A good Telegram channel
A good Telegram channel
Question: Iโll be teaching a course on Social Network Analysis this year. Can anyone recommend a podcast episode on (social) networks that will get my students hyped about networks in general?
Another article without paywall: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cool - Meta considers bringing back facial recognition to their smart glasses.
www.platformer.news/meta-facial-...
โLongitudinal [communication] studies make more conceptual contributions and receive more citations than non-longitudinal studies.โ
Published in Journal of Communication:
doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Thatโs what I use, too
New School Guidance announces:
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
A very interesting summary and contextualization! I definitely feel the last sentence:
โIโm just not sure what weโre supposed to do with that knowledge.โ
Whatsapp is about to become a VLOP
www.reuters.com/technology/e...
What a fantastic resource!
Emiliano Trerรฉ, describing the physical setting in which his ethnography of a student movement's information took place, sounds outright romantic!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org
The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022
with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social
>> 2020-2022
>> 715 channels & 229 public groups
>> 5,641,026 messages
>> Manually curated
>> Open for researchers
Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow
(van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.)
I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists.
www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
Medical cannabis suppliers in Berlin are now using Telegramโs notorious image as a stepping stoneโฆ
(Cannabis has recently been de-criminalized in Germany)
Am 16.โ18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu โUtopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaftโ, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. Mรคrz 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in ๐ฉ๐ช.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. ๐๐)
#IJPP2025
Day 2 of #IJPP2025:
Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Re-reading Chadwick's classic work on "The Hybrid Media System" feels wild, when it shows pre-TikTok/Reels media consumption:
"By 2011 [...] Americans were watching video on a mobile phone for an average of four hours per month. These figures may be small [...] but they are still significant"
๐ฅณExcited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020โ2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social
The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a โcomeback of the political centerโ. We have seen this frame before, implying โthe centerโ has an ideological substance and is stable. But โthe centerโ keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
Wie haben sich die Netzwerke von Rechtsextremismus & Co. und deren Kommunikation wรคhrend unseres dreijรคhrigen Telegram-Monitorings entwickelt? In der neuen MATR-Ausgabe wagen Christian Donner, @wynbrodersen.bsky.social, @maik.machine-vs-rage.net & Michael Schmidt den Rรผckblick. 1|13
The times are dire, but some online platforms still seem to deplatform right-wing extremists. The head of the Austrian far-right โIdentitarian Movementโ Martin Sellner reports to be cut off of his crypto monetization channels.
Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback!
(11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...)
Abstract
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: โFar-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstreamโ doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social๐งต
Economist goals
Paper titles from different fields sometimes sound very niche. But this one caught my attention and I was very lucky to continue reading. This is so insightful and enriching for my own work. Highly recommend!
doi.org/10.1002/asi....
โScience in fact is only just beginning, and almost all scientists who have ever lived are still alive.โ
Stafford Beer starting strong in his โBrain of the firmโ
You wouldn't know this from following mediated debates in Germany, but it turns out there are reasons beyond illdefined anxieties about immigration for where and why the far right wins votes...
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Die Mittelbauveranstaltung ~Pizza & Perspektiven~ der DGPuK Fachgruppen Methoden und Medienรถkonomie, moderiert von @buehling.bsky.social und Miriam Bernhard war ein voller Erfolg!