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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · Jan 28

New OA paper: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" by @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, & @timoroettger.bsky.social, and me (originating from our @meta-rep.bsky.social group).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let’s talk about language—and its role for replicability - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Science strives towards a credible and comprehensive understanding of the world around us. Across disciplines within the social and behavioural sciences (and beyond), limitations in the implementation...

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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. 🧵

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

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky.

🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci

👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social

Team of researchers of the CSS unit at LMU Munich

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · Nov 14

For our new project "Fostering Proactive Replicability in Computational Communication Science via Frontloading Effort and Automating Protocols" within @meta-rep.bsky.social
, @marhai.bsky.social and I are looking for a Ph.D. student:
rrr.is/repccs2job
Deadline: Dec 6, 2024
Start: March 1, 2025

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Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social · Jul 31

New paper with @marhai.bsky.social out:

„Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies"

👉 Article: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view...

👉 Supplement with Preregistered Report, Data, Code, etc: osf.io/vfazc

Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies | Computational Communication Research

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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · Apr 2

@marhai.bsky.social and @jajuenger.bsky.social & Chantal Gärtner have written books about Computational Communication Science #ccs #css. @mscharkow.bsky.social and I think they are good; go read them or give them to your German students. Also, please don't publish (exclusively) with springer.com.

Screenshot of the starting paragraph of our book review: "Sammelrezension
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Haim, Mario: Computational Communication Science: Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien 2023. 358 Seiten. Preis: € 34,99.

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Jünger, Jakob/Gärtner, Chantal: Computational Methods für die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien 2023. 462 Seiten. Preis: Open Access.

Mario Haim sowie Jakob Jünger und Chantal Gärtner haben fast zeitgleich Lehrbücher veröffentlicht, die „Computational“ im Titel tragen. Computational Communication Science (CCS) und ihre Forschungsmethoden sind im Kern der Kommunikationswissenschaft angekommen. Bereits Bachelor-Studierende sollen von den Grundlagen der CCS gehört haben und möglichst niedrigschwellige Angebote erhalten, um sich in den Methoden auszuprobieren. Den Autor:innen der beiden Lehrbücher gebührt uneingeschränkter Respekt dafür, sich der Herausforderung gestellt zu haben, ein neues Lehrbuch und damit auch ein Curriculum für CCS zu ..."

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · Mar 27

Er war einer der führenden Köpfe der Verhaltensforschung: Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben. In seinem Werk erklärte er, warum Menschen sich entgegen den Annahmen oft nicht rational verhalten.

Daniel Kahneman: Ökonom und Nobelpreisträger ist tot

Er war einer der führenden Köpfe der Verhaltensforschung: Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben. In seinem Werk erklärte er, warum Menschen sich entgegen den Annahmen oft nicht rational verhalten.

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CCS Pod @ccspod.bsky.social · Mar 22

In our new episode, we discuss the impact of digital media on well-being with @dougaparry.bsky.social. We look in particular at measuring media use and the new opportunities offered by digital data and CCS methods, but also the challenges involved. Listen here: t1p.de/ogbna

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Thomas Hanitzsch @thanitzsch.bsky.social · Mar 20

Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication @LMU_Muenchen Application deadline: May 2, 2024

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Mar 4

We are super happy to have you on board, Jana! First episodes on #aBitOfCCS with Jana are also already online.

Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · Mar 4

🎙 Exciting News! 🚀 Thrilled to announce that I'm now officially part of the @ccspod.bsky.social podcast alongside amazing hosts @marhai.bsky.social and @emesedomahidi.bsky.social!

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thanks for the amazingly warm welcome and the two days of inspiring discussions 🚀

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Dec 21

Join us in Vienna! 3-year PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods. Exciting collaboration awaits in the H2020project CIDAPE! Apply until: January 9, 2024 Job starts: March 1, 2024 Questions welcome via email! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/75-PhD-p...

75% PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods

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Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · Dec 11

Excited to present the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities"!

13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como (see pic!)

With a stellar team of organizers and lecturers!

More info: css.lakecomoschool.org

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Dec 15

Surely, you've seen this already but www.threads.net is now also available in the EU.

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Dec 14

Note that this awesome special issue is not only entirely open access but that it also CONTINUES in SCM's upcoming issue with two bonus "tracks" (papers!)

Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social · Dec 14

Our Special Issue on „(Re-)Establishing Quality Criteria in Content Analysis“ is out in SCM.

Guest Editors: @marhai.bsky.social, Johanna Schindler, @bachl.bsky.social, @emesedomahidi.bsky.social & me.

👉 More info & papers: doi.org/10.5771/2192...

Picture of Special Issue Table of Content in SCM

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Dec 13

Fake news and the hybrid media system as well as malicious language online -- interesting phenomena we package under the umbrella term of (in quotation marks) "'contemporary' news". @jolukito.bsky.social guides us through these phenomena in our recent podcast episode! 📻🎧

CCS Pod @ccspod.bsky.social · Dec 13

How to study "contemporary" news? Join our discussion with the wonderful @jolukito.bsky.social on hybrid media systems, different forms of political language and their impact, and the role of CCS. Listen in here: t1p.de/getq0

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Dec 12

And what a great contribution this is -- thanks Annemarie!

Annemarie Wiedicke (she/her) @awiedicke.bsky.social · Dec 12

Happy to have contributed to SCM's special issue on "(Re)Establishing quality criteria for content analysis" edited by @marhai.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, Johanna Schindler, @bachl.bsky.social & @emesedomahidi.bsky.social by discussing ethical challenges in contemporary content analysis

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Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social · Dec 7

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

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Simon Lübke @simonluebke.bsky.social · Dec 7

Unser erster Bericht zur #COP28🌏 ist online! Darin geben @joerghassler.bsky.social @marhai.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social und ich Einblicke in Inhalte, die während der ersten Tage der Klimakonferenz auf Instagram, Facebook, TikTok und YouTube gepostet wurden: klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/co...

COP28 – KLIMA-MEMES

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heiseonline @heise.de · Dec 2

ChatGPT & Co.: Uni in Prag schafft Bachelorarbeiten ab https://www.heise.de/news/ChatGPT-Co-Uni-schafft-Bachelorarbeiten-ab-9546851.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.bluesky.bluesky.bs_beitraege.bs_beitraege

ChatGPT & Co.: Uni in Prag schafft Bachelorarbeiten ab

Überall müssen sich Hochschulen mit generativer KI auseinandersetzen. Bachelorarbeiten ergeben wenig Sinn – weg damit, sagt jetzt eine Universität.

www.heise.de

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Simon Lübke @simonluebke.bsky.social · Nov 28

We had the pleasure of having Betsi Grabe from IU Bloomington with us @ifkw.bsky.social to work on the bidt-funded research project KLIMA-MEMES. Thank you Betsi for your visit and a great talk on "The Implications of Visual Primacy for Climate Messages".

👉 klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/ne...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Nov 28

It's (soon) all about data access!

133 responses to the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data access were submitted.

Paddy Leerssen summarises the submissions; what are researchers’ data access needs?

DSA commsky csssky polcomm

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

Digital Services Act: Summary report on the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data ac...

Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) or search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic ...

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · Nov 20

The events around Sam Altman's removel from OpenAI are unfolding and escalating quicker than an AI could create a similar storybook. Luckly, Wikipedia keeps track: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal...

Removal of Sam Altman - Wikipedia

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laSchönau @birgitschoenau.bsky.social · Nov 17

Aller Protest der Zivilgesellschaft hat nicht geholfen. Die Schließung der Goethe-Institute in Italien, Frankreich - aber auch in Washington ist beschlossene Sache. Um 24 Millionen Euro einzusparen. Welch Borniertheit, welch bodenlose Dummheit.

Schließung der Goethe-Institute besiegelt: Wie man Europa zersägt

Verheerend: Nach der Neuausrichtung der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik durch Annalena Baerbock beschließt Berlin endgültig das Aus für etliche Goethe-Institute.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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