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#57 KOALA – Building Support for Diamond Open Access
Open Science Talk - May 03, 2024 12:44 - 40 minutesThe German initiative KOALA (in English, Building Consortial Open Access Solutions) is a bottom-up initiative that negotiates funding for Diamond Open Access by cutting into library budgets. By pooling resources from more than a hundred research libraries across Germany, KOALA has so far secured ...
#56 IOI and Infra Finder
Open Science Talk - April 23, 2024 13:41 - 34 minutesThe non-profit initiative IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure) works to increase the investment in, and adoption of, open infrastructure. This podcast episode was recorded in conjunction with the launch of the collaboratively developed, openly available Infra Finder database. More details, includi...
Far Right Women Influencers on YouTube and Instagram, with Dr. Eviane Leidig
Social Media and Politics - April 07, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Eviane Leidig, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University, discusses her book "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization." We break down the role of social media for the alt-right movement, and how platforms like Instagram and YouTube work to...
Wikipedia Public Relations for Politics, Brands, and Crisis Communication, with Rhiannon Ruff
Social Media and Politics - March 24, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsRhiannon Ruff, Wikipedia Expert and Founding Partner at Lumino, discusses how politicians and brands can effectively manage their Wikipedia presence. We discuss why Wikipedia is important for Google Search and AI like ChatGPT, and how the tone, norms, and editors of Wikipedia make editing your o...
Race, Racism, and Resistance on Social Media, with Dr. Rob Eschmann
Social Media and Politics - February 25, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Rob Eschmann, Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, discusses his latest book When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age (University of California Press). We cover how social media works to unmask everyday experiences of racism, and how this affe...
#55 The European Landscape of Institutional Publishing
Open Science Talk - February 13, 2024 10:19 - 27 minutesThis episode discusses Diamond Open Access publishing services provided by institutions, occasioned by a recent landscape report on Institutional Publishing in the European Research Area and a synopsis of the same report. The main findings of the report are contextualized alongside previously ass...
Data-Driven Campaigning: How Political Campaigns use Data, Analytics, and Technology
Social Media and Politics - February 11, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsProf. Kate Dommett, Professor of Digital Politics at the University of Sheffield, and Dr. Simon Kruschinski, Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication at the University of Mainz, discuss their new book: Data-Driven Campaigning and Political Parties. We discuss the book's theoretical framework on...
Data-Driven Campaigning: How Political Campaigns use Data, Analytics, and Technology, with Prof. Kate Dommett and Dr. Simon Kruschinski
Social Media and Politics - February 11, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsProf. Kate Dommett, Professor of Digital Politics at the University of Sheffield, and Dr. Simon Kruschinski, Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication at the University of Mainz, discuss their new book: Data-Driven Campaigning and Political Parties. We discuss the book's theoretical framework on...
China's Digital Strategy for Information Control, with Dr. Andrew MacDonald
Social Media and Politics - January 28, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Andrew W. MacDonald, Assistant Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University, shares research from his new book Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online. We discuss the Chinese digital and social media context, citizens' perceptions of online propaganda, a...
#54 Rights Retention Policies - a SPARC Europe report
Open Science Talk - January 23, 2024 19:12 - 28 minutesA discussion on SPARC Europe's report "Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Open Licensing in Europe" (Zenodo, 28 June 2023). Three of the authors of the report share their thoughts on why the landscape differs so much between countries. They also look to the future of Rights Retention Policie...
2023 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
Social Media and Politics - December 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe 8th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! This year, we cover the platforms' year in review reports, AI for political communication, the creator economy, and EU concerns around disinformation and cyberattacks. Here are links to resources discussed in the episode, and see you i...
#53 Research Assessment – Navigating Pitfalls and Promoting Change
Open Science Talk - December 19, 2023 16:07 - 1 hourPodcast version of the closing panel discussion at The 18th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing (Tromsø, Norway, 8–10 November 2023). The panel consisted of champions of research assessment reform (Yensi Flores Bueso, University of Washington / University College Cork; Kirstie Whitaker, The ...
#52 Responsible Research Assessment
Open Science Talk - November 29, 2023 18:13 - 25 minutesFelix Schönbrodt speaks about his work within the German Psychological Society, where he is part of a committee that has developed a set of guidelines for Responsible Research Assessment. A professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, Schönbrodt is also the leader of LMU’s Open...
Democracy, Architecture, and Social Media, with Dr. Jennifer Forestal
Social Media and Politics - October 22, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Jennifer Forestal, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago, discusses how digital platforms can be approached from an architectural perspective. Dr. Forestal shares insights from her latest book, Designing for Democracy, where she evaluates digital platforms' de...
Covid Vaccine Hesitancy in Sweden, with Dr. Mia-Marie Hammarlin
Social Media and Politics - October 08, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Lund University, shares her research on vaccine hesitancy in Sweden. We discuss the major themes of coronavirus vaccine skepticism on the Swedish online forum Flashback, as well as Dr. Hammarlin's ethnographic research meetin...
Political Persuasion and the Effects of Targeted Social Media Ads, with Dr. Alexander Coppock
Social Media and Politics - September 24, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Alexander Coppock, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, shares his research on measuring the political effects of persuasive information. We discuss how political persuasion affects voters holding different viewpoints, the durability of these effects over time, and ho...
Cross-Cutting Expression on Social Media: Brexit on Facebook, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
Social Media and Politics - September 03, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Associate Professor in Strategic Communication at Lund University, joins a discussion of cross-cutting expression and its implications for digital campaigning on Facebook. On the theory side, we discuss concepts of online self-expression and cross-pressures. We als...
Negative Campaigning on Facebook in EU Elections, Cross-Platform Extremism, and Dissonant Public Spheres, with Prof. Ulrike Klinger
Social Media and Politics - July 02, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsProf. Ulrike Klinger, Professor for Digital Democracy at the European New School for Digital Studies at European University Viadrina, shares her latest research on negative campaigning on social media. We discuss some of the challenges in studying digital communication in the EU, as well as what...
#51 Breaking up with Elsevier
Open Science Talk - June 19, 2023 08:44 - 22 minutesJanine Bijsterbosch, member of the editorial team of Imaging Neuroscience, informs about their recent break with publishing giant Elsevier. The editors collectively left the Elsevier journal Neuroimage, where the impact factor was 7.4 and the cost of publishing (APC) was set at 3,450 US Dollars. ...
Connecting Social Media Influencers with Political Campaigns, with Zach Fang
Social Media and Politics - June 18, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsZach Fang, Head of Sales and Business Development at Vocal Media, shares how the start-up is building a database of social media influencers to connect with political campaigns and organizations. We discuss what makes TikTok influencers a different type of political advertising and how their cos...
#50 Brill And Open Access
Open Science Talk - June 07, 2023 15:03 - 33 minutesStephanie Veldman and Arjan van Dijk of Brill Publishing reveal the economic mechanisms and strategic thinking behind their work in open access. A 340-year-old publishing house with strong credentials in the Humanities and Social Sciences in particular, it publishes some 1,400 academic books and ...
Digital Media Trends in American Political Campaigns, with Russell Mindich
Social Media and Politics - May 21, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsRussell Mindich, political consultant and author of the 2022 Political Tech Landscape Report, shares his insights on the role of social media in political campaigning. We discuss social media influencers and how campaigns are connecting to them on TikTok, the move towards politicla advertising o...
Social Media, Democracy, and National Security, with Jenny Reich
Social Media and Politics - March 19, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsJenny Reich, Fellow at the Georgetown Law Center on National Security, discusses the Center's recent report entitled Social Media: The Canary in the Coal Mine. We dive into the potential security risks posed by digital technology developments as well as the report's recommendations for addressin...
Progressive Big Tech Regulation and Advocacy, with Adam Kovacevich
Social Media and Politics - February 05, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsAdam Kovacevich, Founder and CEO of Chamber of Progress, shares his trade association's goals for progressive advocacy in the tech sector. We discuss the politicization of 'Big Tech' and recent opinion polls about Midterm voters' attitudes towards tech regulation. We also discuss how First Amen...
#49 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as promoter of Open Research
Open Science Talk - January 31, 2023 12:56 - 27 minutesAn online interview with Ashley Farley, program officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As of 2023, the Gates Foundation earmarks some 8,000,000,000 US Dollars annually to its various philanthropic goals. Focusing on global health and global development,...
Political Targeting, Strategic Communication, and Democracy, with Prof. Sanne Kruikemeier
Social Media and Politics - January 22, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsProf. Sanne Kruikemeier, Professor of Digital Media and Society at Wageningen University & Research, discusses her latest research on political targeting. We discuss how political targeting differs in EU and US contexts, how perceptions of targeting affect voters' democratic perceptions, and wha...
#48 DIAMAS - supporting high quality Diamond Open Access publishing
Open Science Talk - January 10, 2023 13:35 - 20 minutesAn introduction to the project DIAMAS, aimed at investigating and supporting “diamond” open access publishing models, i.e. free for the reader as well as the author (no publishing charges/APCs). An ultimate goal of the three-year project is to foster high-quality diamond publishing by setting up ...
Digital Political Advertising Beyond Social Media, with Megan Clasen
Social Media and Politics - January 08, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMegan Clasen, Partner at Gambit Strategies, shares her insights into digital political advertising for persuasion and mobilization. We discuss the role of social media ads relative to CTV and OTT advertising, as well as how political ads compete with corporate brands for inventory on these servi...
#47 A short introduction to DOAJ
Open Science Talk - December 30, 2022 10:13 - 11 minutesThe Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) was founded in 2003. It currently lists more than 18,000 peer-reviewed, strictly open access journals (Gold or Diamond). Dominic Mitchell, who has worked for DOAJ for the last ten years, explains how the indexing process is managed by a combination of ...
#46 The whys and whats of OPERAS
Open Science Talk - December 27, 2022 11:29 - 19 minutesOPERAS, the European research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities, has more than 50 member institutions from 16 different countries. The aim is to share knowledge between stakeholders across Europe through a variety of multinational Speci...
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