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
- Reposted by Daniel PfurtschellerReseachers from all over are coming together to talk about how news media quote & remix voices, from old-school newspapers to tiktok I personally can't wait! Hosted by @danielpfurtscheller.at and me More infos: www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/... #linguistics #bblinguistik #quotation #uniinnsbruck
- Reposted by Daniel PfurtschellerWhat a delight it was to work with @danielpfurtscheller.at, @klobinger.bsky.social, @nataliialaba.com, & @kathchr.bsky.social on this newly published study: Visual literacies in transition: multimodal co-production with generative AI. 🔗 You can read our open access study here: lnkd.in/gZwZr83g
- 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
- Reposted by Daniel Pfurtschellerdes wiad leiwaund, homies! in "red deitsch, oida!?", der neuen dok1 von @hashtagjetzt.bsky.social, gehen @settele.bsky.social sky.social und regisseurin lisa-marie gotsche im heutigen "hauptabendprogramm" dem wandel der deutschen sprache auf die spur. schon jetzt on: on.orf.at/video/142726...
- 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. 🚲🦩🤖
- Reposted by Daniel Pfurtscheller📣 CFP: Quotation Practices in News Media across Time, Formats & Cultures 🗓️ 6–7 Nov 2025 | Innsbruck 📄 Abstracts - 30 June 2025 📧 lucia.assenzi@uibk.ac.at | daniel.pfurtscheller@uibk.ac.at CfP: fileshare.uibk.ac.at/f/76c7f13371... #CFP #Quotation #MediaStudies #Linguistics #Medienlinguistik
- 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).
- Reposted by Daniel Pfurtscheller📢 CfP: Join us for the #ICA 2025 Pre-conference: Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in Times of Social Change on June 11, 2025, at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA! Please check our full CfP and spread the word: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o... #ICA2025 #VisualCommunication 1/2
- 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...
- Reposted by Daniel Pfurtscheller2. 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
- 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
- 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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- Reposted by Daniel Pfurtscheller#jobs #medienlinguistik #Phd im wunderschönen Innsbruck beim großartigen @dpfu.bsky.social #BLinguistik
- Reposted by Daniel PfurtschellerComing soon im Narr Verlag: "Reingegrätscht. Eine kleine Linguistik des Fußballs" mit Beiträgen von @konstanzemarx.bsky.social, @karinafrick.bsky.social, @dpfu.bsky.social, @outdooracademic.bsky.social und vielen anderen mehr.
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