Michael Reiss
@mv_reissPostDoc @BredowInstitut | past @IKMZmediachange @uzh_ikmz & @MethodologyLSE | news consumption, news avoidance & generative AI
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How have Swiss internet users integrated AI tools into their everyday lives? 🤖 98% know them, 54% of everyone and 93% of the young use them 👩💻 Check out our new report with @SRGSSR on knowledge, use and attitudes on Generative AI in Switzerland! 🇨🇭📊 mediachange.ch/news/183/
Yayy, my project on simulating social media using Large Language Models was just awarded a €850k VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)! 👏👏 Keep your eyes peeled if you're interested in a PhD position at the intersection of social media, politics and AI!
The 2024 Quality of the Media Yearbook is here! The key topics: the relationship between SRG and private media, as well as AI in journalism. It also includes long-term analyses of the quality, use and concentration of Swiss media. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… Main findings 🧵 1/12
Where do people get information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? 🌎 We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to study their science information diets and #communication behavior, global patterns, and country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom ⤵️
🚨Postdoc Alert 🚨 The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC (@jakehofman, @DavMicRot, @dggoldst) is hiring a postdoc! Deadline: December 20, 2024 jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…
My "first paper using LLM for text analysis" paper is now finally published in journal! The new version: - Shows that the zero-shot LLM outperforms also supervised models. - Compares performance across 11 countries and languages - Additional validation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
In one of the first papers using ChatGPT-4 for text analysis, I find that it beats both crowdworkers and experts in a difficult tweet annotation task This work has convinced me that LLMs will completely transform how we use text in the social sciences 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2304.06588
The @SGKM_SSCM 2025 will be in Chur May 21-23! Check out the CfP - submission deadline is Nov 29. Looking forward to welcoming you @FH_Graubuenden! #SGKM2025
!! CfP out now !! Check out our website fhgr.ch/sgkm2025 to read the CfP in German, Italian, French or English, and to also find the call for the PhD workshop. We are looking forward to many submissions📱📸🔎💡 @laAut @sina_jb @DahindenUrs @jo_bu1 @EdzardSchade @SGKM_SSCM
Two weeks ago I defended my PhD @newsflows_erc @UvA_ASCoR . Thanks to the absolute best supervisors @damian0604 @annekroon @KasperWelbers, stellar committee @AUrman21 @LindaBos80 @SLdeLange @theoaraujo @vanatteveldt & my dearest paranymphs @marieke_vhoof @rptkiddle #PhDone 🎓
Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion…
Job alert! 📣 We are looking for a #PostDoc researcher and short-term visiting researchers in socio-technical transformations through digitalization and AI ➡️ mediachange.ch/news/182/ @uzh_ikmz #AcademicJobs
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Congratulations, Nico Pfiffner! This week, Nico successfully defended his #PhD thesis 🎓 The thesis – supervised by @th_friemel and examined by @MissEsi @suess_dan – explored opportunities, challenges, and applications of #DataDonation for studying #digital #media use. Well done!
#ICA elections are open! I’m running for Secretary of the #Environmental #Communication division 🗳️ See my statement and those of the other great candidates below – and consider voting for me if you are a @icahdq @ICAEnviroComm member and support my goals: icahdq.org/surveys/survey…
✨We are hiring! @LSEMethodology is looking for an assistant professor in qualitative research methods. Please apply, share widely, and get in touch if you have any questions. ✨ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/62…
There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I wonder if we will ever see so many different communities interacting in the same online space again.
New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078
🚨 !Job Alert! 🚨 As part of the DFG research unit "Communicative AI", we are hiring a PhD student (100%, TV-L 13, 4y). Interested in political deliberation, social media, comp. methods and AI? Have a look. Research Unit: comai.space/jobs.html Job Ad: comai.space/flyers//Stelle…
🚨PhD Postion (Pol Comm) at @uzh_ikmz For our SNSF project on political influencers and their effect on youth political engagement, @esserfrank_ and I are looking for a PhD student who enjoys working with data to join us for the next 4 years: shorturl.at/c4p5T
👉For more: read our paper: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view/8… It is part of a stellar Special Issue edited by @fe_loe and @Luk_O at @CCR_OpenJournal, with a lot of great contributions (see e.g. @mv_reiss related thread here: x.com/mv_reiss/statu…).
Data donations are 🔥⬆️🔥 But getting enough participants can be tough 🤔. @NicoPfiffner @elizamitova @sina_jb & me report on pros & cons of three recruiting strategies in a new & #OpenAccess data donation SI @CCR_OpenJournal What we learned: journal.computationalcommunication.org/article/view/8…
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