@buehling.bsky.social
Information ecosystems & far-right political communication | IRex Tübingen |Weizenbaum Institute Passionate poster 🦭
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
27.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
Day 2 of #IJPP2025:
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Re-reading Chadwick's classic work on "The Hybrid Media System" feels wild, when it shows pre-TikTok/Reels media consumption:
"By 2011 [...] Americans were watching video on a mobile phone for an average of four hours per month. These figures may be small [...] but they are still significant"
🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social
03.11.2025 09:17 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
30.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 391 🔁 155 💬 6 📌 11
Wie haben sich die Netzwerke von Rechtsextremismus & Co. und deren Kommunikation während unseres dreijährigen Telegram-Monitorings entwickelt? In der neuen MATR-Ausgabe wagen Christian Donner, @wynbrodersen.bsky.social, @maik.machine-vs-rage.net & Michael Schmidt den Rückblick. 1|13
30.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The times are dire, but some online platforms still seem to deplatform right-wing extremists. The head of the Austrian far-right „Identitarian Movement“ Martin Sellner reports to be cut off of his crypto monetization channels.
29.10.2025 22:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback!
(11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...)
Abstract
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
07.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 475 🔁 207 💬 6 📌 16
Economist goals
03.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paper titles from different fields sometimes sound very niche. But this one caught my attention and I was very lucky to continue reading. This is so insightful and enriching for my own work. Highly recommend!
doi.org/10.1002/asi....
“Science in fact is only just beginning, and almost all scientists who have ever lived are still alive.“
Stafford Beer starting strong in his “Brain of the firm“
You wouldn't know this from following mediated debates in Germany, but it turns out there are reasons beyond illdefined anxieties about immigration for where and why the far right wins votes...
25.09.2025 07:23 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0🔥
18.09.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Die Mittelbauveranstaltung ~Pizza & Perspektiven~ der DGPuK Fachgruppen Methoden und Medienökonomie, moderiert von @buehling.bsky.social und Miriam Bernhard war ein voller Erfolg!
18.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
It’s 16.6%
doi.org/10.1002/asi....
How many citations in scholarly papers are ERRONEOUS CITATIONS? (citations that do not support the statement they are cited against)
Comment your guess before reading the answer in the next post.
Interesting discussion! But if one described the information ecosystem as transpersonal whole, one would have to drop the ecosystem metaphor. Inf ecosystems consist of their actors, environments (platforms), the information itself and the mutual interactions between them. All shaping the IE
06.09.2025 08:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0What actions would “recognizing“ this risk entail?
06.09.2025 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Russia starting to crack down on Telegram and Whatsapp by banning voice calls on both apps.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Ein rechtsextremer Burschenschaftler arbeitet für CDU-Amthor, ein paar Büros weiter sitzen seine Kameraden aus der gleichen Kameradschaft in Lohn und Brot bei AfD-Abgeordneten.
What could possibly go wrong?
Für Amthor: Privatleben.
✨ New open-access paper ✨
We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics.
Full paper:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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graphical abstract of the paper
Important preprint by @pietronickl.bsky.social @msultan.bsky.social Caedyn Stinson, @fstock.bsky.social Ralph Hertwig @anaskozyreva.bsky.social,
touching so many points to move the misinfo discussion forward, like feedback-loops, systemic factors and rhetoric, great work!
osf.io/preprints/so...
But the manual search in the premium app is still a great tool for risk analysis.
(And, as in the screenshot, it shows you the amount of automated fake scam channels out there)
Just as an update - I tried the premium subscription (in the name of science!) and the search works. But the endpoint you found only searches within channels the Telegram account is already subscribed to. No *real* global search. Nothing like this is implemented yet, it seems. A pity.
13.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry, I am not a Premium subscriber, yet 🥲
08.08.2025 07:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That looks interesting indeed - it seems like I’ll have to buy a premium subscription and try it out! Thanks so much for catching this
07.08.2025 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@haraldsick.bsky.social @pjost.bsky.social
07.08.2025 08:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
