🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Excited to share the latest preprint from our CMMC Lab! We compiled a large corpus of 30,824 AI-generated visuals collected from Instagram and Twitter, and combined quantitative and qualitative analysis to unpacks AI photorealism of AIGIs. Check out👉arxiv.org/abs/2409.17484

Just got my first rejection letter while working on more applications. It's part of the process. To my fellow job hunters out there: rejections happen to us all. Use them to focus on the next opportunity. Echoing Melanie Stefan's spirit here - onward and upward. #academia

📢 Big news! We'll be hosting WebSci'25 at Rutgers University–New Brunswick! Submissions to this interdisciplinary conference are due Nov 30, 2024 and can be made as Full Papers (6-8 pages) or Short Papers (5 pages) Open to a range of methods and digital contexts! Full call: websci25.org/call-for-paper…

The Reddit, Inc. for Researchers Beta program is growing! If you're interested in learning about recent updates and weighing in on the future of our community-driven governance model, please head over to: reddit.com/r/reddit4resea…

We are very excited that the next Moral Media Conference will be held at UBuffalo in April 2025! This year, we have a special submission track in which top papers will receive an auto-R&R decision for a special collection in Journal of Media Psychology! More info & CFP: moralmedia.org/annual-meeting/

🚨We (Alvin Zhou @ehmaslowska) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24 Full papers: Apr 30 '25 ICA Comp Methods Computational Communication Research

📢Excited to announce that we've started a new Human-Centered Responsible AI group at Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society University of Notre Dame with interdisciplinary faculty affiliates designing AI systems that empower communities! 👥Recruiting PhD students and postdocs--stay tuned! lucyinstitute.nd.edu/news-events/20…

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the Human AI Collaboration lab at Kellogg School Northwestern University Computer Science NICO If you're excited about computational social science, LLMs, digital experiments, real-world problem solving, this could be a great fit Please reshare! Deets 👇

The deadline for WebSci’25 has been extended to Dec 7! We hope you’ll consider submitting to this interdisciplinary conference and will join us at Rutgers University–New Brunswick next spring! Call for papers: websci25.org/call-for-paper…

🚨Special issue on GenAI at Computational Communication Research Computational Communication Research due on Dec 31!

JOB Institution: University of Pennsylvania Rank: Post-Doctoral Researcher Area: 'Big Tech', AI, & Democracy Deadline: January 10, 2025 Link: buff.ly/3Da9Vz6

Come be my friend! We're hiring an Instructional Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Chicago. We welcome candidates from the broad research and teaching areas of computational social science, computational psychology, information science, and data

From consensus to coordination in content analysis 🤖📊 We analyze Fox/MSNBC transcripts with GPT-4o, revealing partisan LLM biases. #AI #LLM Kjerstin Thorson Sanguk Lee Stuart Soroka arxiv.org/abs/2502.00903

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📄: the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at Penn will be held for the fourth time this year! We welcome Ph.D. students, post-docs and early-career faculty to Philadelphia from June 30 to July 17 2025. Website: sicss.io/2025/penn

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Abstract deadline is just around the corner—Feb 24, 2025 Submit your abstract now: ic2s2-2025.org/submit-abstrac… and join us in Norrköping, Sweden. Tutorials announcement coming soon!

New paper out Social Media+Society with Jingwen Zhang and Dr. Xinzhi Zhang A large-scale analysis of fact-checking Facebook posts finds that emotionality is on the rise - it increases engagement but potentially undermines fact-checking effectiveness: doi.org/10.1177/205630…

Looking for your next publication feature to research? This study was written by our very own Professors Brandon Van Der Heide and David Markowitz and focuses on AI use in web-browsing. We encourage you to take a look! Article link: researchgate.net/profile/David-…

🎉 Exciting news from #ICA25. Our paper leveraging LLMs to predict visual credibility just received the🏅Top Paper Award from the Computational Methods Division. Come check out our presentation this afternoon at 3pm!

What is Claude's EQ? Awesome look into affective convos w/ LLMs Highlights: - 3% of all convos are affective - Claude pushes back 10% of time - People on avg express more positivity over course of convo Related q: How well do LLMs recognize effective empathic support? See 👇

Today (w/ University of Oxford Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵