I'm pleased to present with my fellow APART-USA colleague @mattminich.bsky.social at Pint of Science Wien next week! We will be speaking on our research & why science needs freedom. Our event sold out! See ya'll there! Pub quiz!!! tinyurl.com/wynn557p
🌍 POLCOM is heading to Cape Town for #ICA2026! Our team will present new research from content moderation to misinformation, science communication and political communication. Hope to see you there! Full schedule here: polcom.univie.ac.at/news/news-de...
I won something at #ICA 🍾
In case you want to know what for👇
Kicking off my #ICA26 experience with “Condoning, Intervening, Ignoring” – ongoing work with @jlegelhofer.bsky.social on how citizens respond to attacks against scientists on social media.
Congrats to the organizing team for this wonderful and inspiring #SciComm pre-conference.
Curiosity thrives where questioning is welcome. Join us to understand why science flourishes under a functioning democracy. We will listen to the stories o...
Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at 76th ICA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
#ICA2026 has come and gone with amazing presentations from our team members and valuable discussions with colleagues from around the world. From content moderation to science communication and censorship, we are proud to share our work with this community and can’t wait to see what’s next! 🥳
This year's ICA annual conference is just around the corner and we could not be more excited!
From June 4-8 our department members will present a total of 88 papers and serve as chairs, discussants, and respondents.
See you in Cape Town! 🇿🇦 👋
@icahdq.bsky.social
Polcom Vienna
This year's annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.
#ICA2026 is less than a week away! 🥳 I'll be presenting in Cape Town on June 7 (Panel @ 10:30 AM) & June 8 (Panel @ 1:30 PM) about factors shaping scientists' communication of uncertainty to the public. Safe travels to all and looking forward to connecting! #ScienceCommunication
Thank you for the shoutout! I am really happy about this. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to Cape Town, but this recognition by @polcomm.bsky.social means a lot. Big congratulations also to my co-authors @ahrabhikat.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social! #ica26
📢 Publication 📢
A mixed-methods study (Spielvogel et al.) revealed that awareness of traditional and social media reporting on security events influenced users' selective use. However, intensive security-related news consumption evoked anger and fear.
👉https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2669528
🌍 POLCOM is heading to Cape Town for #ICA2026! Our team will present new research from content moderation to misinformation, science communication and political communication. Hope to see you there! Full schedule here: polcom.univie.ac.at/news/news-de...
Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at 76th ICA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Advertising & Media Psychology Research Group (U of Vienna)
Claire M. Roney
Jana Bernhard-Harrer
Huge congrats to Paul Balluff on successfully defending his dissertation “Applications of Transformer Models in Communication Research”! 🎉
compcommlab.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...
More congratulations: @janabernhard.bsky.social, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, and Hajo Boomgaarden won the Top Paper Award in the Political Communication Division at #ica26 for their paper "The Uneven News Landscape: Selective News Bias in Actor-Topic Interactions"
We congratulate our lab member Paul Balluff! He has successfully defended his thesis.