Currently in Vol 19, Issue 4 Communication Methods and Measures #CMM:
Whose truth is it anyway? An experiment on annotation bias in times of factual opinion polarization, by Mariken A. C. G. van der Velden,@feloe.bsky.social,@vanatteveldt.com, etc.
๐https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2562034
Posts by Felicia Loecherbach
Exciting news: @hajoboo.bsky.social will take over as Editor-in-Chief of CCR @computationalcommunication.org from June 7. Hajo is a dream candidate to take over and I have no doubt CCR will continue to flourish under his leadership. Welcome!
journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
New paper by @philippdarius.bsky.social, @jasminriedl.bsky.social, @feloe.bsky.social, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, and me in @policyr.bsky.social: "Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act"
policyreview.info/articles/ana...
Very happy to see this out now! ๐
Coincidentally well timed with the ongoing DSA Observatory Conference in Amsterdam, a new publication titled โElection research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Actโ has been published in Internet Policy Review today! โจ
Good news! ๐
The registration issue has been resolved โ everything should now work smoothly.
๐ Direct link: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...
๐ Registration is open until April 5, 2026
Looking forward to seeing you at the ICA Hackathon 2026 @SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! ๐๐ก
๐ Also: Registration for the Hackathon is now open on the official ICA Pre- and Post-Conferences Site โ register here! www.icahdq.org/events/regis...
Want to spread the word about something but nobody sees it? Send me all your new job adverts, upcoming workshop or conference deadlines and new initiatives! I can secure you a spot in our newsletter, just reach out ๐ #commsky
AMSTERDAM โค๏ธ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER ๐ ๐ฟ๐ง
One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing ๐ซถ
Please reach out if you have any questions.
@polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social
The ๐ Encyclopedia of Political Communication ๐ is now out in the wild, and a first awesome batch of entries is available in open access!
Read them, love them, use them for your courses! ๐ฅ
Check the ๐งต below to access them
Plz repost for maximum diffusion
๐ Location: Munich
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Start: 1 Apr 2026
โณ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
๐ Weโre hiring a Postdoc!
Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If youโre excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you.
๐ก Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Weโre excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us ๐ซถ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
Screenshot of Abstract describing the Special Issue on Bias in Computational Social Science in the Journal Communication Methods and Measures
Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS?
โจHere's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:
"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"
๐ doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)
Come work with us ๐จ
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL ๐๏ธ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
๐ New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
๐ผ TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
๐ Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
๐จ PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social ๐จ
Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger
DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! ๐ฅ
@polcomm.bsky.social
โก๏ธ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
How to map digital news sharing environment in multi-party systems? New preprint led by Felix Gaisbauer from @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social suggests a pipeline to arrive at a sharing cartography. Check it out!
๐ We #congratulate ASCoR researchers @feloe.bsky.social, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, and @theoaraujo.bsky.social, along with other researchers, who have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to increase the sharing and reuse of digital trace data in a safe and ethical manner.
๐ฅExciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?๐Apply by 5 Mayโฌ๏ธ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn
๐๐ฐ "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof et al. (@mariekevhoof.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net @judith-moeller.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social). Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is fine meme but the dog is the university sitting in the fire and saying โat least we are #1โ
While Berlin transformed into a little winter wonderland I had the pleasure to teach a very interested group a thing or two about automated image analysis. Thanks for the invite @bachl.bsky.social !
Super excited to have @feloe.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today for our first DiMES workshop on automated image and video analysis. W/ @bcastanho.bsky.social @vivifabrien.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social
Study by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al.(2024) compares 5 methods for detecting political searches in browser histories: Zero-shot AI (like GPT) achieves highest recall but needs human validation for accuracy. Best approach is AI-human collaboration: use AI to filter searches, then human review. ๐งช
Screenshot of the website of the "Data Donation Symposium 2025"
๐ฅ 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich
๐ October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)
๐ Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.
๐More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de
โจTime for meta reflectionโจ
In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. ๐งต
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young peopleโs exposure to electoral campaigns content using a combination of data from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO) and YouTube data obtained via data donation using the software PORT
#ODISSEI2024