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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · 2d

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

Screenshot of an academic article titled “Rally and Recalibrate: Political Dynamics of Audience Expectations of Journalism During Times of Crisis” published in The International Journal of Press/Politics (OnlineFirst, Sage Journals).
Authors: Claire Roney, Daniel Wiesner, Andreas A. Riedl, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl.
The abstract explains that the study examines how audience expectations of journalism in Austria evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. It identifies shifts toward emerging journalistic roles such as Fact Checker and Science Communicator, based on data from three waves of the Austrian Corona Panel Project. Findings show fluctuating audience expectations tied to changes in public trust and crisis dynamics, emphasizing journalism’s need for adaptability.
Keywords listed: journalism, audience expectations, trust in institutions, crisis attitudes, survey research, COVID-19.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251375203

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · 2d

Scope & limits ⚖️: Austria 🇦🇹 case; single-item role measures; #expectations (not #performance). Still, the crisis pattern – rally 🤝, recalibrate 🔄, reassert oversight 👀 – likely travels 🌍. Comparative work needed.
📊Data: Austrian Corona Panel Project via @aussda.bsky.social 10/n.

Screenshot of the Austrian Corona Panel Project (SUF edition), Version 7.0 dataset entry on the AUSSDA data repository. The dataset is authored by Bernhard Kittel, Sylvia Kritzinger, Hajo Boomgaarden, Barbara Prainsack, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, and others. Description notes that the project monitors health, economic, and social aspects of the COVID-19 crisis in Austria through repeated surveys. Keywords include economic activity, public health, trust in government, mass media use, COVID-19, vaccination, and European integration. Related publication: Kittel et al. (2021), European Political Science. Notes detail dataset versions, with Version 7 (published June 18, 2025) including waves 1 to 35 (German and English). The right side shows options to access or share the dataset and states 6,954 downloads.
Data paper: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-020-00294-7
Dataset: https://doi.org/10.11587/28KQNS

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Kda @kommtdraufan.bsky.social · 3d

Daddy what did you - Meme

Daady what did you when fascism was on the rise again?

Neutral journalism.

Thanx for nothing, son of a bitch.

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Mary Guy @maryjguy.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting discussion of Clemens Auer’s #EHFG2025 keynote - in which the dots were joined unequivocally between #AI and #populism as threats to #solidarity and #European #SocialContract

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 3d

🤖 AI threatens Europe’s welfare model.

At #EHFG2025, Clemens Auer warned automation could wipe out tax bases that fund health, pensions & education.

Who should decide AI’s future—investors 💰 or parliaments 🏦?

✍️ @stefananderson.bsky.social
@gasteinforum.bsky.social
#AI #DigitalHealth

AI Poses 'Existential' Threat To Europe's Health Systems, Summit Chief Warns - Health Policy Watch

BAD HOFGASTEIN, Austria — Artificial intelligence poses an "existential" threat to Europe's health and social security systems through its potential to

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 3d

Sh… Gute Besserung ❤️‍🩹

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 4d

Herzliche Gratulation!!

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Mary Guy @maryjguy.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent plenary yesterday on "Rethinking Solidarity in health: healing Europe's fractured social contract" #EHFG2025 (1/n)

European Health Forum Gastein @gasteinforum.bsky.social · 7d

📺 Live now at #EHFG2025

✅ Rethinking solidarity in health 🔗 buff.ly/4ejjNEN

Sign in with your email and password ehfg25 to watch

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EHFG 2024 - Live streaming

Join us at the hybrid EHFG 2024 from 24 - 27 September to help find solutions for the complex "3D" interplay of democracy, demographics, and digitalisation. Let's be optimistic and not bury our heads…

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Mary Guy @maryjguy.bsky.social · 6d

But what of #solidarity preconditions? Undoubtedly #trust #transparency are takeaways from the vaccine success stories (Emer Cooke) and civil society (Mikael Leyi). Also looking at different levels - person-level solidarity needs support #solidarityinfrastructures @bprainsack.bsky.social #EHFG2025

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Leila Hadj Abdou @leilahadjabdou.bsky.social · 7d

Interested in #migration research policy relations, and the role of evidence in policy making? Join us tomorrow 6 pm CET in person or online. nccr-onthemove.ch/news-events/ #UniversityofNeuchatel #NCCR

News + Events | nccr – on the move

Find the current news and events of nccr - on the move, as well as our newsletters and the archive regrouping past events, to stay informed on migration and mobility research

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 9d

🤞🤞🤞

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Lukas Pitschl @lukele.gpgtools.com · 9d

Silicon Valley saying the quiet part out loud again. This is fine...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 11d

Muntosh was six when his brother died in a cobalt mine. Today, his labor powers your ChatGPT queries. #AI aylgorith.com/cobalt-chatg...

The Human Cost Of Every ChatGPT Query: Inside The Cobalt Mines That Power AI

Muntosh was six when his brother died in a cobalt mine. Today, his labor powers your ChatGPT queries.

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Corrie Fairweather-Mills @corriefm.bsky.social · 15d

@sam1267.bsky.social @louiseholly.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social

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DTH Lab @dthlab.bsky.social · 15d

Join us at @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social Side Event! in #Berlin on 14 Oct 2025 for “Building Healthier Digital Futures with Information Integrity” 🕘09:00–10:30 CET. #WHS2025 hosted by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social & @dthlab.bsky.social - Details: dthlab.org/world-health...

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Lukas Pitschl @lukele.gpgtools.com · 18d

Great Podcast dealing with the gender aspect of violent extremists and online hate. Binge-listened it.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 18d

It’s here: the absolute coolest thing I have done all year, and that is saying something!

“Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age” is an original podcast produced by Long Story Short Media featuring leading extremism expert Cynthia 1/

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Image of the words Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Sep 4

join us on 3 November at 5pm for a lecture by Jenny Reardon: *The Birth of scientific Anti-Racism*

Location: Franz-König-Saal (H6), Main building of the University of Vienna

Registration Link: forms.gle/fRLPmaXM8pj3...
Abstract👇

The Birth of scientific Anti-Racism

Lecture by Jenny Reardon Date: 3 November 2025, 17:00 Location: Franz-König-Saal (H6), Main building of the University of Vienna

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 18d

This is well worth listening to - also in the context of the recent UK-US tech deal 👇

🙏Joseph

Joseph Donia @josephdonia.bsky.social · 18d

Here is one :) open.spotify.com/episode/7cbd...

Why Countries Must Fight For Digital Sovereignty w/ Cecilia Rikap

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 18d

Great, thanks so much!

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks so much, Victor!

Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 19d

Can anyone recommend a good podcast episode on digital sovereignty?

🙏 in advance!

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DTH Lab @dthlab.bsky.social · 28d

#EHDS is still in formation. Will it be a collective resource for fairness & inclusion – or a tool of exclusion for the powerful? #Blog by @bprainsack.bsky.social & Aferdita Bytyqi respond to Jon Rueda’s Nature piece on #DataGovernance.
📘 https://loom.ly/DQDKMyM

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 28d

Herzliche Gratulation! 👏

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 29d

📣 CfP: Immunity & Resistance workshop, Univ. of Vienna, 15–16 Dec:

Exploring how vaccines & antibiotics are (re)valued in global health. Keynotes: Claas Kirchhelle & Janina Kehr.

📝 Abstracts (≤300 words) due 12 Sept 2025 Details 👉 politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 29d

🙏für das schöne Feedback

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Sep 4

serve as ‘experts’ who draft and comment on this second UNESCO statement? To answer these questions, The Birth of Scientific Anti-Racism brings into view the politics and epistemics of writing of ‘expert’ statements on race, and the forms of scientific anti-racisms they help to realize.

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