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Florian Wintterlin

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Communication Researcher @University of Muenster

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Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New paper out on trust in science in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 🙏 to @nielsmede.bsky.social and @colognaviktoria.bsky.social for initiating the TISP project and to @juliametag.bsky.social for her helpful input throughout the project. Free-access link: shorturl.at/4VBAJ
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Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
First publication of the News Beat Project is now out in Journalism! If you're interested in geographically defined news beats from an international perspective, you should have a look. Read it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/1464...
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our Digital News Report 2025 is out! 📊48 markets 🌏Almost 100K respondents 📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers 📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg 🧵Findings in thread #DNR25
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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Meet the #CAISfellows: Florian Wintterlin, University of Münster @wintterlin.bsky.social 🔍His Research at CAIS: “Framing Scientific Evidence – A Qualitative Analysis of Micro-Frames in Comments on Climate Change” 🗓️His Talk: May 28 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht... #SciComm
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Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Social media has reshaped political communication—but how diverse is the research behind it? Our systematic review published in SComS answers this question. Together with the wonderful co-authors Kira Klinger, @juliametag.bsky.social, and Lukas Lindenschmidt. doi.org/10.24434/j.s...
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More of the Same or Manifold Perspectives? : A Systematic Review of Research on Politicians’ Use of Social Media | Studies in Communication Sciences
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Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔍 Who are the users of alternative scientific media? 🔍 New study published in Science Communication. Lead by the wonderful Lena Zils, and together with @juliametag.bsky.social, @nielsmede.bsky.social and @mss7676.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1075...
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Literate and Critical? Characterizing Users of Alternative Scientific Media - Lena Zils, Florian Wintterlin, Julia Metag, Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, 2025
Science is of crucial importance in contemporary societies. Concurrently, legacy news media outlets are losing their position as the main fora for discussing an...
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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Daten zum TikTok-Wahlkampf der Parteien und Spitzenkandidierenden: Im Durchschnitt erreichten die Videos der AfD (Kanal der Fraktion) die meisten Aufrufe während des Wahlkampfs (7.11. - 23.2.), dicht gefolgt von der Linken. Bei den Kandidierenden liegt Reichinnek vorne. #TikTok #BTW25
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Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Beeinflussen Social Media das Wahlverhalten? Johanne Burkhardt hat das für Wissen Weekly recherchiert und mich dafür interviewt. Das Ergebnis gibt es hier: open.spotify.com/episode/0XCc...
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Bundestagswahl: Beeinflusst Social Media, wen wir wählen?
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 22/02/2025
Auch diese Bundestagswahl war es mir eine Ehre zusammen mit @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social und @whotargets.me an einer @zdfmagaz.in Folge zum digitalen Wahlkampf mitzuwirken! Falls ihr noch nicht genug zum Thema haben schaut doch mal beim Dashboard vorbei: shorturl.at/A10q9 #Grauburgunderbereich🍷
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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to share our new article, "A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder", now published in Media and Communication (@CogitatioMaC)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess
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A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder | Article | Media and Communication
Felix Reer, Lena Maria Küpper, Florian Wintterlin, Thorsten Quandt
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢 It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/01/2025
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Recommend two good pieces of reporting on misinformation, research on it, and debates around it that came out around the turn of the year Laurie Clarke dismantles lazy "bad actors" framing www.politico.eu/article/nobo... & @claradoodle.bsky.social AI deepfake panic www.ft.com/content/62d8... 1/3
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‘Nobody was tricked into voting for Trump’: Why the disinformation panic is over
Eight years ago, Trump and Brexit sparked fears social media was corroding reality. Now, that narrative is crumbling.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This emerging hot take that misinformation was just some academic panic is mind-numbingly bad and reminiscent of attempts to frame climate science, etc… as hysteria. www.politico.eu/article/nobo...
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‘Nobody was tricked into voting for Trump’: Why the disinformation panic is over
Eight years ago, Trump and Brexit sparked fears social media was corroding reality. Now, that narrative is crumbling.
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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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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Interesting new study with three-wave panel data examining the relationship between hostile media perceptions and trust in news by @wintterlin.bsky.social Gurr @juliametag.bsky.social ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
How Are Attitudes Toward News Coverage of Immigration Related to General Trust in News Media? A Longitudinal Test of Spillover Effects of Hostile Media and Credibility Perceptions
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Improving access to high-quality scientific information can fill information voids that exist for topics of interest to people and reduce exposure to and uptake of misinformation about science. Read more in our report: nap.nationalacademies.org/27894 #scicomm #medialiteracy
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Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/11/2024
Are you looking for the latest examples of AI deepfakes in the wild? We got you. #medialiteracy #factchecking lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/f8...
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Generative AI - Factcheck Tracker Dashboard
Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The number of risk assessments are coming in #DSA #commsky #eusky Check this overview ⬇️ X, Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, TikTok are there docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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DSA: Risk Assessment & Audit Database
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:
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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
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Maik Fielitz @maik.machine-vs-rage.net · 18/11/2024
Unsere Studie 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹-𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗶 𝗔𝗳𝗗? ist heute erschienen. Wir untersuchen die digitalen Landtagswahlkämpfe in BRB, SN & TH. Unser Fazit: Die digitale Performance der AfD wird in der Öffentlichkeit häufig überschätzt. Sie hängt von medialer Resonanz ab. www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/social-media...
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AfD-Wahlkämpfe 2024: Social Media im Fokus
Die OBS-Studie zeigt, wie die AfD ihre Social-Media-Wahlkämpfe in Sachsen, Thüringen und Brandenburg gestaltete. AfD-Accounts auf TikTok richteten sich eher an ältere Generationen. Besonders in Brande...
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Searchable list of 40,000+ starter packs (and counting) 🔥👇 blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Florian Wintterlin @wintterlin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
New Study with Gwendolin Gurr and @juliametag.bsky.social finds: Negative evaluations of topic-specific coverage such as migration do not lead to a loss of trust in the media in general. More in the paper here: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…
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International Journal of Communication
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Mainstreaming the Far Right in Public Debates – I have summarised some findings of my dissertation on the Oxford University Politics Blog. Polisky bit.ly/41ney0M
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The Drivers of Far-Right Mainstreaming in Public Debates
The far right is gaining power in many liberal democracies. Far-right actors threaten democracy by spreading their nativist, exclusionary and authoritarian ideas through various means (Mudde 2019). Th...
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Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Inaugural Bluesky post and 🚨new pub alert🚨! The MRRM is my attempt to offer a theoretical framework for understanding the antecedents to and consequences of #misinformation recognition (or lack thereof). Available #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
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The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigati...
Abstract. Although research on misinformation and corrections has recently proliferated, no systematic structure has guided the examination of conditions under
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Simon Kruschinski @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Exciting publishing news! 📚 Our (L. Dogruel @pjost.bsky.social P.Jürgens) latest research unveils how conspiracy theories 👾 & resistance calls 🗣️ are disseminated on Telegram.We reveal how this feeds into Telegram fringe channel users’ characteristics & behaviors. 💡Find out: doi.org/10.5771/1615...
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Protzko @protzko.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
When you discover new effects using preregistration, high power, & replicate faithfully with open materials, you get a replication rate of 86% & effect sizes 97% as big! Our new published paper with so many wonderful researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Warum unterstützen so viele Anhänger der Republikaner immer noch Trump, obwohl doch vollkommen klar ist, dass er am laufenden Band lügt? Im Englischen gibt es den Begriff „blue lies“ (blaue Lügen). Das beschreibt eine bestimmte Form von Lügen aus Solidarität mit der eigenen Gruppe, etwa wenn… 🧵🪡
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Ole Kelm @olekelm.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
How algorithmically curated online environments influence users’ political polarization - New open access study w/ @timthenewman.bsky.social, M Behrendt, M Brenneis, K Gerl, S Marschall, F Meissner, S Harmeling, G Vowe, & M Ziegele @hhu.bsky.social commsky polsky doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
I have a new working paper on concerns about what is real and fake on the internet 😱 Relying on data from the Digital News Report, I conducted a pre-registered analysis of concerns about misinformation between 2018 to 2023 in 46 countries (N = 509,797). osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Andreas @andreas.de · 01/11/2023
Brilliant explainer on how Large Language Models work. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work – visual explainer
In the last year, chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are everywhere and even … useful. But how do they work?
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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
New publication🎉: @kudusch.bsky.social, Lena Clever and I report about challenges & solutions to collect and store social media data remotly for cross-university collabs: "Challenges in Remote Study Design: An Infrastructure Review of a Linkage Study" doi.org/10.1177/0002... #CommSky #PolSky
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Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
My PhD thesis — 'This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy — is freely available here: mau.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Best Laid Plans: A Guide to Reporting Preregistration Deviations: osf.io/dwx69
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 27/10/2023
It's impossible to condense over 3 decades of research and writing about trust and safety and internet governance into a 14 week class... but here's a first draft of the syllabus and reading list for my course next semester: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I'd love your feedback and suggestions.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
I spoke to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism on the unprecedented volume of misinformation being shared about the Israel-Hamas conflict and the process I follow to verify, source and debunk videos and images online.
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BBC senior verification expert on debunking Israel-Hamas war visuals: “The volume was beyond anyth...
“You have to be 100% certain before publishing and show the audience why something is false,” says Shayan Sardarizadeh.
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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
The call for the ICA precon 2024 we are co-organizing: fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/ica-2024/ This is your stop on the way from to the ICA Australia main conference. Not only do you reduce jetlag and have a wonderful time at a nice place - you'd also have the great benefit of excellent science!
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Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Call for Papers SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Annual Conference of the SciComm division of German Communication Association June 6/7, 2024 at IKMZ Zurich ikmz.uzh.ch/en/aiscicomm24 Pls apply & distribute! #wisskomm #wissenschaftskommunikation #sciencecommunication
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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Annual Conference of #scicomm division of German Communication Association - June 6/7, 2024 - at 
IKMZ in Zurich

https://ikmz.uzh.ch/en/aiscicomm24
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