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Congratulations to Dr. @andreawiesner.bsky.social, who successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Drawing Lines in Gray Areas: Toward Feasible, Accepted, and Effective Content Moderation” supervised by Professor @solecheler.bsky.social and Assistant Professor Svenja Schäfer. 🤩🥳 Congrats, Dr. Wiesner!
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Congratulations to Dr. @andreawiesner.bsky.social, who successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Drawing Lines in Gray Areas: Toward Feasible, Accepted, and Effective Content Moderation” supervised by Professor @solecheler.bsky.social and Assistant Professor Svenja Schäfer. 🤩🥳 Congrats, Dr. Wiesner!
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New publication out in #IJPP! 📑
We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄.
Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n
We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄.
Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n
October 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New publication out in #IJPP! 📑
We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄.
Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n
We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄.
Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n
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ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I’m thrilled (and a little proud 🤗) to share my first single-authored publication!
It’s now out open access in Information, Communication & Society:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
I’m thrilled (and a little proud 🤗) to share my first single-authored publication!
It’s now out open access in Information, Communication & Society:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Tackling (misleading) incivility online: a user-centric evaluation of different comment moderation strategies
Uncivil online comments, e.g., in the form of insults or misinformation, come with severe consequences for platforms, users, and democratic processes – making effective moderation essential. Howeve...
www.tandfonline.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I’m thrilled (and a little proud 🤗) to share my first single-authored publication!
It’s now out open access in Information, Communication & Society:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
I’m thrilled (and a little proud 🤗) to share my first single-authored publication!
It’s now out open access in Information, Communication & Society:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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🚫📰 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. 🧵👇
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. 🧵👇
The Role of Choice Architecture in Mitigating News Avoidance
News avoidance has become more common and is associated with negative democratic outcomes. However, only a handful of studies have explored solutions to reduce news avoidance, with nudges offering ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚫📰 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. 🧵👇
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. 🧵👇
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📣👀Early-Career Researchers @ ECREAs PolComm Section Conference 2025!
A few last-minute spots for the @yecrea.bsky.social pre-conference workshop just opened. Want to join a great lineup of speakers on early-career profile building, network development, and transience? Just drop us a message! 🙂
A few last-minute spots for the @yecrea.bsky.social pre-conference workshop just opened. Want to join a great lineup of speakers on early-career profile building, network development, and transience? Just drop us a message! 🙂
September 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📣👀Early-Career Researchers @ ECREAs PolComm Section Conference 2025!
A few last-minute spots for the @yecrea.bsky.social pre-conference workshop just opened. Want to join a great lineup of speakers on early-career profile building, network development, and transience? Just drop us a message! 🙂
A few last-minute spots for the @yecrea.bsky.social pre-conference workshop just opened. Want to join a great lineup of speakers on early-career profile building, network development, and transience? Just drop us a message! 🙂
🚨📝 New publication: Svenja Schäfer w/ Lea Gorski and PolCom members @hannahgreber.bsky.social + @solecheler.bsky.social explored whether solutions are effective in sustainability communication and examined the attribution of responsibility through an experiment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1751...
Solutions that Move Us? The Role of Responsibility Framing in Audience Reactions to Sustainability Stories
Research on the effectiveness of solutions journalism in influencing self-efficacy, responsibility perception, and behavioral intentions has produced mixed results. While emotional responses to sol...
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🚨📝 New publication: Svenja Schäfer w/ Lea Gorski and PolCom members @hannahgreber.bsky.social + @solecheler.bsky.social explored whether solutions are effective in sustainability communication and examined the attribution of responsibility through an experiment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1751...
Today @ #ViennaChildren'sUniversity 🧒
How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔
Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛
How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔
Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛
July 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today @ #ViennaChildren'sUniversity 🧒
How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔
Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛
How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔
Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛
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@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver!
From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨
From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨
June 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver!
From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨
From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨
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Thanks #ICA25 for a great panel on Science in Political Contexts. It was a pleasure to present our latest findings to such an engaged and insightful audience.
w/ @jamoeberl.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social
w/ @jamoeberl.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thanks #ICA25 for a great panel on Science in Political Contexts. It was a pleasure to present our latest findings to such an engaged and insightful audience.
w/ @jamoeberl.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social
w/ @jamoeberl.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social
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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
📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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
📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social
What are the content-level characteristics of selectively avoided news? 🤔
@dbetakova.bsky.social presenting her impressive two-study research using computational text analysis and baysian modelling /w @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social at an engaging #ICA25 panel on news avoidance 👏
@dbetakova.bsky.social presenting her impressive two-study research using computational text analysis and baysian modelling /w @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social at an engaging #ICA25 panel on news avoidance 👏
June 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What are the content-level characteristics of selectively avoided news? 🤔
@dbetakova.bsky.social presenting her impressive two-study research using computational text analysis and baysian modelling /w @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social at an engaging #ICA25 panel on news avoidance 👏
@dbetakova.bsky.social presenting her impressive two-study research using computational text analysis and baysian modelling /w @solecheler.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social at an engaging #ICA25 panel on news avoidance 👏
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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
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
June 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
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
📰 Empathy in journalism - meant to connect us, but can it also divide?
@hannahgreber.bsky.social presents findings on the unintended side-effects of empathy-driven journalism at #ICA25 w/ @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social 👏
@hannahgreber.bsky.social presents findings on the unintended side-effects of empathy-driven journalism at #ICA25 w/ @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social 👏
June 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
📰 Empathy in journalism - meant to connect us, but can it also divide?
@hannahgreber.bsky.social presents findings on the unintended side-effects of empathy-driven journalism at #ICA25 w/ @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social 👏
@hannahgreber.bsky.social presents findings on the unintended side-effects of empathy-driven journalism at #ICA25 w/ @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social 👏
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@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!
June 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!
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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 💫
But also come and see all the other inspiring research findings from our team 💫
💫The JSV Vienna team and friends are at #ICA25 this year with 15 presentations. We're looking forward to discuss our research with you! More details ⬇️
June 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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 💫
But also come and see all the other inspiring research findings from our team 💫
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YES! Come see me presenting our paper “The shadow side of empathy? Eliciting empathy in journalism and its (potentially) unintended side-effects on polarization”- w. @solecheler.bsky.social & @jesperstromback.bsky.social
Sunday, 13:30, Mineral G
#ica25
Sunday, 13:30, Mineral G
#ica25
@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!
June 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
YES! Come see me presenting our paper “The shadow side of empathy? Eliciting empathy in journalism and its (potentially) unintended side-effects on polarization”- w. @solecheler.bsky.social & @jesperstromback.bsky.social
Sunday, 13:30, Mineral G
#ica25
Sunday, 13:30, Mineral G
#ica25
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Presenting in the coziest corner of #ICA25 including a weird neck tilt to see the screen ✅
w/ the one and only @andiisto.bsky.social, co-authored with @solecheler.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer.
Come watch me do that move again!
📅 Monday, 10:30
📍 Mineral G (again)
🗣️ „Science on the Political Stage“
w/ the one and only @andiisto.bsky.social, co-authored with @solecheler.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer.
Come watch me do that move again!
📅 Monday, 10:30
📍 Mineral G (again)
🗣️ „Science on the Political Stage“
June 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Presenting in the coziest corner of #ICA25 including a weird neck tilt to see the screen ✅
w/ the one and only @andiisto.bsky.social, co-authored with @solecheler.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer.
Come watch me do that move again!
📅 Monday, 10:30
📍 Mineral G (again)
🗣️ „Science on the Political Stage“
w/ the one and only @andiisto.bsky.social, co-authored with @solecheler.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer.
Come watch me do that move again!
📅 Monday, 10:30
📍 Mineral G (again)
🗣️ „Science on the Political Stage“
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Welcome to the ICA conference!
June 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Welcome to the ICA conference!
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👏
@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👏
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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👏
@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👏
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These are the participants of the #PoliticalCommunicationPreconference25. It was an amazing day, full of interesting insights and great research. Although it's hard to say goodbye to a great day, #ICA25 is now officially starting! Let's enjoy the conference together! ❤️
June 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
These are the participants of the #PoliticalCommunicationPreconference25. It was an amazing day, full of interesting insights and great research. Although it's hard to say goodbye to a great day, #ICA25 is now officially starting! Let's enjoy the conference together! ❤️
📣 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!
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!
June 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📣 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!
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!
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So proud of former PhD candidates at @polcomvienna.bsky.social , @hannahgreber.bsky.social and @teresaelena.bsky.social, who won the dissertation award of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences this year! Absolute 🌟🌟!
June 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
So proud of former PhD candidates at @polcomvienna.bsky.social , @hannahgreber.bsky.social and @teresaelena.bsky.social, who won the dissertation award of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences this year! Absolute 🌟🌟!
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At #DigHum2025 conference this week in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier🌞 and excited to kick off Day 2 themed around AI, platforms & power! Happy to also contribute by discussing our ongoing project on algorithmic content moderation /w @pia-p.bsky.social @solecheler.bsky.social @julianeidhardt.bsky.social 🙂
May 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
At #DigHum2025 conference this week in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier🌞 and excited to kick off Day 2 themed around AI, platforms & power! Happy to also contribute by discussing our ongoing project on algorithmic content moderation /w @pia-p.bsky.social @solecheler.bsky.social @julianeidhardt.bsky.social 🙂