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Workshop Conditions of Success for the Far-Right: A One-Day Exploration of Communication Strategies, Critique and Scholarly Insights

DigiMoD — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:39:39 +0000

In November 2024, Baoning Gong and Florian Primig (FU Berlin) organized the workshop Conditions of Success for the Far-Right: A One-Day Exploration of Communication Strategies, Critique, and Scholarly Insights. This event, part of the workshop series of the Far-Right Researchers (FFR) network, brought together scholars from the “Contemporary Research on Far-Right Politics” group at the […]

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Visual Framing of Climate Denialism: Kilian Buehling at Collegium Helveticum Workshop

DigiMoD — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:29:44 +0000

From November 26th to November 27th, Kilian Buehling (Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute) participated in a workshop about “Visual Aspects of Political Communication and Digital Platforms” organized by the Collegium Helveticum. The workshop was designed to create a dynamic interdisciplinary forum, bringing together researchers from diverse fields to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities in the discipline. […]

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AoIR 2024 conference and pre-conference satellite event at the University of Sheffield, UK

DigiMoD — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:00:52 +0000

Two DigiMoD Team Members, Daniel Thiele (Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute) and Miriam Milzner (Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute), participated in a satellite event of the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AoIR 2024) that took place at the University of Sheffield, UK. On October 29th, Daniel Thiele presented “Suspiciously similar. An embedding approach to capturing multimodal coordinated behavior,” co-authored with Miriam Milzner at […]

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Workshop on Misinformation Research at the Weizenbaum Institute

DigiMoD — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:54:16 +0000

From November 7th to November 8th, the DigiMoD team participated in a workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute titled “Contextualizing Misinformation Research: Theoretical, Empirical, and Legal Frameworks” that was organized by Elizaveta Kuznetsova and Martha Stolze of the research group “Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda.” The recent workshop on mis- and disinformation in digital political communication […]

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Workshop on Generative AI, Digital Publics, and Data Access at the Weizenbaum Institute

DigiMoD — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:22:00 +0000

From October 24th to October 25th, the DigiMoD team joined a workshop the Weizenbaum Institute hosted titled “Generative AI, Digital Publics, and Data Access: Advancing Collaborative Research”. This international workshop brought together researchers from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland Tech University and the Weizenbaum Institute. Through a combination of research presentations and breakout […]

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ECREA 2024 – 10th European Communication Conference at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

DigiMoD — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:10:33 +0000

From September 24th until the 27th the DigiMoD-Team attended the 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA 2024) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Under the theme ‘Communication & social (dis)order’ the ECC 2024 conference invited the participants to rethink the state of communication in light of ongoing political, economic, environmental, health, and technological disruptions, reflecting on […]

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Right-Wing Election Campaigning on Telegram: “It Works Like a Media Outlet”

DigiMoD — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:33:00 +0000

In an interview with Leonie Dorn from the Weizenbaum Institute, Dr. Kilian Buehling and Baoning Gong (both Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute) explore how right-wing politicians used Telegram during state elections in East Germany to mobilize supporters. Their ongoing study combines quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how Telegram’s platform architecture enables extremist actors to manipulate their […]

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European Violent Right-Wing Extremism Monitoring Project (EVREM)

DigiMoD — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:40:00 +0000

At the EU Internet Forum Technical Meeting on Terrorist and Violent Extremist Financing Activities Online II on September 10, 2024, Dr. Annett Heft (Freie Universität and Weizenbaum Institute) presented the European Violent Right-Wing Extremism Monitoring Project (EVREM) and shared key findings on funding trends in the far-right sector. The EU Internet Forum gathered EUIF members, […]

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Studying Global Issues: Accommodating Context and Language Diversity when Employing Computational Text Analysis

DigiMoD — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:10:00 +0000

During her fellowship in the DigiMoD Research Group, Dr. Fabienne Lind gave an interesting talk at the Weizenbaum Institute. On September 10th, she spoke on “Studying Global Issues: Accommodating Context and Language Diversity when Employing Computational Text Analysis.” Addressing and mitigating global issues, such as migration movements or climate change, necessitates collaborative efforts that extend […]

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MISDOOM 2024 – Symposium at the University of Münster

DigiMoD — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:57:40 +0000

On the 3rd of September, our doctoral researcher, Miriam Milzner, participated in the 6th Multidisciplinary Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) held at the University of Münster, Germany. This event brought together an international community of disinformation researchers from diverse fields, including communication science, computer science, computational social science, political communication, and media […]

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