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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Aug 25

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨

Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics.

We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities.

🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper on algorithmic gatekeeping & news engagement out at JOC!

Lucien Heitz, @masurphil.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com & me ran a 1-week long field experiment to test if we can nudge people to read (and learn from) environmental news.

doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not

Abstract. News aggregators inherently constitute choice architectures in which placement and presentation of news articles in the user interface affect how

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Jun 15

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

GitHub - JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos: Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025

Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025. Contribute to JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Jun 17

📣 It's #DNR day. Which means that one of the most important report on news in the digital age has been published. It contains data from 40+ countries 🙏.
Some findings from the executive summary 👇🧵
@reutersinstitute.bsky.social

Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · May 21

How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field.

📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET).
📍 SPUI25 (or stream online).

➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...

The Future of Journalism (Studies) in the Age of AI

This panel examines the range of approaches currently used in journalism studies to analyze AI and news. It aims to identify which approaches are proving most productive, which may be less useful, and...

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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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silviamajo.bsky.social @silviamajo.bsky.social · May 2

🇪🇺 Why and How the European Union is protecting our right to access diversity of news diets online?

Check the answers on the video summary of the first Symposium on Diversity of News Media Diets and its Effects on Democratic Citizenship.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Apr 26

In their silence against Trump, business leaders are saying their fear and idolatry of the dollar trumps all. Their silence is cowardice.

www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

Breaking the Silence | No Mercy / No Malice

Hello, Mr. President At different points, I’ve worked with 30 Fortune 100 CEOs. I believe 90% of them wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and think, “Hello, Mr. President.” These are talented,...

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨New blog: 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐈 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬

The question of whether & how to disclose AI use in news & journalism remains a unresolved issue. We offer 5 perspectives from research(-in-progress) 👇
medium.com/p/0969b3bcc489

Tackling the Transparency Puzzle

Five Perspectives from AI Disclosure Research in News

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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · Apr 17

Musks pronatalisme is onderdeel van de longtermisme-'filosofie', een ideologie met heel veel (eugenetische, racistische, anti-democratische) haken en ogen. Ik schreef er een langer stuk over: www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20220125-mar...

(Erg veel zelfpromotie vandaag, sorry not sorry).

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Apr 11

The Future of News Consumption panel at the @algosoc.org Conference featuring @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social.
Some key takeaways 👇🧵

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Mar 24

Stoked to finally see my research from the last four years in book form 😍

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Mar 24

Link to pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Mar 24

Happy to share my first solo-authored paper - now published in the Journal of Media Psychology.

In this experiment, I investigated how thematic vs episodic news frames influence learning and explored the role of individual framing preferences in these effects.

econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

Framed for You: Exploring Cognitive Effects of Episodic Versus Thematic Frames and the Moderating Role of Framing Preferences: Journal of Media Psychology: Vol 0, No 0

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Mar 17

Today! The University of Amsterdam strikes against budget cuts in higher education 🆘
@woinactie.bsky.social @eppobruins.bsky.social
www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

UvA strike against budget cuts in higher education

The UvA will be striking against budget cuts in higher education. On Monday, 17 March, UvA employees will stop their work and take part in all-day actions against budget cuts. Join us!

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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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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Mar 3

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says. TIME Magazine cover says it all (from 2017)
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Feb 11

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · Jan 30

German digital campaigning is so weird. There's a fraction over three weeks to the election, and the biggest parties are doing *nothing* with digital ads. E.g. SPD and CDU are spending around 1/20th of what Labour and the Tories were spending in the UK with three weeks to go last summer.

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Jan 28

Ok after a couple more tries it seems that the server was indeed just busy when I asked about Chinese history. Still pretty powerful to see how responses on e.g. Taiwan are being typed out before your eyes and then magically vanish because of 'scope'

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Jan 28

At least now I know that Mao was a pretty swell guy

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Nicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · Jan 28

Who could have guessed that DeepSeek is not the best place for learning about Taiwan's history and political leaders... Surprising though that even Chinese history brought up a filter unless specifically prompted to give me something uncontroversial.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jan 13

🚨New publication

Our new study, w/Sophie Morosoli & @aimediademlab.bsky.social folks, explores users' attitudes twd (generative) AI in journalism. What are perceived benefits and concerns? And what are individual acts of resistance against the application of AI?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility

With the growing proliferation of generative AI, discussions about the societal implications of AI, including opportunities and risks, have intensified. Ultimately, the success of initiatives to in...

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · Jan 13

Two quick updates on the AfD on X after Musk took over:
1) The boost I highlighted late last week build down to Alice Weidel "suddenly" gaining a lot of impressions, after being boosted by Musk's engagement.
Here's what this does to the cumulative sum of impressions. Zoom in on last week 📈
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Jan 4

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

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