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Das Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social sucht zwei Doktorand:innen im CCS-Bereich!

Digitale Methoden, jede Menge spannende Daten und ein fantastisches Team mit @grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social und @thejanrau.bsky.social … was will man mehr? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026

📍 University of Leeds
🗓 13–17 July

📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026
📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026

Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/

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OPINION Network: www.opinion-network.eu

Rethinking Public Opinion - A Conversation with Christian Baden, Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stępińska

I spoke with Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stepinska on the Smart Institute Podcast about our OPINION COST Network and how digital discourse and computational tools challenge and enable us to rethink public opinion.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6XEn...

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Mazal Tov with this new adventure! May Birmingham welcome you warmly! We (OPINION) will come visit and check on you in April :)

Look, it is our special issue :)

The last funny thing I saw were some journals that were named identically with major Q1 journals but published in Kolkata, Johannesburg, etc., by predatory publishers. There is even a Journal of Communication there somewhere. Someone who "published" there applied for a program... 😳

Hm if not the study, at least the fraud was original... 🤔

item is gone... what was there?

Awesome news, huge congrats, Daniela! And to WI, they will be so lucky to have you!

I made a decision tree...

Thanks a lot, Curd!

That was definitely the ambition. 🙃

Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
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sharepic: "Call for papers"

#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot.

📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025

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🚨 A free ad for Maximilian Linde, Chung-Hong Chan & Paul Balluff's important Public Service Announcement for communication researchers: 🛑 Stop competing on text corpus size! Scale is rarely needed and often compromises quality. Thank you for your attention to this matter. doi.org/10.1177/1077...

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

with: @netakv.bsky.social Nina Springer @marcjungblut.bsky.social @astaze.bsky.social Aukse Balcytiene Susana Salgado Artur Lipinski Aleksandra Krstic & Anna Baczkowska

OPINION is an international network of researchers collaborating to develop and integrate conceptual foundations, computational measurement strategies, and research agendas for the study of textual expressions of evaluative opinions.

▶️ Check out OPINION for more relevant content: www.opinion-network.eu
For instance, we recently released a Glossary for transdisciplinary opinion research: www.opinion-network.eu/glossary

Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework Abstract. Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital

🚨New Publication!
Public opinion happens on digital media, but it's very different from what we see in surveys. Here's how:
doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...
10 members of the pan-European OPINION network put together to discuss how we can understand public opinion processes in a digital media ecosystem.

➡️List of OA journals in Communication!
Excellent resource if you want to publish open access (and you should!) and can't or don't want to pay off the big publishers' "Gold" (gilded indeed 💰💰💰🦹‍♂️) open access deals.
Many thanks to @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social for curating this!

That is an excellent resource, @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social. Thanks for the effort! 🙏
I will popularize it among my colleagues and students! :)

Autsch...

GitHub - thieled/easieRnmt: R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. - thieled/easieRnmt

Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...

The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...

📚 Publication Friday

This week, we highlight the winner of the Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award.

"The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments"
by @nicolaiberk.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔍 Outstanding Reviewer Award

👏 Congratulations to @cbaden.bsky.social for exceptional service in this year's peer review process. Your dedication to scholarly rigor is deeply appreciated.

#ICA25 #Polcomm

Huge congratulations on this wonderful achievement, @nicolaiberk.bsky.social ! As members of the award committee, wewere deeply impressed with your work, and I am looking forward to reading more of it!

For part of what appears in Amplifying Extremism (below), check out Nik Usher's piece for Nieman Lab: www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...

🚨PhD vacancy in Computational Communication Science in Vienna🇦🇹 this is a 4 year pre-doc position at my former team, CCL—can wholeheartedly recommend, feel free to get in touch in case you have questions☺️