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Sonja Utz

@sonja-utz.de
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media psychologist | prof at @IWMTue | interests: knowledge-related (effects of) social media use, ambient awareness, human-machine communication, algorithm acceptance

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 08/09/2026
PhD position in my lab! I'm looking for a candidate with a background in media psychology or communication science. Candidates who bridge our two research lines (social media use and HMC) are especially welcome. Please share! #DGPS2026 #ECC2026 iwm-tuebingen.de/de/karriere/...
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IWM Tübingen
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d) in the Everyday Media Lab
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 05/09/2026
I did not get directly contacted by an AI agent, but I receive emails from people offerting sending me one-pagers with their LLM experiences (suggested by the LLMs) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...
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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You. (Gift Article)
Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 21/08/2026
Reminder - if you have some work on LLMs and users' mental models, submit it to our special issue. Deadline October 15; early submissions welcome! #HMC
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 11/08/2026
Also auf der Strecke Nürtingen- Tübingen machen sie ab nächster Woche erstmal den schlechtesten SEV ever (27 Minuten normal). Und dabei fährt seit Wochen nur einmal die Stunde ein Zug...
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 16/06/2026
very attractive positions for early career researchers in ML! Plase share!
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 19/05/2026
Check out this call for a special issue I'm co-editing with Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Nicole Krämer, and Vera Schmitt: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
1) #ICA2026 Young Scholars Lunch in Cape Town! 🌍 Calling all members of the #MediaPsych division (DGPs) and #MiRezFo (DGPuK)—and anyone interested in our field! Join us for a casual Young Scholars Lunch at ICA. 🧵
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Mark Lutter @marklutter345.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 14/04/2026
Das Deutschlandticket kostet die Bundesregierung 1,5 Milliarden Euro für das ganze Jahr. Der ineffektive Tankrabatt soll für nur 2 Monate 1,6 Milliarden Euro kosten. (Wenn es wie 2022 läuft, kostet er am Ende 3,2 Milliarden Euro pro Quartal.)
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/04/2026
Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)
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RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗴𝘁𝗲, 𝘄𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲 Ü𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗲𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴 … 𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🤔 Neue Studie von Fabian Erhardt, Olaf Kramer, Annette Leßmöllmannn @annetteless.bsky.social (RHET AI) sowie Helen Fischer, Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de & Noemie Holzschuh (@iwmtue.bsky.social) untersucht, was im Alltag als #Wissen gilt.
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Eva Rudholzer @erudholzer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚀 New publication! Can people tell if a science post is from a scientist or a layperson? Not always - platform design (fast scrolling, hidden profiles) makes it difficult. Across 2 experiments, @sonja-utz.de and I show how users confuse the two. Full paper 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/01/2026
WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING?! HE MUST BE IMPEACHED!!! NOW!!!
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Thou Shalt Not Illegally Start Wars
Trump bombed Venezuela last night.
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 30/12/2025
Schön, wenn einem zweimal am Tag ein ICE vor der Nase wegfährt. So komme ich nie an
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 16/12/2025
New paper co-authored with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and @lpummerer.bsky.social out: We used five waves of longitudinal data to untangle how health vs. economic fears relate between- and within-subjects to quality vs. alternative media use www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do fears drive media consumption? A longitudinal study on the relationships between different fears and media consumption during COVID-19 in Germany
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, cross-sectional work identified differential relationships between health-related vs. economic fears and the consumption of quality versus alternativ...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Go work with Kou! Autocorrect kept trying to replace his name with "Joy", which is pretty appropriate because he's a joy to work with and a fantastic mentor to his students!
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 05/12/2025
Nico presenting the results from our egocentric biases meet biased algorithms-project at the transformativ conference in Heilbronn @everydaymedialab.bsky.social
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Wisskomm.de @wisskomm.de · 24/11/2025
Das Internet droht im synthetischen Müll zu versinken. Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn: Überall ist künstlicher Content, auch bekannt als ‘AI Slop’. Wie gefährlich ist das für unsere Wissensinfrastruktur? 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-versinke... #Wisskomm @aiforensics.org @kurzgesagt.org
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Wir versinken in Schrott
Ein Viertel der meistgeklickten TikTok-Suchergebnisse ist künstlich erzeugt. Oft ohne Kennzeichnung, oft täuschend echt. Welche Orientierung bleibt in dieser neuen Realität? Im August 2025 bemerkte de...
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 03/11/2025
The new call for CSC fellowships is open - if you're a Chinese student who wants to work on health influencers on social media, check out my project #08: uni-tuebingen.de/internationa...
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China Scholarship Council Program
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 23/10/2025
Garbage in, garbage out - LLM models can get brainrot, too llm-brain-rot.github.io
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LLMs Can Get Brain Rot
New finding: LLMs Can Get Brain Rot if being fed trivial, engaging Twitter/X content.
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 18/09/2025
Busy but inspiring days: first #MediaPsych25, than the joint #Digikomm&HMC conference and now in train to Amsterdam for a PhD defense tomorrow.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 15/09/2025
„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren" Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden. Aber auch richtig ist: „AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“ Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 12/09/2025
Nice surprise in the board meeting ;-) #mediapsych25
Price best abstract
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 12/09/2025
Great talk by @anneo.bsky.social about the eras of social media #mediapsych25
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 11/09/2025
@stefaniehklein.bsky.social presenting the results of our longitudinal study on the relationship between tool vs. actor+perception of communicative AI on credibility # mediapsych25
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 11/09/2025
#Mediapsych25 started with inspiring methodological discussions this morning, followed by many good talks
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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)
The female speaker standing in front of the slides, with catchy (and not necessarily evidence based) claims from haidts book on the anxious generation
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 08/09/2025
Skimming social media posts can help you build ambient awareness about who-knows-what in your network. This can even happen under cognitive load: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @everydaymedialab.bsky.social (so between all my complaints about trains, there might be something useful ;-))
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Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load
Knowing where expertise is in one’s network is essential for knowledge transfer and collaboration. Browsing social media can foster ambient awareness of who-knows-what. Although ambient awareness i...
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 08/09/2025
Toll Bahn. Man muss immer noch in Reutlingen umsteigen, 20 Minuten sollten ja an sich reichen, aber wir sind noch später und statt dass der dann 5 Minuten wartet, kriegen wir alle jetzt nochmal 26 Minuten drauf #sweg weiß schon, warum ich zuletzt geradelt bin
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Svenja @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and 🙋 with questions @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #commsky #journalism #technogarchy
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 25/07/2025
What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear? In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...
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What do you mean by “social media”? Introducing the Reporting Items for Social Media Research (RISoMeR)
Abstract. Scholars from various disciplines study social media. However, neither researchers nor users have a unified understanding of social media. Even m
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 14/07/2025
Ich habe die in diesem “Politico”-Auszug beschriebene AfD-Strategie übrigens 2017 schon mal aufgeschrieben. Hergeleitet aus der Literatur über die Polarisierung in den USA. Das ist alles weder neu noch überraschend. Nur für die Union offenbar. Es geht um WIR gegen DIE.
"Our goal is to create a situation in which the political divide no longer runs between the AfD and the other political currents, but rather one in which a bourgeois-conservative camp and a radicalizing left-wing camp face each other, comparable to the situation in the U.S.," reads an internal party paper, seen by POLITICO. The aim, according to the strategy, is to create a "duel between two irreconcilably opposed camps."
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 07/07/2025
Die Strecke Tübingen-Nürtingen kann man echt nicht mehr pendeln. Seit Mai 20 Minuten die normale Verspätung, Ausfälle, keine zutreffende Info. Heute schon wieder (mindestens, steh ja noch) ne Stunde verloren. SWEG ja leider nicht auf bluesky #Bahn #failure
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 03/07/2025
Excited to join the workshop "Beyond Commands: The Evolving Relationship between Humans and Voice-Enabled AI" at the beautiful castle in Tübingen today!
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 14/06/2025
To clarify: This is for people with a master degree who want to pursue a PhD
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 13/06/2025
I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
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Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 12/06/2025
The doctoral consortium is starting - looking forward to discussing the projects! #ica25 @icamobile.bsky.social #ica_cat
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 19/05/2025
Ich würde eigentlich erwarten, dass die Führungsspitzen von Viessmann, Vaillant und Buderus langsam mal laut und deutlich sagen, dass hier gerade die akute Gefahr besteht, dass die Fossilnostalgiker in diesem Land die nächste deutsche Branche an den Rand des Abgrunds geleiten.
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 16/05/2025
Also der Zug nach Tübingen ist schon ne halbe Stunde zu spät (beim daheim losfahren nur 13 Minuten) und als Ausgleich für die frustrierten Fahrgäste fährt er jetzt nur bis Reutlingen. So wird das nur war mir der #bahn
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 08/05/2025
Did I already mention that I have a lovely team? @everydaymedialab.bsky.social back from 2 months lab visit in Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social (Homero Gil de Zuniga)
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 07/05/2025
Zweiter Tag diese Woche ohne gemütliches Frühstück und ausreichend Kaffee, weil der 7:57 nicht fährt...
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Everyday Media Lab @everydaymedialab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Did you know that #Skype will be shut down today? Here's an interview with our lab member Carolin, who's investigating how you can still keep in touch ✉️ with your #long-distance friends👭: www.spiegel.de/psychologie/...
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(S+) Freundschaften: Wie wir es schaffen, auf Distanz in Kontakt zu bleiben
Meine besten Freundinnen und ich halten seit Jahren Kontakt über Skype. Nun wird der Messenger abgeschaltet. Wie pflegt man Beziehungen trotz räumlicher Trennung? Zwei Expertinnen geben Tipps.
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 30/04/2025
Important because many studies on #algorithmicfairness only use one general fairness item or adapt measures from procedural fairness without considering issues like #groupdiscrimination. Our multidimensional measure addresses this problem; you can also use just one subscale depending on your RQ
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Adrian Meier-Ernst @adrianmeierernst.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖 May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields. jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...
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Professor (m/w/d) (Open Rank: W3 oder W2 mit Tenure-Track zu W3) im Themenfeld Politische Kommunikation und digitale Medien
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Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
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UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research
The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 02/04/2025
that was fun! Inspiring discussions about interesting talks today in #Salamanca Credibility of AI, Conversion Stories in Political Advertising and how Science gets attacked in Latin America in times of disinformation and populism
Speakers Youth Political Socialization in Focus Conference, Salamanca
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 02/04/2025
Still remember the first MediaPsych in Duisburg 2009 - I'm getting old ;-)
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 31/03/2025
@irodriguezdedios.bsky.social cuando tienes tiempo
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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 28/03/2025
Next week - if you happen to be in/around Salamanca!
flyer for Youth Political Socialization in Focus conference on April 2 in Salamanca
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