Right-wing digital advocacy groups are imitating their left-wing counterparts, but with key differences in their range of tactics, extremity of ideological alignment, and the practice of astroturfing.
@SAISHopkins@uni_tue@LSEInequalities@Ninawth@akheft
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@dscheykopp@uzh_ikmz@UZH_en Have a great and inspiring time at this excellent Institute and fun with the professorship. Look forward to strenghtened ties Z-B :-)
The German interior ministry has recently tried to ban right-wing news outlet COMPACT. But who accesses alt. news sources and what is their relationship to conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda? @SebStier@patrick_zerrer, H. Rauxloh & I had a look: https://t.co/nF107sukfs
📰 Another day, another resource (though this one is more a draft): a list of #polcomm and computational social science conferences (e.g., comm, journal, po, polisci, css, hci). Feel free to share with colleagues/students/classes.
https://t.co/rgxEm2KPP6
"Anstatt der Exotisierung Ostdeutschlands ist für ein besseres Verständnis der rechtswählenden Ostdeutschen ein internationaler Turn erforderlich. Schon allein um die Ursachenforschung nicht regional zu verkürzen." - mein Gastbeitrag in der heutigen @FAZ.
https://t.co/jf9jGtXJoL
Thrilled to see my article published in German Politics and Society! A quite timely read, if I dare say, considering the upcoming state elections in Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony and the expected success of the ever more extremist #noAfD.
It's the week before my 5th year at @UTexasMoody starts, so I thought I'd drop some resources that may be helpful if you're in various transitional stages in academia. Today, I'm sharing a 🧵of the readings I send my grad students at different stages.
Nach dem Factsheet "#Rechtsextremismus auf digitalen Plattformen" geht das Projekt #NEOVEX@maik_fielitz im Factsheet "Eine Machtfrage" der Funktion von Plattformen in #Demokratie|n nach. Schaut auf Auswirkungen & Einfluss der Politik von digitalen Plattformen auf Demokratien ⬇️
🎧IDZ ON AIR 🎧
NEOVEX-PODCAST | Teil 2 ⬇️
@maik_fielitz & Kilian Bühling @JWI_Berlin über die Rolle von alternativen Plattformen in der Kommunikation von Rechtsextremen & Verschwörungstheoretiker*innen & dem Verhältnis von Plattformkultur & Verbreitung von Verschwörungstheorien.
Digital media research is changing, and it can make it that much harder to study elections, as @m_dot_brown and I argue in our new @techpolicypress piece.
https://t.co/D37ECfWBJn
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 One of my dissertation papers published full access in Javnost-The Public 🎉 It’s a theory piece in which I develop a concept of “anti-systemic counterpublics” to study various forms of non-subordinate counterpublics 1/4
@QrdKnpfr @claesdevreese@Lenafrescamente@DDC_SDU Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 so happy and excited about your next steps and projects to come. At the same time also sad, I will miss you. Lets make sure we keep collaborating - best times and experiences ever 🫶
Women are highly underrepresented among scientific experts.
We show that if there are female experts, they are not perceived as less credible than their male colleagues. They are even considered slightly more credible among female citizens.
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