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Armin Pournaki @pournaki.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social led by @fgais.bsky.social with @dscheykopp.bsky.social! We map news sharing patterns of social media users and find ideological asymmetries, but no outlet fragmentation.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 09/04/2026

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

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Rationality & Society @rss-journal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Sven Banisch, @eckolb.bsky.social et al. built an #ABM where #ReinforcementLearning users choose #SocialMedia platforms based on social approval and #diversity. They show a #SocialDilemma: #EchoChambers can arise even when users prefer diversity, making everyone worse off. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 14/01/2026

We are in the midst of many fascinating talks that all take a different perspective on the question of the "Impact of Social Media on Democracy and understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship". This is the concluding conference of the @some4dem.bsky.social some4dem.eu/activities/e...

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 10/12/2025

Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... And more below 👇

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Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

A field experiment examines patterns of online political discussion participation and the challenges of addressing inequality.

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

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SoMe4Dem @some4dem.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

@some4dem.bsky.social researchers @eckolb.bsky.social and @pournaki.bsky.social presenting their work at #ic2s2 on measuring political realignment in Switzerland and extracting conflicting narratives from polarized debates on social media.

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Armin Pournaki @pournaki.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Looking forward to #ic2s2 where I'll present some of our latest work from the @some4dem.bsky.social project: - Conflicting narratives and polarization (Tue in Pol.Narratives II 2:30pm) - A political cartography of news sharing (Tue, poster) - Issue alignment and polarization on Twitter (Thu, poster)

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

1/ Excited to share our new preprint “A Collective Field Experiment Disentangling Participation in Online Political Discussions” – osf.io/preprints/so...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13/01/2025

The Free Our Feeds project is building an independent foundation. More info here: freeourfeeds.com

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Free Our Feeds

Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 04/01/2025

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

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SoMe4Dem @some4dem.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

How to analyze narratives on digital media? More details on our recent workshop "Political Narratives in Public Discourse: Theory, Detection, and Impact" can be found here: some4dem.eu/news/politic...

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It was fun talking about seeded topic modeling at the fantastically transdisciplinary Max Planck workshop on political narratives 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0049... 📍 tinyurl.com/politicalnar... Thx @eckolb.bsky.social @pournaki.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @jphcoi.bsky.social

The understanding of immigration in Swedish newspapers, 1945-2019

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SoMe4Dem @some4dem.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Scientists from the SoMe4Dem project participated at the DMI Summer School 2024 in Amsterdam facilitating a project on the expression of collective identities on social media. #digitalmethods some4dem.eu/news/dmi-sum...

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SoMe4Dem at the DMI Summer School 2024

Scientists from the SoMe4Dem project participated at the DMI Summer School 2024 in Amsterdam facilitating a project on the expression of collective identities on X.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 03/07/2024

Very excited to finally share our preprint after three years in the making! With @ruben.the100.ci @brionyswire.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social @michaelgeers.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig, we assessed the motives for posting content. (1/x) osf.io/preprints/ps...

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