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70th Annual Conference of the DGPuK at Freie Universität Berlin and Weizenbaum-Institut

DigiMoD — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:48:00 +0000

From March 19th to 21st 2025, the Freie Universität Berlin, represented by the Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft and Weizenbaum-Institut, hosted the 70th Annual Conference of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK). This year’s theme – “Public Sphere(s) and Values”, aimed to shed light on significant events from the last few years […]

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Fellow Talk on Fringe Dynamics: Studying Anti-Democratic Movements at the Margins of Platform Ecosystems

DigiMoD — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:27:54 +0000

The year of 2025 began with an engaging fellow talk by Dr. Daniela Mahl on January 14th at the Weizenbaum Institute, where she presented her work on Fringe Dynamics: Studying Anti-Democratic Movements at the Margins of Platform Ecosystems. Her talk was inspired by the growing uncertainty surrounding the epistemic standards by which reality is approached […]

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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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Final Event of the NEOVEX Research Project

DigiMoD — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:26:31 +0000

On the 10th of December, our team members Annett Heft (Universität Tübingen, Freie Universität Berlin/Weizenbaum Institute), Kilian Buehling and Xixuan Zhang (both Freie Universität Berlin/Weizenbaum Institute) participated in the final event of the NEOVEX research project, which took place at the Representation of the State of Hamburg in Berlin. The event started with the presentation of the results […]

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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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Attention Is All They Need: An Analysis of the Use of Generative AI in Right-Wing Alternative Networks

DigiMoD — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:47:00 +0000

Rita Gsenger (Freie Universität and Weizenbaum Institute) and Dr. Annett Heft (Universität Tübingen, Freie Universität and Weizenbaum Institute) have contributed to the latest issue of Machine Against the Rage, published in Autumn 2024. The article, “Attention Is All They Need: Eine Analyse der Nutzung generative KI in rechtsalternativen Netzwerken,” is a part of the current issue, […]

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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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