As the BBC faces fresh scrutiny, what does our research say about it?
Here's an updated version of a piece by @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @annisch.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social and Craig T. Robertson originally published in 2020
📱 Full piece here buff.ly/iLaMzHa
🧵 4 findings in thread
10.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
The BBC is under scrutiny. Here’s what research tells about its role in the UK
The BBC is the most widely used source of news in the UK. It has lower reach among the young and the less formally educated.
Apropos...
1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
10.11.2025 14:40 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
31.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 85 🔁 60 💬 0 📌 4
What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it?
@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
31.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3
Noch drei Tage! Wir freuen uns über Eure Einreichungen zu Demokratischer Resilienz - auf bald in Hamburg!
13.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🪝Two more weeks to submit to the annual conference of the DGPuK's PolComm division in HAMBURG! 🎣
The conference theme is ‘Democratic resilience as a task for political communication in an unstable world’ and submissions in English are more than welcome!
02.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
At the ECREA PolComm Section conference in Innsbruck with Zhengyi Xu @ikmz.bsky.social First conference together as a team! Enjoying great discussions and incredible dinner location. Tomorrow morning I present (on behalf of @sophiavolk.bsky.social) our work on news overload, avoidance & wellbeing.
04.09.2025 20:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAX SCHINDLER GEWINNT KICKSTARTER FUND 2025
Für sein Projekt „Narrative Muster in Parteinewslettern: Eine Analyse von Claims, Akteuren und Ereignissen in deutschen Parteien“ zeichnet die Fachgruppe @maxschindler.bsky.social mit dem PolKom-Kickstarter-Fund 2025 aus. Das Preisgeld beträgt 750 Euro.
26.08.2025 08:18 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Seite 1 des Calls for Papers, vollständig zu finden auf der Tagungs-Website
Seite 2 des Calls for Papers, vollständig zu finden auf der Tagungs-Website.
Seite 3 des Calls for Papers, vollständig zu finden auf der Tagungs-Website.
Seite 4 des Calls for Papers, vollständig zu finden auf der Tagungs-Website.
HAMBURG CALLING - EINREICHUNGEN MÖGLICH
Ab sofort ist das Conftool für unsere FG-Tagung 2026 offen: www.conftool.net/polkomm26/
4.-6.2.26, Hamburg
Tagungsthema: Demokratische Resilienz als Aufgabe für die politische Kommunikation in einer instabilen Welt
Alle Infos unter: uhh.de/wiso-polkomm26
26.08.2025 08:05 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
Sollen Social-Media-Plattformen für Teenager verboten werden? Ein Streitgespräch
Was, wenn ein höheres Mindestalter den Teenies mehr schadet als nützt? Ein Streitgespräch.
Lesenswertes NZZ-Streitgespräch mit @dominiquewirz.bsky.social : "Medien vermitteln im Moment den Eindruck, soziale Netzwerke seien Teufelszeug. Doch im Grunde macht bei vielen Menschen erst das schlechte Gewissen die Nutzung schädlich." www.nzz.ch/technologie/...
22.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BEFRAGUNG ZUM WISSENSTRANSFER
Die AG Third Mission und Wissenstransfer der DGPuK bittet um eure Unterstützung:
Ihr forscht aktiv in der Kommunikationswissenschaft? Wie tragt ihr eure Erkenntnisse in die Gesellschaft? Und was kann euch dabei helfen?
www.soscisurvey.de/dgpuk_transf...
27.06.2025 08:10 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Aus aktuellem Anlass (für alle, die an der Medienpolitik in der Schweiz interessiert sind)
14.05.2025 07:23 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
News is too much and too negative according to growing shares of the audience.
In 2025, 40% say they sometimes or often avoid the news (up from 29% in 2017). Switzerland & Germany right on trend.
Why?
• 39%: “negatively affects my mood”
• 31%: “worn out by the amount”
• 30%: “too much conflict”
17.06.2025 12:38 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
17.06.2025 05:03 — 👍 93 🔁 81 💬 2 📌 25
Redirecting...
🏆 Think your best PolCom article in the past year was better than others' best article? Let's find out!
10 days to submit to the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year: 📬 c.baden@mail.huji.ac.il
Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKe...
12.04.2025 07:05 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Kommunikation und Politik | dgpuk
POLKOM KICKSTARTER FUND 2025
Die FG vergibt wieder ihren Preis für nicht-promovierte Kolleg:innen aus dem Forschungsfeld Kommunikation & Politik.
Preis: 750 Euro für deine Forschung
Bewerbungsschluss: 30. Juni 2025
Alle Infos unter: www.dgpuk.de/de/fachgrupp...
10.04.2025 13:12 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Stadtwappen Hamburg in Partystimmung
HAMBURG CALLING!
Unsere nächste Jahrestagung findet vom 4. bis 6. Februar 2026 in der Hansestadt statt.
Thema: „Demokratische Resilienz als Aufgabe für die politische Kommunikation in einer instabilen Welt“
Der Call for Papers ist jetzt raus und findet sich hier: www.dgpuk.de/sites/defaul...
10.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Herzlichen Glückwunsch 👏
10.04.2025 19:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BUT: In contrast to these dystopian narratives: reserach does NOT find that much societal polarisation on the level of societies and polarisation does not increase over time (which doesn't mean that some do not radicalize!) - so what happened? /4
20.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
IKMZ welcomes Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz
Familiar face, new position: We're excited that @annisch.bsky.social is our new Asst. Prof. for #PoliticalCommunication. After a postdoctoral stay at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, she was a Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ since 2021. Welcome, Anne! 🙌
www.ikmz.uzh.ch/de/news/2025...
19.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Next Issues | Media and Communication
Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.
📢 Call for Papers 📢
Communication in Election Campaigns: Staggering Changes or Same Old, Same Old?
Editors: @vioreladan.bsky.social, Uta Rußmann, @annisch.bsky.social & Philipp Müller
📅 Abstracts: 1-15 June 2025
📅 Full Papers: 15-30 October 2025
🔗 Full CfP: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
12.03.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Excellent and brave.
27.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Many things don’t seem particularly promising these days, but THIS looks like a great start to @fgkommpol.bsky.social’s first full conference day in Innsbruck. Looking forward to meeting many wonderful colleagues, including @profvaccari.bsky.social, for his keynote on campaign communications 💫
27.02.2025 06:39 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wir sind in Innsbruck! Und freuen uns auf unsere Fachgruppentagung zum Thema: "Wahlkampfkommunikation:
(Kaum) Veränderungen im digitalen Zeitalter?". Nach einem erfolgreichen Workshop des Napoko gestern, starten wir heut um 9 Uhr mit einer keynote von @profvaccari.bsky.social 🌟
27.02.2025 06:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wer die #BTW25 mit Fachkolleg:innen aufarbeiten will, hat schon diese Woche die Chance!
Ab Mittwoch kommt unsere Fachgruppe in #Innsbruck zur Jahrestagung zusammen. Das passende Thema: Wahlkampfkommunikation.
www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...
Bild: Janick Entremont/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
24.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
On-site participation is "sold out" but feel free to register for our WORKSHOP on
DATA DONATION FOR PLATFORM RESEACH
this Thursday 12:30-16:00
www.dsi.uzh.ch/de/current/e...
After the workshop we will also present key findings from the @dizh.bsky.social Data Donation Days
25.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Come work with us! Anne Schulz offers a doctoral position (3-6 years) in #political #communication research focusing on #news audiences and political #participation. Deadline for applications: 16 February 2025. More info 👇
@polcomm.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social
07.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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PhD Student at the Digital Democracy Centre (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social), University of Southern Denmark. Research on Trust & News Authenticity
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Using computational and causal inference methods to research online media and political behavior
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