📢 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

Photo: Joseph Walther

🎙️ 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

🚀 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

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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.

https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/28/1/zmac029/6827859

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