I did a thing!

For those fortunate enough to have access to the Research #TikTok API, and for those who will in the future, there's now an API wrapper available for more efficient data collection. Check it out: github.com/HohnerJulian/R…

Proud to see the work from our colleagues Dominika Betakova, Hajo Boomgaarden, Sophie Lecheler, and Svenja Schäfer receives recognition in Nieman Lab ✨ #newsavoidance Polcom Vienna

📢 New Publication!

Paul Balluff, Hajo Boomgaarden, & Annie Waldherr @[email protected]’s paper reviewing multilingual named entity recognition tools is out in Computational Methods & Measures 🎉 #CSS #commscience

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Here we go: Our new publication is out! 🥳🤓

📣New pub
TikTok's just for dance challenges and lip-syncing? Nope!
Our Julian Hohner & Sophia Rothut, together with Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE)'s Azade, examine its darker corners, consisting of far-right groups and not so much dance-offs. #PoliticalCommunication #TikTok
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In the 1st paper, Julian Hohner, Azade, & Sophia Rothut show how TikTok serves as a mobilisation platform for German far-right factions and introduce a unique methodology, integrating manual annotation with image frame classification and machine-learning-driven content analysis.

The Far-Right Protest Observatory is online 📯! farpo.eu
FARPO, a joint initiative by Université libre de Bruxelles Sciences Po C-REX Università di Bologna, provides data on protest events by #farright #parties and #movements across Europe in the past 20 years: check our website!
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I can highly recommend this summer school!
I learned a lot and met many great, kind, and smart (if not genius) people!

That's a wrap! Wonderful workshop with lots of new insights!

Fresh off OPTED_H2020 conference, Johannes Gruber gave a two-days course on intermediate text analysis methods for Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) and political science PhD students Universität Wien. He taught machine and deep learning, embeddings, and turning your WhatsApp chats into text corpora #CSS

Ich kann nicht verstehen, dass das verschollene U-Boot #Titan großes öffentliches Interesse erregt und das Kentern des Schiffes mit 500 bis 700 Menschen an Bord, darunter auch Kinder, vor der Küste v #Griechenland schon ad Acta gelegt zu sein scheint.

Vielleicht hab ich's ja verpasst, aber wo war der Live Ticker zur Suche nach den 500 ertrunkenen Geflüchteten in der Ägäis? Und wo die Drohnen, die Sonargeräte, die Taucher, die Marine-Spezialeinheiten?
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