Reposted by Judith MoellerJakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Happening now @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 153
Reposted by Judith MoellerNicolas Mattis @nickmattis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025New paper on algorithmic gatekeeping & news engagement out at JOC! Lucien Heitz, @masurphil.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com & me ran a 1-week long field experiment to test if we can nudge people to read (and learn from) environmental news. doi.org/10.1093/joc/...doi.orgNudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does notAbstract. News aggregators inherently constitute choice architectures in which placement and presentation of news articles in the user interface affect how 0153
Reposted by Judith MoellerAEJMC-CTM (Communication Theory and Methodology Division) @aejmc-ctm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025🔍📰 "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.... 056
Reposted by Judith MoellerMichael V. Reiss @mvreiss.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Auf der @dgpuk2025.bsky.social habe ich Ergebnisse unseres Projekts zur Nutzung generativer KI für politische Informationen gezeigt. Dazu wurde nun auch der Projektbericht vorgestellt: leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/pre... 📚 mit Eva Knor, Ezra Stöwing, @lisamerten.bsky.social & @judith-moeller.bsky.socialleibniz-hbi.deNutzung und Wahrnehmung generativer KI zur Informationssuche in DeutschlandDas Forschungsprojekt “Generative künstliche Intelligenz für die Informationsnavigation” hat untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß, für welche Zwecke und aus welchen Gründen die deutsche Bevölkerung generativ... 0128
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social · 27/02/2025New leadership in Germany :-) leibniz-hbi.de/en/hbi-news/...leibniz-hbi.deJudith Möller Appointed to the Board of Directors at the HBIProf. Dr Judith Möller will be the new director of the HBI from March 2025. This was decided by the Institute's Board of Trustees on 20 January 2025. Judith Möller holds the Chair of Empirical Communi... 052
Reposted by Judith MoellerClaes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Who is exposed to what? Our #OpenAccess book (by Peter Neijens, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social forms the basis of a symposium at @ascor.bsky.social today with a dozen state of the art presentations. #CommSky Link to the free OA book ⬇️ library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha... 12712
Reposted by Judith MoellerHannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 12/12/2024@mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al., 2024 find algorithmic personalization alone doesn't lead to different political information when using search engines; results depend far more on the search query than search history 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/jcmc... @damiantrilling.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social 23211
Reposted by Judith MoellerJournalism Studies VU Amsterdam @journstudiesvu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024🚨New pub🚨 @feloe.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social @damiantrilling.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com used digital trace data to estimate the long tail of news consumption, beyond major journalism sources. Their new(s) taxonomy helps avoid blindspots in news diversity doi.org/10.1177/1464... 0146
Reposted by Judith MoellerClaes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 24/11/2024On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱 On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans. A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve. @woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky 08649
Reposted by Judith MoellerManuel Puppis @manuelpuppis.ch · 23/11/2024Im Namen des gesamten Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Instituts: Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wohl verdient, seriös vorbereitet und dringend nötig. www.hamburg.de/politik-und-...hamburg.deHans-Bredow-Institut erhält umfangreiche Förderung von Bund und Ländern Mit dem Beschluss der Gemeinsamen Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK) erhält das Hamburger Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in den Jahren 2026 bis 2029 zusätzliche Mittel in ... 151
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Exciting news. The Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut received a significant, structural strategic increase in funding to expand our research and transfer activities. www.hamburg.de/politik-und-...hamburg.deHans-Bredow-Institut erhält umfangreiche Förderung von Bund und Ländern Mit dem Beschluss der Gemeinsamen Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK) erhält das Hamburger Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in den Jahren 2026 bis 2029 zusätzliche Mittel in ... 33411
Reposted by Judith MoellerDamian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 19/11/2024A perk of old Twitter was learning about new papers. Let's use the momentum #commsky has right now! 🚨New algorithm audit by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social Corine Meppelink and me shows that *how* you google matters more than your history: academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...academic.oup.comIt matters how you google it? Using agent-based testing to assess the impact of user choices in search queries and algorithmic personalization on political Google Search resultsAbstract. Search engines, as key sources of political information, have sparked concerns regarding selective exposure driven by user choices based on polit 0439
Reposted by Judith MoellerSenja Post @senjapost.bsky.social · 05/03/2024New study with Nils Bienzeisler. Based on experiments in three controversies, we show that an attitudinal polarization of trust in science can be mitigated when scientists adopt the styles of honest brokers versus that of epistocrats when giving public policy advice, i.e.... (1/2). 12514
Reposted by Judith MoellerJakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 28/02/2024We started the #DSA40Collaboratory Data Access Tracker to collect rejected, pending, and accepted data access requests under #DSA40 - please list your experience and share with colleagues widely @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social www.soscisurvey.de/DSA40applica... 21416
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social · 21/12/2023If you speak German and want to hear me talk about algorithms for 45 minutes, here is a recording of the talk I gave in Karlsruhe (KIT) in November: youtu.be/LfTFGnMpJDkyoutu.beFilterblasen oder Fringeblasen? Algorithmen und Online-Informationssuche (Prof. Dr. Judith Möller)Prof. Dr. Judith Möller ist Wissenschaftlerin im Bereich der Kommunikationswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt auf politische Kommunikation und die Einflüsse digi... 0143
Reposted by Judith MoellerGregor Wiedemann @grenwi.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Das neue M&K-Themenheft beschäftigt sich mit #Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit. Herausgegeben von mir, @janschmidt.bsky.social, Jan Rau, @flxvctr.bsky.social und Philipp Kessling. Als Open Access verfügbar. www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615... 0108
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social · 22/11/2023I gave my first academic keynote today at the MISDOOM conference. I was very nervous before I started and then very excited during the presentation. Thanks for being such a fantastic audience and a shoutout to my brilliant PhD students without whom I had nothing to talk about. 0200
Reposted by Judith MoellerDaniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023New article out today from me @snurb.bsky.social & @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues where we outline an extensible method stack for tracing link sharing practices on Facebook, to study the nature of problematic content throughout the platform journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…journals.sagepub.comComputational Communication Methods for Examining Problematic News-Sharing Practices on Facebook at ...Social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, have been clearly identified as important platforms for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation and r... 1146
Reposted by Judith MoellerCornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2023🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions. 21619
Reposted by Judith MoellerDaniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social · 24/09/2023missing algorithmically generated feeds or a feed of trending posts? 👇 excellent thread of replies by @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social delivering just that. helpful for us newbies 🐣: 1127
Reposted by Judith MoellerClaes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/09/2023🚨Job alert 🚨 We have 2️⃣ postdoc positions in our new interdisciplinary research priority area AI & Politics. We define both AI and politics broadly. Think 'impact of AI on politics' or 'politicisation of AI'. Please share.And apply by 🗓️ October 18 polisky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-... 03440
Reposted by Judith MoellerJakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · 23/09/2023Disinfo scholars, many of whom tracked both COVID-19 & 2020 election-rigging conspiracies are increasingly put under pressure. Meanwhile disinfo efforts from Russia/China have been increasing & leading platforms have decided to decrease content moderation. This is a very discouraging development.washingtonpost.comMisinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacksThe escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political disinformation but also the quality of medical informa... 043
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social · 23/09/2023The answer is: Not so blue if you forget your password. 020
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social · 23/09/2023Cautionary tale. I forgot my password and think support is a bit overwhelmed with the mass migration, so there is no way to get it back for the time being. So, hallo again :-) 030