🚫📰 Can we use nudges to mitigate news avoidance?
Yes and no — it depends on what nudges we use!
Together with @hajoboo.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social I wanted to test whether nudges can reduce news avoidance as limited news consumption—and to do so beyond established Western democracies. 🧵👇

Big congratulations to Dr. @dbetakova.bsky.social, who defended her dissertation today with excellent results! Thank u so much to the reviewers @skruikemeier.bsky.social & @antoniskalog.bsky.social, & committee chair @desireeschmuck.bsky.social ! @hajoboo.bsky.social and I are more than proud. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

✍🏻 Over the last year, I have conducted 36 semi-structured interviews with Austrian politicians in two waves: The emotional capital available to them is causal to their position of power in the political field, as ones with low capital tend to drop out of politics or remain in backbench positions

💡 Drawing on the Bourdesian concept of emotional capital, I argue that political actors first need to learn and acculturate the emotional "rules of the game" to use this embodied knowlegde later in election contexts

Another windowless room (but this time way bigger) in which I got to present first preliminary findings on how strategic politicians can *actually* be about their emotions in election campaigns

📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social

Happening now at #ICA25: Diego Garusi is presenting some preliminary findings from our research project on constructive journalists‘ trustbuilding strategies in different European countries ✨

What kinds of content do users themselves want to see moderated on platforms? 👀
Surprisingly, it's less about the incivility of language and more about authorial intention, target vulnerability and platform affordances /w @solecheler.bsky.social, @pia-p.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer 🙂 #ICA25 #PolComm

🚨 New pub alert! 🚨

While many colleagues are still deep in ICA mode this week, I’m thrilled to take a moment to share our latest publication in Communication Theory: academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!

Our team showed up strong for the #PolcommPreconference25 🥳
@dominikhokamp.bsky.social shared his work on emotional ties of journalists & politicians, @amplanitzer.bsky.social presented her work on personalised algorithmic platform moderation and @solecheler.bsky.social was a discussant & panelists👏

I will be presenting first findings on how Austrian politicians are building their emotional capital to meet the increasing need for personalisation and emotionalisation on Monday at 12 noon ✨

But also come and see all the other inspiring research findings from our team 💫

📣 POLCOM Vienna @ #ICA25
Happy to see eight of our team members at ICA in Denver, CO this week - mentoring and sharing their latest research 🙂
Come say 👋 if you are around!

✨New publication #OA in Journalism✨
In this study I compare the journalistic cultures of freelancers and other atypically employed journalists in Austria, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the UK.
doi.org/10.1177/1464...

New #OA pub out with @acadianjprof.bsky.social in Journalism Studies, in which we examine true crime podcasters membership claims and epistemic practices. This was a fun side quest which combined my love for podcasts with my work on journalistic boundaries. tinyurl.com/5f427tja

New publication!
Sartre's concept of "the look" turned out to be insightful for grasping how local journalists construct and promote social identities in the communities they cover. With @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social & Folker Hanusch

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Das Journalism Studies Center ist auch auf der #dgpuk2025 mit mehreren Beiträgen am Freitag von @dominikhokamp.bsky.social und Melanie Haberl!

It felt a bit strange presenting my first dissertation paper in the same room where I had my first ever methods course, but I'm really grateful for all the feedback and input at #dgpuk2025

🔮 in the upcoming months we will conduct semi-structured interviews with both politicians and journalists to identify those emotional communities in everyday practice and interactions.

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🫂 by zooming in (and out) we can make sense of the chaos of communities, structures and characteristics (such as temporality, spatiality, density, or stability) within each community, as well as the turmoil of actors who have to juggle multiple feeling rules at the same time.

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🆕 we propose focusing on the emotional communities in which actors from both sides are placed. as actors can be (and probably always are) members of mulitple, overlapping, sometimes opposing emotional communities, this allows us to get a better picture of actors' positions within the field.

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ℹ️ current research on emotions in political journalism sometimes seems to be stuck in dichotomies, seperating rationality/objectivity from emotionality or treating both politics and journalism as seperable institutions.

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very happy that Melanie Haberl and me got the chance to present our thereotical framework on the emotional relationships between journalists and politicians at the ECREA Journalism Studies Conference:

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