Fabian Prochazka

Our new Postdocs @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social & @hannahdecker.bsky.social plus our current fellows @fprochazka.bsky.social & Maryam Khaleghipour present their research programs.
Covering politician-influencers, targeted ads, views on climate change, & digital hate speech.

Und zu Fact-Checking die Arbeiten von Regina Cazzamatta: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

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Altay et al. (2023). Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

But: ChatGPT knows...

I like that metaphor for peer-review a lot! @gpccomm.bsky.social seems off to a good start! :)

Hier bin ich heute Nachmittag und freue mich schon jetzt auf die Projekte unserer Studierenden im BA Kommunikationswissenschaft!

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

The study has N=54 split in three groups. It basically has no power to detect the effects it seeks to detect.

I’m all for pre-published media engagement but this is not enough to get it outside of your own lab environment.

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They have bike lanes in roundabouts 🤯Biking is really something else when not almost getting hit by a truck every five minutes!

The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social is a great environment with really smart, friendly and engaging people - plus: Odense and Denmark are beautiful, so do apply for their fellowships!

Findings are based on survey data from political journalists in Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Full paper (open access) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This tendency to project is stronger among right-leaning journalists, but weaker when journalists are experts on a topic or think public opinion is ambiguous. Experience and audience orientation don’t seem to make much difference.

How do journalists estimate public opinion? 👀🧠
Our new paper in Journalism (w/ Karolin Soontjens, @kathleenbeckers.bsky.social, David Hopmann & @andreasschuck.bsky.social) shows that many rely on their own views. The more they agree with policy proposals, the more they assume the public does too.

👇 Und der Journalismus darf jetzt wieder aus dem Game-Frame rauskommen und sich inhaltlich mit der Koalition auseinandersetzen. Da gibt's genug zu tun

Congratulations, Emil! 🎉

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I am hiring :-). I look for a PhD student & a postdoc for my new Digital Lives team at the U of Basel. Looking for 2 who are excited to study our everyday digital lives with me in the next years.

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Danke an Nina Springer und Hans-Jürgen Bucher und natürlich die Herausgeber:innen für die vielen hilfreichen Kommentare zum Beitrag!

3️⃣ Wie steht es um die "tatsächliche" Qualität der Medien, gibt es den oft bedauerten Qualitätsverlust im Journalismus wirklich? (Spoiler: so pauschal nicht)
4️⃣ Wie nimmt das Publikum Qualität im Journalismus wahr und wie lassen sich falsche Wahrnehmungen erklären?

1️⃣ Was bedeutet Qualität im Journalismus eigentlich, was sind wichtige Kriterien für Qualität und wer stellt welche Qualitätsansprüche mit welchen Gründen?
2️⃣ Wie wird Qualität im Journalismus selbst diskursiv verhandelt, sichergestellt und kontrolliert?

Ich durfte ein Kapitel zu "Journalismus und Qualität" beisteuern und beleuchte journalistische Qualität darin aus Perspektive der Kommunikator-, Inhalts- und Publikumforschung. Es geht um vier Themen:

Dieser Tage in der Post: Das neue Handbuch Journalismusforschung von @thanitzsch.bsky.social Wiebke Loosen, und @annikasehl.bsky.social. Es ist ein mächtiger und umfassender Band mit vielen tollen Beiträgen geworden!

Of course, I hope it is used for good things, but if LLMs help people write, access knowledge or automate tedious tasks, I am glad my work helped.

What I publish is out there, and people or companies can use it to their advantage/profit. I don’t need to give permission or be aware of all the uses of my work (I don't even know how I could). It is part of human knowledge and others are free to use it.

My texts are constantly stripped of context and intention by *humans* who mis-cite my work, interpret it to fit their narrative and so on. But that is okay, it is part of knowledge spreads, and I probably do the same sometimes.

(Besides, as far as I know most AI companies actually don’t profit (yet), because it is staggeringly expensive to run these models, develop them, etc.)

Intellectual labor is constantly “absorbed into systems that generate value elsewhere". Taxpayer-funded Universities train students, and companies profit from their skills. Social media companies profit from user generated content, advertisers use research to make more effective ads…

Thank you for the thoughtful arguments! I see what you mean, and I agree with most of it. That said, I think a) much of what you describe isn’t unique to AI and b) I don’t necessarily see it as problematic.

Unpopular opinion but I don't really care. If a human uses my writing to learn something, I am happy. Why should I oppose to an AI learning from my writing?

Auch noch nicht gehabt: die Ordinärskala. #studentsatwork

Das klingt ja toll, herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏

Gute Truppe für die anstehenden Koalitionsverhandlungen in Bonn!