Felicia Loecherbach

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

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Dutch election researchers rn

Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics" Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨

Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger

DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥

@polcomm.bsky.social

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How to map digital news sharing environment in multi-party systems? New preprint led by Felix Gaisbauer from @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social suggests a pipeline to arrive at a sharing cartography. Check it out!

🎉 We #congratulate ASCoR researchers @feloe.bsky.social, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, and @theoaraujo.bsky.social, along with other researchers, who have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to increase the sharing and reuse of digital trace data in a safe and ethical manner.

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher "Political Communication in the Aftermath of Democratic Elections" Are you looking for a postdoctoral position in political communication research? Are you interested in elections, media-politics relations and framing effects, and would like to become an expert on th...

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

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I’ll have to up my visualisation game I see 😉 coming up for the next presentation 💪

🔍📰 "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof et al. (@mariekevhoof.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net @judith-moeller.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social). Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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While Berlin transformed into a little winter wonderland I had the pleasure to teach a very interested group a thing or two about automated image analysis. Thanks for the invite @bachl.bsky.social !

Super excited to have @feloe.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today for our first DiMES workshop on automated image and video analysis. W/ @bcastanho.bsky.social @vivifabrien.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social

Study by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al.(2024) compares 5 methods for detecting political searches in browser histories: Zero-shot AI (like GPT) achieves highest recall but needs human validation for accuracy. Best approach is AI-human collaboration: use AI to filter searches, then human review. 🧪

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

✨Time for meta reflection✨

In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵

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

@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young people’s exposure to electoral campaigns content using a combination of data from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO) and YouTube data obtained via data donation using the software PORT

#ODISSEI2024

A truly exciting development in research on fx social media platform usage is data donations.

Great to see this featured at the @odissei.bsky.social conference with cutting edge work from Laura Boeschoeten, @feloe.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya, Ilya Fominykh & others.

#ODISSEI

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊

❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

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Yes, things you do as PhD student during covid times (everyone picked up a hobby, mine was coding websites…)

👇

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️

Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.

📆: deadline February 17!

fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky?

That's the research question I want to answer.

Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.

Everyone, please share the link.

Thanks!

forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG

The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.

Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.

It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.

A thread:

Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...

Based on dataset linking behavioral webtracking and 4 survey waves during 2022 Brazilian Presidential election, @reutersinstitute.bsky.social work led by
@camilambpp.bsky.social finds no evidence using partisan news changes polarization levels during the campaign and finds no effects on vote choice

🙋‍♀️

We made a (far from complete) Starter Pack of Assistant Professors in the Netherlands across all scientific disciplines:
go.bsky.app/AYBAKDp
If you want to be added (or removed), please reply to this post.
And while you are at it, consider joining APNet: ap-net.nl/register/

Disclosure of AI-Generated News Increases Engagement but Does Not Reduce Aversion, Despite Positive Quality Ratings

New version, with @emmahoes.bsky.social et al.

arxiv.org/abs/2409.035...

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...

1. Small AI models often perform better in context.

2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.

Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Steun ons in strijd voor hoger onderwijs! WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.

Ok folks in higher education, science and generally in 🇳🇱

Demonstration November 25, 13.00 Den Haag

Stop 🛑 the irrational and shortsighted cuts in highered and science 🛑

woinactie.blogspot.com/2024/11/steu...

Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X' His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."

AI is not always hallucinating…

Grok, owned by Musk, concludes:

“Based on various analyses, social media sentiment, and reports, Elon Musk has been identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X since he acquired the platform”

fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...