News in eigener Sache: Seit 1. März 2022 besetzt Uta Rußmann die Professur für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt #Demokratie. Herzlich willkommen zurück an der Universität Innsbruck @[email protected] & bei uns im Team – wir freuen uns sehr! 👉uibk.ac.at/medien-kommuni…

🚨New #openaccess publication with Lance Bennett, Curd Knüpfer, Franziska Martini, Xixuan Zhang 🚨 Tl:dr A far-right campaign goes mainstream via networked handoffs w/ a radical populist party, far-right media & superspreaders. A 🧵 (1/8) doi.org/10.1080/136911…

Márton Bene presenting our research on populist political communication on Facebook in the EP election 2019, apart of the #camfors project at #ica22 Study was conducted by Melanie Magin Darren Lilleker Simon Kruschinski▲@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social Uta Rußmann Xénia Farkas Pawel Baranowski Vicent Fenoll & Dan Jackson

Thank you all for the wonderful collaboration in our #DigiWorld team🌍🗳. (digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de/digiworld). It was so nice meeting you at #ica22. Also a big thank you to the partners that could not be in Paris.

Do Europarties campaign differently than national parties? We investigated. Results in our new CamforS publication on Europarties' Facebook use during EP2019 🇪🇺 by Vicent Fenoll, Joerg Hassler, Simon Kruschinski▲@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, Melanie Magin, Uta Rußmann, @KathaaSchlosser in SComS: Studies in Communication Sciences.

1 month left to submit an abstract for our SI on Social Media's Role in pol.Mobilization. Papers on e.g. social media & participation and/or micro-targeting are highly welcome. We look fwd to receiving your applications. More info: cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommun… w/M.Magin Uta Rußmann

New Pub on Negative Campaigning🧨 We show that esp extreme & opposition parties used NegCamp on Facebook in the #EP2019, BUT overall it was not the dominant strategy in 12 countries.However, negative posts attracted most shares! Find out more in thread 1/5 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New #openaccess paper with karolina koc michals Uta Rußmann 🚨 Tl:dr ➡️More negative emotions, neg campaigning, populism and dramatization in EU campaigns 2019 than 2014 ➡️Parties benefit from it: Get more reactions, comments and shares A 🧵 (1/9) doi.org/10.1080/105846…

Thank you Uta Rußmann for organizing the #ecrea2022 preconference on Digital Election Campaign Worldwide. So happy to see our colleagues from #DigiWorld network in Aarhus.

News in eigener Sache: Seit 1. März 2023 verstärkt Viorela Dan, Inhaberin der Tenure-Track-Stelle Medienwandel, unser Team. Herzlich willkommen an der Universität Innsbruck @[email protected] & bei uns im Team – wir freuen uns sehr!

Im Herbst geht es mit unserem neuen englischsprachigen Master "Media, Society and Communication" los! Erste Infos unter: uibk.ac.at/media/filer_pu… - auf Seite 10 uibk.ac.at/de/studien/

Now online - all you need to know about the new MA "Media, Society and Communication"! Starting this fall! uibk.ac.at/de/studien/ma-… uibk.ac.at/studium/angebo…

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team! UniversitätsassistentIn – Postdoc, ab 01.01.2024, auf 6 Jahre, im Bereich Mediendynamik und gesellschaftlicher Wandel (an den Nahtstellen der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft). Mehr Info: lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karrier…

Aktuelles Interview mit Viorela Dan zum Thema „Deepfakes“ und der gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung von gefälschten Inhalten: uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/20… Hier geht’s zum entsprechenden Wissenschaftspodcast: uibk.ac.at/podcast/zeit/s…

So happy this finally happened: my episode with Michael Bossetta on his awesome Social Media & Politics Podcast, recorded in person in Paris! Check it out 👇👇👇 socialmediaandpolitics.org/negative-campa…

I am very happy our SI Media and Communication has now been published. Thank you to all authors & the co-editors M. Magin and Uta Rußmann. Have a first look at paper topics in the thread. And: Still undecided, whether I really want to change my name to "örg", as in the preview picture.

Given that it seems we're about to be bombarded with election leaflets & political ads online... Timely new work out with Prof Kate Dommett & Uta Rußmann! We interview 9 parties in 🇬🇧 & 🇦🇹 to explore how their campaigns are being shaped by data & digital twtr.to/SoN6O