Vi har tilsyneladende delt andenplads i at matche job og uddannelsesniveau - bevis nr. uendelig på at uni-reform er helt off 🤯

📢 Our new study that digs into the Facebook-content of alternative media across five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, UK, US) has just been published #OpenAccess 📢

With my brilliant friends at Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…

(4) Last but not least, the EC is going after Meta for deprecating Crowdtangle, a tool that enables real-time election monitoring. It sees this move as potentially causing imminent damage to external parties' ability to scrutinize what is going on on the platform requests

How well do fact checks perform compared to the problematic content they address? New study on the competition between fact checks and problematic content in Google results by Kamila Koronska and me. Includes SEO effects and moderation critique dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… vera.ai

Are alternative media challenging democracy in Denmark? Miriam Kroman Brems defending her excellent PhD dissertation

so Sarah Brkhrdt @[email protected] and I just published a paper on the political economy of large pre-trained AI models (aka 'foundation models'); we are specifically focusing on the role of prompting, how it changes the way AI applications are built, and what that means; journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🎫 NOW OPEN: Registrations for non-presenting participants in the #ICA24 postconference P³: Power, Propaganda, Polarisation, to be held at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre in Brisbane on 26-27 June 2024. (Main ICA24 conference registration not required.)
research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/2024/02/0…

Call for Participation: Internet Research with Foundation Models? cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/2024…

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…

The symposium 'Sciences against Misinformation' is starting now at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, in Uppsala, and will continue until Thursday. Many interesting talks, including one by Anja Bechmann with some results from NORDIS

New PLOS ONE article (journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…) contributing to 1) advancing NORDIC AI 2) understanding differences btw. targeted and general SoMe 3) from sentiment -> six specific emotions 4) crises monitoring and management - read more here: arts.au.dk/en/news-and-ev…

NEW PUBLICATION🔎💡📝

AI-model developed by Anja Bechmann and DATALAB - Center for Digital Social Research reveals patterns in emotional expression in crisis and threat hashtagged tweets during Covid-19: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Trying again - two post docs in learning theory under my supervision at Aarhus University are available deadline April 25th. Please share.

au.dk/om/stillinger/…

First results from our #DSA40 Collaboratory #DataAcccessTracker w Julian Jaursch Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Stiftung Neue Verantwortung Weizenbaum-Institut published in a position paper for enforcement of public platform data access after #DSA40 (12) Paper: doi.org/10.34669/wi.wp… Tracker: soscisurvey.de/DSA40applicati… 🙏 🔄

Very poor timing for further restrictions of researchers' access to at least some data on what happens on digital platforms. Unless a better tool is provided, this further erodes independent researchers' ability to analyse and assess social media, making them (even) more opaque.

Very grateful for the invitation to present our work and discuss with computational communication science research team Universität Wien 🙏 thanks to wonderful host Annie Waldherr @[email protected]

Hello #AcademicTwitter ! We are looking for international scientists who want to develop, discuss and investigate new ideas as Fellows at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. The call for our Open Fellowship Program is open until March 31.
Apply now ➡️ weizenbaum-institut.de/en/institute/w…

Combating Addictive Use of TikTok with Digital Nudging by Jingshi Kang of Fudan U Jingshi Kang, Mengqi Liao MaggieLiao, S. Shyam Sundar S. Shyam Sundar of Penn State Bellisario College

Pro Tip: When #debunking misinformation, don't repeat the myth too often. New study finds people become more familiar with #COVID misinformation after repeating it as part of a correction, especially if people didn't believe it in the first place!

link.springer.com/article/10.100…