CSS Lab, LMU Munich

International Communication Association

Good news! 🎉
The registration issue has been resolved — everything should now work smoothly.
🔗 Direct link: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...

🗓 Registration is open until April 5, 2026
Looking forward to seeing you at the ICA Hackathon 2026 @SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! 🚀💡

🚀 Save the Date!
If you're considering joining us, now is a great time to block the dates and start planning your #trip.
We can’t wait to see you at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd and 4th June 2026 for this year's #Hackathon! 🌍✨

📣Call for Bids! We’re seeking hosts for the 9th & 10th International #COMPTEXT conferences (2027 & 2028).
📅Bid deadline: March 15, 2026
Request materials: info@comptextconference.org
Please circulate within your networks!

📢 Call for Abstracts — Deadline: January 16.

COMPTEXT 2026 will again be a fantastic place to discover the latest computational methods, tools, datasets
&
to connect with scholars using AI across communication science, political science, history, sociology, IR, and more.

Thanks for coming all the way to Munich!
@emesedomahidi.bsky.social
@maxschindler.bsky.social
@maxzehring.bsky.social
@jingyuanyu.bsky.social
@milinzhang.bsky.social

The visit gave us many new ideas, strengthened connections, and exciting prospects for future collaboration. Looking forward to visiting Ilmenau!

And they brought us a "Thüringer Wald" Monopoly that we will get out at our next board game team night and get to know Thuringia better. 💸🌲

A central theme of our conversations was bias in computational research, what it is, how it gets into our research, and how we can deal with it.
The discussions were challenging in the best way and highlighted how important interdisciplinary research is. 🧠📊

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting the computational communication science team from TU Ilmenau at our lab at LMU Munich. It was a really fun visit. Getting to know other CCS and CCR teams is always great. 🤓

📍 Location: Munich
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026

Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc!

Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you.

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🚨 Big reveal! New year, new logo, same event! 🚨
Join us for some fun at the 2026 ICA pre-conference hackathon in Stellenbosch, June 3-4. Stay tuned!

We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.

This week, we have @lorenzspreen.bsky.social visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out: css-synosys.github.io

Climate injustice through unequal news Nature Climate Change - High-quality coverage of climate change requires trained reporters, editorial support and financial assistance, but news media in the global south often lack access to such...

✨ New in Nature Climate Change (@natclimchange.bsky.social): Climate injustice through unequal news

🎈 highlights how climate injustice is fueled by disparities in information access across the Global South, including a recent study by J. Thaker et al.

👉 rdcu.be/d7MLX (or: doi.org/10.1038/s415...)

Screenshot of the website of the "Data Donation Symposium 2025"

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich

🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee)

👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc.

🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

Group of people in the office writing christmas cards

'Tis the season: Our lab is very busy... eating Christmas cookies, writing greeting cards, and discussing fun things to do during the holidays.

That is to say: We'll be off for a while, enjoy the holidays everyone! 🌲❄️

Slides of a presentation on "swifties and deepfakes" by Martin Riedl

Today, our research group hosted a talk by @martinriedl.bsky.social who discussed deepfakes on digital platforms - and how to counter them through coordinated reporting.

Thanks for joining us, Martin! #CSS #Platforms #Governance

Team of researchers of the CSS unit at LMU Munich

Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky.

🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci

👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social