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🙌We are pleased to announce our collaborative report on The State of Digital Media Data, 2023, sponsored by SSRC Media, Technology, & Politics . The report highlights current practices & challenges in digital media data research at the collection, analysis, and sharing level. Highlights below: 1/n

Delighted to welcome the amazing Dr. Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) to TEXAS Moody for our computational social science speaker series! If you are in Austin, drop by on Monday (Feb 20th) at 1:30pm for what is sure to be an intriguing talk on equity and conversational AI.

🚨New QAnon publication out in Political Communication 📓: “No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event, co-authored with Jacob Gursky, @FoleyJ0, Yunkang Yang, PhD, Katie Joseff & Porismita borah! tandfonline.com/eprint/5FH92ZD…

Stoked to welcome Dr. Munmun De Choudhury, PhD to our computational social science speaker series this month. If you are in Austin on Monday March 20th, drop by for her talk on Bridging Machine Learning and Participatory Research. texasmoodymedia.org/events/computa…

handcuffing your own students for protesting? Is this how we want universities to engage with their students? As an alum, I am so disappointed with umich, but not surprised.

Happy to share that my paper, “Negative Sentiment, Virality, and Media Bias: A Computational Analysis of News Content on Social Media”, won a top paper award at AEJMC’s Mass Comm & Society Division! Thank you Talia Stroud, Jo(sephine) Lukito, and Ashwin Rajadesingan for the great feedback!

So absolutely thrilled to see this essential Social Media+Society special issue on Political Influencers, which I had the pleasure to edit with Martin Johannes Riedl and @samuelwoolley. This is especially timely in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 I'm hiring a predoc interested in doing computational social science research on social media and politics. Apply here: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3726… DM me if you have questions. Please RT for visibility! #Polcom #ComputationalSocialScience #predoc

We are hiring School of Information! If you work on accessibility, we have an open rank faculty position. Come join the fabulous research environment in our school, and at University of Michigan broadly in the accessibility and disability studies space! Here is a link to the position: apply.interfolio.com/134600

📢 I'm hiring for the iGyro project at NUS CTIC! Exploring the future of digital society, privacy, freedom of expression, misinformation, & more. Open roles: Research Fellows, Assistants, App Engineer, & Scholarships. Join us! 🚀 #NUS #CTIC #HiringNow #DigitalSociety #AI

Our recent paper “Game, Set, and Conflict: Evaluating Conflict and Game Frames in #indianelection News Coverage” W/ Tejasvi Chebrolu Ashwin Rajadesingan Harsha & Rohan Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.04331… #Elections #Politics #Media #IndianPolitics #framing Findings 🧵 👇

Can we gamify interventions to reduce political polarization? I'm really excited about recent research in this area-- sample sizes are small, but I really like to see new/creative solutions e.g. kvaccaro.com.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/News… and dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Excited to present our work (w/ Matt Lease and Ashwin Rajadesingan) at #EMNLP2024 🌴on constructive deliberation and receptiveness! Stop by if you’re attending: 🗓️Poster Session C, Tues, Nov. 12th at 4pm Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.15067 Details in 🧵: