Lena Frischlich

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Researcher with a background in #MediaPsych and #Communication - trying to understand humans in the digital realm. #teamDemoRESILdigital #JuKo #MePsy
Lena FrischlichMar 5, 2023
Finally online 😍 In "#Populists’ Use of Nostalgia: A #SupervisedMachineLearning Approach" (https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19063), Lena Clever, Tim Wulf
Tim_Wildschut, Constantin Sedikides & I 1st developed a 🇩🇪 classifier to detect #nostalgia appeals using a psychologically-grounded approach and 2nd applied this classifier to the FB-posts of all big 🇩🇪 parties in 2019. Results show (a) psych matters & (b) populists know about the value of nostalgia=> Democratic memories are needed! We hope you like it!
Digital Memory and Populism| Populists’ Use of Nostalgia: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach | Frischlich | International Journal of Communication

Digital Memory and Populism| Populists’ Use of Nostalgia: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach

Lena FrischlichFeb 11, 2023
Fabio GigliettoFeb 11, 2023
Starting from next Monday, accessing Twitter for academic purposes will incur a fee. Expressing dissatisfaction will not yield any results. Our only recourse is to render the platform irrelevant by ceasing to utilize it.
Lena FrischlichFeb 10, 2023
Jay RosenFeb 10, 2023

Brookings Institution study:

"Conservative podcasters were 11 times as likely as liberal podcasters to share a claim that fact checkers could refute."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/technology/podcasts-steve-bannon-war-room-misinformation.html

To erase this kind of finding, you have to declare "there are no facts, really, just politics." But then there is no journalism, either. Which is exactly where the right wing has gone: disinformation is a myth.

"Mr. Bannon said in an interview that the Brookings report was a 'badge of honor'..."

#uspol #journalism

Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says

A large podcast study found that Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” had more falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims than other political talk shows.

The New York Times
Lena FrischlichFeb 8, 2023
ICAHDQFeb 7, 2023

#ICA23 Update: ICA has again partnered with KiddieCorp, a US based professional childcare agency, for parents in need of childcare during the ICA conference.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 12:00 Noon ICA Headquarters Time on 13 April 2023

All Details: https://www.icahdq.org/page/ica_kids_2023

Lena FrischlichFeb 6, 2023
Rebekah TrombleFeb 6, 2023

Twitter's announcement that it would restrict access to its API (w/o any details but going into effect in less than a week) threatens to cut off thousands of vital public-interest research, reporting, and civil society projects around the world.

The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has published an open letter and is organizing mutual aid for impacted researchers:

https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/

Letter: Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

Twitter's API restrictions threaten essential research, innovation, & knowledge. Stand together to protect the public goods from data access.

Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Lena FrischlichFeb 6, 2023
Richard FletcherFeb 6, 2023

New paper!

Some are concerned that news media unintentionally make misinformation worse by repeating false claims while reporting on them, or as part of debunking, fact-checking, etc.

However, across 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 our panel survey found that news use increased people's awareness of false claims without increasing their belief in them.

In some cases news media use even weakened false belief acquisition.

Open access paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612221148981

Lena FrischlichFeb 6, 2023
Mark RubinFeb 6, 2023

Recent psych methods papers:

Here’s a thread of five helpful articles from 2022 on psychological research methodology. They address outlier exclusion, longitudinal research, interventions, informed consent, and control variables. 🧵👉

#Outliers
#Longitudinal
#Interventions
#InformedConsent
#Debriefing
#ControlVariables
#Psychology
#Methodology
@psychology

1/6

Lena FrischlichFeb 3, 2023
Letzte Absolventenverabschiedung für mich am IFK in Münster, eröffnet von Ulrike Röttger ( im Bild).Immer ein schöner Abend, heute aber noch mal ganz besonders für mich. Passend dazu, die 🌈 Metapher von Schultz von Thun: der Regenbogen lebt vom "sowohl als auch", von ☔️ und 🌞 .
Lena FrischlichFeb 2, 2023
Dangerous Speech ProjectFeb 2, 2023
Exactly. Violent speech can’t be boiled down to a glossary list. This is why we created our #DangerousSpeech framework: https://dangerousspeech.org/guide/
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RT @evan_greer
I don’t want to jump the gun, but this is overkill. Maybe you should take a stab at the zillion real problems in the world like structural racism and climate change instead of handwringing over people saying “shoot me an email.” Not to beat it to death but this is a…
https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1621136396219043840
Dangerous Speech: A Practical Guide - Dangerous Speech Project

This guide - updated for 2019 - provides an in-depth exploration of dangerous speech and how to identify it, dangerous speech on the internet, and some promising efforts to reduce the harmful effects of speech.

Dangerous Speech Project
Lena FrischlichFeb 2, 2023
Show threadKate StarbirdFeb 2, 2023
It's possible, depending on pricing for academic access (which I haven't seen) that our team will be able to continue, to a much smaller extent, to conduct research on Twitter. However, the under-resourced PhD student won't have a chance to work in this environment. As a wide-eyed PhD student on a "crisis informatics" team, in the wake of the Haiti Earthquake, I built an infrastructure to support crisis mapping during disaster events. That kind of emergent "action research" won't be possible.