Guido Zurstiege

In the Academy and the Legal World, It’s Time to Stay and Fight Stay or run? Let’s not presume this is a simple question or that everyone’s situation is the same. But I know who my heroes are.

While the decision to stay or go lies with the individual, it carries significant weight. Our American colleagues are in need of solidarity from the international scientific community.

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Trump Berates Zelensky at White House Meeting: Live Updates (Gift Article)

Amazing Disgrace!

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Three Crises, One Solution: The Case For Intergenerational Housing | Atmos Retirees are sharing their homes with young people—and it could be a one-stop solution for rising rents, loneliness, and climate change.

Intergen. homesharing offers many benefits: reducing loneliness, supporting aging individuals, and enhancing housing affordability. It also fosters sustainable practices across generations. My niece Louisa, living in London, is featured in this story I am proud of her.

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Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a

Social media platforms TikTok and X ('For you') show evidence of substantial far-right bias in Germany ahead of Sunday's elections.

Study published by Global Witness and w/ important points about lack of transparency and data access in the article. #DSA #CommSky #AfD

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Opinion | Germany’s Far-Right Comeback (Gift Article) Germany’s attempts to “remember away” its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.

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Tübingen: Protest Against Right-Wing Extremism

After a heated Bundestag debate, the CDU’s migration law, reliant on AfD support, failed. In response, thousands protested against rising right-wing extremism, demonstrating civil society’s strong opposition to extremist ideologies.

Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’ Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers

Getting rid of 'under-performers' or an ideological purge? Shameless. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Facebook to ditch fact-checking: what do researchers think? Meta’s planned shift away from third party fact-checking in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

Nice article in Nature about what the research says about Meta's decision to stop their fact-checking program. My 2 cents;

“Studies provide very consistent evidence that fact-checking does at least partially reduce misperceptions about false claims.”

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As I wrote, this is why Zuck abandoned content moderation. He’s using Trump, not fearing Trump.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

The Moon Ain't Made of Green Cheese Billy Cobham · Total Eclipse · Song · 1974

Trump’s 34 felony charges ain’t going anywhere, just like the Moon ain’t made of green cheese—just a thought while jamming to my song of the day — open.spotify.com/intl-de/trac...

@catherinehapper.bsky.social, thank you for visiting Tübingen and delivering such an insightful talk on your new book, "The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age.“ What a stimulating exchange of ideas and thought-provoking discussions.

Manchester University Press - The construction of public opinion in a digital age The construction of public opinion in a digital age - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The construction of public opinion in a digital age by Catherine Happer

Finally! My new book, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age is out, order it here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180223/
It offers a new perspective on digital media & social change, connecting the dots between media engagement, socio-economic conditions & lived experience.

if you are interested in digital disconnection research, here is a mapping research of recent research firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

“I had to watch the commercial. That was annoying!” Audio-observing active parental mediation of advertising Active mediation is considered the gold standard mediation style for parents seeking to help their children cope with potentially harmful media content. However, little is known about what actually...

In this paper, we used our audio observation method to examine how parents and children talk about problematic media content such as advertising.
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We have developed a board game on the topic of advertising and sent it to families together with a dictation machine in order to analyze the conversation transcripts afterwards. This paper describes this methodological approach to audio observations

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Frontiers | Exploring print media coverage of elite athletes’ mental illness between 2010 and 2023 in Germany: a quantitative content analysis ObjectivesRecently, the stereotype of elite athletes' invulnerabilty has begun to be challenged by an increasing number of elite athletes who talk openly abo...

Here are some things I have been working on – like this project with my wonderful colleagues from sport science: media coverage of elite athletes’ mental illness between 2010 and 2023 in Germany.

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