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

Please consider submitting to this initiative. We plan to fund at least a 4-5 students from the Global South to travel to Copenhagen and attend ICWSM If you know anyone who might be interested please forward.

What do Americans fear about #AI? Digital Information World covers new findings by #RUSCI #COM Assoc. Prof. Katherine Katherine Ognyanova (@ognyanova.bsky.social) & colleagues Northeastern U. Harvard University Northwestern showing "58% of Americans are worried about the impact of AI on politics.” More: ow.ly/PeAK50Uz0Uq

We're hiring a postdoc Penn to advance data science methods for behavioral health and psychology! Full details here: bit.ly/penn_postdoc_n… You will work with an amazing interdisciplinary team Penn Engineering AI World Well-Being Prj Penn LDI Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ Penn Med Transformation & Innovation Please apply / RT!

Introducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.” Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship. 1/3

This paper has been published in @MisinfoReview DOI: doi.org/10.37016/mr-20… Podcast (notebookML): notebooklm.google.com/notebook/33e36…

Does #shame manifest differently across #cultures? Yes. Can LLMs identify #norms behind shame? Yes. Are women shamed more than men? Yes!!! Can #LLMs identify when someone is shamed? arxiv.org/abs/2402.11333 #NAACL2025

Tiktok boosted Republican messages 11.8% more than Democrat messages during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race according to this new preprint that employed bots to view ~394,000 videos: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17831

⏭️SICSS-Penn 2025!!!

We just released a new report on AI trust and knowledge in America: naiom.net/reports/ We examine trust in AI, the companies that use it, and the content it generates. We also measure how much people know about it. (🧵1 of 6)

SICSS-Penn is excited to welcome you this summer!

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Due in one week 🚀🚀🚀

Friends, the 2025 ACM Web Science conference is coming up at Rutgers University this May. We have fantastic presenters and keynote speakers lined up. The schedule and registration just went live on websci25.org. Do come and join us! cc Web Science Trust Rutgers School of Communication and Information #GenAI

This paper is now published at the Mobile Media and Communication journal! Please consider using the tool if you work with WhatsApp: gvrkiran.github.io/content/WhatsA… It's now been deployed in multiple countries, recruiting 1000s of users in 6 countries. Let me know if u are interested!

We are proud to welcome 35 scholars who bring a remarkable breadth of academic and technical expertise to SICSS-Penn 2025. Stay tuned to see what they will achieve this summer! #CompSocSci #SICSS #SICSS2025

Deadline extended by a week: get your applications in for SICSS-Singapore ASAP!

🚨New paper out in jqd:dm! 🚨 How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information.

What a cool project!

We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects on media trust, pluralism, media effects, and satire. Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Please help me share it 🙏