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The University of Utah is excited to announce the extension of the Master of Communication program at its U Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea. Applications are now open for the professional program. asiacampus.utah.edu/masters-of-com…

New study with Nils Bienzeisler. Based on experiments in three controversies, we show that an attitudinal polarization of trust in science can be mitigated when scientists adopt the styles of honest brokers versus that of epistocrats when giving public policy advice, i.e.... (1/2).

Most importantly, we need to evaluate metrics and interventions empirically with reliable social science. Otherwise, we’ll just “pied-piper” academia toward the next iteration of dysfunctional #openscience tools, as our paper led by Isabelle Freiling outlines: academic.oup.com/joc/article/71…

In Tech in Society, I argue w/ J. Matthes for a narrower definition of citizen social science to avoid overlap w/ commonly used #socialscience methods: The inclusion of volunteers needs to go beyond merely collecting data. #citizenscience YouCount sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"[A] baby step forward in the direction of data transparency." Amid pushback against industry-controlled settings for studying algorithmically-curated information environments , @meta is trying to do damage control. Great piece by The Atlantic's Caroline Mimbs Nyce. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

⌛️ It's the last day to RSVP for our Sept. 23 Symposium! Visit rai.utah.edu/symposium to read more & sign up. The event includes 10-minute talks from professors across campus. They'll cover One-U #ResponsibleAI Initiative priorities & field-specific challenges & opportunities.

63 algorithmic interventions designed to make #Facebook temporarily provide less polarizing and more reliable content likely distorted the data sets that Meta fed to academic researchers and helped get publish with Meta employees as co-authors. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It’s bad for various fields of social science who — during an ongoing replicability debate — should have learned by now to not trust suspiciously shiny findings from a single data source, especially one curated by an industry partner with obvious COIs. x.com/scheufele/stat…

It’s bad for the journals who published this in spite of referees pointing out this very problem during peer review, and are not retracting, as of now. x.com/scheufele/stat…

As Meta studies in Science Magazine and nature come under increasing scrutiny, it's worth asking two questions posed by Holden Thorpe in 2022: “whether the data in a paper is reliable or not ... [and] who has been responsible for generating that data." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

"The scientific community must also better recognize that it may not be helpful to emphasize consensus in policy reports’ recommendations when the underlying values are not universally shared." Could not agree more with National Academy of Sciences's Marcia McNutt. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Honored to receive this fellowship and so excited to work more on responsible AI across University of Utah campus! This allows me to fund a graduate student next year, so if you are considering #gradschool and interested in #AI and #scicomm, please apply: communication.utah.edu/graduate/index…

Our inability to meaningfully study algorithmic info ecosystems, and why it matters for #scicomm. Pre-publication version of our forthcoming PNAS piece with Nicky Krause and Isabelle Freiling : osf.io/preprints/soca… (a 🧵)

AI shapes the content we encounter online. What does that mean for the effect and spread of misinformation? Hear from One-U RAI faculty fellow Isabelle Freiling on Feb. 6. Details: institute.communication.utah.edu/events/speaker…

Mark your calendars for these upcoming events tied to SCI and its One-U Responsible AI Initiative! Visit rai.utah.edu/events for details. Manish Parashar Ana Marasović Isabelle Freiling

This week,U of U Communication Assistant Professor Isabelle Freiling will be presenting on "Generative AI, Social Media Algorithms & Misinformation" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/lsc…

Isabelle Freiling, one of the inaugural cohort of One-U Responsible AI faculty, is working to understand the black box of algorithm-driven information environments and the ripple effect of implications for researchers and the broader public. ow.ly/2gg450VfZTN Isabelle Freiling

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ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! How did perceptions of elite manipulation influence resistance to COVID-19 reporting and the spread of misinformation? This study by Marlis Stubenvoll, Isabelle Freiling, and Jörg Matthes examines how audiences in 🇦🇹 resist news evidence. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…