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Sonja Utz
@sonja-utz.de
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media psychologist | prof at @IWMTue
| interests: knowledge-related (effects of) social media use, ambient awareness, human-machine communication, algorithm acceptance

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 8d
The new call for CSC fellowships is open - if you're a Chinese student who wants to work on health influencers on social media, check out my project #08: uni-tuebingen.de/internationa...
China Scholarship Council Program
uni-tuebingen.de

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · 19d
Garbage in, garbage out - LLM models can get brainrot, too llm-brain-rot.github.io
LLMs Can Get Brain Rot
New finding: LLMs Can Get Brain Rot if being fed trivial, engaging Twitter/X content.
llm-brain-rot.github.io

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 18
Busy but inspiring days: first #MediaPsych25, than the joint #Digikomm&HMC conference and now in train to Amsterdam for a PhD defense tomorrow.

Reposted by Weert Canzler, Sonja Utz

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Sep 15
„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren"

Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden.

Aber auch richtig ist:

„AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“

Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 12
Nice surprise in the board meeting ;-) #mediapsych25
Price best abstract

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 12
Great talk by @anneo.bsky.social about the eras of social media #mediapsych25

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 11
@stefaniehklein.bsky.social presenting the results of our longitudinal study on the relationship between tool vs. actor+perception of communicative AI on credibility # mediapsych25

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 11
#Mediapsych25 started with inspiring methodological discussions this morning, followed by many good talks

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · Sep 11
In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)
The female speaker standing in front of the slides, with catchy (and not necessarily evidence based) claims from haidts book on the anxious generation

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 8
Skimming social media posts can help you build ambient awareness about who-knows-what in your network. This can even happen under cognitive load: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @everydaymedialab.bsky.social (so between all my complaints about trains, there might be something useful ;-))
Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load
Knowing where expertise is in one’s network is essential for knowledge transfer and collaboration. Browsing social media can foster ambient awareness of who-knows-what. Although ambient awareness i...
www.tandfonline.com

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Sep 8
Toll Bahn. Man muss immer noch in Reutlingen umsteigen, 20 Minuten sollten ja an sich reichen, aber wir sind noch später und statt dass der dann 5 Minuten wartet, kriegen wir alle jetzt nochmal 26 Minuten drauf #sweg weiß schon, warum ich zuletzt geradelt bin

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Aug 22
Congrats - well deserved!

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Svenja @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social · Aug 19
Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Aug 15
Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and 🙋 with questions

@ddc-sdu.bsky.social #commsky #journalism #technogarchy

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jul 25
What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear?
In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency

academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...
What do you mean by “social media”? Introducing the Reporting Items for Social Media Research (RISoMeR)
Abstract. Scholars from various disciplines study social media. However, neither researchers nor users have a unified understanding of social media. Even m
academic.oup.com

Reposted by Jesper Strömbäck, Sonja Utz, Anna María , and 1 more

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Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social · Apr 9
🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being.

Apply by: 11 May 2025
Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement)

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research
The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...
jobs.uzh.ch

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · Jul 14
Ich habe die in diesem “Politico”-Auszug beschriebene AfD-Strategie übrigens 2017 schon mal aufgeschrieben. Hergeleitet aus der Literatur über die Polarisierung in den USA. Das ist alles weder neu noch überraschend. Nur für die Union offenbar. Es geht um WIR gegen DIE.
"Our goal is to create a situation in which the political divide no longer runs between the AfD and the other political currents, but rather one in which a bourgeois-conservative camp and a radicalizing left-wing camp face each other, comparable to the situation in the U.S.," reads an internal party paper, seen by POLITICO. The aim, according to the strategy, is to create a "duel between two irreconcilably opposed camps."

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jul 7
Die Strecke Tübingen-Nürtingen kann man echt nicht mehr pendeln. Seit Mai 20 Minuten die normale Verspätung, Ausfälle, keine zutreffende Info. Heute schon wieder (mindestens, steh ja noch) ne Stunde verloren. SWEG ja leider nicht auf bluesky #Bahn #failure

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jul 3
Excited to join the workshop "Beyond Commands:
The Evolving Relationship between
Humans and Voice-Enabled AI" at the beautiful castle in Tübingen today!

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jun 14
To clarify: This is for people with a master degree who want to pursue a PhD
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I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
www.psychjob.eu

Reposted by Kai Sassenberg, Sabine Pahl, Veronika Karnowski

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jun 12
I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
www.psychjob.eu

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jun 12
would have been nice to see you again!

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Jun 12
The doctoral consortium is starting - looking forward to discussing the projects! #ica25 @icamobile.bsky.social #ica_cat

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · May 19
Ich würde eigentlich erwarten, dass die Führungsspitzen von Viessmann, Vaillant und Buderus langsam mal laut und deutlich sagen, dass hier gerade die akute Gefahr besteht, dass die Fossilnostalgiker in diesem Land die nächste deutsche Branche an den Rand des Abgrunds geleiten.

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · May 16
Also der Zug nach Tübingen ist schon ne halbe Stunde zu spät (beim daheim losfahren nur 13 Minuten) und als Ausgleich für die frustrierten Fahrgäste fährt er jetzt nur bis Reutlingen. So wird das nur war mir der #bahn

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · May 8
I'm already back, but I spent March and April there; funded by my institute. And yes, I also fell in love a bit with the city ;-)

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · May 8
Did I already mention that I have a lovely team? @everydaymedialab.bsky.social back from 2 months lab visit in Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social (Homero Gil de Zuniga)

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · May 7
Zweiter Tag diese Woche ohne gemütliches Frühstück und ausreichend Kaffee, weil der 7:57 nicht fährt...

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Everyday Media Lab @everydaymedialab.bsky.social · May 5
Did you know that #Skype will be shut down today? Here's an interview with our lab member Carolin, who's investigating how you can still keep in touch ✉️ with your #long-distance friends👭: www.spiegel.de/psychologie/...
(S+) Freundschaften: Wie wir es schaffen, auf Distanz in Kontakt zu bleiben
Meine besten Freundinnen und ich halten seit Jahren Kontakt über Skype. Nun wird der Messenger abgeschaltet. Wie pflegt man Beziehungen trotz räumlicher Trennung? Zwei Expertinnen geben Tipps.
www.spiegel.de

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Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de · Apr 30
Important because many studies on #algorithmicfairness only use one general fairness item or adapt measures from procedural fairness without considering issues like #groupdiscrimination. Our multidimensional measure addresses this problem; you can also use just one subscale depending on your RQ