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Cornelia Mothes
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professor of journalism & media management @ Macromedia U Leipzig, Germany / political communication, journalism, media psychology, political psychology

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vkarnowski.bsky.social
Out now in Online Media and Global Communication together with Katharina Knop-Huelss and Zoe Olbermann "Mobile news access, mobile news repertoires, and users’ tendency to talk about the news – an experience sampling study on mobile news consumption" www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Mobile news access, mobile news repertoires, and users’ tendency to talk about the news – an experience sampling study on mobile news consumption
Purpose Over the past three decades, our media ecologies have substantially transformed, changing how people get in touch with the news. These changes have also led to higher variability in news acces...
www.degruyter.com
June 5, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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vkarnowski.bsky.social
Happy to announce the publication of "The Mobile Media Debate: Challenging Viewpoints Across Epistemologies," co-edited by @tvpape.bsky.social and myself! The book features 10 debates about mobile media and society at the micro, meso, and macro levels. (1/6)
The Mobile Media Debate: Challenging Viewpoints Across Epistemologies
An accessible, engaging, and timely overview of the key debates surrounding the role of mobile media in today’s society. Edited by Thilo von Pape and Veronika Karnowski, this volume includes contribut...
www.routledge.com
April 10, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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jpstarling.bsky.social
Above your search results, all the way to the right, it's under tools -> results.
April 27, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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snurb.info
📰 In light of , I spoke to Kate Lyons at @guardianaustralia.bsky.social about the continuing decline of Xitter the other day:

The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’
In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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ifpmainz.bsky.social
📣Neues von der Langzeitstudie Medienvertrauen 📣: Medienvertrauen hat sich etwa auf Vor-Pandemie-Niveau konsolidiert, ÖRR nach wie vor mit vergleichsweise hohen Vertrauenswerten, extreme Medienkritik erreicht Niveau vor der Pandemie
👉PM: t.co/RhUMdTheLF
👉Aufsatz in Media Perspektiven: t.co/djCJasrauf
April 17, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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uschwertberger.bsky.social
Gerade in Krisenzeiten ist Propaganda ein wichtiges Beeinflussungsmittel für (politische) Akteure. Aber wie funktioniert Propaganda - und warum ist sie digital so erfolgreich? @valeriehase.bsky.social und ich geben Einblicke im Forschungsmonitor der LfM NRW:

www.medienanstalt-nrw.de/fileadmin/us...
www.medienanstalt-nrw.de
April 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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dgrand.bsky.social
🚨WP🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show that brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
🡆Effect undiminished after 2mo
🡆Works even on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 3, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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keithwilson.eu
This is—or rather should be—an absolute scandal. The UK’s University of Kent is closing its highly ranked Department of #Philosophy. This undermines the very idea of a university. #HigherEducation #PhilSky #Academia
March 21, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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re-publica.com
Es ist soweit – die ersten Sprecher*innen aus dem #CfP stehen fest!

Wir freuen uns sehr, euch heute die ersten Highlights vorstellen zu können: re-publica.com/de/news/erst... #WhoCares #rp24

In den nächsten Wochen werden noch Weitere folgen!
Visual mit Fotos einiger Speaker aus dem CfP zur #rp24. Mit dabei sind: Carla Hustedt, Elisa Lindinger, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, Simon Höher, Arne Semsrott, Bijan Moini, Sara Maria Manzo, Jochen Wegner, Susanne Amann, Julia Behre, Annika Joeres, Bernhard Pörksen, Barbara Blaha, Matthias Spielkamp, Charlotte Kunath, Dax Werner, Moritz Hürtgen, Ren Loren Britton, Iz Paehr, Leonhard Dobusch & Mark Surman.
March 21, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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mss7676.bsky.social
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF A.I.

Conference program now available with ...
▶️keynotes by Shirley Ho & Christoph Neuberger
▶️panel discussion w/ M Bischofberger, E Laukötter, J Pridmore & M Taddicken
▶️10 panels & 36 talks
▶️https://ikmz.uzh.ch/en/aiscicomm24

Info about registration soon! 🙏
Conference program of the "Science Communication in the Age of AI" conference, see also https://ikmz.uzh.ch/en/aiscicomm24
March 12, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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amengel.bsky.social
Cheers to Vin, @bnbakker.bsky.social, Neil, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for this. Much needed.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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senjapost.bsky.social
New study with Nils Bienzeisler. Based on experiments in three controversies, we show that an attitudinal polarization of trust in science can be mitigated when scientists adopt the styles of honest brokers versus that of epistocrats when giving public policy advice, i.e.... (1/2).
March 5, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Twitter use predicts a substantial, immediate (30 minute) decline in reported well-being, and an increase in outrage, polarization, and sense of belonging.

Now we need parallel research on other microblogging platforms. I'd be surprised if the effect were vastly different. #CSSky
Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage - Communications Psychology
Data obtained from a 7-day experience sampling method in a sample of US American users of Twitter (now X) shows short term relationships between Twitter use and wellbeing, sense of belonging, and expe...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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lakens.bsky.social
New blog post: Why Effect Sizes Selected for Significance are Inflated daniellakens.blogspot.com/2024/02/why-... I tried to explain this important topic as clearly as I can. I also explain why bias adjusted estimates are somewhat useful, but Type M errors are not, and how to prevent bias.
February 9, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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rossdahlke.bsky.social
Twitter is a highly politically polarized place, with out-group network interactions receiving less engagement and being more toxic, finds @maxfalken.bsky.social @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Affective and interactional polarization align across countries Max Falkenberg1,*, Fabiana Zollo2,3, Walter Quattrociocchi4, Jürgen Pfeffer5, and Andrea Baronchelli1,6,* FIG. 1. The network of political Twitter interactions is segregated across countries and polarized within then. The figure depicts a co-retweet network where nodes correspond to individual politicians and an edge is drawn between two nodes if those politicians share a common retweeter (see Methods). Square nodes correspond to the ideological right, star nodes correspond to the ideological left, as determined using the latent ideology (see Fig. 2). The network visualization is produced using a force directed drawing algorithm (see Methods). FIG. 2. Political interaction networks are structurally polarized in each of the nine countries studied. For each country, we compute the latent ideology of Twitter users based on their retweet interactions with elected politicians (see Methods). In each subfigure, the histogram outlined in bold shows the number of Twitter users with an ideology score in the binned range. Colored bars show the modal political party of users in the binned ideology range. Area in white corresponds to users without a unique modal political party or interacting with other political parties. Canada: {LP: Liberal Party, CP: Conservative Party}. France: {EM: En Marche, FN: Rassemblement National, UMP: Les Républicains}. Germany: {COA: Coalition (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands / Freie Demokratische Partei / Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), AfD: Alternative für Deutschland, CDU: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands / Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern, LP: Die Linke}. Italy: {PD: Partito Democratico, FIG. 5. Media reliability scores are lower for the ideological right than the ideological left. Boxplots of the media reliability scores corresponding to news domain URLs found in Twitter posts authored by the ideological left and right respectively. Reliability scores are provided by News- Guard (see Methods); data does not cover Poland, Spain or Turkey. Boxplot show the bootstrapped median, interquartile range (IQR), whiskers for 1.5 times the IQR from the hinge, and points for outliers (see Methods). Stars indicate statistical significance using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test (see Methods): p < 0.05: *, p < 0.01: **, p < 0.001: ***.
February 2, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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alanjcard.bsky.social
[Redacted]
Florida makes it official: Universities to drop sociology as a core course
The decision stems from an argument that students can be “radicalized” by the subject. An American history course will replace it.
www.tampabay.com
January 26, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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christinagahn.bsky.social
Und der Paper-Link ist auch kaputt.. 🫣 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.12633
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January 23, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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christinagahn.bsky.social
@tamaraehs.bsky.social spricht im Verfassungsausschuss über @krausewe.bsky.social und meine Forschung und die Forderung, die Qualität von Wahlumfragen zu stärken. 📊🙏👏
Zum nachhören:
parlament.gv.at/aktuelles/medi…
Zum Paper: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14 
January 23, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
oh so the NYT actually underplayed how obscene it was forward.com/opinion/5769...
I am not sure, however, that it will. After the visit to Auschwitz, Musk and Shapiro addressed the conference. Their conversation was preceded with a presentation: a video montage of tweets that could have been sent to spread information about the Holocaust if it were taking place in the time of social media, concluding that X could have saved lives.
January 22, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Oh no, the fantasy tweets from the Elon Musk–Ben Shapiro visit include Community Notes heroically debunking @AuschwitzCampOfficial's claims that the Jews are actually having a great time. Also annoying arguments with Holocaust deniers—that's X all right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmlS...
Imagined tweet from official Auschwitz account: Members of the thriving Jewish community in our camp perform a rehearsal with musical instruments. High Spirits! Community Notes: The Jewish community in Auschwitz is striving for food, not thriving. The orchestra is being used to help Nazis kill Jews in masses. This is admitted On August 14 by John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War: Imagined tweets: Stop the genocide now! Reply: IDK. It sounds unreal. How can we be sure he's right? We've received letters from our friends in Treblinka. Reply: He documented everything. Look at the drawings in the report, and read the lists! The Nazis are not playing games. Did you know that SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann came to Budapest? He's a well-known murderer! Imagined tweet that looks like it's being written while we watch: I can't believe what I just saw. The Nazis told the Jews to get inside the synagogue - entire families infants in their mothers' arms, right? They've closed the doors and windows with metal bars and then SET IT ON FIRE! OH. MY. GOD. The world must (know) Imagined tweets: Six months have passed since the deportations from Warsaw began. Six months of constant fear. We all remember well the days of terror during which 300,000 of our brothers and sisters were cruelly put to death in the death camp of Treblinka. We have had enough. It's time to fight back. Join the Jewish Fighting Organization, under my command, and attack Nazis in Warsaw Ghetto! Reply: Give them hell!
January 23, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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rossdahlke.bsky.social
Although corrections to misinformation to work on average, they are 52% more likely to backfire when the correction comes from political outgroup members, finds @diegoreinero.bsky.social @steverathje.bsky.social @jayvanbavel.bsky.social & colleagues polisky commsky doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Partisans are more likely to entrench their beliefs in misinformation when political outgroup members correct claims Image description Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4
January 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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kradke.bsky.social
Huge crowds of protesters have descended on cities in Germany, as demonstrations calling for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gain momentum.
Germany’s far-right AfD face mounting protests over plan to deport migrants | CNN
Huge crowds of protesters are set to descend on cities in Germany this weekend, as demonstrations calling for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gain momentum.
www.cnn.com
January 20, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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antennedowideit.bsky.social
Mein Kollege Sebastian Haupt hat heute gebastelt und diese tolle Grafik gebaut: Übersicht über die gerade angekündigten Demos gegen Rechts. @correctiv.org
January 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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reuters-world-rss.bsky.social
'Nazis, no thank you'; Germans take to streets to call for AfD ban
'Nazis, no thank you'; Germans take to streets to call for AfD ban
Protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany party are gaining momentum in the wake of a report that two senior party members joined a meeting to discuss plans for the mass deportation of citizens of foreign origin.
www.reuters.com
January 17, 2024 at 10:20 AM