Dominique Wirz

Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!)

Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hot off the press!

Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!)

With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)

Thank YOU Florin for being part of this - this whole project would not be where it is now without your great contribution!

Very happy to see this article, co-authored with @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, published in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social We explore the level of entertainment and information in Instagram and TikTok posts from Swiss news outlets. Thank you Dominique for letting me be part of this great project!

Hello Bluesky :) we are the media use and media effects division #RezFo of the German Communication Association #DGPuK & just joined Bluesky. We have a list with #RezFo researchers that you can add to your feed to follow updates. Let us know if you want to be added. (bsky.app/profile/did:...).

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️

Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.

📆: deadline February 17!

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For the upcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, @fabiennelind.bsky.social
and I wrote an entry on knowledge gaps.
You can find our open preprint here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

edited by
@alessandronai.bsky.social
@maxgroemping.bsky.social @dominiquewirz.bsky.social

A Very Short Summary of What We Know about Populist Attitudes, written with @annisch.bsky.social

Published in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social,
@dominiquewirz.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Large Language Models | Johannes B. Gruber Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a significant advancement for the field of political communication. Their capabilities for the study of language vastly surpass previous approaches, enabling a w...

@favstats.bsky.social and I wrote a piece about LLMs for the Encyclopedia of Political Communication (forthcoming '25, edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social and @dominiquewirz.bsky.social). Happy to share the accepted version!

www.johannesbgruber.eu/publication/...

✨Neuer Report von @sophiavolk.bsky.social + mir: «Zwischen Wertschätzung & Überlastung - Wie Schweizer:innen die Fülle von Informationen und Angeboten erleben» ...in den Bereichen 📰Nachrichten, 🎭Unterhaltung & 💬digitale persönliche Kommunikation

👉Fokusgruppen & Online Survey
👉Key findings im Thread

Call for papers! Together with Maèva Flayelle and Joel Billieux I am editing a special issue for Acta Psychologica on the psychology of TV series use and binge watching. We are accepting proposals until March 15, 2024. Please share widely! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta...

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🚨 #PhD position available! We are looking for a candidate to join the 'Connected through Entertainment' research project, supervised by Marthe Möller, Jessica Piotrowski & Annemarie van Oosten. Interested? 📅 Apply before December 13 and visit the website for more information ⤵️

In today‘s ASCoR lunch lecture, @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social presents a study with Sarah Geber
about the role of social norms in negative campaigning. Main finding: Whether politicians use negative campaigning depends on their perceptions of resonance with their voters.

Jahrbuch Qualität der Medien 2023 Anteil einordnender Beiträge auf Instagram, TikTok und der Website der sechs untersuchten Medienmarken

➕ Qualität der Berichterstattung: ist insgesamt leicht besser geworden. Zudem gemischt-positive Befunde auf TikTok und Instagram. Dort gewichten Medien zwar Softnews und Emotionen stärker, bieten aber auch anteilsmässig mehr Einordnung als auf den Websites. @dswirz.bsky.social @aurman21.bsky.social

Jahrbuch Qualität der Medien 2023 Alle Inhalte auf: www.foeg.uzh.ch

Das Jahrbuch Qualität der Medien 2023 ist da!
🤖 Mit Schwerpunkt KI im Journalismus. Und mit Analysen zu Schweizer Medien auf Social Media, Medienvielfalt in den Regionen, Medienqualität u.v.m.

Medienmitteilung & Jahrbuch 👉https://www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/news/2023/Jahrbuch-2023.html

Hauptbefunde unten 👇

🚨Super exciting opening at U of Amsterdam/ Amsterdam School of Communication Research

Full professor (one or more) in political communication and journalism.

I cannot recommend the group, school and university enough.

🗓️ DL: December 5

PLS SHARE 👇 commsky polisky

vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Full...

We have some last open entries for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Reach out if you d‘like to be part of this great project 👇

📣We are hiring! 📣

Our PC&J group is looking for two PhD candidates working on Morality in Political Communication.

Do you want to become an expert in the up-and-coming field of moral rhetoric? Apply to one (or both) of our positions:

vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...