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#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! 🥳
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
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.
📢 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
#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
🌍 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...
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
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
Huge congrats to Paul Balluff on successfully defending his dissertation “Applications of Transformer Models in Communication Research”! 🎉
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Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at 76th ICA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Curiosity thrives where questioning is welcome. Join us to understand why science flourishes under a functioning democracy. We will listen to the stories o...
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We congratulate our lab member Paul Balluff! He has successfully defended his thesis.
Advertising & Media Psychology Research Group (U of Vienna)
Claire M. Roney
Polcom Vienna
IPKW - Department of Communication
Audrey Lin, DPhil
Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)
🌍 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...
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"
