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Eine starke #Wissenschaft braucht faire Arbeitsbedingungen. Aber: Fast 9 von 10 wissenschaftlichen Angestellten an Unis sind #befristet beschäftigt - oft auf kurze Zeit. Das muss sich ändern. Unterzeichnet jetzt und #StopptDauerbefristung weact.campact.de/petitions/stop…

📢 New Publication! Paul Balluff, Hajo Boomgaarden, & Annie Waldherr @[email protected]’s paper reviewing multilingual named entity recognition tools is out in Computational Methods & Measures 🎉 #CSS #commscience Read open-access 👇 bit.ly/3TJ99iA

Women are highly underrepresented among scientific experts. We show that if there are female experts, they are not perceived as less credible than their male colleagues. They are even considered slightly more credible among female citizens. tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108… 1/4

We don't live "single-issue lives" - Audre Lorde. Here's why Multi-issue, #Digital advocacy orgs matter for #gender #LGBTIQ activism. EJPG bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 One of my dissertation papers published full access in Javnost-The Public 🎉 It’s a theory piece in which I develop a concept of “anti-systemic counterpublics” to study various forms of non-subordinate counterpublics 1/4

Dass der französische Rassemblement National mit der AfD bricht, kommt für LÉONIE DE JONGE (Léonie de Jonge / @leoniedejonge.bsky.social) nicht überraschend. Ihre Untersuchung zeigt, dass die Rechtsaußen-Parteien in Europa mehr trennt als verbindet. verfassungsblog.de/rechtsausen-in…

Digital media research is changing, and it can make it that much harder to study elections, as Megan A. Brown and I argue in our new Tech Policy Press piece. techpolicy.press/digital-media-…

🎧IDZ ON AIR 🎧 NEOVEX-PODCAST | Teil 2 ⬇️ Maik Fielitz & Kilian Bühling Weizenbaum-Institut über die Rolle von alternativen Plattformen in der Kommunikation von Rechtsextremen & Verschwörungstheoretiker*innen & dem Verhältnis von Plattformkultur & Verbreitung von Verschwörungstheorien.

Nach dem Factsheet "#Rechtsextremismus auf digitalen Plattformen" geht das Projekt #NEOVEX Maik Fielitz im Factsheet "Eine Machtfrage" der Funktion von Plattformen in #Demokratie|n nach. Schaut auf Auswirkungen & Einfluss der Politik von digitalen Plattformen auf Demokratien ⬇️

"Anstatt der Exotisierung Ostdeutschlands ist für ein besseres Verständnis der rechtswählenden Ostdeutschen ein internationaler Turn erforderlich. Schon allein um die Ursachenforschung nicht regional zu verkürzen." - mein Gastbeitrag in der heutigen @FAZ. faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

Thrilled to see my article published in German Politics and Society! A quite timely read, if I dare say, considering the upcoming state elections in Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony and the expected success of the ever more extremist #noAfD.

It's the week before my 5th year at TEXAS Moody starts, so I thought I'd drop some resources that may be helpful if you're in various transitional stages in academia. Today, I'm sharing a 🧵of the readings I send my grad students at different stages.

The German interior ministry has recently tried to ban right-wing news outlet COMPACT. But who accesses alt. news sources and what is their relationship to conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda? Sebastian Stier Patrick Zerrer, H. Rauxloh & I had a look: doi.org/10.1080/088381…

📰 Another day, another resource (though this one is more a draft): a list of #polcomm and computational social science conferences (e.g., comm, journal, po, polisci, css, hci). Feel free to share with colleagues/students/classes. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

New paper out Journal of Information Technology & Politics! We look at right-wing "copycats" of progressive groups e.g. MoveOn GetUp! Campact e.V. Avaaz Find similar patterns of emulation across partisan divides Phillip Ayoub on BlueSky @payoub.bsky.social postsecular_conflicts Great to wk w/ A. Heft & Michael Vaughan Weizenbaum-Institut Johns Hopkins SAIS

New article (open access) in Comparative Political Studies with Andrea Krizsan and Conny Roggeband: "Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Right-wing digital advocacy groups are imitating their left-wing counterparts, but with key differences in their range of tactics, extremity of ideological alignment, and the practice of astroturfing. Johns Hopkins SAIS Universität Tübingen LSE Inequalities Nina Hall A. Heft tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…