In 2022 I thought about a scenario based on this during a workshop talk in Tromsø
Posts by Felix Victor Münch
Im Artikel „Riding the Spider: A Network-Sampling Framework for Multi-Platform Data Collections“ befassen sich Philipp Kessling @pekasen.bsky.social und Felix Victor Münch @flxvctr.bsky.social mit der systematischen und transparenten Datenerhebung über mehrere Plattformen hinweg.
Cover von Heft 1/2026 Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
🔊 Heft 1/2026 unserer Zeitschrift Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (M&K) ist als Themenheft zur "Datafizierung der Kommunikation" mit dt. + engl. Beiträgen im Open Access erschienen
➡️www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uui...
It's time for a few professional updates. Together with the team behind the PolarVis project and with @flxvctr.bsky.social we have been invited by @cais-research.bsky.social to organize three workshops in Bochum. The workshops - between February and May - will expand on our understanding o visual
Special thanks to our great keynote speakers:
@jasminriedl.bsky.social
@flxvctr.bsky.social
@janalasser.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net
Hab mich damals im tiefsten Winter aus dem Wochenbett mit meinem Neugeborenen ins Jobcenter geschleppt, weil mein per Post gesendeter Umschlag mit Unterlagen angeblich nicht angekommen ist, und mir die Streichung aller meiner Gelder angedroht wurde. Ausserdem wurde mir gesagt, dass ich eine Woche Zeit habe, um den Elterngeldbescheid einzureichen (zeige mir den Menschen, der eine Woche nach Geburt den Bescheid in den Händen hält...) und es gibt ja keine Möglichkeit, da direkt mit jemandem zu telefonieren, der deine Papiere bearbeitet. Es war so ein Psychoterror. Am Ende bekommt man einen Bescheid, auf dem ein Betrag steht, der ca 20€ kleiner ist als beim letzten Mal, hat keine Ahnung warum, und man wehrt sich nicht mehr, weil man Angst hat, dass dann erst mal wieder alles gestrichen wird. Derweil muss man etliche Rückbuchungsgebühren bezahlen, weil das Geld so spät kam, dass Einzugsverfahren geplatzt sind, und das zahlt man natürlich selber und nicht die Mitarbeiter in der Leistungsstelle.
Bärbel Bas: "Wer mitmacht, der hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten."
Nichts außer Druck & Existenzangst:
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...)
Neuer Blogbeitrag zu Art. 40 DSA und der Datentransparenz im Vorfeld der deutschen Bundestagswahlen.
fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/6040
#DSA #META #TikTok
@thejanrau.bsky.social
@grenwi.bsky.social
@pekasen.bsky.social
@flxvctr.bsky.social
„Es spricht sehr viel dafür, dass solch eine Art der Kriegsführung langfristig einen wirklichen Frieden nahezu verunmöglicht und damit auch konträr zu den israelischen Sicherheitsinteressen steht.“ www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
💡 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 💡
My article with @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kkasianenko.bsky.social, @vishneww.bsky.social, @essideh.com, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social is now out in Social Media + Society.
We introduce a new analytics method: #PracticeMapping.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Meta Addressing bias in LLMs It's well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias-specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet. Our goal is to remove bias from our Al models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue. As part of this work, we're continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints without passing judgment, and doesn't favor some views over others. We have made improvements on these efforts with this release—Llama 4 performs significantly better than Llama 3 and is comparable to Grok:
• Llama 4 refuses less on debated political and social topics overall (from 7% in Lama 3.3 to below 2%). • Llama 4 is dramatically more balanced with which prompts it refuses to respond to (the proportion of unequal response refusals is now less than 1% on a set of debated topical questions). • Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down. We're proud of this progress to date and remain committed to our goal of eliminating overall bias in our models.
Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬
“[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.”
ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Too big to regulate? Some first instruments are now in play, under the Digital Services Act #DSA. And the @ec.europa.eu is using it!
The EC opens proceedings against #TikTok to investigate how it handles risks to elections (recommender systems and political ads/content)
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Interested in updates from researchers who are committed to advancing the methods of communication research and related disciplines? The Count has something for you... go.bsky.app/ByqiKgq
Feel free to share and comment, if you want to be added.
Sounds promising 🤞
Exciting news. The Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut received a significant, structural strategic increase in funding to expand our research and transfer activities.
www.hamburg.de/politik-und-...
Australische Forscher wollen den Tag ausgemacht haben, an dem X, ehemals Twitter, merklich nach rechts gerückt ist. Es war ein Wendepunkt im US-Wahlkampf. #Social Media
If you, like me, don’t want to divide your attention between several apps and timelines, check out @openvibe@mastodon.social . Using it for a few days now and I love the combined Mastodon & Bluesky timeline (Threads & Nostr is also an option). Feels like 2009er Twitter again 🤓
My Mastodon profile says:
“if it is interesting, boost it. You are not on Twitter”.
📣 Same thing here 🦋
Share what’s interesting. A like is nice, but just a like for the author. No algorithmic amplification. 💥
There's been an influx of new followers & new people on this platform. Perhaps not a coincidence as staying in the other one is becoming less and less justifiable...
Which Best Describes Your Education? You Have: 22,531 Respondents Dem. Rep. Never attended college 15% 37% 62% Attended college but received no degree 26% 49% 50% Associate's degree (AA or AS) 16% 42% 55% Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) 24% 54% 44% An advanced degree after a bachelor's degree (such as JD, MA, MBA, MD, PhD) 19% 61% 37%
It's the education, stupid …
#election #Trump abcnews.go.com/Elections/ex...
Are u working on social media data in 🇩🇪 - the social media observatory smo.leibniz-hbi.de has your back - @flxvctr.bsky.social presents a really impressive overview about the great service, the project offers
Ich habe mich mit @johannasebauer.bsky.social über Krieg und Elmo unterhalten: leibniz-hbi.de/de/blog/naho...
Was die Berliner CDU mit "Verkehr für alle meint".
Happy that one of my favourite science channels "Kurzgesagt" wades deep into my research field (social media, networked public spheres, (myth of) filter bubbles, polarisation) (even 'cites' my PhD supervisor @snurb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFl... )
Das neue M&K-Themenheft beschäftigt sich mit #Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit. Herausgegeben von mir, @janschmidt.bsky.social, Jan Rau, @flxvctr.bsky.social und Philipp Kessling. Als Open Access verfügbar.
www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615...