Whether or not that’s just Durov‘s hybris - the old cat and mouse game is on again. Let’s see if 10yrs later an authoritarian government has the means to shut down Telegram. Potentially important case study for many countries to come.
www.reuters.com/business/tel...
In knapp zwei Wochen, am 30.3., endet die Einreichungsfrist für unsere Tagung „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“ am 16.–18.9.2026 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! #CfP #digikomm2026
A good Telegram channel
Question: I‘ll be teaching a course on Social Network Analysis this year. Can anyone recommend a podcast episode on (social) networks that will get my students hyped about networks in general?
Cool - Meta considers bringing back facial recognition to their smart glasses.
www.platformer.news/meta-facial-...
„Longitudinal [communication] studies make more conceptual contributions and receive more citations than non-longitudinal studies.“
Published in Journal of Communication:
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
That’s what I use, too
New School Guidance announces:
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
A very interesting summary and contextualization! I definitely feel the last sentence:
„I’m just not sure what we’re supposed to do with that knowledge.“
What a fantastic resource!
Emiliano Treré, describing the physical setting in which his ethnography of a student movement's information took place, sounds outright romantic!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org
The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022
with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social
>> 2020-2022
>> 715 channels & 229 public groups
>> 5,641,026 messages
>> Manually curated
>> Open for researchers
Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow
(van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.)
I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists.
www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
Medical cannabis suppliers in Berlin are now using Telegram‘s notorious image as a stepping stone…
(Cannabis has recently been de-criminalized in Germany)
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
Day 2 of #IJPP2025:
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Re-reading Chadwick's classic work on "The Hybrid Media System" feels wild, when it shows pre-TikTok/Reels media consumption:
"By 2011 [...] Americans were watching video on a mobile phone for an average of four hours per month. These figures may be small [...] but they are still significant"
🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social
The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
Wie haben sich die Netzwerke von Rechtsextremismus & Co. und deren Kommunikation während unseres dreijährigen Telegram-Monitorings entwickelt? In der neuen MATR-Ausgabe wagen Christian Donner, @wynbrodersen.bsky.social, @maik.machine-vs-rage.net & Michael Schmidt den Rückblick. 1|13
The times are dire, but some online platforms still seem to deplatform right-wing extremists. The head of the Austrian far-right „Identitarian Movement“ Martin Sellner reports to be cut off of his crypto monetization channels.
Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback!
(11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...)
Abstract
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
Economist goals
Paper titles from different fields sometimes sound very niche. But this one caught my attention and I was very lucky to continue reading. This is so insightful and enriching for my own work. Highly recommend!
doi.org/10.1002/asi....
“Science in fact is only just beginning, and almost all scientists who have ever lived are still alive.“
Stafford Beer starting strong in his “Brain of the firm“
You wouldn't know this from following mediated debates in Germany, but it turns out there are reasons beyond illdefined anxieties about immigration for where and why the far right wins votes...
