We lost another titan of Communication scholarship today. Rest in Power #MonroePrice. My deepest sympathies to his friends, family, and many many mentees. #Commodon

www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/m...

📆 MONDAY FEB 23 📆

I’ll be in conversation with Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller and my coauthor @jesse about our book “The Secret Life of Data."

Online and free, hosted by @isoclive.

Register here […]

Here‘s my coeditors‘ and my introduction to the special issue: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1-3

All articles are #openaccess!

#commodon

Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
#computationalsocialscience #commodon […]

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#academia #academicChatter #commodon

RE: fediscience.org/@JohannesBreuer/11557107...

Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation!
@communicationscholars #commodon

For the next conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Christian Strippel, Silke Fürst, Christian Schwarzenegger, Erik Koenen, and I are organizing a panel on "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies".
Sumissions (abstracts, 200-300 […]

Within our project on research practices in Computational Communication Science (CCS), we are conducting a survey among CCS researchers. We would be grateful if you could participate (takes 10 to 15 minutes) and/or share the link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/AutoFrontCCS/
#commodon […]

Whiteboard listing "Campus Infrastructures": Cameras, lights, outlets, card scan thingy, directory, pipes, roadways/walkways, vent thing, antennas on roof, wifi routers in classrooms, emergency call boxes, projectors and AV systems, elevators, wire in tree -- lights?

Recently had Infrastructure Week™ in my Critical Internet Studies class -- I sent students to walk around campus and identify the various infrastructure and utilities that often go unnoticed

Student quote: "They're not actually hidden that well, but […]

[Original post on mastodon.benpettis.ninja]

Recruitment graphic for "Survey of Academic Twitter" Twitter (or X) has changed quite a lot in the past few years. I am researching how communication and media scholars use the platform and think about how it has changed. Please take this survey and share your thoughts! Contains a QR code and URL to the survey, as well as contact information for Ben Pettis <ben.pettis@richmond.edu>. Project reviewd and Approved by the University of Richmond Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (URIRB). For more information, email irb@richmond.edu or call (804) 484-1565. Project Number: URIRB250920

Hello Fediverse!

I’m studying how communication and media scholars think about Twitter/X and its recent whirlwind of changes. If this sounds like you (communication/media scholar, currently or previously used twitter, 18+ years), please take this […]

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New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/github.com/gesiscss/tube...
#computationalsocialscience @communicationscholars #commodon

A screenshot if the subject line of an email saying: Prof. Tim Schatto-Eckrodt - Unleash Your Insights at Machine Leaning-2026|Madrid|Spain. Highlighted in yellow are the words "Unleash Your Insights …"

Gotta say, at least this #ScienceSpam mail has found the perfect wording for what I (of course) always do at conferences: Unleash my insights

Yesterday, the NEH posted new FAQs about how compliance with executive orders may impact funding for research and teaching. See diff by clicking "Text Changes" at the top of the page: visualping.io/diff/764625674

#academia #research #dh #commodon

Publications Call for Chapter Abstractsfor the ECREA Open Access Book Series with Palgrave Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture Edited by Manuel Menke (U Copenhagen) &Gabriela Ferreira (…

🚨Call for Chapter Abstracts for the book proposal "Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture" in the ECREA Open Access Book Series. Send us your 200-word abstract by 03 March. More about theme and formalities here:
affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/publications/

#Commodon

The deadline is approaching! Submit to our issue on "Media and the past: Mediating the past" until 1 February 👏

www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/ne...
#Commodon #mediastudies

New publication in the GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data series by Julian Kohne, M. Rohangis Mohseni, Annika Deubel, and me: "How to Collect Data with the YouTube Data API"
https://rrr.is/ytapiguide
#computationalsocialscience
#commodon
@communicationscholars

reviewed Neil Verma's Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession, a really inventive and recursive trip into what it means to listen critically to podcasts https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2024.2425937 #soundstudies #commodon

When I went to see if "scoldiness" was a word, I bumped into a paper on some incidents on Mastodon: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
Oddly, I found out early that some Fediverse users screen out posts with "too many" hashtags. 😂 #Mastodon #Fediverse #Asstodon #Commodon #scoldiness

New open-access publication by Marco Wähner, Annika Deubel, @kwelle, and me: “Don’t research us”—How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11616-0...
@communicationscholars
#commodon
#researchethics

🆒✒️ The Dept. of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus U is hiring a tenure track asst prof of platform studies
www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure...

#commodons #commodon #mediastudies #academia #jobs

Hot off the press 🔥: Special issue on "Reproducibility and Replicability in Communication Research" edited by @drfollowmario and me, published open-acces in "Media and Communication": www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/is...
#commodon @communicationscholars

That sucks for sure. With no algorithmic amplification, using the right hashtags is really the only way to make your content be found.

I started following the #rstats hashtag and found some cool packages and discussions that I absolutely would have missed. #commodon is also worth following.

conditions and interesting research opportunities, in our friendly and inclusive research group. Closing date 15.12.22.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/23...

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