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Sonja Utz

@sonja-utz.de

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

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Thou Shalt Not Illegally Start Wars Trump bombed Venezuela last night.

WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING?! HE MUST BE IMPEACHED!!! NOW!!!

03.01.2026 17:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 2636 ๐Ÿ” 554 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 132 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

It's terrible. And I hoped this year would be better ..

03.01.2026 18:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Schรถn, wenn einem zweimal am Tag ein ICE vor der Nase wegfรคhrt. So komme ich nie an

30.12.2025 13:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Do fears drive media consumption? A longitudinal study on the relationships between different fears and media consumption during COVID-19 in Germany During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, cross-sectional work identified differential relationships between health-related vs. economic fears and the consumption of quality versus alternativ...

New paper co-authored with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and @lpummerer.bsky.social out: We used five waves of longitudinal data to untangle how health vs. economic fears relate between- and within-subjects to quality vs. alternative media use www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

16.12.2025 09:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Go work with Kou! Autocorrect kept trying to replace his name with "Joy", which is pretty appropriate because he's a joy to work with and a fantastic mentor to his students!

11.12.2025 08:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Nico presenting

Nico presenting

Nico presenting the results from our egocentric biases meet biased algorithms-project at the transformativ conference in Heilbronn @everydaymedialab.bsky.social

05.12.2025 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wir versinken in Schrott Ein Viertel der meistgeklickten TikTok-Suchergebnisse ist kรผnstlich erzeugt. Oft ohne Kennzeichnung, oft tรคuschend echt. Welche Orientierung bleibt in dieser neuen Realitรคt? Im August 2025 bemerkte de...

Das Internet droht im synthetischen Mรผll zu versinken. Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn: รœberall ist kรผnstlicher Content, auch bekannt als โ€˜AI Slopโ€™. Wie gefรคhrlich ist das fรผr unsere Wissensinfrastruktur? ๐Ÿ‘‡
www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-versinke... #Wisskomm @aiforensics.org @kurzgesagt.org

24.11.2025 09:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Not if you live close to Stuttgart...the trains to Tรผbingen once more won't run in the first three weeks of December ...:-(

19.11.2025 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

:-(

19.11.2025 07:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
China Scholarship Council Program

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...

03.11.2025 08:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LLMs Can Get Brain Rot New finding: LLMs Can Get Brain Rot if being fed trivial, engaging Twitter/X content.

Garbage in, garbage out - LLM models can get brainrot, too llm-brain-rot.github.io

23.10.2025 11:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Busy but inspiring days: first #MediaPsych25, than the joint #Digikomm&HMC conference and now in train to Amsterdam for a PhD defense tomorrow.

18.09.2025 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€žAfD legt zu, Grรผne verlieren"

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

Aber auch richtig ist:

โ€žAfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grรผne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRWโ€œ

Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.

15.09.2025 07:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 3104 ๐Ÿ” 854 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
Price best abstract

Price best abstract

Nice surprise in the board meeting ;-) #mediapsych25

12.09.2025 13:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Great talk by @anneo.bsky.social about the eras of social media #mediapsych25

12.09.2025 12:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@stefaniehklein.bsky.social presenting the results of our longitudinal study on the relationship between tool vs. actor+perception of communicative AI on credibility # mediapsych25

11.09.2025 15:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Mediapsych25 started with inspiring methodological discussions this morning, followed by many good talks

11.09.2025 12:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The female speaker standing in front of the slides, with catchy (and not necessarily evidence based) claims from haidts book on the anxious generation

The female speaker standing in front of the slides, with catchy (and not necessarily evidence based) claims from haidts book on the anxious generation

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)

11.09.2025 11:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load Knowing where expertise is in oneโ€™s network is essential for knowledge transfer and collaboration. Browsing social media can foster ambient awareness of who-knows-what. Although ambient awareness i...

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 ;-))

08.09.2025 14:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Toll Bahn. Man muss immer noch in Reutlingen umsteigen, 20 Minuten sollten ja an sich reichen, aber wir sind noch spรคter und statt dass der dann 5 Minuten wartet, kriegen wir alle jetzt nochmal 26 Minuten drauf #sweg weiรŸ schon, warum ich zuletzt geradelt bin

08.09.2025 06:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats - well deserved!

22.08.2025 06:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

19.08.2025 12:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and ๐Ÿ™‹ with questions

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

15.08.2025 05:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What do you mean by โ€œsocial mediaโ€? 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

What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Wellโ€ฆ 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...

25.07.2025 13:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
"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."

"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."

Ich habe die in diesem โ€œPoliticoโ€-Auszug beschriebene AfD-Strategie รผbrigens 2017 schon mal aufgeschrieben. Hergeleitet aus der Literatur รผber die Polarisierung in den USA. Das ist alles weder neu noch รผberraschend. Nur fรผr die Union offenbar. Es geht um WIR gegen DIE.

14.07.2025 20:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 241 ๐Ÿ” 71 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Die Strecke Tรผbingen-Nรผrtingen kann man echt nicht mehr pendeln. Seit Mai 20 Minuten die normale Verspรคtung, Ausfรคlle, keine zutreffende Info. Heute schon wieder (mindestens, steh ja noch) ne Stunde verloren. SWEG ja leider nicht auf bluesky #Bahn #failure

07.07.2025 17:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited to join the workshop "Beyond Commands:
The Evolving Relationship between
Humans and Voice-Enabled AI" at the beautiful castle in Tรผbingen today!

03.07.2025 06:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To clarify: This is for people with a master degree who want to pursue a PhD

14.06.2025 13:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d) The Leibniz-Institut fรผr 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...

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...

12.06.2025 23:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

would have been nice to see you again!

12.06.2025 19:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0