Edda Humprecht

Edda Humprecht

@eddahumprecht.bsky.social

@Prof of Communication Science @Uni of Jena, head of research group Digitalization & the Public Sphere

962 Followers 316 Following 9 Posts Joined Nov 2023
4 months ago
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✨ MORGEN ✨ #Wissen und #Macht: Welche Rolle kann die #Wissenschaft in der #Politikberatung spielen - und wo liegen die Grenzen? 15.10. ab 9.30 Uhr 🔗 www.ethikrat.org/live
@ue-umweltethik.bsky.social @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @schroep.bsky.social @jud1th.bsky.social @ethicswinkler.bsky.social

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Our study on the strategic narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 7 EU countries, co-authored with @eddahumprecht.bsky.social, is out in the IJoC.
We trace pro-Russian messages across countries, platforms, and actor types ahead of the 2024 EP election. Check it out: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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8 months ago

Thanks, Kelly! Back then, one could still collect comments via the API. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible anymore…

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11 months ago
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💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

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11 months ago
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UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being.

Apply by: 11 May 2025
Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement)

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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11 months ago

w @sebavalenz.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social Edson Tandoc

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Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms—Introduction to the Special Issue - Edda Humprecht, Sebastián Valenzuela, Frank Esser, Edson Tandoc, 2025 The global spread of political misinformation poses serious challenges to democracies, eroding trust and distorting public discourse. However, research has larg...

💫 New Open Access Special Issue in IJPP!
Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms
The SI explores how misinfo spreads, is perceived & countered across political systems, info environments & platforms.
Read the intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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1 year ago
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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1 year ago
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Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine As US-Russia talks continue in Saudi Arabia, we look at the US president’s misleading and outright false statements

Here's why fact checking matters.

Trump gives misleading and false statements about the war in Ukraine.

@theguardian.com provides the facts on five of these statements.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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1 year ago
Bust of Andrey Sakharov

Science is under a wide-ranging attack in the U.S. From arbitrary and catastrophic funding cuts to censorship based on keywords, scholarship is no longer free from government interference. How can scientists respond? 1/n

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1 year ago
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs

AP @apnews.com denied access to White House. For not taking orders on Gulf of Mexico 🤯

“Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment”

www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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1 year ago
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Western European men in their twenties show the sharpest rise in considering the far right.

Women in their twenties remain less likely to consider the far right.

Great article from @tabouchadi.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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1 year ago
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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

What 10 years of education can do to combat disinformation. The Finland 🇫🇮 case!

Education, literacy but also strong media and trustworthy politicians

edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

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1 year ago
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1/ I promised some research for team #Bluesky. Here we go.

Unpopular opinion: #Debunking doesn't stop #polarization. In fact, our research (and others') shows it can *add* to it. #Prebunking works better—timing is key.

Our #simulation studies shed light on this. 👉

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1 year ago
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We're looking for a colleague at📍European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) 🇩🇪 🇵🇱
📣Professorship for Digital Political Communication
📆 Apply by 29/04/2024
#polisky #commsky

Full Ad (english): www.europa-uni.de/de/struktur/...

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2 years ago

You can find some more references to cross-national studies here: www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/15...

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2 years ago

There a a couple of studies on limited sets of countries and quality indicators, e.g. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...; www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...; www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...; journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...;

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📣 Database of Variables for Content Analysis (DOCA) looks for authors for specific variables/constructs in #ContentAnalysis 🔭

hope.uzh.ch/doca
#openaccess #openmethod

💡 Suggestions: 20.3.24
📅 Submission Deadline: 1.5.24

👉 Call for Authors: t.uzh.ch/1Bn

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2 years ago

For those who are interested, some more suggestions I got: Wolfsfeld et al: Building Theory in Political Communication
Mchangama: Free Speech A History from Socrates to Social Media
Matassi&Boczkowski: ToKnow is To Compare
Klinger et al: Platforms, power, Politics
Krupnikov&Ryan: The Other Divide

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2 years ago

🚀 🤖I'm very much looking forward to Sophie Morosoli‘s talk as part of the Speaker Series at IfKW Jena! Today she will talk about "Individuals' attitudes and perceptions towards AI in journalism and generative AI". #AIinJournalism #generativeAI

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2 years ago

Alteady on my list! Thanks!

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2 years ago

Hey #PolCom community! 🚀 My bookshelf’s in need of a refresh and I need your help. 📚What are your go-to reads from the last couple if years? Share those gems! 💡

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2 years ago
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

IKMZ is looking for an
Assistant Professor in Political Communication
(Tenure Track)

If you have a strong record in teaching & research in polcomm, pls apply by February 14, 2024 - we're looking forward to it!

More info 👉 jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Pls distribute widely!

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2 years ago
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How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections We’re working to prevent abuse, provide transparency on AI-generated content, and improve access to accurate voting information.

Open AI announces policies to prevent abuse and increase transparency leading up to all the elections in 2024 across the 🌏

First steps. But reading these, a lot of questions remain unanswered…

Commsky polisky csssky

openai.com/blog/how-ope...

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2 years ago
Cleavage politics in ordinary reasoning: How common sense divides This study explores how the ideological divide between the radical right and liberal left is anchored in the common sense reasoning of ordinary citizens. Across Western Europe, cleavage research ha...

Just out
@europeansocieties.bsky.social: Koen Damhuis & I study how the divide bw far-right and liberal-left ideologies is anchored in moral and class-based forms of common sense reasoning.
We also show what qualitative research can contribute to cleavage theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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2 years ago
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Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - Nature Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.

Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information.

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2 years ago

Join us at LSE! 👇

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2 years ago
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What is DOCA ❓❓❓

www.hope.uzh.ch/doca/

We explain the Database of Variables for Content Analysis: relevance, objective, content & participation possibilities

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www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/articl...

#contentanalysis #OpenMethod #OpenScience

@voudigitou.bsky.social @eddahumprecht.bsky.social

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2 years ago
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Heimliche Mitarbeiterin: KI Es wird Zeit, dass wir endlich eine Etikette für künstliche Intelligenz entwickeln – sonst passieren peinliche Fauxpas.

Immer wieder passiert es, dass Menschen oder ganze Organisationen im Berufsleben damit auffliegen, insgeheim KI genutzt zu haben - hier gebe ich ein paar Beispiele dafür und beschreibe, wie wichtig es ist, 2 Grundregeln im Umgang mit KI zu befolgen:

1.) transparent sein
2.) kritisch bleiben

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