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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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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The full book "Outstanding Research in (Digital) Journalism Research edited by @oscarwestlund.bsky.social and Folker Hanusch will come out in November, you can check it out here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
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Outstanding Research in (Digital) Journalism Studies | Oscar Westlund,
This edited volume showcases a curated selection of award-winning research articles from 2014–2026, recognized for their exceptional contributions to the field
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
📣 Publication Alert @thorstenquandt.bsky.social and I had the pleasure to take a bibliometric look at the impact of awards in digital journalism research: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Rewarding Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of Awards across Journalis
Humans seem to love awards as proud symbols of recognition: the rooms of countless children are decorated with sports trophies, golden statues, and
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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
If you want to know more about the team and our other presentations check out our labs page 👉 www.uni-muenster.de/OCL/news/202...
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Preview: ICA26
At the annual conference of the International Communication Association, we present current research from a range of thematic areas. We have prepared an overview of all OCL presentations for you.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
While this topic does appear in alternative media research it is rarely explored on its own, which is why we believe a closer look at structures, content, actors, platform affordances and overall context is needed to understand and research what is often termed "esotericism" in online spaces.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Today @thorstenquandt.bsky.social will present a theoretical contribution by @annadavydova.bsky.social , me and himself on Patchwork Spiritual Groups that present themselves online in various contexts.
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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
If you want to know more about the team and our other presentations check out our labs page 👉 www.uni-muenster.de/OCL/news/202...
uni-muenster.de
Preview: ICA26
At the annual conference of the International Communication Association, we present current research from a range of thematic areas. We have prepared an overview of all OCL presentations for you.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The poster has pixels, a sword and insights into the development of topics such as educational games, videogames & gender, and violence & aggression in videogames. Say Hi to Felix and check out the poster from 1.30 PM at the Poster Session 😊
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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
And the correct hashtag seems to be #ICA26, so there you go 😅
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
So if you are at ICA check out her presentation at 9.00 today! 😊 If you want to know more about the team and our other presentations check out our labs page 👉 www.uni-muenster.de/OCL/news/202...
uni-muenster.de
Preview: ICA26
At the annual conference of the International Communication Association, we present current research from a range of thematic areas. We have prepared an overview of all OCL presentations for you.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Johanna, me and @thorstenquandt.bsky.social looked at how members of national parliaments in the EU use Tiktok as a platform and whether populist attitudes, political orientation and country context play a role in this.
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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
Also check out the thread by @bowmanspartan.bsky.social on the other chapters: bsky.app/profile/bowm...
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
To go at least a bit beyond the doom and gloom we argue that the same perspective may also help in researching and counteracting GenAI-powerde dark participation. The chapter and the full book (👉 tinyurl.com/provokinggen...) edited by Regina Luttrell and @bowmanspartan.bsky.social are open access!
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Provoking Generative AI Futures | Merging Theory and Praxis | Regina L
An accessible exploration of the myriad applications and challenges of generative AI for media and communication students, scholars, and practitioners
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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
Find out more about our theoretical resoning, the dataset and additional results in our open access full text here: 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 · 21/11/2025
The reputation of professors measured in prior citations has a significant effect on whether or not a professor is mentioned in the media, but not on the number of future media attention. Reputation might get you into the media but it may not keep you there.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Importantly, the cumulative advantage for the number of future media mentions is tronger for men than for women. Together with on average less mentions in the media for women which points to inequalities in media attention for women in science.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We find that having appeared previously in the media significantly increases the probability to appear in the media again and on average increases the number of future media mentions, lending strong support to a cumulative advantage effect of media appearences for professors.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Public outreach is ever more important for scientists, so we look at who actually appears in the media. For over 2000 German professors from the social sciences, we look at cumulative advantage, reputation and gender as possible effects on whether or not someone gets mentioned in legacy media.
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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
Our study highlights the awareness of disinformation across societal sectors as well as the importance of tailored approaches according to sectors and specific roles. Bringing expertise from different sectors together (where it doesn't happen already) could lead to better mitigation strategies.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Experts focusing on a single feature, experts focusing mostly on features of individual disinformation pieces, experts focusing mostly on features of disinformation campaigns and experts with a multidimensional perception of disinformation.
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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Drawing on their perception of features of individual features of disinformation and features of disinformation campaigns, we provide a typology of disinformation foci including four major types:
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