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Christina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome to Cologne! #Methodentagung2026 hast begun. We are looking forward to two days with 48 presentations on computational opportunities & challenges in the measurement of media use and effects and general trends in methods research in communication research. @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think you can tell how much fun we had with this one! Easily one of the most interesting analyses and papers I’ve been part of.

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Naja, ich weiß, was du sagen willst, aber dieselben Spieler waren es ja nun nicht gestern? Mich hat gewundert, dass diese Mannschaft gegen die niederländische Mannschaft nicht (deutlich) verloren hat, die eher einer A-Elf entsprach. Ich würde mir an niederländischer Stelle Sorgen machen.

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Attend from anywhere online! 💻🌍 Learn from @lukotto.bsky.social and @klingelhoefer.bsky.social how to study people's behaviors and experiences in real time with smartphone-based data collection and multilevel modelling at the #GESISfallseminar. More infos & registration ➡️ t1p.de/MobileDataCo...

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science
Mobile Data Collection and Analysis: Intensive Longitudinal Methods
21 to 25 September 2026 | Online
Lukas Otto (GESIS) & Julius Klingelhoefer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

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Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We still have spots available for the @gesistraining.bsky.social Fall Seminar on Intensive Longitudinal Methods taught by @lukotto.bsky.social and me. Check it out here: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Results: 🧐Media skeptics used more online news, visited more varied outlets, and had broader news repertoires. 😠Media cynicism looked different: lower overall news exposure, less use of quality/mainstream news, and more news avoidance.

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We linked survey data with web-tracking data from 739 people during the 2021 German federal election. That means we could test whether skepticism and cynicism predict actual online news exposure, reducing the “survey predicts survey” common-method problem

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🧐 Skeptics say: “Journalists might make mistakes; show me more sources.” 😠Cynics say: “Journalists are rigged, the evidence is probably staged." While both have low levels of trust as measured by traditional items, the distinction matters!

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Results: 🧐 Media skeptics used more online news, more varied outlets, and had broader news repertoires. 😠 Media cynicism: lower overall news exposure, less use of quality/mainstream news, more news avoidance.

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We linked 📝 survey data with 💻 web-tracking data from 739 people during an election campaign. That means we could test whether skepticism and cynicism predict actual online news exposure, reducing the classic “survey predicts survey” common-method problem.

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Do people watch the news they do not trust? We tried to bring nuance to this question in a new paper (w Frank Mangold, Michaela Maier). Like others before us, we argue that “media distrust” comes in two flavors: skepticism and cynicism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Don't scroll past this opportunity! 👇 Registration is still open: t1p.de/MobileDataCo... 👀 Check also the interview with @lukotto.bsky.social & @klingelhoefer.bsky.social on mobile collection methods at t1p.de/Training-NL-...!

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our takeaway: Positive affect and political communication are neither uncommon nor unimportant. Political communication research should not only look at the negative side, especially happiness matters for attention and interest in political campaigns. 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Anger was strongly linked to narrow attention. Fear, however, seemed more related to avoidance. Positive emotions also mattered: happiness was associated with greater willingness to seek additional information. 😠😱😆😐

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Participants reported encounters with campaign communication for the 2021 German federal election in situ via mobile experience sampling: news, online content, campaign material, and interpersonal conversations - 40 days prior to the election, more than 20,000 measurement points. 📱📱📱📱

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🚨New publication Do emotions matter for attentional processes when dealing with political information? Yes, but it's complicated. In an experience sampling study during an election campaign, we examined how people reacted to campaign communication. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Angry and Alerted, Happy and Informed? An Experience Sampling Study on the Relationship Between Sentiment, Affect, and Attention Toward Campaign Communication - Lukas P. Otto, Fabian Thomas, Michaela ...

This study examines how emotional reactions to campaign communication relate to attentional processes and, ultimately, to general interest in a political campai...

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

How did "Die Toten Hosen" make it to your list? I know you're international and they were known beyond Germany in the 90s, but I'm genuinely curious? And that song hasn't been heard in DECADES...!

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...

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DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🔎 Capturing media use and related variables is a crucial task in #MediaPsychology, which can be supported by smartphone-based approaches.📲 Our Youth Representative @klingelhoefer.bsky.social will host a workshop on "Mobile Data Collection and Analysis" together with @lukotto.bsky.social this fall. 👇

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱 Yes! So much looking forward to this tomorrow. Thanks to @joebayer.bsky.social @mqrmobile.bsky.social and colleagues for putting together such a fantastic program! 📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Learn from @lukotto.bsky.social and @klingelhoefer.bsky.social how to study people's behaviors and experiences in real time with smartphone-based data collection and multilevel modelling at the #GESISfallseminar. More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/MobileDataCo... @gesis.org

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📣 Our April newsletter is out! 🤩 Registration for #GESISfallseminar is open. 🔍 Interview with @lukotto.bsky.social & @klingelhoefer.bsky.social on mobile collection methods. ✨ Updates on #GESISworkshops on causal inference methods + Call for Individual Training. 👀 ➡️ t1p.de/Training-NL-...

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open! 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 GESIS Mannheim or online More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program. @gesis.org

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026
🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026
📍 Mannheim or online

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 25/03/2026

#gutenachrichten #goodnews #evaluierung GESIS erhält sehr gute Bewertung bei der Leibniz-Evaluierung ^ Zur vollständigen Pressemeldung: t1p.de/heh2o Zum Wortlaut der Stellungnahme des Senats der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft: t1p.de/k87o9

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Polcom Vienna @polcomvienna.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

📄 📣 New #Data-DrivenCampaigning research led by @xiaotongchu.bsky.social w/ contributions from @solecheler.bsky.social & co-authors reviews evidence on effects and outlines a research agenda on message tailoring, voter awareness, cross-national contexts and more. 🔗 academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

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Effects of data-driven campaigning: an integrative framework, literature review, and research agenda

Abstract. The positive and negative consequences of data-driven campaigning (DDC) in the digital era have been hotly debated among policymakers and scholar

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Web tracking data has great potential for social science research 🚀 It also comes with its own challenges though! In this hands-on #GESISworkshop, you'll learn everything you need to know about preprocessing, handling, and analysing web tracking data. More infos at t1p.de/WebTrackingD...

GESIS Workshop
Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data
4 to 5 May 2026 (Hybrid: Cologne | Online)
Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Helena Rauxloh (all GESIS)

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Christina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics 👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation 📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote) is.gd/dYxJ9L

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Project Implicit is one of the longest-running data collection projects in social psychology. In addition to IATs, Project Implicit has been collecting data on visitors’ attitudes, explicit bias, and stereotypes for almost thirty years. Now it is in danger. I will be donating; I hope you will too.

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Corinna Oschatz @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀 One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social Thank you for sharing 🫶 Please reach out if you have any questions. @polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📖This is huge! Congrats to @alessandronai.bsky.social, @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and @maxgroemping.bsky.social on this success and the amazing resource for PolCom scholars. 📖 📱Also check out our (w Mareike Wieland) entry on experience sampling.📱

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

FULL PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY ...at the DDC and DIAS, here at the University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰 ...open to various disciplines, including law, economics, political science, communication, journalism, or AI. More info: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy

Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

*JOB* As part of the @assured.bsky.social project, we are searching for a person to work in our Secure Data Center team at @gesis.org to create safe researcher trainings. www.gesis.org/en/institute... The position is open until filled, so do not hesitate to reach our directly if you are interested!

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Social-Media-Daten zwischen Forschung und Infrastrukturen - nachhaltige Archivierung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung: An der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social finden vom 17.-19.03.2026 die Social Media Access Days statt. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 31.10.2025. www.dnb.de/DE/Professio...

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Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days

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GESIS Panel @gesis-panel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

On Monday September 22, Katharina Kraft, Maximilian Haag and @lukotto.bsky.social present the GESIS Panel.dbd, GESIS Surf and the GESIS AppKit in the workshop “Unlocking Digital Behavioral Data: New Frontiers in Web Tracking and App-Based Social Science Research”: www.conftool.com/dgskongress2...

GESIS Pre-Conference Workshop at the DGS Congress

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here is a list that @juliankohne.bsky.social Mareike Wieland, Charlotte de Alwis, and I started a while ago: toolreview.shinyapps.io/adapted_app/

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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The abstract submission for our special issue "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies" @cogitatiomac.bsky.social is now open! Submit your work on #data #archives and #tools! www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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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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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 @gesis.org · 17/07/2025

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Job Opening! We're seeking a Postdoc in Computational Social Science to join our team at GESIS! Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/ins...

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GESIS Panel @gesis-panel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Research by Joachim Piepenburg and @lukotto.bsky.social presented at the European Survey Research Conference 2025 www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2025/pro... #ESRA

Presentation: Measurement or intervention? On the promises and pitfalls of mobile intensive-longitudinal research designs

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Honored and thrilled for receiving the award from my „home division“. 🤩🤩🤩🤩

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

⚡️⚡️⚡️ Interested in… …negativity, incivility, intolerance? …comparative and experimental data on the perception and effects of attack politics? … personality, contextual influences? Get all this with a discount! 📚📚📚🤩🤩🤩

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 03/06/2025

#GESISGuides #DBD #DigitalBehavioralData Lux, V., & Wieland, M. (2025). How to Set up and Monitor App-based Data Collections (GESIS Guides to DBD, 22). doi.org/10.60762/ggd... This guide addresses that gap by offering practical recommendations to manage the active data collection phase.

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