📢 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. 👉🏼

🏆 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. 👉🏼

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

👩‍🔬 ICA Time 👨‍🔬. Howdy! We're excited for Day 1 of #ica25 talks, including some from us about . - global publishing.- digital hate perpetrators & annotation.- anti-smoking campaigns.- dating anxiety.- bystander responses toward online sexism & homophobia.- generative AI literacy

📢 Publication 📢. @MelanieSaumer, Kevin Koban, & Jörg Matthes experimentally tested how social media users experience impolite, uncivil, and intolerant commentary for a female science communicator with varying ethnic & LGBTQIA+ identity cues. 👉🏼

📢 Publication 📢. Jörg Matthes et al. examined among 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇩 youth how exposure to online hostility, depending on prior victimization & online social support, is related to willingness to engage & avoid online discussions, as well as to intervene. 👉🏼

⏰ Call for Papers ⏰. Jörg Matthes, Terry Flew, & Jingyuan Shi edit a special issue on "Trust in Generative AI: Foundations, Drivers, and Implications" at the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Excited for many brilliant submissions!. 👉🏼

📢 New Publication 📢. Originating from a classroom project, @MelanieSaumer, @AriadneNeu, Édua M. Varga, Veronika Gataric, Chelsea Y. Liu, & Jörg Matthes examine the persuasiveness of health content presented by human vs. 2 kinds of CGI influencers. 👉🏼

RT @jmcquarterly: Kaskeleviciute, Knupfer & Matthes investigated the effects of #terrorism news on attitudes and stereotypes about #Muslims….

📢New Pub📢. @RinaMeerson, Koban, & Matthes review bystander research on platform-led content moderation, highlighting theoretical heterogeneity, a dominant focus on cognitions, & lacking attention to content, moderation, context, & individual features. 👉🏼

📢 New Pub 📢. Contrary to popular claims of user desensitization, @RinaMeerson, Koban, & Matthes suggest that more frequent exposure to digital hate tends to be linked over time to greater feelings of personal responsibility to intervene against it. 👉🏼

📢 Publication 📢. @_AliceBinder et al analyzed TV series & movies named by 🇦🇹 kids & parents, revealing that unhealthy food dominates & further that characters' nonverbal evaluation of food items is prominently linked to its nutritional classification. 👉🏼

RT @mediadjournal: Join us at the 2nd International Media, Digital Culture and Religion Congress!. 🎙️ Invited Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg Matth….

📢 Publication 📢. @AndreasNanz, @kaskeleviciute, @marlis_st, & J. Matthes test how pol predispositions (political interest, avoidance) & content perceptions (relevant, like-minded, cross-cutting) relate to skimming vs throrough processing of pol info. 👉🏼

📢 Publication 📢. @JaraKankova, @StevicAnja, @_AliceBinder, & Jörg Matthes show via 2-wave quasi-experiment that long-term BeReal use is linked to friendship satisfaction (vs. no use), and lesser FOMO & connection overload (vs. just started using it). 👉🏼

👩‍🔬 Save the Dates 👨‍🔬. Today feels like the 1st spring day in Vienna 🌞 perfect time to announce the new AdMe Research Colloquium with public talks by @phelia_weiss about links between misogynist & far-right online communication & @SofieVranken_ et al. about using AI in research.