Christian Pieter Hoffmann

📢 New publication on the positioning of executives on LinkedIn. We analyze more than 4'500 posts of CEOs and CEOs of EURO STOXX 50 companies and find distinct communicator profiles (re. content, timing, frequency, audiences and engagement).
🔗 www.emerald.com/ccij/article...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

📢 New OA publication w/ @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social
Do privacy concerns inhibit political posting on social media? Yes, but. We examine FB, X & Insta in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦 and find that highly politically interested users discount privacy concerns and seek large audiences.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Well, the Draghi report offers some pointers for where we would need to go :)

Beyond that, the harsh fact is that Europe is simply unwilling to go through the necessary painful reforms to become competitive. So we can complain about our dynamic „big brother“ USA all we want (re. platforms, climate, Ukraine etc.), but we simply do not have the strength to offer an alternative.

I think the word „run“ is key here. Economically, I doubt that would be a wise use of public resources. I would rather agree with: it is up to government to set the conditions for economic agents to develop and offer these infrastructures. Which is what the EU does (DSA, DMA).

So while „we should…“ or „we need…“ sounds nice, a thorough analysis must take economic and political economy facts and frameworks into account. Which would lead us back to the status quo: imperfect attempts to regulate the platforms we have within the given geopolitical realities. /end

And even if European governments could mobilize the required resources, from a political economy perspective, what reason do we have to expect that government is capable and willing to create & run platforms that are more conducive to a liberal and open democracy? 4/

First, the enormous cost of offering & running state-of-the-art digital platforms. Europe cannot even mobilize sufficient resources to maintain its defence in the face of a hot war. What should make us believe that it could mobilize billions of Euros to run competitive „public“ digital platforms? 3/

…what reason do we have to expect that they would differ in any meaningful way from the current platforms?
So that would imply that we can or should not depend on the market to provide these platforms, but government? Which would lead to more problems: 2/

There are also important economic arguments here: Social media look and work the way they do due to market dynamics, supply and demand. If Europe had sufficiently open and dynamic (capital) markets to create competitive digital platforms (which it doesn’t)… 1/

Blasting and posturing: How impression management contributes to inequalities in political expression on Facebook Social media provide opportunities for political engagement. Yet, previous research has shown that political engagement on social media remains social…

📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Blasting and posturing: How impression management contributes to inequalities in political expression on Facebook Social media provide opportunities for political engagement. Yet, previous research has shown that political engagement on social media remains social…

📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The emergence of the financial communication function: exploring investor relations in start-ups Purpose. Start-up companies need to attract the interest of investors to grow and mature. Yet, little is known about the investor relations (IR) of start-ups. This study applies a neo-institutionalist...

📢 New publication on the emergence of the #financialcommunication function in #startups. We interviewed both founders and investors to develop a model of how investor relations initially emerge - and then evolve across funding stages. w/ Lea Knabben & Torben Krueper
www.emerald.com/jcom/article...

This was a wonderful cooperation with Patric Raemy and @manuelpuppis.ch, and or Leipzig team Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Oetting and Alexander Godulla. More on our #DeepfakeProject below 👇🏼2/2

bsky.app/profile/cpho...

Deepfakes and Journalism: Normative Considerations and Implications The possibility of using deepfake technology to create synthetic media content in journalism requires careful ethical deliberations. Being that journalism is a norm-oriented social institution, the...

New OA article out @journstudies 📢 We conducted interviews with journalists in Germany and Switzerland to explore the compatibility of #deepfake technology with journalistic norms. We identify boundary conditions for the use of deepfakes in journalism 1/2
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deepfakes and Journalism: Normative Considerations and Implications The possibility of using deepfake technology to create synthetic media content in journalism requires careful ethical deliberations. Being that journalism is a norm-oriented social institution, the...

New open access publication on deepfakes in journalism together with
Patric Raemy, Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Ötting, @cphoffmann.bsky.social & Alexander Godulla

doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Grateful to be part of this wonderful special issue 👇🏼 Congratulations to the editors!

3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Using Twitch for politics? The role of personality across five countries Twitch is a popular live-streaming platform primarily used in the context of gaming. Streamers tend to be very sensitive to the content shared in their streams, often eschewing political content. A...

📢 New paper out @JITP /w @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler: Who uses Twitch for politics? Based on a survey in 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 we present descriptive data for an underresearched platform & delve into the personality of those who see & post political content👇🏼
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Danke für das (ausführliche) Gespräch, @tomcoal.bsky.social!

We hope that this study will inspire future research on politics @Twitch. We believe that Twitch already is an important platform for politics and will become even more so in the future. Thanks to my co-authors @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler, and the editorial team @JITP 🙏🏼 /end

We apply a personality psychology lens and find that those who post politics are low(er) on openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness. We argue that politics on Twitch still goes against established platform norms and attracts rule-breaker personalities. 5/

We find that about half of the surveyed Twitch users post political content at least occasionally. However, quite a few Twitch users dislike politics on the platform, many streamers avoid political content. So who posts political content? 4/

Almost 2/3 of our sample see political content on the platform at least occasionally. Even in the process of conducting this study, we realized that many still underestimate the importance of Twitch for political communication. 3/

We find that about 20% of our (quota) sample use Twitch. Most studies of Twitch understandably focus on gaming. But more & more influencers, journalists & politicians use the platform. So what about politics? 2/

Using Twitch for politics? The role of personality across five countries Twitch is a popular live-streaming platform primarily used in the context of gaming. Streamers tend to be very sensitive to the content shared in their streams, often eschewing political content. A...

📢 New paper out @JITP /w @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social & Thomas Feiler: Who uses Twitch for politics? Based on a survey in 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 we present descriptive data for an underresearched platform & delve into the personality of those who see & post political content👇🏼
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Der »Engine Room« im @machine-vs-rage.net-Blog füllt sich: Neu dabei ist eine Quick-Response-Analyse von Matthias J. Becker zum Antisemitismus auf YouTube sowie ein Meinungsbeitrag von @cphoffmann.bsky.social über den sog. X-odus und seine Bedeutung für Polarisierungsdynamiken.📍Digitales im Fokus ⬇️

New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Freue mich, diese „Hottakes“-Reihe eröffnen zu dürfen - mit einem für Bluesky-Nutzende vielleicht provokativen Einwurf 😉 Macht Bluesky die Linke weniger diskursfähig?

For more information on our #DeepfakeProject (w/ Alexander Godulla & Daniel Bendahan Bitton), which also tackles the use of this technology in #journalism see 👇🏼

deepfake-project.com/en/