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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 6d

Come work with us 🚨

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 🗓️ November 1

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Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 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
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social · Jun 3

Dutch election researchers rn

a woman says " will you please allow me to finish " during a debate

Alt: GIF of Kamala Harris saying " will you please allow me to finish " during a debate

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨

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! 🔥

@polcomm.bsky.social

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Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"

Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · May 14

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!

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · May 14

Very cool new work by Felix Gaisbauer, @pournaki.bsky.social and @dscheykopp.bsky.social providing new methods for shedding light on a more systemic view of news sharing and uncovering important subtleties to the polarization/echo chamber debate:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.08359

A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet and content level of news circulation on Twitter

News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context, rese...

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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · Apr 28

🎉 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.

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Katjana Gattermann @kgattermann.bsky.social · Apr 4

🔥Exciting 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?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher "Political Communication in the Aftermath of Democratic Elections"

Are you looking for a postdoctoral position in political communication research? Are you interested in elections, media-politics relations and framing effects, and would like to become an expert on th...

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Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social · Mar 31

I’ll have to up my visualisation game I see 😉 coming up for the next presentation 💪

a poster for the great shows a woman with blonde hair

Alt: Gif from the show “the great” with Catherine saying “we must aim high”

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Communication Methods and Measures @cmmjournal.bsky.social · Mar 13

🔍📰 "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....

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Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is fine meme but the dog is the university sitting in the fire and saying “at least we are #1”

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Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social · Feb 14

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 !

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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · Jan 28

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. 🧪

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Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social · Jan 20

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich

🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)

👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.

🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

Screenshot of the website of the "Data Donation Symposium 2025"

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · Dec 10

✨Time for meta reflection✨

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. 🧵

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Dec 10

@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young people’s 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

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Dec 10

A truly exciting development in research on fx social media platform usage is data donations.

Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others.

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Dec 4

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊

❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

Senior Researcher & Team Lead for Transparent Social Analytics and Open Science

GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association. Starting as soon as po...

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Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social · Dec 3

Yes, things you do as PhD student during covid times (everyone picked up a hobby, mine was coding websites…)

a woman is holding a cup of coffee and the word indeed is on the screen

Alt: a woman is holding a cup of coffee and the word indeed is on the screen

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Felicia Loecherbach @feloe.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Journalism Studies VU Amsterdam @journstudiesvu.bsky.social · Dec 3

🚨New pub🚨
@feloe.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social @damiantrilling.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com used digital trace data to estimate the long tail of news consumption, beyond major journalism sources. Their new(s) taxonomy helps avoid blindspots in news diversity
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Nov 27

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️

Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.

📆: deadline February 17!

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Professorship in Digital Communication with a Focus on Digital Society

Application Deadline: February 17, 2025.

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Aske Kammer @askekammer.dk · Nov 25

Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky?

That's the research question I want to answer.

Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.

Everyone, please share the link.

Thanks!

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Microsoft Forms

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · Nov 23

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.

Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.

It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.

A thread:

The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries

Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Nov 22

Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...

Bellingcat Tech Fellowship Opportunity - bellingcat

November 21, 2024 We will be reviewing applications for the fellowship on a rolling basis, and expect to interview applicants in the first week of December (2-6 December 2024) Would you like to develo...

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Nov 21

Based on dataset linking behavioral webtracking and 4 survey waves during 2022 Brazilian Presidential election, @reutersinstitute.bsky.social work led by
@camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice

Camila Mont'Alverne @camilambpp.bsky.social · Nov 19

🚨New publication alert!
IJPP has just published our article about the impact of exposure to partisan news on social polarization and vote choice in the context of the last Brazilian elections. Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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