Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates.

Join our @AoIR crew!

Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way!

Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085

New from @AoIR: Risky Research is more than a safety manual—it marks a critical shift from individual responsibility to community care and institutional accountability. For scholars navigating harassment, surveillance, or political backlash, this guide is a must.

https://aoir.org/riskyresearchguide/

Sneak Preview of Coordinated Sharing Detection Service in Action!

Here’s an exclusive look at our Coordinated Sharing Detection Service (powered by CooRTweet).

🔍 Developed within the @veraai Horizon EU project, this tool helps fight disinformation by unveiling hidden patterns of content sharing – crucial as elections approach across Europe.

🎯 Want to contribute? Join as a beta tester and help shape this innovative tool!

👉 Fill out the form to get early access: https://www.veraai.eu/posts/beta-testers-coordinated-sharing-detection-service

When people with opposing political views communicate in a way that harms democracy, it's called destructive polarization. An international workshop in Urbino, Italy this week will tackle the question of whether this damage can be reversed.

For a complete conceptual overview of destructive polarization, see this paper recently published in Information, Communication & Society: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2413127#abstract