SoMe4Dem
@some4dem.bsky.social
Social media for democracy - Horizon Europe project studying the impact of social media on the public sphere and liberal democracy
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Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
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It's out!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It's out!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
@some4dem.bsky.social researchers @eckolb.bsky.social and @pournaki.bsky.social presenting their work at #ic2s2 on measuring political realignment in Switzerland and extracting conflicting narratives from polarized debates on social media.
July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@some4dem.bsky.social researchers @eckolb.bsky.social and @pournaki.bsky.social presenting their work at #ic2s2 on measuring political realignment in Switzerland and extracting conflicting narratives from polarized debates on social media.
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Looking forward to #ic2s2 where I'll present some of our latest work from the @some4dem.bsky.social project:
- Conflicting narratives and polarization (Tue in Pol.Narratives II 2:30pm)
- A political cartography of news sharing (Tue, poster)
- Issue alignment and polarization on Twitter (Thu, poster)
- Conflicting narratives and polarization (Tue in Pol.Narratives II 2:30pm)
- A political cartography of news sharing (Tue, poster)
- Issue alignment and polarization on Twitter (Thu, poster)
July 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Looking forward to #ic2s2 where I'll present some of our latest work from the @some4dem.bsky.social project:
- Conflicting narratives and polarization (Tue in Pol.Narratives II 2:30pm)
- A political cartography of news sharing (Tue, poster)
- Issue alignment and polarization on Twitter (Thu, poster)
- Conflicting narratives and polarization (Tue in Pol.Narratives II 2:30pm)
- A political cartography of news sharing (Tue, poster)
- Issue alignment and polarization on Twitter (Thu, poster)
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1/ Excited to share our new preprint “A Collective Field Experiment Disentangling Participation in Online Political Discussions” – osf.io/preprints/so...
April 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
1/ Excited to share our new preprint “A Collective Field Experiment Disentangling Participation in Online Political Discussions” – osf.io/preprints/so...
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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
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...
arxiv.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08359
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The Free Our Feeds project is building an independent foundation. More info here:
freeourfeeds.com
freeourfeeds.com
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
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January 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Free Our Feeds project is building an independent foundation. More info here:
freeourfeeds.com
freeourfeeds.com
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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
January 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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
How to analyze narratives on digital media?
More details on our recent workshop "Political Narratives in Public Discourse: Theory, Detection, and Impact" can be found here: some4dem.eu/news/politic...
More details on our recent workshop "Political Narratives in Public Discourse: Theory, Detection, and Impact" can be found here: some4dem.eu/news/politic...
November 24, 2024 at 10:20 AM
How to analyze narratives on digital media?
More details on our recent workshop "Political Narratives in Public Discourse: Theory, Detection, and Impact" can be found here: some4dem.eu/news/politic...
More details on our recent workshop "Political Narratives in Public Discourse: Theory, Detection, and Impact" can be found here: some4dem.eu/news/politic...
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It was fun talking about seeded topic modeling at the fantastically transdisciplinary Max Planck workshop on political narratives
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0049...
📍 tinyurl.com/politicalnar...
Thx @eckolb.bsky.social @pournaki.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @jphcoi.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0049...
📍 tinyurl.com/politicalnar...
Thx @eckolb.bsky.social @pournaki.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @jphcoi.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 4:22 PM
It was fun talking about seeded topic modeling at the fantastically transdisciplinary Max Planck workshop on political narratives
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0049...
📍 tinyurl.com/politicalnar...
Thx @eckolb.bsky.social @pournaki.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @jphcoi.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0049...
📍 tinyurl.com/politicalnar...
Thx @eckolb.bsky.social @pournaki.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @jphcoi.bsky.social
Today scientists from SoMe4Dem and the TWON Project
will discuss how modeling could help to reshape the digital public sphere at the satellite workshop MODIS 2024 at #ccs24 some4dem.eu/news/modis-2...
will discuss how modeling could help to reshape the digital public sphere at the satellite workshop MODIS 2024 at #ccs24 some4dem.eu/news/modis-2...
MODIS 2024 – How to build digital public spaces: Modelling, Data analysis, and qualitative approaches
The workshop is a satellite workshop at the Conference on Complex Systems 2024 in Exeter and a joined activity of the HORIZON EUROPE projects SoMe4Dem and TWON.
The workshop will explore current metho...
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September 3, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Today scientists from SoMe4Dem and the TWON Project
will discuss how modeling could help to reshape the digital public sphere at the satellite workshop MODIS 2024 at #ccs24 some4dem.eu/news/modis-2...
will discuss how modeling could help to reshape the digital public sphere at the satellite workshop MODIS 2024 at #ccs24 some4dem.eu/news/modis-2...
Scientists from the SoMe4Dem project participated at the DMI Summer School 2024 in Amsterdam facilitating a project on the expression of collective identities on social media. #digitalmethods some4dem.eu/news/dmi-sum...
SoMe4Dem at the DMI Summer School 2024
Scientists from the SoMe4Dem project participated at the DMI Summer School 2024 in Amsterdam facilitating a project on the expression of collective identities on X.
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July 17, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Scientists from the SoMe4Dem project participated at the DMI Summer School 2024 in Amsterdam facilitating a project on the expression of collective identities on social media. #digitalmethods some4dem.eu/news/dmi-sum...
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Very excited to finally share our preprint after three years in the making! With @ruben.the100.ci @brionyswire.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social @michaelgeers.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig, we assessed the motives for posting content. (1/x)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 3, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Very excited to finally share our preprint after three years in the making! With @ruben.the100.ci @brionyswire.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social @michaelgeers.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig, we assessed the motives for posting content. (1/x)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...