Our new Postdocs @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social & @hannahdecker.bsky.social plus our current fellows @fprochazka.bsky.social & Maryam Khaleghipour present their research programs.
Covering politician-influencers, targeted ads, views on climate change, & digital hate speech.

Und zu Fact-Checking die Arbeiten von Regina Cazzamatta: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

Altay et al. (2023). Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

They have bike lanes in roundabouts 🤯Biking is really something else when not almost getting hit by a truck every five minutes!

Findings are based on survey data from political journalists in Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Full paper (open access) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This tendency to project is stronger among right-leaning journalists, but weaker when journalists are experts on a topic or think public opinion is ambiguous. Experience and audience orientation don’t seem to make much difference.

Congratulations, Emil! 🎉

Danke an Nina Springer und Hans-Jürgen Bucher und natürlich die Herausgeber:innen für die vielen hilfreichen Kommentare zum Beitrag!

3️⃣ Wie steht es um die "tatsächliche" Qualität der Medien, gibt es den oft bedauerten Qualitätsverlust im Journalismus wirklich? (Spoiler: so pauschal nicht)
4️⃣ Wie nimmt das Publikum Qualität im Journalismus wahr und wie lassen sich falsche Wahrnehmungen erklären?

1️⃣ Was bedeutet Qualität im Journalismus eigentlich, was sind wichtige Kriterien für Qualität und wer stellt welche Qualitätsansprüche mit welchen Gründen?
2️⃣ Wie wird Qualität im Journalismus selbst diskursiv verhandelt, sichergestellt und kontrolliert?

Ich durfte ein Kapitel zu "Journalismus und Qualität" beisteuern und beleuchte journalistische Qualität darin aus Perspektive der Kommunikator-, Inhalts- und Publikumforschung. Es geht um vier Themen:

Of course, I hope it is used for good things, but if LLMs help people write, access knowledge or automate tedious tasks, I am glad my work helped.

What I publish is out there, and people or companies can use it to their advantage/profit. I don’t need to give permission or be aware of all the uses of my work (I don't even know how I could). It is part of human knowledge and others are free to use it.

My texts are constantly stripped of context and intention by *humans* who mis-cite my work, interpret it to fit their narrative and so on. But that is okay, it is part of knowledge spreads, and I probably do the same sometimes.

(Besides, as far as I know most AI companies actually don’t profit (yet), because it is staggeringly expensive to run these models, develop them, etc.)

Intellectual labor is constantly “absorbed into systems that generate value elsewhere". Taxpayer-funded Universities train students, and companies profit from their skills. Social media companies profit from user generated content, advertisers use research to make more effective ads…