Postdoctoral researcher @uzh_ikmz, Uni of Zurich | Online disinformation, political communication, international comparative research.

Joined February 2014
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Cool to see our new paper trending on @ObserveIR ! We manually content-analyzed various forms of false and misleading coverage by alternative media in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧🇺🇸. You can find the paper @djeditorialteam here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Trending in #Communication: ooir.org/index.php?field=Soc… 1) Do social media experiments prove a link with mental health 2) Reimagining American public media: A key infrastructure for local journalism 3) Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion & Extreme Misinformation (@djeditorialteam) 4) Celebrating Wins, Lamenting Losses in the Aftermath of Presidential Elections (@JMP_Hogrefe) 5) Threats, victims, or heroes? Media frames about migration in the UK & Brazil
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📢 Our new study that digs into the Facebook-content of alternative media across five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, UK, US) has just been published #OpenAccess 📢
ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This study by @astaender, @EddaHumprecht and @esserfrank_ examines alternative media coverage of Covid-19: light and heavy distortion were prevalent, while extreme misinformation attracted smaller but more engaged audiences. ➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The manual CA focused on various forms of false and misleading content. Our 4-cluster typology aims to serve as first step towards systematization in a still rather unexplored research field, and we look forward to future studies that build on & further develop this typology:
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ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This study by @astaender, @EddaHumprecht and @esserfrank_ examines alternative media coverage of Covid-19: light and heavy distortion were prevalent, while extreme misinformation attracted smaller but more engaged audiences. ➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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...in case you're interested in mis- and disinformation research, my dissertation just got published online open access on the Universität Zürich research repository platform ZORA: zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/258039…
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Information producers, consumers, & redistributors in such environments are at risk to prioritize attention, ideology, or certainty over actual facts. In the dissertation, I also discuss nuances within and overlaps between the vulnerable environments.
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Thank you @esserfrank_ , @EddaHumprecht , @petervanaelst , @SophieMorosoli , @Mark_Eisenegger , and @TZerback again for your support, collaboration, and expertise! 🙏🏼
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Still trying to grasp it all 😊🙏🏼 thank you all so much for joining and celebrating my defense last week! And special thanks to my supervisors and colleagues @esserfrank_ , @EddaHumprecht , @petervanaelst , @Mark_Eisenegger , and @TZerback for the inspiring journey.
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Congratulations to @astaender for successfully defending her #PhD thesis on "#Misinformation environments – Studying the vulnerability of supply and demand dynamics to the spread of misinformation" summa cum laude! 🎉🎓Believe us, this is not #fakenews. 🤓
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Ever wondered how decision-making in media orgs takes place regarding news recommender systems? Can market, journalistic and tech logics be reconciled? Then read our new paper based on interviews with 32 media professionals in 🇨🇭 and 🇳🇱 Led by @elizamitova doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.202…
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🌟Job Opportunity🌟: I am looking for 2 PhD candidates 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓and 1 PostDoc 👩‍💻to work with me at @IfkwJ. If you are interested in political communication or comparative research 🗳️🌍, please consider applying by October 6. Links: tinyurl.com/yckuz9fz tinyurl.com/3jjjn9jz 💼📚

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Attention Misinformation Scholars! Submit an abstract to a special issue in the International Journal of Press/Politics Theme: "Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms" Deadline: 15 July 2023. Details: journals.sagepub.com/pb-asse…

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Comparing policies in Europe, @AlenaBirrer - together with Danya He & Natascha Just - is showing how mass retention of communications metadata is expanding. Find their study #openaccess here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #ica23
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. @sapamina presenting the first study of her PhD project on online incivility across plattforms (Facebook vs Twitter vs Telegram), particularly focusing on politicians in 🇧🇷; as part of a very interesting #polcomm panel. Thank you all! #ica23 @esserfrank_ @laiacastroh
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Linking content analysis and survey, @Lenafrescamente shows insights on the relationship of negative alternative news coverage and attitudes towards political candidates over time. Great start with an exciting first panel 🤩 of the @poli_com preconference #ica23
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On February 22nd our colleague @tanjarueedy successfully defended her dissertation entitled 'Algorithmic Selection in Advertising: Exploring Its Impact on Online Publishers and Their Social Responsibility' We share her excitement for her new professional endeavors.

ALT Congratulations GIF

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Before Twitter goes down 😱, I like to share that the first paper of my PhD — a programmatic research review of existing scholarship on news recommender systems with 5 recommendations for future research — is now available open access in Annals of the ICA: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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.@AndreaIhleb & Tine Figenschou present a highly relevant study that discusses a theoretical framework and investigates factors of journalistic fields that influence the emergence and nature of alternative media, and with this set the ground for comparative research 🤩 #ecrea2022
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