Andreas Jungherr
@ajungherr
Making sense of digital technology - the changes it brings, the opportunities it provides, and the challenges it presents. Professor, University of Bamberg.
📢 Wie beeinflusst Künstliche Intelligenz Demokratie und Politik? Am Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft, insbes. Digitale Transformation der Uni Bamberg, forschen wir genau dazu. Hier sind einige unserer wichtigsten Studien: 🧵👇
🚨1/ New paper with @DnVglr & @SanNuvola in @SocialMedia_Soc We ask: Does it matter whether we refer to the same AI technology as deepfake or synthetic media? Turns out: it does—deepfake lowers benefit perception, but not risk perception. 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/205630…
Excellent corrective account by @_FelixSimon_ and @Sacha_Altay to the alarmist narratives on AI's prospective impact on elections propagated by AI-panic merchants.
How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @Sacha_Altay’s & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is out via @knightcolumbia.
How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @Sacha_Altay’s & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is out via @knightcolumbia.
Spent yesterday immersed at the @raais AI conference in London, and it was shall we say a good recalibration. My suspicion for a while was this: much of the discourse in academia and news—my two main areas—around AI (including its role in the broader information ecosystem)…
🚀 Just published! Our study in Party Politics investigates what drives political parties to digitalise internally (member engagement) & externally (campaigning). 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… With @Marco_Meloni89 @AdriaMompo @LupatoFabio @FelixNostitz @oscar_barbera
Heute Nachmittag geht es wieder einmal um Desinformation: @milzner, Josephine B. Schmitt und ich geben auf der @republica #rp25 unser Bestes, populäre Mythen und Ängste einzuordnen. re-publica.com/de/session/des…
🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)