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• October 30, 2024
  Top Dissertation Award! We are very happy to announce that the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW) honored our former team member Franz Reiter with the ÖGPW-Nachwuchspreis 2024 (Young Talent Award)! Franz will receive the award at the associations' general assembly at the end of November for his dissertation entitled Dirty Campaigning in Electoral Communication: Perceptions and Effects, which he completed in May 2024 with "summa cum laude".
  
  Congratulations, dear Franz!

• October 22, 2024
  Award win! Alongside Kathleen Beullens and Femke Geusens (KU Leuven, Belgium), Sofie Vranken will be honored with the Yearly Award for Science Communication by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) for their ongoing project #Smokefree. The award ceremony will take place in November.

• October 17, 2024
  More publications! Kevin Koban's collaboration with Marieke S. Wieringa entitled Think once, think again: Exploring the harm-made mind effect through dual-process theory (doi:10.1007/s12369-024-01179-1) is now availabe (online first) in the International Journal of Social Robotics.

• October 16, 2024
  Job alert! We are looking for a student research assistant to work with us in the European Union-funded project ENCODE (10h/week in November 2024). The task will be to support conducting desk research on the Austrian media & political system and the role of emotions in Austrian politics as well as interviewing policymaker(s).
   
  If you study in our Bachelor's or Master's program, enjoy working in a team, and have excellent written and spoken German and English skills, please consider applying. Requirements: A brief letter of motivation, CV & transcript of records to be sent via email to Mario Freyer and Ruta Kaskeleviciute as soon as possible.

• October 15, 2024
  Successful PhD defense! We are very proud to announce that Helena Knupfer just defended her dissertation entitled Right-Wing Terrorism in the Media: Contents, Effects, and Correlates with distinction ("summa cum laude").
  
  Congratulations, Dr. Helena!

• October 7, 2024
  New publication available! The article Mitigating product placement effects induced by repeated exposure: Testing the effects of existing textual disclosures in children's movies on disclosure awareness (doi:10.1515/commun-2023-0080) by Ines Spielvogel, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes is now available as advance online publication in Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research.

• October 1, 2024
  The dates and topics of this semester's research colloquium are now available. As usual, we invite everyone to join us on interesting debates. Please also check who's given a talk at our colloquium in the past years.

• October 1, 2024
  New AdMe members! Starting today, we are super happy to welcome Sofie Vranken as a Postdoctoral Researcher within our ranks. Sofie joins us from KU Leuven and already has prior AdMe experience, as she was a visiting scholar at our Department in 2021 and 2022.
  At KU Leuven, Sofie studied Communication Sciences on Bachelor (BSc: 2017), Master (MSc: 2018) and doctoral level (PhD: 2023). She completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Kathleen Beullens in October 2023. Prior to joining AdMe and the University of Vienna, she was postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven's Media Psychology Lab.
  
  Welcome to Vienna, dear Sofie!
  
  Further, a very warm welcome to Agnes Sophie Bergström, who will support our ERC-funded project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets (DIGIHATE) as a research assistant.