iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

✨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/...

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky. 🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci 👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social

Team of researchers of the CSS unit at LMU Munich

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 14/11/2024

For our new project "Fostering Proactive Replicability in Computational Communication Science via Frontloading Effort and Automating Protocols" within @meta-rep.bsky.social , @marhai.bsky.social and I are looking for a Ph.D. student: rrr.is/repccs2job Deadline: Dec 6, 2024 Start: March 1, 2025

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Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

New paper with @marhai.bsky.social out: „Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies" 👉 Article: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view... 👉 Supplement with Preregistered Report, Data, Code, etc: osf.io/vfazc

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Can We Get Rid of Bias? Mitigating Systematic Error in Data Donation Studies through Survey Design Strategies | Computational Communication Research

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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

@marhai.bsky.social and @jajuenger.bsky.social & Chantal Gärtner have written books about Computational Communication Science #ccs #css. @mscharkow.bsky.social and I think they are good; go read them or give them to your German students. Also, please don't publish (exclusively) with springer.com.

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Haim, Mario: Computational Communication Science: Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien 2023. 358 Seiten. Preis: € 34,99.

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Jünger, Jakob/Gärtner, Chantal: Computational Methods für die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien 2023. 462 Seiten. Preis: Open Access.

Mario Haim sowie Jakob Jünger und Chantal Gärtner haben fast zeitgleich Lehrbücher veröffentlicht, die „Computational“ im Titel tragen. Computational Communication Science (CCS) und ihre Forschungsmethoden sind im Kern der Kommunikationswissenschaft angekommen. Bereits Bachelor-Studierende sollen von den Grundlagen der CCS gehört haben und möglichst niedrigschwellige Angebote erhalten, um sich in den Methoden auszuprobieren. Den Autor:innen der beiden Lehrbücher gebührt uneingeschränkter Respekt dafür, sich der Herausforderung gestellt zu haben, ein neues Lehrbuch und damit auch ein Curriculum für CCS zu ..."

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 27/03/2024

Er war einer der führenden Köpfe der Verhaltensforschung: Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben. In seinem Werk erklärte er, warum Menschen sich entgegen den Annahmen oft nicht rational verhalten.

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Daniel Kahneman: Ökonom und Nobelpreisträger ist tot

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CCS Pod @ccspod.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

In our new episode, we discuss the impact of digital media on well-being with @dougaparry.bsky.social. We look in particular at measuring media use and the new opportunities offered by digital data and CCS methods, but also the challenges involved. Listen here: t1p.de/ogbna

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Thomas Hanitzsch @thanitzsch.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication @LMU_Muenchen Application deadline: May 2, 2024 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

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Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Communication with a Focus on Strategic Communication

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

We are super happy to have you on board, Jana! First episodes on #aBitOfCCS with Jana are also already online.

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Join us in Vienna! 3-year PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods. Exciting collaboration awaits in the H2020project CIDAPE! Apply until: January 9, 2024 Job starts: March 1, 2024 Questions welcome via email! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/75-PhD-p...

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75% PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods

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Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Excited to present the 1st edition of our School "Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities"! 13-17 May 2024 in the beautiful Villa del Grumello, Lake Como (see pic!) With a stellar team of organizers and lecturers! More info: css.lakecomoschool.org

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Surely, you've seen this already but www.threads.net is now also available in the EU.

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Note that this awesome special issue is not only entirely open access but that it also CONTINUES in SCM's upcoming issue with two bonus "tracks" (papers!)

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Fake news and the hybrid media system as well as malicious language online -- interesting phenomena we package under the umbrella term of (in quotation marks) "'contemporary' news". @jolukito.bsky.social guides us through these phenomena in our recent podcast episode! 📻🎧

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

And what a great contribution this is -- thanks Annemarie!

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Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

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Simon Lübke @simonluebke.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Unser erster Bericht zur #COP28🌏 ist online! Darin geben @joerghassler.bsky.social @marhai.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social und ich Einblicke in Inhalte, die während der ersten Tage der Klimakonferenz auf Instagram, Facebook, TikTok und YouTube gepostet wurden: klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/co...

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COP28 – KLIMA-MEMES

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Simon Lübke @simonluebke.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

We had the pleasure of having Betsi Grabe from IU Bloomington with us @ifkw.bsky.social to work on the bidt-funded research project KLIMA-MEMES. Thank you Betsi for your visit and a great talk on "The Implications of Visual Primacy for Climate Messages". 👉 klimamemes.ifkw.lmu.de/index.php/ne...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

It's (soon) all about data access! 133 responses to the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data access were submitted. Paddy Leerssen summarises the submissions; what are researchers’ data access needs? DSA commsky csssky polcomm digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

Digital Services Act: Summary report on the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data ac...

Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) or search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic ...

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

The events around Sam Altman's removel from OpenAI are unfolding and escalating quicker than an AI could create a similar storybook. Luckly, Wikipedia keeps track: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal...

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Removal of Sam Altman - Wikipedia

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laSchönau @birgitschoenau.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Aller Protest der Zivilgesellschaft hat nicht geholfen. Die Schließung der Goethe-Institute in Italien, Frankreich - aber auch in Washington ist beschlossene Sache. Um 24 Millionen Euro einzusparen. Welch Borniertheit, welch bodenlose Dummheit.

sueddeutsche.de

Schließung der Goethe-Institute besiegelt: Wie man Europa zersägt

Verheerend: Nach der Neuausrichtung der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik durch Annalena Baerbock beschließt Berlin endgültig das Aus für etliche Goethe-Institute.

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Department of Media and Communication | LMU Munich @ifkw.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Über 200 Absolvierende aus vier Studiengängen wurden heute feierlich verabschiedet - mit einem lachenden und einem weinenden Auge. Wir hoffen, Sie bleiben uns erhalten und wünschen Ihnen nur das Beste für Ihre Zukunft! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17/11/2023

Friday afternoon shocker: Sam Altman is out as CEO of OpenAI for deceiving the company board. Is there a scandal about the drop that they’re trying to get ahead of?

theverge.com

Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

Mira Murati will be the interim CEO.

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Our podcast @ccspod.bsky.social is also here, now. And we have a new episode, together with Christian Baden, in which we discuss how nasty some places of online debate could become, why this is important for our research, and how we can tackle that, both theoretically and methodologically.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Interesting - partially randomising grant awarding increases diversity of awardees ‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of awardees and institutions given funding www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...

thebritishacademy.ac.uk

‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of...

Early results from an innovative new trial in how the British Academy awards its Small Research Grants suggests that introducing partial randomisation into the selection process could lead to a more e...

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Thomas Hanitzsch @thanitzsch.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Welcome to the other side, LMU Department of Media and Communication! @ifkw.bsky.social

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

It was a pleasure having you!

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Science Magazine coverage: "Preregistering, transparency, and large samples boost psychology studies’ replication rate to nearly 90%" www.science.org/content/arti...

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Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Vor 25 Jahren starb Niklas Luhmann, der wohl kreativste deutsche Soziologe der Nachkriegszeit. Hier erinnern Dirk Baecker, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Alexander Kluge, Maren Lehmann und Rudolf Stichweh an ihn und ergründen die Aktualität seines Denkens.

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Niklas Luhmann zum 25. Todestag: Die Freiheiten des Außenseiters - WELT

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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

🚨 #JobAlert! Are you an expert in political communication and journalism? Do you have a passion for research and education? Join ASCoR and become our new full professor in this field. 📆 The deadline is December 5. Visit the website for more information ➡️ vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Full...

The picture shows a background that fades from a dark turquoise color on the left to green on the right. On the bottom left, there is a drawing of a hand holding a megaphone in orange, lila, blue and green colors. Above this illustration a tooltip is visible in green, with a black line that seems to be floating over it. The balloon states (in white): "We're hiring: full professor political communication & journalism".

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Yet another paper casts doubt upon the YouTube algorithmic radicalization theory. It still can't rule out emergent effects, IMHO, but it adds to an increasingly strong pile of evidence that algorithms are not the key driver of polarization (at least in the U.S.). dcknox.github.io/files/LiuEtA...

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

"Alle Menschen sind spezifisch diskriminiert – nur wenn Gewalt gegen Juden passiert, dann reicht schnöder, allgemeiner Weltschmerz als Reaktion." Lesenswerte Analyse von Anna Mayr bei www.zeit.de/2023/44/poli...

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Jan Eggers @janeggers.tech · 22/10/2023

Der Sohn einer Radiolegende hat das erste deutsche #ki Radio programmiert. Es kommt völlig ohne Menschen aus und übertrifft die amerikanische Konkurrenz. Ich habe mir von ihm erklären lassen, wie es funktioniert - neu im Blog. www.janeggers.tech/eeblog/2023/...

janeggers.tech

Radio Helgoland: Wenn die KI (und nur die KI) Radio macht | janeggers.tech - The future's so bright,...

Der Sohn einer Radiolegende hat ein Radio ohne Menschen gebaut, das erstaunlich gut funktioniert - mit simulierten Redakteuren und Stimmen.

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Dabei sollte man als "Protagonist*in" aber auch nicht vergessen, dass Europa für X noch nie der große Markt war.

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Commission recommends Member States to fast-track DSA governance to enhance response to illegal online content ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Periodic reminder for folks working on German politics and using #rstats : The #Bundestag deployed an API about a year ago. {tidybundestag} is your new friend to query all sorts of parliamentary documents and metadata. github.com/benjaminguin...

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

This is a friendly pointer to @ccspod.bsky.social so that, when you're moving from X to over here, you can easily find your favorite scientific podcast :) Also, don't forget to follow @emesedomahidi.bsky.social, the greated co-host on earth!

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Do social media algorithms affect segregation in the U.S.? It's complicated: + Yes, partly, said a range of articles in Science and Nature earlier this year. - Not really, says @solmg.bsky.social now in an open letter in Science. ~ Oh, but yes, say some of the original authors in a response.

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 14/10/2023

Based on the findings in the project by @marhai.bsky.social and me on replicability in computational communication science, I would very much assume that comm is not faring any better than sociology #commsky #openscience #reproducibility #replicability

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Election results in for ICA 🗳️ Congratulations to our new President Elect Select, Thomas Hanitzsch. Huge 🙏🏽 to everyone who ran and volunteered time and energy to the Association. Commsky All results ⬇️ www.icahdq.org/page/Electio...

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Thanks @marhai.bsky.social - super helpful summary. I use the opportunity to re-up our policy paper that also shows what researchers need to hold platforms accountable: doi.org/10.34669/wi.... 🤞DSA will indeed be the sharp sword that @thierrybreton.bsky.social makes it look like right now.

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What the Scientific Community Needs from Data Access under Art. 40 DSA: 20 Points on Infrastructures...

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

With EU commissioner @thierrybreton.bsky.social 's open letters to X/TikTok reminding them of their duties, I thought it might be helpful to some to re-iterate recent legal changes to platforms and, yes, scholars. 1/🧵

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Mario Haim @marhai.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Has the #commsci / #ccs / #css / #ica / #dgpuk community now decided on bluesky? Transaction costs from X are so high(*) I don't want to invest them yet another time. (*) What happened to this portability aspect in the GDPR. Wasn't that supposed to lower said transaction costs for individuals?

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