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M. Saïd H. Unger

@mshu.bsky.social
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Research Assistant at the Online Communication Lab in Münster

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New #rstats 📦: mediacloud2 (happy about name recommendations). Since the exitsting R packages were stale and I needed data, I wrote a new package. MediaCloud is an amazing resource for getting news media data, especially if you rehydrate the articles (e.g., through paperboy).
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MediaCloud API (v4) Wrapper
A simple wrapper for version 4 of the MediaCloud API, which provides programmatic access to the MediaCloud archive of online news content (<https://www.mediacloud.org>).
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ECREA Communication & Democracy section @ecreacomdem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#ecc2026 kicking off right now! We're so excited for these next days of presentations! ✨ Tag us @ecreacomdem.bsky.social with pics and updates on the conference 🔥
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 18/06/2026
Expert on online communication @thorstenquandt.bsky.social aims to use his ERC grant to discover how online groups function, how their values can break down and how they can create a toxic, dangerous community. #NoToHate @uni-muenster.de 👇 buff.ly/A4EIvdN
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Portrait Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt - Twelve months, twelve people - June
Porträts 2025 Broschüre Zwölf Monate, zwölf Menschen
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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hello, Game Studies/Video Game scholars or developers with an interest in games scholarship! I'm looking for one or two *very very very* quick turnarounds for a manuscript with @gpccomm.bsky.social.
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Posting live from stage at #ica26 where I present our #rstats 🎁 {atrrr} which can interact with 🦋
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#ICA26 FOMO Post Nr. 3 - The finale As the 76th conference of the @icahdq.bsky.social comes to a close, it is time for one last presentation promotion 👇
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#ICA26 FOMO Post Nr. 2: Today @ree-flx.bsky.social presents our poster on over 40 years of research on video games. Together with @thorstenquandt.bsky.social we mapped sociel scientific games research since 1980 with a focus on changes in the field.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#ICA2026 FOMO Post Nr. 1: Today my colleague Johanna Klapproth will present a study in the "All about Tiktok" session of the PolComm division
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🔊 The magnificent @ddc-sdu.bsky.social x TrygFonden Fellowship Program is open, seeking the 2027 cohort 🚀 3 types of fellowships: 1️⃣ academic 2️⃣ journalist 3️⃣ policy fellows 🗓️ deadline September 1 Read the call for details and instructions 🚨🚨Spread the word 🚨🚨 www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
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Digital Democracy Centre x TrygFonden Fellowship Program
Digital Democracy Centre x TrygFonden Fellowship Program
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Shangyuan Wu @shangyuanwu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Happy to see our article on #alternativemedia in #Journalism, analyzing how "alternativeness" varies in Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Middle East! Part of a wonderful collab with @thorstenquandt.bsky.social & @mshu.bsky.social from @uni-muenster.de. To read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📣 Publication Alert: tinyurl.com/genaianddesi... In the book chapter "Generative AI and Disinformation", @thorstenquandt.bsky.social, Johanna Klapproth, @zwizwasvens.bsky.social and I use the concept of dark participation to systematically examine how GenAI can be used for nefarious purposes.
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Generative AI and Disinformation | 9 | A Systematic Examination of Cha
The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) has fundamentally transformed the dynamics of public communication, offering both unprecedented opportunities and profound
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Kateryna Maikovska 🇺🇦 @maikovska.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@anniewald.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social, and I present at the Long Night of Research!⚛️ How do social issues compete for public attention?🤔 You will learn via playing with an agent-based model 🤖🎲 langenachtderforschung.at/station/5656 📍24.04, 5-11 PM 📍Stand C04, Main Building of @univie.ac.at
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Wie konkurrieren soziale Themen um öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung
Warum setzen sich manche Themen in der Öffentlichkeit durch – während andere rasch verschwinden? An dieser Station interagieren Sie mit einer Computersimulation und erfahren, wie Aufmerksamkeit in soz...
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Felix Reer @ree-flx.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The editorial of the second volume of our special issue on “The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming” in Frontiers has been published. The collection includes 10 great articles, all published open access! www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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Frontiers | The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming, volume II
This is the second Research Topic of a series. The first volume can be found here. In public debates, and among certain strands of scholarship, digital games...
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ZeMKI @zemki.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join the online info session on the 3rd of March to get informed and ready to join the Masters program for Digital Media and Society at the University of Bremen! Click here to parttake in the Q&A session: uni-bremen.zoom-x.de... Or here, for more information: zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📢Publication alert 📢 LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs! Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!
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Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research
The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...
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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
First DDC Brown Bag Lunch talk of 2026: This Thursday (Feb 19th), @curdknupfer.bsky.social and @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social present ideas and ongoing research on "Connective Factions". If you are at SDU, grab some lunch and join us in Dynamo, at 12!
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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩 The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society. Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles! The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
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Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre
Application deadline: February 15th, 2026, 23:59 CET/CEST.
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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 15/01/2026
New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025" doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
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GESIS-Suche
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Studies in Communication and Media (SCM) @scmeditor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Identifying #SyntheticDisinformation: @nilsvief.bsky.social, @boesch.bsky.social, @mshu.bsky.social, Johanna Klapproth, @zwizwasvens.bsky.social, @thorstenquandt.bsky.social, & @christianstoecker.de investigated detection strategies of German elite actors. doi.org/10.5771/2192...
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Studies in Communication and Media (SCM) @scmeditor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We’re kicking off the year with the announcement of our 2025 special issue on how #SyntheticMedia challenge epistemic institutions. Many thanks to Alexander Godulla and @cphoffmann.bsky.social for their excellent work as guest editors. doi.org/10.5771/2192...
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Stine Eckert @stineeckert.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Such important work! Men across the globe publish around 40% of articles in communication and get almost 60% of the citations. Women publish almost 60% but get only a little over 40% of the citations. This gap has remained almost constant since 2000. #frozen #comsky academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...
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Authors’ gender and productivity as predictors of reciprocal dynamics in publications and citations in communication
Abstract. Gender bias in academic publishing and citation practices in communication has been discussed extensively, yet the link between the two remains p
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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
📢 New #OpenAccess! Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others? #RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”! ➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037 image.png
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Professors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Abstract. Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scient
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
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Collecting TikTok Data
Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
What gets professors into the media? 📢 New open access publication in @europeansocreview.bsky.social together with Raphael Heiberger from @s7css.bsky.social and @bashofstra.bsky.social! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Professors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Abstract. Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scient
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
📣 Come work with us!
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Max Zehring @maxzehring.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
✨ New open-access paper ✨ We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics. Full paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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The language similarity between corona protest mobilizers on Telegram and German politicians on Twitter
Protest movements against COVID-19 containment measures, like Germany’s Querdenken, aim to put their position on the political agenda. The German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) acted...
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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
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Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
😅 Late to share this one (summer + other projects got in the way), but this #aBitOfCCS episode with @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social is too good to skip. How do you measure something as complex as uncertainty in political speech? 🎙️ 🎧 Listen here: aboutccs.net/abitofccs/ #PoliticalSpeech #CSS
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#aBitOfCCS – What is it about CCS
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Serge Poliakoff @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My first academic paper is out (open access). It's a study of the organisation of Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group, based on a dataset of 818 CVs of its employees downloaded shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. doi.org/10.1080/1075... The main findings are in the thread below.
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Trolls Behind the Mask of Journalists: How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot Media Group Was Organized
The Patriot Media Group, sponsored by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Kremlin’s “troll farm,” represents a distinct type of media organization that does not fit any of the contemporary Russia...
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
✨New Publication in JEPOP✨ How do societal stakeholders understand and detect disinformation? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Features of disinformation: an expert interview study on the perception of disinformation among political, governmental, media and business elites in Germany
To curb the spread of disinformation, societal decision-makers are working intensively on the design of effective intervention strategies. Primarily elites from the sectors of politics, administrat...
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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Still confused, but uber-happy. The news came out right after #ICA25 has ended: The European Research Council #ERC has awarded me an ERC Advanced Grant! Project DANCE on "Dark Nerd Communities" runs for 5 years with 2.5 million Euros funding. Immensely grateful! erc.europa.eu/.../erc-2024...
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EU-Forschungsrat zeichnet Thorsten Quandt mit Advanced Grant aus
Der Kommunikationswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt von der Universität Münster erhält einen mit 2,5 Millionen Euro dotierten „ERC Advanced Grant“ des Europäischen Forschungsrats. Mit dieser F...
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Universität Münster @uni-muenster.de · 17/06/2025
Der Kommunikationswissenschaftler Prof. Thorsten Quandt erhält einen mit 2,5 Mio. € dotierten „ERC Advanced Grant“ des Europäischen Forschungsrats. Damit wird er in den kommenden 5 Jahren erforschen, wie bestimmte Online-Gruppen, die vorw. aus jungen Männern bestehen, zu gefährlichen Milieus werden.
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EU-Forschungsrat zeichnet Thorsten Quandt mit Advanced Grant aus
Der Kommunikationswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt von der Universität Münster erhält einen mit 2,5 Millionen Euro dotierten „ERC Advanced Grant“ des Europäischen Forschungsrats. Mit dieser F...
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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 16/06/2025
@jbgruber.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com argue that as data become more difficult to collect (no APIs, scraping more difficult) we need to share existing data more. And how non-consumptive research is a way to do that without goi g to jail! #ica25
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
You want to study German covid-19 protests? @maxzehring.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social and @buehling.bsky.social got you covered with their dataset! #ica25
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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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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Happening now #ica25: how high is the quality of the data you get from the TikTok research API? @mshu.bsky.social , me, @zwizwasvens.bsky.social, Johanna Klapproth, and @thorstenquandt.bsky.social have an answer: it's bad!
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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It's the last day of #ICA25! We hope you'll join us at today's Computational Methods panels. We're looking forward to sessions on polarization, data access, and sentiment
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
For example, for this panel at 10:30 where @mshu.bsky.social will present our audit of the TikTok Research API and I will talk about non-consumptive research in #commsky (#ica25)
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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Today at #ica25 - panel "Retrospectives on 30 years of digital transformation in the journalism industry and media policy". Interview study with retired top managers and editors. With @hermida.bsky.social, Helle Sjovaag, Raul Ferrer, Mary Lynn Young. CU at Centennial B Regency 3 at 1.30 p.m.
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How can you test effects of platform mechanics? One option is to build your own social network 😎. @damiantrilling.net and colleagues did just that and populated the platform with LLMs and real people! #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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Lorcan Neill @lorcancneill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Had a fantastic time at my first hackathon learning lots of new things from some amazing researchers! #hackica25 #ica25
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The best start into a conference 😎
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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Institute of Communication Studies at @uni-muenster.de very busy at #ICA25 with 23 presentations. Overview here: www.uni-muenster.de/Kowi/en/mitt... My first presentation is on Friday in the 25 years retrospective panel of the journals Journalism Studies and Journalism. 😇 CU there.
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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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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
On the way to #ICA25. Team members @mshu.bsky.social, Sofie Beisemann and me will present seven papers, ranging from interviews studies with retired media managers to religious fringe groups on the internet. Also, some disinfo stuff. CU there!
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Pro tips #ica25 & Bluesky: 1️⃣ Pin the feed below (👍 @vkarnowski.bsky.social) 2️⃣ SHARE stuff, no algorithmic amplification so if you see something colleagues should see, SHARE it ♾️ 3️⃣ Be considerate when sharing research, get presenter consent 👏 Share this msg 🦋 Go #ica25 🚀 bsky.app/profile/did:...
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Arrived yesterday in Denver for #ICA25 and already look forward to #hackica25 in Boulder (although not to the early busride...).
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