Jula Luehring

So excited for another round of the ICA hackathon!! I highly recommend it for early career scholars going to ICA. It's a great way to meet new conference buddies before the main conference and learn more about computational methods 👩‍💻

Group photo: The CCL team standing together outdoors with the mountains around Dienten an Hochkönig in Salzburg in the background, smiling at the camera.

Ski lift: A line of orange ski lift chairs stretching up a green slope surrounded by dense forest to get up the mountain.

Hiking trail: The CCL team hiking down a narrow trail across a sunlit mountain slope with autumn-colored vegetation.

Mountain view: A wide view of mountain peaks and ridges around Dienten am Hochkönig in Salzburg, with low-hanging clouds drifting between the valleys under a blue sky.

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

Yaay congrats Jo, that's so exciting!! Hopefully see you soon over here then, come visit us in Vienna :)

Screenshot reading: Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events Authors: Annie Waldherr, Nicola Righetti, Ryan J. Gallager, Kira Klinger, Daniela Stoltenberg, Sagar Kumar, Dominic Ridley, and Brooke Foucault Welles Abstract: The deaths of Black victims of police brutality, such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and Philando Castile, have become focusing events and symbols for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, catalyzing wide-spread public attention to racial injustice. While prior studies on hashtag activism predominantly focus on single and widely known cases, less is understood about why some incidents draw massive public attention while others do not. Addressing this gap, our study investigates the factors influencing the likelihood and size of public attention on Twitter (now X) following extrajudicial police killings. We analyzed 1.5 million tweets in response to 795 police killings between January 1, 2015, and December 8, 2016, in the United States. By examining cases on all scales, from unnoticed to prominent, we provide large-scale empirical evidence on disparities in public attention to police killings and their victims. Results indicate two distinct processes in the emergence of focusing events: While victims’ attributes such as race, age, and gender increased likelihood of receiving any attention (thresholding), variables of context and social construction were related to overall wave size (focusing).

Second, with a large team of authors, led by @anniewald.bsky.social, we study which (personal, temporal, spatial, affordance-based) properties of incidences of extrajudicial police killings facilitate public attention on social media.

So the UN Global Risks Report is out...
& it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face.
unglobalriskreport.org

Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally.
But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there!
Plus...

FINALLY 😌

The Delegated Act is here.

The Act clarifies rules for data access under the Digital Services Act #DSA

#dataaccess #research #eusky #commsky #polisky #csssky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver!

From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

You want to study German covid-19 protests? @maxzehring.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social and @buehling.bsky.social got you covered with their dataset! #ica25

Welcome to the ICA conference!

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!!

Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there!
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7th Annual Conference 2025 - The COMPTEXT Project 7th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2025 Please find the information on registration to COMPTEXT 2025 below. The COMPTEXT Association offers travel grants to PhD students, based on a motivation statement, ...

COMPTEXT 2025 – The Countdown is On! 🥳

✅ The preliminary program is now available! Check out the amazing sessions, workshops, and speakers lined up for this year's event.

Don't miss out – register today and secure your spot!

👉 Register here comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c... 👈

Juhuuu Glückwunsch und schöne Feier(n) dir!🎉

YouTube video by DW Deutsch Angeschrien, gemobbt, gedemütigt: Machtmissbrauch an Max-Planck-Instituten | DW Reporter

Machtmissbrauch in der MPG: wichtige Doku von DW & @spiegel.de zeigt, wie v.a. Forschende aus dem Ausland gezielt attackiert werden -- u.a. mit Drohungen, Verträge nicht zu verlängern, an denen Aufenthaltstitel hängt. Befristung macht abhängig, einige besonders. #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan (1/2)

🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀

Spots are limited—secure yours now: forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC...

📅 June 11-12, 2025
📍 UC Boulder (shuttle from Denver available)

No coding skills required! Join us to explore methodological & substantive challenges in communication science. See you there! 🍻

Super cool, herzlichen Glückwunsch!!

We’re thrilled that the CCL is part of this incredible project! 🎉 @anniewald.bsky.social & @aytalina.bsky.social will contribute to agent-based modeling and simulations, while @hajoboo.bsky.social & @julaluehring.bsky.social will be engaged in science communication. Exciting collaborations ahead 🚀

First page of the PDF version of the article published by Routledge in the journal Information, Communication & Society. The article history shows that the paper was received on 7 May 2024 and accepted on 8 January 2025.

Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵

#PhD #ECR #Wissenschaft

🚨 Last chance to submit to #COMPTEXT2025 🚨
Working on computational analysis of text-, image-, or video-as-data? Submit your 250-word abstract today and join us in Vienna this April! 🙂

⏳ Deadline: January 15, midnight
📍 Details: www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...

🚨 Big news! 🚨 Another year of ICA, another pre-conference hackathon: The 2025 hackathon is happening in Boulder on June 11-12! Stay tuned 🚀

6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽‍♀️ (Social Programme preview)

🚨 #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

I have an open 3-year PostDoc position in my research group, centered on the extraction and analysis of relations of societal actors (e.g. politicians, CEOs, ...) from unstructured text data.

Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! Deadline is Jan 1st.
jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/a122...

What (social) science cannot see

Our inability to reliably study algorithmic info ecosystems, and why it matters for #scicomm. Pre-publication version of our forthcoming PNAS piece led by Nicky Krause and Isabelle Freiling : osf.io/preprints/so... (a 🧵)

Screenshot of the AUSSDA page of the AUTNES Online Panel Study, including the AUTNES logo and some study details. 0 Downloads yet...

Sankey diagram illustrating the patterns of vote switching across the parliamentary elections 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2024.

🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉

The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩

Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹

Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...

#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️

What do people want? Views on platforms and the digital public sphere in eight countries Our research explores how people use platforms for news and information about politics, while also remaining sceptical of the information they see there.

We've just published a NEW REPORT by @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others on the role of digital platforms in today's media environments. It's funded by @knightfdn.bsky.social and based on survey data from 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇸🇩🇪🇧🇷🇦🇷🇯🇵🇰🇷

🧵 Findings in thread
🔗 Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-peop...

Starting pack for CSH. Looking to add more people who should be in this!

The Reuters Institute is seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply.

🚨 Big news today at the Institute

We are seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report

Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

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
#css #commsky #polisky