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icasecac.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Going to ICA? Join the SECAC's Bluesky Workshop on building a long-term research agenda! Friday June 5 at 4-6pm - CTICC Ballroom East.

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Join the @icamobile.bsky.social's Student + Early Career Scholar Lunch at #ICA26! On Saturday at 12pm (6 June), we'll meet at the Bartolomeu Dias statue 🗽, stop for food at Woolworth's 🍽️ + chat at a nearby fountain ⛲ @icahdq.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social

#ICA26 #MobileComm #Events

STUDENT AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLAR LUNCH

6 June 2026 12pm

We will MEET at the
Bartolomeu Dias statue,
stop for FOOD at Woolworth’s and
CHAT at a nearby fountain

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📣 Extension of Deadline for Travel Grants Applications! We invite applications for travel grants from ICA attendees without sufficient funding. These grants are especially directed at students and junior scholars from Tier B/C. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The persuasive impact of AI chatbots on voters. The effects found are large but likely also an effect of the design. Regardless, AI is part of election campaigns now. My comments include reference to recent @algosoc.org data @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

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AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mean for democracy?

Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but it seems that AIs rely on facts to influence people

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Fabulous online seminar organized by @algosoc.org Algorithmic Effects on #Elections: Using Social Media Data Donations to Study Elections 🗓️ Fri 12 Dec, 14:00–15:30 CET @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @antmandan.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social Registration ⬇️ algosoc.org/events/algos...

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AlgoSoc Seminar Series: Algorithmic Effects on Elections: Using Social Media Data Donations to Study Elections | AlgoSoc

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 26/11/2025

We’ve assembled a stellar line-up of scholars to discuss how digital trace data donations can help us study elections across a wide variety of platforms and contexts! @claesdevreese.bsky.social @favstats.eu @algosoc.org Register here and join: lnkd.in/eUZZDCk4

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 29/10/2025

10% of surveyed Dutch citizens told us they are likely to ask AI for election advice. They shouldn't! This is especially problematic as we know that the people who usually consult advice applications are undecided and are doing so right before casting their vote. algosoc.org/results/1-in...

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1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...

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1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 11/10/2025

Our CampAIgn Tracker got featured in this brilliant piece of investigative journalism by @groene.nl. They reveal the prompts behind an extremely disturbing AI-powered campaign by Dutch politicians that we find is one of the top producers & spreaders of AI-generated content in this election #tk2025.

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 11/10/2025

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden. 👉 buff.ly/MFNFcU3

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 11/10/2025

🚀 And this marks our launch of the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱! @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & other actors during the election #tk2025 See here www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 11/10/2025

If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can. See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here: www.campaigntracker.nl/en/ #tk2025

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/08/2025

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

President @realDonaldTrump showing President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hat 🤣🇺🇸

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🚀 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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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut! Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread

Book cover for “The Psychology of Attack Politics"

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 07/08/2025

As GPT-5 announcement is underway, know that a majority of Dutch people already make use of ChatGPT (and similar Gen AI models), 43% percent even say they use it "often" (5-7 on our 1-7 scale) -> the graph below

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 10/08/2025

For your correlation ≠ causation collection

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 10/08/2025

We've been tracking the rise of ChatGPT use in the Netherlands! Our third update of the AI Opinion Monitor shows a meteoric rise in use amongst youth, with 43% reporting to use it regularly. Check it out yourself: monitor.algosoc.org

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AlgoSoc AI Opinion Monitor

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 26/06/2025

Data we are collecting with @algosoc.org in the Netherlands shows similar and even starker trends and age gaps. Everyone is using ChatGPT more. But 82% of 18-29 year olds now report having used in the past year whereas a still sizeable but comparatively lower amount of 65+ year olds have (19%).

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 26/06/2025

Honoured to have been awarded this year's ASCoR Baschwitz Faculty Article of the Year award for my work with Mykola Makhortykh and Silke Adam! Check out the paper, "Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait", below!

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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

Alexandra Schwinges receives ASCoR Baschwitz Young Scholar Award

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics? Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social. Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues. 🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️) www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

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Digital Democracy Fellowship x TrygFonden Fellowship Program

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Dominik Hokamp @dominikhokamp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Another windowless room (but this time way bigger) in which I got to present first preliminary findings on how strategic politicians can *actually* be about their emotions in election campaigns 📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 16/06/2025

@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Happening now #ICA25: @ernesto-deleon.com presenting work on influencer-hyperpartisan info networks. Shows the importance of sourcing and linking to a wider variety of sources, all serving to propagate anti-system narratives. Awesome stuff by these colleagues! Right up my alley. 👏

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Zilin Lin @linzilinn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

And I am finally on Bluesky 🥳!!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level. I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

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Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Thank you so much for the kind words Ernesto! If any of you are interested in the work, you can find a summary thread here: bsky.app/profile/nico...

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

PhD or Postdoc looking at the grim job market? Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson. Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

A huge congratulations to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for winning this year's 2025 Kaid Sanders @polcomm.bsky.social article of the year award! #ica25 Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 13/06/2025

A funny detail from @anjabechmann.bsky.social's study using YouTube data donation, showing that participants in Denmark were heavily Rickrolled 😅 #ica25

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 13/06/2025

This year's #ica25 hackathon was a blast! A huge thank you to @hackingcommsci.bsky.social for making it a reality! With 13 other great participants, we explored +2 million of Telegram messages around the 2024 US election. I can really recommend checking out the data! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset | Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 13/06/2025

Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!) Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#hackica25 at #ica25 is in full swing. One of my favourite events of the year. A room full of nerds working on data and tools, learning new things and having fun 🤓

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Welcome to #hackica25 & #ica25 everyone! We‘re starting the morning with our project pitches. Big thanks to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for designing our awesome stickers again! 💛🧡❤️

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Chiara Valli @chiaravalli.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🚨 Join Our Team We're looking for a PhD / Post-doc in Political Communication with possibility of joining a project on how feelings of being “left behind” shape political info use, focusing on social identity and identity threats. Start: September 1 or by agreement Duration: 3 years Apply now! 🔬✨

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆 📚 Best Book The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵

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The Illiberal Public Sphere

This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 21/05/2025

Do people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises? Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them! Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1080/1058...

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 19/05/2025

Hot off the press! Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!) With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 25/04/2025

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 25/04/2025

We are looking for a research assistant to help us develop tools to make dashboards easier for social scientists to create 🤩 If you are really into R and passionate about data and science communication, please apply!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 10/04/2025

Fascinating reflections on "Europe's digital agenda in a polarised world" in @algosoc.org closing panel with @natalihelberger.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Peter-Paul Verbeek and Tamar Sharon

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 07/04/2025

Excited to moderate this AI and Journalism panel at the @algosoc.org conference "The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others! Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr

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