📢 Prof. Joe Walther (UC Santa Barbara) will speak in Duisburg on 11 Dec, 10:00 (LE 104) about online hate — and why it often targets fellow haters rather than victims. 💥👥
Curious how this affects discourse and trust online? Join us for insights that matter beyond academia.
➡️ What’s your biggest question about online hate?
#OnlineHate #DigitalSociety #CommunicationResearch #MediaStudies #UARuhr #ResearchTalk #SocialMediaStudies #TrustOnline

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🎙️ Excited to share my conversation on Forskningspodden Karlstad University about my PhD research: AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age.

🎧 Listen here: https://www.kau.se/forskningspodden-137-ai-news-and-state

📖 Thesis (Open Access): https://kau.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1952107&dswid=-5435

Thanks to Magnus and Samieh for a rich and inspiring discussion!

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Journalism #JournalismStudies #CommunicationResearch #MediaStudies #DigitalMedia #MediaInnovation #NewsIndustry #ChinaMedia

Forskningspodden #137 - AI, News, and the State

Karlstads universitet

🚀 Thrilled to share my new commentary, co-authored with T.J. Thomson, just published in the Communication Research and Practice Journal:
“Rethinking journalistic autonomy in the algorithmic era: toward context-aware, value-driven, and human-centred research into journalistic AI.”

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2025.2550895

#Journalism #AI #ResponsibleAI #MediaInnovation #Journalism #AI #JournalisticAI #AlgorithmicJournalism #DigitalJournalism #AIandMedia #MediaStudies #CommunicationResearch

📢 Job Alert: Postdoc at University of Amsterdam - Amserdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)

Estimation & Implications of Invisible Languages on the Internet

* 20-month full-time, starting Jan 2026
* Research #LinguisticJustice, build tools, lead workshops

Work with faculty, international non-profits ( @PublicKnowledgeProject, @RespondCrisis Translation, and @wikimediafoundation ) and language communities!

https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-position-on-estimation-and-implications-of-invisible-languages-on-the-internet-netherlands-14301

#AcademicMastodon #ScholComm #CommunicationResearch

Our PhD students presented great research at the 2025 Tri-School PhD Conference at American University! From examining digital platforms to the political economy of media, they joined peers from the School of International Service & Public Affairs in shaping future discourse.

#PhDConference #DigitalDemocracy #CommunicationResearch

New publication out in #SCM (#OpenAccess):

I had the pleasure of contributing to a study initiated by @chainsawriot and Rainer Freudenthaler that aimed at generating a synthetic #news corpus to validate generic frame detection methods.

Punchline: Measuring generic frames is more than complicated--and whether the concept can be employed in #CommunicationResearch in a valid and reliable manner seems somewhat questionable.

https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-101

#Framing @commodon @communicationscholars

📚Explore ASCoR's 25th anniversary open access book "Communication Research into the Digital Society", written by 48 colleagues of the department! ✨The book provides an in depth overview of the cutting edge academic work produced by the ASCoR researchers and is a great introduction to the important and exciting field of Communicational Science ✨ Have a read and immerse yourself! Find the full publication here: https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895525 #ASCoR25 #CommunicationResearch🎉

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Researchers from Boston College and Howard University recently published a study on how people react to undesirable outcomes caused by AI-made decisions.

As #AI takes on more decisions that used to be made by human experts, it’s important for #security and #privacy professionals to understand how stakeholders evaluate AI’s decision fairness, mistakes, and unfavorable consequences.

Read the research paper below.

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How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability

Abstract. AI can make mistakes and cause unfavorable consequences. It is important to know how people react to such AI-driven negative consequences and subseque

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