📢 Publication 📢 Atika Munzir, @AriadneNeu, Jörg Matthes, Michael Chan, & @nagoyacastle999 show that following political influencers is uniquely linked to greater political efficacy & participation among young people across 🇦🇹🇭🇰🇮🇩 but not in 🇷🇸. 👉🏼 https://t.co/YCBumRwk9E

🎉 PhD Defense 🎉 On Friday, we found a brand new Dr in our midst, as @JaraKankova defended her diss titled "With great power comes great responsibility: Misleading health messaging by social media influencers – Characteristics, effects, & countering strategies" like a boss! 🥳

📢Publication📢 @JaraKankova, @_AliceBinder, Jörg Matthes report findings from two prereg online experiments with Gen Z samples, revealing that health misinfo & overgeneralized health messaging by influencers comes with similar harms across contexts. 👉🏼 https://t.co/4TDKe2gBnb

Not to forget those et al.s: @AriadneNeu, @kirchtho, Mokhtarrudin Bin Ahmad, @_AliceBinder, Christina Brandstetter, @pchuente, & Jeong-woo Jang

📢Publication📢 Following a global approach (involving 🇩🇪🇧🇪🇿🇦🇹🇭🇨🇱🇲🇾🇰🇷🇮🇳), Matthes et al. found that social media use is consistently related positively to ecoanxiety, while notable cross-country variability exists for links to environmental knowledge. 👉🏼 https://t.co/0gqa2GrcTm

📢Publication📢 @SofieVranken_, @JaraKankova, Jörg Matthes reviewed experiments on virtual influencers, noting that extant research focuses primarily on disclosure effects within marketing framings without fully capturing their real persuasive impact. 👉🏼 https://t.co/fPEebyS6JF

🚨 Job Opening 🚨 We're hiring a new postdoc and look forward to welcoming new personalities to our team! 📅 Contract planned Dec 1, 2025-Nov 30, 2029 🥼 40h/week (100%) ⏰ Application Deadline: Oct 20, 2025 More info, incl application modalities 👉🏼

📢Publication📢 @SofieVranken_ (w/ @kathbeullens @FemkeGeusens) exposed young adults to negative alcohol portrayals on SM, which led to less favorable drinking attitudes but no change in outcome expectations. Conversely, positive pics had no impact. 👉🏼 https://t.co/bgBbyEJuBt

As always, big shout-out to who's hidden under et al.: Kevin Koban, @SteffiBuehrer, @kirchtho, @phelia_weiss, @Maryamkhp, @MelanieSaumer, & @RinaMeerson

📢Publication📢 Serving as the foundation of the @ERC_Research-funded #DIGIHATE project, Jörg Matthes et al. conducted a large-scope umbrella review (= review of reviews) of "digital hate" research, noting crucial trends & challenges across constructs. 👉🏼 https://t.co/kKxK1StucA

📢 Publication 📢 @SofieVranken_, @_AliceBinder, & Jörg Matthes show that the presence of relative harm claims in persuasive influencer messaging about e-cigarettes leads to lower negative health beliefs. Commonly issued warning labels had no impact. 👉🏼 https://t.co/vH7oU3170K

👨🏼‍🔬 Conference Time 👩🏼‍🔬 San Francisco is calling! Team AdMe is ready for this year's #AEJMC2025 to present & discuss our colleagues' and our research on - gen AI & artificial influencers - digital hate - eco-anxiety - political microtargeting See you around! 🥳🥳🥳

📢 Publication 📢 @SofieVranken_ et al. content-analyzed #smokefree intervention messages by 🇧🇪 adolescents, finding a focus on vaping, reliance on negative outcome expectations & descriptive norms, & use of basic heuristic cues for message appeal. 👉🏼 https://t.co/vkaH3quoMt

📢 Publication 📢 @KathrinKarsay, Marina F. Thomas, & Jörg Matthes tested if exposure to athletic or hypermuscular fitspiration content can affect women's body satisfaction/intentions/norms, finding only very limited effects of fitspiration imagery. 👉🏼 https://t.co/kf1yBTGK0S

🏆 Awards 🏆 At #ica25, we also celebrated our awardees! Former member @kaskeleviciute (now @ifkw_lmu) received the Kyoon Hur Dissertation Award by the Mass Comm Div + Kevin Koban & @MelanieSaumer got the Top Faculty Paper Award from the Mobile Comm Div. Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳

📢 Publication 📢 @anne__reinhardt et al (incl Jörg Matthes) tested in a online experiment across 🇦🇹🇩🇰🇫🇷🇷🇸 whether ppl would ask AI for health info (vs. doctors or friends), showing they do so over friends for benign-yet-stigmatized health conditions. 👉🏼 https://t.co/UHWl5Ni7Pi

It's been an intense few days at #ica25 ... in many regards! Thanks a lot to the organizers and to all speakers, colleagues, old and new friends who, together, made it so special (again)! Safe travels to everyone! See y'all next year in Cape Town!

👩‍🔬 ICA Time 👨‍🔬 Here we go! Day 4 of #ica25 talks is about to start and we're closing our very own program with @ngquynhgiao_ talking about discursive consequences of frequently witnessing social media hostility.

👩‍🔬ICA Time👨‍🔬 Day 3 at #ica25 is up, with us presenting on - digital hate victimization - bystander intervention - gen AI use - digital disconnection - environmental & health influencers - strategic mainstreaming - greenwashing - visual attention to online incivility/intolerance

👨‍🔬 ICA Time 👩‍🔬 Good morning everyone! Day 2 of #ica25 talks is coming along pretty hot, so we're attempting to deliver particularly cool insights today about - security-related news consumption - digital hate interventions - social media mental healthfluencers