Ex-Game Designer; Communication Science PhD at GU; Gamification; Artist; Cook; Innsbruckean, Austrian, European, Earthian and Milky-Waynian depending where
Gothenburg, Sweden
Joined July 2017
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Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Incredibly happy to announce that our book on "Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research" is finally out! 🥳 The volume contains 27 great articles by amazing colleagues from numerous disciplines and countries. And it's #openaccess!! Check it out! digitalcommunicationresearch…
Internet: USA und EU wollen Freiheiten im Netz gegen China und Russland absichern handelsblatt.com/politik/int…
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
New preprint w/@JaMoEberl: COVID-19 vaccination created affective polarization around strong social identities. In Austria, these were stronger than partisanship, and linked to extensive stereotyping as well as pandemic-related attitudes + behaviour. See: osf.io/zcas8/
Posting @derStandardat: „wieder a Arbeitsloser mehr im Waldviertel..............“ derstandard.at/permalink/p/1… :D
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
"Man sollte akzeptieren, wenn die Zeit gekommen ist zu gehen": Armin Laschet empfiehlt Sebastian Kurz zurückzutreten
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Register today for the 3rd Weizenbaum Conference entitled "Democracy in Flux", to be held 17-18 June. Keynote speaker @dziblatt | @Harvard @WZB_Berlin will present "The Boomerang Effect: The Paradoxical Effect of Digital Technologies on Democracy".
👉 weizenbaum-conference.de/
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Just received Howard Tumber’s and @silviowaisbord new edited book on Media Disinformation and Populism. Thankyou for the opportunity to contribute two chapters on alternative media and journalistic responses to misinformation with @Maria_Kyriakid @Declan_JMN and @rich_thomas99
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
correction of misperceptions of the views of outpartisans & invitations to think about interpartisan friendships reliably reduce affective polarization, but do not reduce support for undemocratic practices, undemocratic candidates, or partisan violence
osf.io/7evmp
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Folgen der von Integrationsministerin @susanneraab_at präsentierten "Islam-Landkarte": Ein @falter_at Leser hat mehrere dieser Tafeln in Wien entdeckt, in Meidling und in der Praterstraße.
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Feel free to check out that summary of the paper with @nicky_krause, @scheufele, and @brossardd on #anxiety and believing and sharing true, false, and fact-checked info on #COVID19.
And if you're interested in the details, here's the paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Which role plays anxiety in believing and sharing (mis)information on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic? Check out this very interesting study by @Isa_Freiling, Nicole M. Krause, @scheufele & @brossardd in "New Media & Society" 👇 bit.ly/34AtMDg
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
📢📽️1/2 The UK will convene the world’s first Global Vaccine Confidence Summit on 2 June as part of our #G7UK Presidency to help bring an end to the pandemic and protect lives around the world 💉#globalvaccineconfidence #GVCSummit
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
The GRIPES project @OfClasp @SOMinstitutet @wasp_hs welcomes @_greret_ to @goteborgsuni this fall to pursue a PhD in the media studies program on political dogwhistles in the context of AI and social media. Gregor will bridge media studies and NLP in an interdisciplinary collab
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
In Austria's @derStandardat derstandard.at/story/2000127…, reporting on the indigenous children's graves in Canada leads to a comment thread mainly on atheism vs. Catholicism, with a subtext of deflection from minority and indigenous rights.
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Think you have what it takes to GO VIRAL?
Learn about the tactics used by misinformers in this fun 5-minute game by @Sander_vdLinden and the folks at @Cambridge_Uni.
goviralgame.com/en
#ScienceUpFirst
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
"Choosing an appropriate statistical model to analyze reciprocal relations between individuals’ attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors over time can be challenging." Thomas et al. explore longitudinal models in their recent JoC article.
Read it here: glimpse.link/l/OjUpWwF
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Very happy to announce that You Are Here, co-authored with @rmmilner, will be available from @mitpress on March 2! We finished the book as 2020 unfolded; as a perfect project bookend, we wrote our foreword the day after the election, still unsure who won mitpress.mit.edu/books/you-a…
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Very happy that my latest article "Dog whistling far-right code words: the case of ‘culture enricher' on the Swedish web" is now out and available open access in Information, Communication and Society @icsjournal. Check it out! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Gregor Rettenegger retweeted
Our last PNAS Paper explores the key differences between the main social media platforms and how they are likely to influence information spreading and echo chambers’ formation. Feed algorithms may burst polarization. @PNASNews @SapienzaRoma
pnas.org/content/118/9/e2023…
