible thanks to our incredible community. Thank you for the continued trust and strong support! 🙌
But what does this milestone mean, and what comes next?
Read more on our #MEDemBlog 👉 www.medem.eu/a-shared-ste...
I sit at a desk in a professional radio studio, facing slightly toward the camera with my hands clasped in front of me. I am wearing a blue sweater over a white button-down shirt. A studio microphone with a yellow FM4 windscreen is positioned close to my face on an adjustable boom arm. Behind me, a dark acoustic wall and a yellow panel create a high-contrast background typical of a modern broadcasting environment.
Gestern bei #FM4aufLaut ein für mich neues Format ausprobiert – eigene Rolle finden, immer eine Herausforderung.
Thema: die #TrumpEpsteinFiles – warum Datadumps ideales Material für Verschwörungsnarrative sind & welch realen moralischen Abgrund sie zugleich offenlegen.
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Seit Jänner 2023 wird am Institut das vom ERC-Projekt "Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets" (DIGIHATE) durchgeführt. 💥
Im Interview spricht Projektleiter Jörg Matthes über Idee, Relevanz und ersten Ergebnisse. 🎤
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New #aBitOfCCS episode 🎙️
I spoke with @keonhison.bsky.social about the structure of parliamentary discourse on women in the Weimar Republic!
Honestly, one of the coolest methodological set-ups I’ve seen in a while — such a thoughtful application of #CCS.
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/