🙌 New open-access publication 🙌

Using a systematic dataset collected from X and YouTube, we applied a multilingual topic model to compare government crisis agendas across 7 countries (🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸) and 3 levels of government.

Key findings below 🧵

Full paper:

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

Hallo Leute, hier jetzt auch noch mal von mir selbst. Ich habe ein kleines SciComm Projekt gestartet. Ich versuche auf TikTok Studien oder Konzepte die mich interessieren möglichst verständlich herunter zu brechen, schaut doch mal in Episode 2: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdP2smFW/

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Pornography receives massive online traffic, yet research on it remains niche—and the role of gender in this field even more so.
Together with my colleagues A. Andrich & @maxschindler.bsky.social, we examined >20 years of gender differences in porn studies:
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And last, but certainly not least, huge congratulations to Dr. Anke Stoll who received the Best Dissertation Award for her impressive dissertation “Machine learning for automated content analysis of incivility in online discussion” #ICA25

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉

FREE has never been “free” but today it’s come closest - Kindle & Audiobook are selling for 0.99p each & it’s topping the charts so you have until midnight to grab the offer or taste freedom or contemplate the fetish character of commodities (or just spread the word please🧿🌹!)

Happy to see that South Korean democracy has shown to be robust enough to an idiot-in-chief with authoritarian tendencies tonight. If you want to learn a bit more about S. Korean troubled history with dictatorships, coups and massacres, you should read this year's literature Nobel laureate Han Kang.

⏰Another opening for a PhD position in our (w @morganwack.bsky.social and @esserfrank.bsky.social ) SNF project on political social media influencers! 🥳 If you are into computational methods, social media, and political communcation, we are looking for you 🔎 All details here: tinyurl.com/44arrawh

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