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🚨PhD Postion (Pol Comm) at IKMZ For our SNSF project on political influencers and their effect on youth political engagement, Frank Esser and I are looking for a PhD student who enjoys working with data to join us for the next 4 years: shorturl.at/c4p5T

🚨 !Job Alert! 🚨 As part of the DFG research unit "Communicative AI", we are hiring a PhD student (100%, TV-L 13, 4y). Interested in political deliberation, social media, comp. methods and AI? Have a look. Research Unit: comai.space/jobs.html Job Ad: comai.space/flyers//Stelle…

New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078

✨We are hiring! LSE Methodology is looking for an assistant professor in qualitative research methods. Please apply, share widely, and get in touch if you have any questions. ✨ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/62…

There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I wonder if we will ever see so many different communities interacting in the same online space again.

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Congratulations, Nico Pfiffner! This week, Nico successfully defended his #PhD thesis 🎓 The thesis – supervised by Thomas Friemel and examined by Emese Domahidi Daniel Süss – explored opportunities, challenges, and applications of #DataDonation for studying #digital #media use. Well done!

The widely-used wordfreq database of English word frequencies will no longer be updated.

Job alert! 📣 We are looking for a #PostDoc researcher and short-term visiting researchers in socio-technical transformations through digitalization and AI ➡️ mediachange.ch/news/182/ IKMZ #AcademicJobs

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion

My "first paper using LLM for text analysis" paper is now finally published in journal! The new version: - Shows that the zero-shot LLM outperforms also supervised models. - Compares performance across 11 countries and languages - Additional validation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨Postdoc Alert 🚨 The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC (jake hofman, David Rothschild 🌻, Dan Goldstein) is hiring a postdoc! Deadline: December 20, 2024 jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

Where do people get information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? 🌎 We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to study their science information diets and #communication behavior, global patterns, and country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom ⤵️

The 2024 Quality of the Media Yearbook is here! The key topics: the relationship between SRG and private media, as well as AI in journalism. It also includes long-term analyses of the quality, use and concentration of Swiss media. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… Main findings 🧵 1/12

Yayy, my project on simulating social media using Large Language Models was just awarded a €850k VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)! 👏👏 Keep your eyes peeled if you're interested in a PhD position at the intersection of social media, politics and AI!

How have Swiss internet users integrated AI tools into their everyday lives? 🤖 98% know them, 54% of everyone and 93% of the young use them 👩‍💻 Check out our new report with SRG SSR on knowledge, use and attitudes on Generative AI in Switzerland! 🇨🇭📊 mediachange.ch/news/183/