Apeksha Shetty

Check out @julaluehring.bsky.social 's novel study that uses causal inference to untangle if misinformation on social media truly leads to more engagement and more emotional discussions than reliable news. 👇

One postdoctoral Research Position Deadline: November 15th, 2025

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher on themes related to journalism with an affinity for quantitative methods. Are you interested in topics, such as media trust, pluralism, media effects and/...

We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects related to media trust, pluralism, media effects and/or political satire.

Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

Learning about efficient LLM training at @comptext.bsky.social with @cklamm.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025 🤓

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Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST!
Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community.
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Complexity Science Hub * News * Do Emotions Make Us More Susceptible To Misinformation? Not Per Se, According To A New Study A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub challenges the belief that emotions make us more susceptible to misinformation, revealing that pre-existing

A CSH study challenges the widely held belief that #emotions make us more susceptible to #misinformation. The study, led by @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, reveals that emotions shape our perceptions, but don't impair our ability to distinguish between real and #falsenews. 👉 shorturl.at/FzHs1

First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀

In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.

Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

The timing of an emotion (before vs after news exposure) matters to understand if emotions influence misinformation belief. Further, it's not enough to say that people react emotionally to misinformation: People react with anger both when they believe and disbelieve false news items. More details 👇

Cool work by @julaluehring.bsky.social on NewsGuard as a resource for misinformation research!

The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇

7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.

⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025!
Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀
Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

Time for the annual final sprint 📈 COMPTEXT2025 deadline is approaching (January 15, midnight). www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...

6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
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🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨
🧰 Data donations and digital trace data
📖 Narratives in large datasets
🖼️ Visual data analysis 
🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits
🧐 Bayesian text analysis
…and more!
Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX

🎉 Happy New Year!
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
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⏳ Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025

Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩

Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

I would interpret this as a result of "quantity before quality" design of social media (and ultimately reflects the business model), where everything, the velocity, the scrolling, the thumbnails, the share button, encourages this (+ motives of signalling identity rather than sharing information).

Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX
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🚨New publication alert on news avoidance (open-access) 🚫📰 With @hajoboo.bsky.social, @solecheler.bsky.social and Svenja Schäfer, we looked at which perceptions of media and politics predict intentional news avoidance or low news consumption (or both!). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you're curious about how the same emotion, like anger, can correlate with misinformation identification as well as susceptibility, you can read our preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I had a fantastic time at MISDOOM, learning about what's going on in the field of mis- and disinformation.

I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.

🎉 Exciting News! My first #dissertation paper has just been published open access in Annals of the ICA! 📚🌐

🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.

Arlie Hochschild introduced this idea of “deep stories”. Deep stories are the stories we (groups of humans) tell ourselves about who we are, what our values are. They reflect our hopes, fears and anxieties. Importantly, deep stories don’t have to be true — they just have to *feel* true.

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We're here now too & will soon close-down our #TwitterAccount for good. Help us find our mutuals on #BlueSky. 🔍 #CommSky #PolSky #CSS

Proud of the work this great team did to understand whether viewing an online video of someone sharing their personal experiences with antisemitism might shift the attitudes and online browsing behavior of the viewers.

Takeaway: we found reduced time spent on antisemitic websites.