🔥Join our team: Post-Doc Opportunity in Computational Social Science Universität zu Köln European Research Council (ERC) 🔥

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Lattice (Paris area) offers a 18 months postdoc position in comp. social sciences, beginning in May or June 2024. For details:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/200537
We are looking for a strong candidate with relevant publications, and experience in NLP/LLMs. Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) ICA Comp Methods DGPuK Methoden

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

Today, Lucienne Engelhardt presented her work-in-progress on automated classification of in- and out-group appeals in the context of religion and identity in PRR party communication. Super interesting! #CSS

🎉Big congrats to our Jean Kalunseviko for excelling @ her Faculty Public Presentations (FÖP) which marks the beginning of an exciting PhD journey 🚀 Jean will study the portrayal of individuals of African descent in popular tabloids using qualitative and computational methods 📰

📢 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

Read open-access
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bit.ly/3TJ99iA

At #DGPUK2024 , Marvin Stecker (@[email protected]) presented #Meteor , the inventory of resources for text analysis in the #SocialSciences , a platform developed within OPTED_H2020 that will soon be integrated in MEDem.
Wanna know more? meteor.opted.eu

Showing support for MEDem just takes 2min using the online form below. 400 researchers from Pol & Comm Sciences have already done so. Have you? 🫵
Being able to show that the #MEDemCommunity is large & supports our cause is key for our success. Counting on you! 🤗

📣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
Check it out 👇

Today, Prof. Dr. Tobias Thomas & Bojan Evkoski presented their research on media bias & how to measure media sentiment with LLMs. Furthermore, we got an intro to the #AustrianMicroDataCenter . Very intriguing research! We look forward to more exchange & possibly collaboration!

Want to learn more about what happened at this year’s #MEDem Conference2024 ? Read about our keynote speakers, core topics discussed and the future outlook of #MEDem in our conference blog 🗨️ on our website! ⤵️
medem.eu/the-future-of-…

It’s a wrap! #MEDem Conference2024 Two intense days discussing #Services & #Tools that will help make data more comparable & interoperable. 🔗 We are now entering the decisive phase for #MEDem to become the #EuropeanInfrastructure for #DemocracyResearch ! ✊🏻

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 New study out in Digital Journalism! Noëlle Lebernegg, Peter Tolochko, H.G. Boomgaarden (@CompCommLab), & I scrutinize #ExplainableMachineLearning 🤖 for the identification of deceptive news-like content. #Disinformation
tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

It was a great pleasure to host Mario Haim (marhai.bsky.social) and CSS LMU team here in Vienna! Thank you for two days of inspiring talks and vibrant discussions about computational communication science. Hopefully some collaborations to come ✨

Really excited to see people engaging with our latest work on #newsavoidance (w/ H. Boomgaarden, Sophie Lecheler & Svenja Schäfer) landing it in TOP 5 trending papers in “Communication” this week 🙌🏼

🎉 New open-access publication by our colleagues Dominika Betakova, Hajo Boomgaarden, Sophie Lecheler, and Svenja Schäfer on intentional news avoidance and low news consumption!
📣 #polcom #commscience

Sad to let Nicola Righetti go, but could there be a better reason?

All the best for this great step in your academic career, Nicola, and big congrats to Università di Urbino for having you!

Communication Methods and Measures has recently published a paper titled 'What’s in a name? The effect of named entities on topic modelling interpretability,' authored by Peter Tolochko, P. Balluff, Jana Bernhard, S. Galyga, Noëlle Lebernegg, & H. G. Boomgaarden.
compcommlab.univie.ac.at/news-detailans…

Yesterday, hs presented the work by her & her team on the dynamic processes of far right #mainstreaming on social media. Very interesting & timely topic - great discussion! Thank you! 🤗 IfKW Munich

🚨CCL is looking forward to welcome a new team member!
✍️Apply for this dream position with our wonderful Fabienne Lind and spread the word 📣 #CSS #commscience #phd #jobalert