Daniel Pfurtscheller
qualitative research in media studies | linguistics | multimodality
assistent prof @ uibk.ac.at • danielpfurtscheller.com
- At the 17th European Media Summit, listening to the first panel: A standout debate as @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and @arminwolf.at unpack Trump, rising authoritarian threats, media fear narratives, and what this could mean for Europe’s future. #Mediengipfel
- 17th European Media Summit — first time in Tyrol! Kickoff in Seefeld with alpine backdrop and opening remarks by Stefan Kröll & @meretbaumann.bsky.social. #Mediengipfel
- Building on Grimes’s (2025) critique, I understand microblogs as digital spaces defined by brevity, ephemerality, and performative expression. Rather than fostering meaningful dialogue, they often prioritize immediacy over depth, virality over reflection. In what follows, I show how media shape the
- Es geht los im Treibhaus! Benedikt Sauer eröffnet das @journalismusfest.bsky.social Innsbruck 2025. Drei Tage voller Gespräche, Debatten und Perspektiven rund um Journalismus und Gesellschaft starten jetzt. #JFI2025
- In Dresden today for the second day of #LinguisTikTok conference – excited to be presenting later today. (Yes, it’s not lost on me that I’m here to talk about Reddit at a TikTok-themed event – but that’s exactly what makes cross-platform discourse so fascinating. 😌)
- My talk also features a small data tool I built: dpfu.github.io/reddit-data-... It helps you collect and archive Reddit comments for research or corpus building – no coding skills needed. I built it with linguistic fieldwork and multimodal data studies in mind. Give it a try, feedback welcome!
- Testing OpenAI's Operator with the @simonwillison.net benchmark—asked for a pelican on a bicycle, got abstract art instead. The agent gave it a valiant effort, trying multiple tools before failing miserably. 🚲🦩🤖
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- The second day of #WhoTalks2024 kicks off with @lieven.bsky.social and his keynote. From the linguistics of quoting and stance to multimodal forms—and even the Beckham ‘be honest’ meme
- At the opening session of the Look Who’s Talking conference, exploring how voices and sources shape journalism and public discourse. Excited for critical insights into bias, diversity, and authority in the news. #whotalks2024
- Now listening to Patricia Moy’s keynote at #WhoTalks2024: “Cutting through the clamor: Revisiting voices in today’s political landscape.” A deep dive into the primacy of voice as a STEEP concept (touching Society, Technology, Economics, Environment, Politics).
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- spannend ist an dem paper die methode: wir zeigen modellen bildern von plots und schauen, ob dabei was sinnvolles rauskommt. so würde ich mit bescheidenen mitteln das auch machen. und research labs bei google fällt auch nix besseres ein. hashtag very reassuring
- multimodal models understand time-series data better through their vision encoders than through the textual representation of long arrays of floating point numbers Daswani, Mayank, et al. "Plots Unlock Time-Series Understanding in Multimodal Models." arXiv preprint doi.org/10.48550/arX...
- multimodal models understand time-series data better through their vision encoders than through the textual representation of long arrays of floating point numbers Daswani, Mayank, et al. "Plots Unlock Time-Series Understanding in Multimodal Models." arXiv preprint doi.org/10.48550/arX...
- 2. Runde unserer Vortragsreihe: Zu Gast sind die "Innbrucker #Medienlinguistik" - a.k.a. Katharina Christ, Daniel Pfurtscheller (@dpfu.bsky.social) & Ina Pink - mit einer Werkschau ihrer Forschungsprojekte 🔥 5. Dezember - 17-18 Uhr - Unipark Nonntal 3.205 - Salzburg #multimodality #medialinguistics
- Die Ankündigung grandios wie immer, vielen Dank Jana! … let’s see if we can live up to the promise …
- Now: #DGPuK and #ICA VisCom Conference on „Generative Images“ in Bremen @zemki.bsky.social started with an inspiring keynote by @wasielewski.bsky.social on the relationship between text and images in the age of generative AI
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- City Tour! Through rainy, cold, beautiful Bremen
- The conference program is packed: 7 high density panels, each featuring 4 papers á 12 min. So I am not going to live blog it (getting old I guess).
- @nataliialaba.bsky.social analyzing a YouTube comments on AI-art debates. Key Themes: 1️⃣ AI as a Tool 2️⃣ AI as a Threat 3️⃣ Inspiration vs Theft: Is training learning or stealing? 4️⃣ Ethical AI: Debating genAI’s role in culture. Lots to unpack in the AI-art debate! #GenerativeAI
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- Hab im Bericht extra nach diesem O-Ton gesucht, wurde nicht enttäuscht.
- wolfgang haas über das seufzen (aus: eigentum, hanser 2023, s. 21)
- „Seufzen ist eine interessante vorsprachliche Äußerung. […] Eigentlich ist die Erfindung der Sprache ein übertriebener Luxus, geschmäcklerischer Schnickschnack, Kommunikationsdekor, und letzten Endes ein überflüssiger Wegwerfdreck, da man mit schlichtem Seufzen auch ganz gut über die Runden kommt.“
- a bit to kitsch
- Status
- 📢 Verlängerung! Der Einreichungszeitraum für den CfP zur DGPUK Fachgruppentagung Mediensprache – Mediendiskurse 2024 wurde bis zum 10.11.2023 verlängert! Thema: Verstehen und Verständigung im digitalen Raum Alle Infos: 🔗 osf.io/wx7hs
- Im Fokus: Wie prägen die Vielstimmigkeit digitaler Kommunikation, KI-gestützte Tools und die Veränderung des Medienraums unsere Verständigung? Wie verstehen und gestalten wir digitale Diskurse (besser)? Besonders Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen sind herzlich eingeladen, ihre Beiträge einzureichen! 🌱
- just setting up my bsky
