Democratic contestation online & off. Global media debates on religion/secularism, terrorism, refugees, climate change. Text mining. Multimodal analysis

Mannheim, Germany
Joined February 2011
Discourse integration in positional online news reader comments:Patterns of responsiveness across types of democracy, digital platforms,& perspective camps,by Julia Jakob (@jjakob8),Chung-hong Chan,Timo Dobbrick,@hwessler /New Media& Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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What are the implications of studying #AI from a communication and media studies perspective? My new review article out in Communication Theory: academic.oup.com/ct/advance-… discussing works by @TeachGuz @David_Gunkel
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Congrats @adierussell and @mj_powers ! An important book. Glad to be a part of it! @cmcilwain @bilgeyesil1 @silviowaisbord @M_Aronczyk @danielchallin @couldrynick @hwessler @Yangguobin
OUT NOW: 'RETHINKING MEDIA RESEARCH FOR CHANGING SOCIETIES , edited by @mj_powers & Adrienne Russell, is an innovative and multi-vocal provocation for media scholars to be better activists of their own work.' — @zizip Learn more: ow.ly/3qTj50Bg7eA #MediaandPolitics
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💥New Publication in JoC💥 Togehter with my amazing colleagues @jake_fisher and Rene Weber (@MediaNeuro), we show that moralized news and sociopolitical events dynamically reinforce each other. More info in the post 👇
Happy to see our latest pub (led by @freddy_hopp) is out at JoC! Here, we use hidden Markov modeling to take a look at the reciprocal relationships between morally-charged news coverage and sociopolitical events. academic.oup.com/joc/article…
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BREAKING: #ica20 encountered a crucial security issue - long story we will relay in a bit. We have now added password protection. You will now be asked for a password when you login to the site. Please select "forgot password" to reset. It will send you an email to set pw. pls RT
📢Pub alert. Online @poli_com ⬇️ The Trouble with Sharing Your Privates: Pursuing Ethical Open Science & Collaborative Research across National Jurisdictions Using Sensitive Data @vanatteveldt, @scott_althaus & @hwessler Timely for #ica20 #opencomm! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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This thread is hilarious--do read it all the way down. To all my academic colleagues out there, may I present the winner of today's collective humor challenge:
Google Scholar has parsed this cafeteria lunch menu as an author list, and it's delightful
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Das @rki_de sucht dringend Unterstützung im Krisenmanagement. Stellenausschreibung richtet sich vor allem an Studierende, die bereit sind, ein Urlaubssemester einzulegen rki.de/DE/Content/Service/St….
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Facebook won’t limit political ad targeting or stop false claims under new ad rules washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Erste Publikation des Jahres 2020 im Journal "Political Communication" von Prof. Matthias Kohring und Fabian Zimmermann:
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Doing research on software programmers, game designers, the creators and maintainers of algorithms and platforms? Come join @lilltrasan and Ulrike Klinger for an international workshop in beautiful Malmö,April 2020! behindthealgorithm2020.de @JWI_Berlin @pukberlin @MalmoUniversity
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CfP for the 3rd Weizenbaum Conference taking place on the 4-5th of June at the Urania in Berlin. Subject: “Democracy in Flux – Order, Dynamics and Voices in Digital Public Spheres” Deadline: 31/1/2020 @JWI_Berlin weizenbaum-conference.org/
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Reading recommendation: approaches and results of the 2019 Shared Task on the Identification of Offensive Language (GermEval). New this year: Identifying implicit offensive Language in German Tweets. Spoiler: All best performing systems employed BERT! ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/…
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Join us tomorrow for a lecture by @hwessler on responsible terrorism coverage. Learn more about how media can cover attacks without serving terrorist agendas. The event is chaired by our Professor Julian Wucherpfennig. hertie-school.org/en/respons…
Call for papers! Bitte teilen! 🤓 Für die kommenden 2 Themenhefte unserer Zeitschrift M&K suchen wir Manuskripte: 🔎Thema „Technik, Medien, Gender“ bis 15.11. ➡️bit.ly/2XXuc5Q 🔎Thema „Forschungssoftware in der Medienforschung" bis 30.11. ➡️ bit.ly/32SjKeK
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"They've pushed us to act faster." Chancellor Angela Merkel said young climate activists, like Greta Thunberg and #FridaysForFuture, have woken her government up to the dangers of climate change.
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Academic research is some of the most impactful work that happens with the Twitter API. As we plan for the future of our developer platform we want to learn more from this community. (Thread👇)
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