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:.

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:

📢 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 📢.

RT @djeditorialteam: ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This study by @astaender, @EddaHumprecht and @esserfrank_ examines alternative media cover….

Thank you @esserfrank_ , @EddaHumprecht , @petervanaelst , @SophieMorosoli , @Mark_Eisenegger , and @TZerback again for your support, collaboration, and expertise! 🙏🏼.

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.

(i) Economically driven sensationalist environments, (ii) politically driven alternative environments, and (iii) event-driven disrupted environments.

I identify and discuss three risk factor driven information environments that are particularly vulnerable to the spread of misinformation online:.

. 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:.

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.

RT @AUrman21: Ever wondered how decision-making in media orgs takes place regarding news recommender systems? Can market, journalistic and….

RT @EddaHumprecht: 🌟Job Opportunity🌟: I am looking for 2 PhD candidates 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓and 1 PostDoc 👩‍💻to work with me at @IfkwJ. If you are intere….

RT @esserfrank_: Attention Misinformation Scholars!.Submit an abstract to a special issue in the .International Journal of Press/Politics….

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:. #ica23

. @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

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

RT @IKMZmediachange: On February 22nd our colleague @tanjarueedy successfully defended her dissertation entitled 'Algorithmic Selection in….

RT @elizamitova: Before Twitter goes down 😱, I like to share that the first paper of my PhD — a programmatic research review of existing sc….

RT @rechtgutgesagt: 8 months ago, we celebrated the launch 🚀 of the #OpenAccess Database of Variables for Content Analysis DOCA 👇. This pro….