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 · 23h

That was definitely the ambition. 🙃

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 1d

📜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 · 7d

#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

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 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 · 11d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

▶️ 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 · 26d

🚨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 @tobiasdienlin.com · 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 @tobiasdienlin.com · 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 · 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)

Reposted by Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Christian Baden

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗
📍 Vienna
🗓️ Start: September 2025
📌 Apply by June 26

#AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

University assistant predoctoral

jobs.univie.ac.at

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · May 26

PhD opportunity!

ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4

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Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"

Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · May 26

Getting ready to launch the 6th OPINION Joint Working Groups Meeting and 2nd Computational Opinion Analysis (COpA) Training school at University of Elbasan Aleksandër Xhuvani! 🇦🇱
www.opinion-network.eu

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · May 17

What makes you so sure GenAI doesn't know Denglisch? It is trained on online content...

Reposted by Amy Bruckman, Mor Naaman, Patricia Aufderheide , and 9 more Amy Bruckman, Mor Naaman, Patricia Aufderheide, Scott A. Hale, Fabio Giglietto, Christian Baden, Giulia Sandri, Jessica Vitak, Aleksandra Kuczerawy, Simon Munzert, Kevin Coe, Heidi Tworek

Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · May 13

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · May 12

👍 for all but the first half of the last sentence...

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · May 5

If you like that, you'll love this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What does the Web remember of its deleted past? An archival reconstruction of the former Yugoslav top-level domain - Anat Ben-David, 2016

This article argues that the use of the Web as a primary source for studying the history of nations is conditioned by the structural ties between sovereignty an...

journals.sagepub.com

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ECPR Digital Authoritarianism Research Network @digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social · Apr 28

📍 "Propaganda as a Social Process: Erecting Monopolies of Truth in a High-Choice Digital Information Environment" by Christian Baden
📆 8 May 2025, Thursday 15:00 - 16:30 CET
Follow ecpr.eu/Events/Stand... for registering.
@ecpr.bsky.social

Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · Apr 27

That is great news.
Validation! 💟
Next step: Theory-grounded operationalization 🙃

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Apr 14

OPENAI BELIEVES IT CAN CHARGE $20,000 PER MONTH FOR DOCTORATE-LEVEL AI- THE INFORMATION

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