iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you believe in love at first cite?

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear Doug, there has been an update :)

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 Important #ICA27 update for colleagues planning to submit: you can now be designated as presenter on up to THREE submissions 🎊

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Shinyi Kang @shinyikang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi! After a year+ of Bluesky dormancy, I’m making my first post. I’ll be aperiodically sharing thoughts and reposting things I find interesting, especially around digital creativity, AI, and well-being. First up: a piece published yesterday on how we think and talk about 'AI slop'

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‘AI slop’ hides the conversations we should be having - npj Artificial Intelligence

The term “AI slop” hides conversations we need to have. When we call something “AI slop,” we’re often doing more than complaining about one output. Optimists use the term to quarantine failures away f...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That leadership has evolved: leaders were once expected to be extroverted and charismatic, but today there is growing space for more introverted personalities and different leadership styles. The key is to find your own way of leading ad remaining true to yourself is the most important aspect.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A big thank you to @ikmz.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate in this female leadership course! Initiatives like this are much needed to equip and empower early-career women with strategies to strengthen leadership. Also a great opportunity to connect with peers across the department 💪

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dear folks, I’m happy to share the updated version of our preprint on self-defeating motivations in selective exposure and their implications for media effects and well-being, co-authored with @tobiasdienlin.com and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick: 🗞️ osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And that’s a wrap on our second retreat! The city of Bern treated us very well. We explored the city, enjoyed a movie night (Bicentennial man 🔥), visited the museum of communication, and exchanged ideas. We even spotted the Berner bear! (1/2)

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Team retreat with the best in Bern 🥳

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In academia we don't say "I'm no expert, but..." we say "This paper is the first to study" and I think that's beautif

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Much-needed overview ✨ I think incentivization by funding agencies is missing. Some funders such as our SNF require to share the data in repositories and only cover publication costs for open access journals.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Spent the day in Bern at a workshop organised by the Swiss Young Academy on innovative teaching tools. I joined as a speaker to share a teaching format I developed where students created digital health content for an Instagram profile Always inspiring to exchange ideas on creative ways of teaching✨📚

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🎉 We were very happy to host @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social for a guest talk on digital behaviourism, a fascinating approach grounded in operant conditioning that can help explain digital behaviour beyond aggregate measures of screen time. 📖 You can read the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

For those who missed it: Slides: osf.io/5fqjx/files/... Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#ICA26 highlight ✨ Presented my scoping review of mental health content creators in the session I chaired: “Mental Health Discourse on Social Media: Creators, Content and Effects”. Great panel, great discussion with @danilkowa.bsky.social and Yueliang, grateful to everyone who joined!

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Saturday morning @ #ica26: human-chatbot relationship formation, presenting our latest preprint "AI-RP: The AI Relationship Process Framework" –Sat 6/06, 10:30–11:45 am –Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) Slides: osf.io/8bujv/files/... Interested? Please come with questions––feedback very welcome! 🤩

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In the picture: me in the colorful neighborhood of Bo-Kaap 🌈

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Landed in Cape Town and excited to present in the next days at ICA @icahdq.bsky.social a scoping review of mental health content creators on social media: “From Wounded Healers to Marketed Caregivers”. 📍 Fri, June 5, 3:00–4:15 PM CTICC1, Level 2 📖 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #ICA2026

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Really happy to have worked on this with precious colleagues from all over the world 🌍 Qianfeng Lu, Srusti Bhalerao, @krystenstein.bsky.social, @amandayarnell.bsky.social, @tobiasdienlin.com and Laura Marciano.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Based on the review we propose a framework to address the phenomenon:

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Outcomes for content creators themselves were also ambivalent: • sense of community • monetization opportunities • pressure to remain visible • burnout

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Outcomes for audiences were mixed such as: • validation • increase in mental health literacy • over-pathologization • emotional exhaustion • misinformation

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The most frequently covered topics were neurodevelopmental disorders (15.3%), feeding and eating disorders (13.6%), and depressive disorders (10.2%). Here is an overview of the topics covered in the included studies:

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Across studies, we found four main communicative practices: 📚 psychoeducation 🗣️ self-disclosure 💼 service promotion 📢 advocacy These practices often involve tensions such as: accuracy vs simplification, authenticity vs performativity, care vs commerce.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We identified two types of mental health content creators: 🫂 those drawing on lived experience (experiential expertise) 🩺 those drawing on professional expertise Both come with different motivations, communicative practices, and tensions.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The most commonly studied platforms were video-based: ▶️ YouTube: 35.6% 🎵 TikTok: 23.7% 📸 Instagram: 20.3%

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New preprint out! 🎉 “From Wounded Healers to Commercialized Caregivers”: a scoping review of mental health content creators on social media. We reviewed 59 empirical studies on mental health content creators across platforms. Main findings below 🧵 Feedback very welcome! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 06/05/2026

Really cool: have already received 5 people who are interested. Sometimes I’m wondering whether bsky has sufficient outreach — so that’s really cool. Often you don’t need to reach many but the right people 🤍

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I highly recommend this book! ((so much so that I even wrote a review of it. You can read it here: www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/article/view/9772 ))

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 29/04/2026

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy to have received the @sgkm.bsky.social Dissertation Prize 2026 for my thesis “Not All Those Who Navigate Are Lost: Self-Determined Patients Facing Mental Health Misinformation in Online Communities for Mental Health Symptoms” funded by @snf-fns.ch and defended at @usi.ch 🎉 hit me up for a copy

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

You will obtain far more information than during the initial round of introductions when students (and you) may forget things, and where it’s difficult to take note while listening.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

2️⃣ You gain data to refer back to throughout the semester, helping you calibrate depth of your lectures.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

1️⃣ Students can share their *actual* level of knowledge anonymously from their peers, they won’t feel judged for not knowing certain theories/methods.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Seminar lecturer here 👋 Quick tip 💁‍♀️ I recommend sending students a pre-course survey to assess their theoretical and methodological background before the seminar begins. Two key advantages (see thread) 🧵👇

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

English translation forthcoming, so stay tuned! 🔜

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My review is in English. However, currently the book is available only in Italian. 🇮🇹

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Tecnopanico is an empirically grounded reflection on digital media, beyond technopanic and techno-optimism. Drawing on his background in cultural evolution, Prof. Acerbi offers a nuanced perspective that is especially relevant for misinformation researchers, but also digestible for the lay public.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Happy to share that my book review of Prof. @acerbialberto.com "Tecnopanico" is now published in Studies in Communication Sciences @sgkm.bsky.social 🎉

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My review is in English. However, currently the book is available only in Italian. 🇮🇹

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

To help our @ikmz.bsky.social students write their master thesis, we developed a guide with tips and tricks. If you're interested, you can download it here👇 drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/... Feel free to reuse it or provide feedback!

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I need to say this so very, very loudly: 👏 null 👏results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 no 👏 results 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 are 👏 not 👏 unfortunate 👏 👏 null 👏 results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 errors 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 do 👏 not 👏 need 👏 to 👏 be 👏 "fixed 👏 with 👏 "more data" 👏 We really need to sort this, y'all.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The reviews went out from our biggest conference in my field #ica26 Partial (AI) reviews are now a real problem. As a community we need to address this and work on standards. No one deserves AI slop as reviews.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Happy to be part of this initiative as an Editor, together with @philippesloksnath.bsky.social and other scholars. Stay tuned: we’re working on new ways to further increase the reach of this valuable tool. Thanks @shkessler.bsky.social for involving me!

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