Institute of Comm. and Media Studies (UniBE)
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Official Channel of the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern (@unibern)
Bern, Switzerland
Joined February 2015
Excited about multidisciplinary research on preventing and mitigating risks from infectious diseases? The @MCIDBern Research Funding Call 2024 is open until 31st Jan. 2025 to researchers @unibern, Inselspital and affiliated institutes. See details here: https://t.co/C1zJ68SnNL
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How do bots/trolls manipulate electoral communication in Ukraine? Answers in this new publication by Mykola Makhortykh and @AUrman21: https://t.co/TupUtRy16B
tandfonline.com
Using a mixed-methods approach, we investigate cross-language activities of both automated and nonautomated manipulation agents on Twitter in the run-up to the 2019 presidential elections in Ukrain...
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Are we aware of the #biases among “#China Watchers”? How do they influence each other? On 30 Oct, Franziska Barbara Keller @ikmb_unibe will explore the network of experts on China’s #politics. ➡️ Don’t miss this insightful online discussion:
giga-hamburg.de
How does state censorship contribute to self-censorship in Chinese universities and in turn affect academic output? Using interviews and analysis of over 5,000 hand-coded publications of scholars in...
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#China Watchers: Who are the experts we consult to understand politics in China? At the upcoming #GIGA China Series lecture, Franziska Barbara Keller @ikmb_unibe will present the findings from her study of 2,200 China Watchers. ➡️ Join online on 30 Oct:
giga-hamburg.de
How does state censorship contribute to self-censorship in Chinese universities and in turn affect academic output? Using interviews and analysis of over 5,000 hand-coded publications of scholars in...
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🚩 publication out: @rohrbato investigates the incongruity between stereotpyes of women and political leaders. Paper @PolBehavior: https://t.co/wL5b9eyAPJ Full thread below.
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Political Behavior - Academia and political campaigners conventionally cast gender stereotypes as an electoral liability for women in politics. Incongruent stereotype expectations place women in a...
What started as the culminating chapter of my PhD is now out as single author paper @PolBehavior . We've all heard of a disconnect between stereotypes for women and for politcal leaders? But how and when Some answers (and more questions) here: https://t.co/mp1BN3tUWI
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Really comprehensive dive into the research @chiaralisavalli Mykola Makhortyhk and I have done on personality, news consumption, and misreporting. 👇 Via @NiemanLab
https://t.co/yu07Sdo5bg
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How is AI Involved in how we write and think the history of the Holocaust? See this white paper for the @UNESCO by Mykola Makhortykh below for answers. https://t.co/h6h32Vun4Q
unesdoc.unesco.org
programme and meeting document
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✨Out now with @chiaralisavalli and Mykola Makhortykh (@ikmb_unibe)! ✨ We reevaluate the relationship between personality and political news consumption, finding large differences across self-reported and webtracked measures. 🔗 Check it out: https://t.co/HEYDuWAn2j
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The latest issue of The SPREAD is now out: https://t.co/sXhKrKwP2I Articles on #biobanking for #biopreparedness, #PathogensProject, conspiracies theories gone wild?, #microbiota & #malaria and PhD student interviews
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Thank you to all contributors!: @FilippaLentzos, Aline Dousse, Stephen Leib, Jörg Jores, @rohrbato, Silke Adam, Melanie Schmid, @jule_ks, Negar Vahdani @BulletinAtomic, @ikmb_unibe, @IZB_unibern, @unibern
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🚨Is #incivility persuasive? You bet (for some)! Check out the @SPSPnews blog about our recent paper for @Journal_PoPs with @chiara_vargiu & @chiaralisavalli Blog: https://t.co/7ZfypyHvxZ Original paper: https://t.co/UvI2pUJEfX Open data: https://t.co/pVHXiIutCw
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Wie gut informieren ChatGPT & Co über die EU-Wahlen? Massig gut. Details in diesem Artikel mit Einordnung von Mykola Makhortykh und @AUrman21 : https://t.co/S6E52RRkEb
correctiv.org
Vor der EU-Wahl: Die Chatbots Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot und ChatGPT beantworten politische Fragen häufig gar nicht oder falsch.
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Happy to have our paper on user attitudes to content moderation in web search finally out in CSCW proceedings! It's open access too (thx to the generous publication agreements of @UZH_en :) https://t.co/wTMpb1cgCi
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Internet users highly rely on and trust web search engines, such as Google, to find relevant information online. However, scholars have documented numerous biases and inaccuracies in search outputs....
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🎉Big congratulations to Tobias Rohrbach (@rohrbato) for winning the Dissertation Award 2024 @SGKM_SSCM! 🎖️ #SGKM2024
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Just out! Mykola Makhortykh and colleagues discuss the potential of digital archives in memorializing mass atrocities in this white paper. https://t.co/tKRRVyhxHv
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🚨 new publication: How should digital platforms be archived? Mykola Makhortykh and colleagues discuss the ethics and practices in archiving communication platforms, such as telegram, during Russia's war in Ukraine. https://t.co/6Iyhc2FlQ8
journals.sagepub.com
After Russia’s war against Ukraine destroyed people’s ability to move and communicate freely in Ukraine, many Ukrainians turned to social media and messenger ap...
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Eine Beitrag mit wissenschaftlicher Einordnung von Mykola Makhortykh zu Trumps Friedenspläne in der Ukrainie:
blick.ch
Donald Trump sieht sich schon jetzt als grosser Friedensstifter, der den Krieg zwischen Russland und der Ukraine innerhalb 24 Stunden beenden würde. Sechs Experten schätzen seinen «geheimen» Friede...
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Russia's war on Ukraine has laid waste to several cities. In this open access paper, Mykola Makhortykh uses forms of digital mapping to track the impact of the war on urban scpaces in Ukraine. https://t.co/h9hwXR0FPf
trialog-journal.de
Destroyed cities do not only need to rebuild their physical urban environment, they also need to (re)organise their social fabric,...
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🚨 out now: "Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information" with our own Silke Adam, Mykola Makhortykh, @edeleonw and colleagues. https://t.co/8tJAMaavgA
tandfonline.com
This study seeks to understand how populist radical-right (PRR) attitudes and political involvement relate to individuals’ political information consumption and selective exposure to ideological co...
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🚨 New research by @chiaralisavalli in Switzerland & the US reveals that political incivility may not always hinder message persuasiveness, especially among populist voters🪧 and darker personality 😈
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Political incivility—that is, treating political opponents with disrespect—and its consequences are increasingly investigated. This article examines the effect of incivility on message persuasivene...
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