Christian Baden

@cbaden.bsky.social

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Political Communication Researcher & Methodologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 6d

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OPINION Network: www.opinion-network.eu

The SIP • A podcast on Spotify for Creators

By the Smart Family Institute for Communication, HUJI The ear edition of the department of communication and journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In each episode, we host researchers and...

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke with Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stepinska on the Smart Institute Podcast about our OPINION COST Network and how digital discourse and computational tools challenge and enable us to rethink public opinion.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6XEn...

Rethinking Public Opinion - A Conversation with Christian Baden, Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stępińska

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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 20d

Do you have colleagues interested in Computational Methods? Help us spread the word and invite them to join our first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social.
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Jan 4

Mazal Tov with this new adventure! May Birmingham welcome you warmly! We (OPINION) will come visit and check on you in April :)

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AEJMC-CTM (Communication Theory and Methodology Division) @aejmc-ctm.bsky.social · Dec 16

Currently in Volume 19, Issue 4 of Communication Methods and Measures #CMM:

“Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science” by @valeriehase.bsky.social @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis

Read this SI editorial: doi.org/10.1080/1931...

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Dec 3

The last funny thing I saw were some journals that were named identically with major Q1 journals but published in Kolkata, Johannesburg, etc., by predatory publishers. There is even a Journal of Communication there somewhere. Someone who "published" there applied for a program... 😳

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hm if not the study, at least the fraud was original... 🤔

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Dec 3

item is gone... what was there?

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Dec 2

Awesome news, huge congrats, Daniela! And to WI, they will be so lucky to have you!

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Nov 17

I made a decision tree...

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Nov 12

Thanks a lot, Curd!

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Nov 10

That was definitely the ambition. 🙃

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Nov 10

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements

Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors

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Reposted by Axel Bruns, Christian Baden

Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Nov 4

#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot.

📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025

More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Nov 3

🚨 A free ad for Maximilian Linde, Chung-Hong Chan & Paul Balluff's important Public Service Announcement for communication researchers: 🛑 Stop competing on text corpus size! Scale is rarely needed and often compromises quality. Thank you for your attention to this matter. doi.org/10.1177/1077...

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Oct 31

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

Grounding the Comparative Turn in Communications: A Framework for ValidatingMultilingual Computational Text Analysis | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Following the progressing internationalisation of social science research and the computational turn in the field, researchers are increasingly adopting computational text analysis (CTA) methods to co...

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Oct 16

with: @netakv.bsky.social Nina Springer @marcjungblut.bsky.social @astaze.bsky.social Aukse Balcytiene Susana Salgado Artur Lipinski Aleksandra Krstic & Anna Baczkowska

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Oct 16

▶️ Check out OPINION for more relevant content: www.opinion-network.eu
For instance, we recently released a Glossary for transdisciplinary opinion research: www.opinion-network.eu/glossary

OPINION is an international network of researchers collaborating to develop and integrate conceptual foundations, computational measurement strategies, and research agendas for the study of textual expressions of evaluative opinions.

www.opinion-network.eu

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Oct 16

🚨New Publication!
Public opinion happens on digital media, but it's very different from what we see in surveys. Here's how:
doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...
10 members of the pan-European OPINION network put together to discuss how we can understand public opinion processes in a digital media ecosystem.

Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract. Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Oct 1

➡️List of OA journals in Communication!
Excellent resource if you want to publish open access (and you should!) and can't or don't want to pay off the big publishers' "Gold" (gilded indeed 💰💰💰🦹‍♂️) open access deals.
Many thanks to @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social for curating this!

Tobias Dienlin @handle.invalid · Oct 1

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Open Media and Communication Research

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Oct 1

That is an excellent resource, @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social. Thanks for the effort! 🙏
I will popularize it among my colleagues and students! :)

Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Christian Baden

Tobias Dienlin @handle.invalid · Oct 1

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Open Media and Communication Research

docs.google.com

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Sep 24

Autsch...

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Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social · Sep 13

Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...

GitHub - thieled/easieRnmt: R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally.

R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. - thieled/easieRnmt

github.com

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Jun 20

📚 Publication Friday

This week, we highlight the winner of the Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award.

"The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments"
by @nicolaiberk.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments

To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...

www.tandfonline.com

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Jun 19

🔍 Outstanding Reviewer Award

👏 Congratulations to @cbaden.bsky.social for exceptional service in this year's peer review process. Your dedication to scholarly rigor is deeply appreciated.

#ICA25 #Polcomm

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Jun 14

Huge congratulations on this wonderful achievement, @nicolaiberk.bsky.social ! As members of the award committee, wewere deeply impressed with your work, and I am looking forward to reading more of it!

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Stuart Soroka @snsoroka.bsky.social · Jun 10

For part of what appears in Amplifying Extremism (below), check out Nik Usher's piece for Nieman Lab: www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Jun 10

Look at this, we are neighbors there... 🙃 #973

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Jun 8

Apeirogon, if you feel up to it. Station Eleven, if you are up for some pain but need a bit of distance (but don't watch the series). A Gentleman in Moscow, might be similarly close/distant for you (same, avoid the series)

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