We are looking for a student researcher in the Berlin Brandenburg area to work with us for better platform data access for researcher. Great team (Lukas Seiling / @[email protected] Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social) and definitely a timely and interesting topic to work on! Join DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory!

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🚀 New working paper with Chris Arnold on the power of analyzing #multimodal #politicalcommunication (text/audio/video/...) to capture the richness of human interaction more comprehensively. We need #alignment to make the most of multimodal data.🧵(1/4)

About 6 weeks to go until International Communication Association conference 2024.
Find the pre-conference hackathon here on the ICA website and sign up: icahdq.org/mpage/2024-pre…

We'll be hacking at QUT in Brisbane and go to Gold Coast for ICA afterward. So you'll actually see more than the hotel at this ICA!

If only someone were soon starting a cross-country project on political content from influencers 🤓😇 Have a 👀at our job ads if you want to be part of it: t.ly/Cb7iP

Sign-up for the ICA 2024 pre-conference hackathon is open.
Sign up here: icahdq.org/events/EventDe…
Don't forget to fill out the registration survey as well! forms.gle/j8TqPBAzGCa5iY…

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Interested in combining information from text, audio, and video data? Then join Andreas Küpfer's talk at the TaDa Speaker Series in two hours (today at 15:00 Berlin time). Zoom link at join.slack.com/t/tadapolisci/….

Today my colleage Maaike Homan will defend her fantastic dissertation 👀😎 go Maaike, you will rock this!

🚨 Thrilled to share Media & Democracy Coop 's latest peer-reviewed work in Media and Communication : 'Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing' by me, Jason Greenfield Yunkang Yang, PhD Ross Dahlke 🔑 Megan A. Brown Becca Lewis and Bin Chen !

cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommun…

On May 30th we will have a workshop on Introduction to video analysis with Python by Christian Pipal
Details: bit.ly/4a70JHe
#Python #AcademicTwitter

Call for applications: Frank Esser and Christian Pipal are looking for a #PhD student in their Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)-funded project on political #socialmedia influencers 📱
Application deadline: 29.05. 🗓️

At COMPTEXT Conference, Johannes Gruber showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up.

I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.

We have some exciting news to announce: preparations are under way for the launch this Fall of The COMPTEXT Association, a learned society to further text/image/video as data research in the social sciences and beyond. Please sign up for updates at shorturl.at/xyJZ7!

This looks like a really cool job - study political influencers at the University of Zurich ⬇️

📷 We are excited to kick off the 6th Annual #COMPTEXT Conference at VU Amsterdam!  Two full days of presentations of cutting-edge research on  #TextAnalysis and #CompSocialScience awaits us! #COMPTEXT 2024

Great job opportunity. Work with us on 'political influencers.'
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions , International Communication Association