- Update - If you are interested in #science #skepticism - there have been some updates to our preprint including introcuding a short version of our new scale. Also the first time I formatted an article with #latex - pretty easy and amazing outcome🤩

Thrilled to be interviewed by Henry Mance Financial Times on #Children #MentalHealth #ScreenTime #DigitalParenting #OSA #DigitalFutures4Children LSE LSE Media & Communications 5Rights Foundation #MobileBan #ChildRights Is there a middle way on children and smartphones? Here's how... ft.com/content/c12277…

🌟Call for Abstracts (Deadline 15.06.24)🌟 Forschst du zu WissKomm? Zusammen mit @IfKW_TUBS und RG Prof. Stieglitz suchen wir noch Teilnehmende für die Postersession am 01.10.24 in #Berlin. Mit dabei sind Christian Drosten und Melanie Brinkmann 🇺🇦 Mehr Infos hier: bit.ly/3UZLz1B

Jüngst wird viel geredet über #TikTok-Dominanz der #AfD und deren (möglichen) Einfluss auf #Europawahlen. Oft ohne empirische Belege. Unsere Daten (Befragung, Mai/Juni, 2879 👥) zeigen einen Zusammenhang (≠Effekt!) zwischen der Informationsnutzung und #AfD-Präferenz.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to #ica24 this time. But check out this paper coautored by German Neubaum, Jana Dreston and me, presented by @decker_hannah_ if you're interested in #political expression and #privacy concerns. Have a fantastic conference everyone 😊☀️🏖

"Democracy needs people that participate" - Provocations from @decker_hannah_ presenting her research w/ Yannic Meier (no longer active here), German Neubaum, Jana Dreston at #ica24

Good news! Our longitudinal survey on connections between privacy concerns and political expression on social media was awarded by the APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions ! Thank you and special thanks to my co-authors @decker_hannah_ Yannic Meier (no longer active here) Jana Dreston

Interested in research on misinformation, conspiracy theories or selective exposure? We’re searching for a PhD student in our Media Psychology group in Landau (3 years). Please contact me for any questions – very much looking forward to your applications! jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/52b…

This amuses me much more than it should 😄

Taylor&Francis Taylor&Francis News sold access to its authors’ research; #AI deal w/ Microsoft worth $10m in its first year!👇 While I review for them (for free), publish there (paying for #OpenAccess) & serve as Associate Editor of its journal (for free) thebookseller.com/news/academic-…

Interested in social inequalities and online privacy? Read my new paper w/ Miriam Metzger at Communication Research! We examined the US racial/ethnic divides in online privacy and tested resource vs identity theoretical explanations for such divides. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Thinking about #ICA25? The Communication and Technology Division is hosting 2 Zoom welcome meetings to present the call for papers and answer questions. Session 1 (Wed Sep 25 8AM UTC): buff.ly/3X1NPVW Session 2 (Wed Sep 25 1PM UTC): buff.ly/472xLbc

I'm very sad that I didn't make it to #DGPs2024 Got stuck in Linz and decided to turn back. Big thanks to the organizers for switching sessions to remote in such a short time! Wish everyone a great conference despite the circumstances🌧️

📢📢📢Duisburg is calling! We are pleased to announce that the conference #MediaPsych2025 (DGPs) will take place on September 10-12 2025 in Duisburg, Germany, hosted by the University of Duisburg-Essen and Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)

🚨 NEW PRE-PRINT 🚨 Our participants think >40% (!) of online users act toxic on Reddit and share fake news on FB. (😅) Are they correct? No. Research finds only a tiny % of online users produce most of (harmful) content. w/ Angela Y. Lee Jamil Zaki jeff hancock 1/9

Petition to stop using the term “megastudy” in the social sciences.

PLEASE SIGN UP TO REVIEW for #ICA25. Go to buff.ly/40ytDP5 and set your reviewing keywords to ‘Communication and Technology: XXX’. Here's a guide to keywords: buff.ly/3Yh7Wjx All authors submitting to CAT must review for CAT, as per ICA policy.

🚨 New OA publication 📢 w/ @DrBoulianne in Social Media+Society on how social influence impacts privacy considerations when posting political content on Facebook in 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪. 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…