Hossein is blue now kermani

Our team members @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social have presented their fantastic work at the CSS conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“ in Mannheim. Very well done! 👏

I feel like an angel scholar! I accepted review request from a journal rejected my own submission! 😬😬😂😂

Dr. Khosravinik (U of Newcastle) and I are editing a special issue on Critical Discourse Analysis and GenerativeAI for Discourse & Society. Please share the call with your networks and submit your relevant work. You can find the call below:
www.hosseinkermani.com/blog

🥁 Happy to launch the lecture series "The Many Faces of Digital Authoritarianism"
➡️ The first lecture "The #Digital Transformation of #Authoritarianism" will be by Professor Oliver Schlumberger of the IFP Tübingen.
📆February 4, 3-4pm CET
🎫DM us for the Zoom link.
@ecpr.bsky.social

📣 Call for #ecprgc25
🔔We invite paper proposals on #GenAI and #digitalauthoritarianism
🔗https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/Content?ID=1482&EventID=269
📅Deadline: January 6
🪑 @hosseinkermani.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social

Our research network on Digital Authoritarianism joined BlueSky. Support it and spread the word, please!

Hossein Kermani - BeyondCBA Project About the project There are rising concerns about social media suppression (SMS) in non-democratic societies. Social media are somehow people’s only hope for raising their voices in authoritarian reg...

I'll soon discuss how pro-regime users suppressed #MahsaAmini movement on Twitter through hate speech, disinformation and strategic distraction at the @oegpw.bsky.social annual conference! Find the slides here: www.hosseinkermani.com/beyondcba-pr...

2025 was a productive year. I published nothing but learned a lot!

(PDF) Connective Action PDF | As social media became more and more popular around the globe in late 2010, new theories were developed to theorize their effects on political... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

As the sky of the research community gets blue, let's start my activity here now with these two upcoming chapters in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (ed by @alessandronai.bsky.social et al :) on Computational Propaganda and Connective Action:
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POLCOM is back from the summer and fresh from a team retreat in rainy Neusiedl am See ☔️ where we brainstormed new research ideas, explored collaborations and knowledge transfer, and discussed team infrastructure. We are ready and excited for the coming semester!

Main takeaways of my new study: False info and social bots were not that prevalent on Persian Twitter during #mahsaamini movement. Incivility was found in half of the, and users were mainly ordinary accounts writing about everyday happenings, not politicians, journalists, or media!

The life after PhD:

It was amazing and thought provoking meeting! Tnx Ulrike and hope to see you soon!

A new paper is out there, open access :

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

There is a permanent struggle between Disappointment and Resilience and I am not the one who will lose, no matter how much the struggle gets harsh!

in less than an hour, i will discuss some critical questions about social medis research at the 'Alternative Platforms/Platform Alternatives' workshop in @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. Tnx Annett Heft, Barbara Pfetsch, and Ralph Schroeder for the organization of such a great event.
polsky commsky

My mood: waiting for more rejections 😬😬

I would but I still have to be there because of my research!