UPDATE: We have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for the pre-conference until 14 April 2024. We look forward to receiving your applications!

#CallforApplications :

#Scholarships for Ukrainian Scholars

ZOiS - Zentrum für Osteuropa- u. int. Studien is awarding different scholarships for 3 Ukrainian fellows (m/f/div) for the year 2024-2025. The positions will be filled as part of the #UNET_ZOiS which is funded by BMBF: zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/ne…

The deadline is tomorrow! We are waiting for your proposal and to see you in September these year at Ljubljana!

As the acceptance letters for #ECREA2024 have gone out, please also consider applying for our pre-conference, which will take place on Monday 23 September. The deadline for proposals of 300-500 words is 3 April.

Join us this Friday - I will be sharing some insights from my research at Rusinform on the organisation of Russian troll farms.

**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY**
Are there patterns to the proliferation of misleading information? If so, can machine learning contribute to identifying these? This article by Noëlle Lebernegg, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Peter Tolochko, & Hajo Boomgaarden says: yes! 🧵⤵️
tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

This Financial Times piece on the effectiveness of Russian propaganda cites our HKS Misinformation Review study in which Julia Kling Florian Toepfl l @[email protected] @richrdfletchermap & I map the website & mobile app audiences of RT & Sputnik:

ft.com/content/4a94ab…

Full study:

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/mappin…

🚨New Publication 🚨as a result of our DAAD News exchange with Axel Bruns‘s team at QUT Digital Media Research Centre 🎉 Congratulations!

It’s nice(ish) when Nature finally catches on to what I’ve been saying for literally years: it’s not the algorithms, but personal choice.

(Can’t be too hard on them, though, I guess they’re mostly from the … slow … disciplines. 😆)
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Do hard and soft news reach the same people or different audiences? Julia Kling answers this age-old question with data on 60 million Russians on platform VK. Together with Florian Toepfl l @[email protected] we show that soft news extends news exposure. Implications of war in paper. #ICA2023

Are you at #ica23 next week? Are you interested to know more about Kremlin propaganda channels on russia’s social network #VK ? Then don’t miss Florian Toepfl l @[email protected] Pascal Jürgens and my presentation on Monday, May 29th from 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM in room M - Cedar (Sheraton)!

Check out Serge Poliakoff and Florian Toepfl l @[email protected] presentation at #ICA23 about the employees of Russia‘s troll army IRA on Saturday at 15:00 🤓

Interested in the role search algorithms play in the distribution of political information? Looking for a related PhD position? Come work with my colleague Mykola Makhortykh at Institute of Comm. and Media Studies (UniBE) 2 (!) PhD positions available, see tinyurl.com/hb23x8sp & tinyurl.com/48y3c8vd