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Big congrats to the new #ica24 class of fellows! ⁦ICA Comp Methods⁩ of course is particularly proud of immediate past chair ⁦Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen⁩. Congratulations!!!🎊

We are pleased to announce the location for ICA26: Cape Town, South Africa! #ica24 #ica26

Working on (generative) AI and mis/disinformation #ica24? I am editing a special issue of the International Journal of Communication with @aqsa_farooq13. Deadline: Q4 2024 Share with colleagues 🙏🏻 Details ⬇️ edmo.eu/edmo-news/call…

If you are interested in learning about the state of mis/disinformation and how it is getting turbocharged by AI, listen to this conversation between Emese Domahidi Mario Haim (marhai.bsky.social) and myself, and don't forget to subscribe to CCS_pod

Together with UW Political Science and UW-Madison Psychology and support from Knight Foundation, we are seeking two assistant professors who focus on research in communication, social identity and civil society to start in August 2025. Learn more and join our team today. buff.ly/3MvToqE

The ability to say 'no' is a superpower. Here's the complete guide to protecting your time:

Job alert: My department UF Media Production, Management & Technology Dept. in the College of Journalism and Communications UF College of Journalism and Communications is recruiting two tenure track positions. One focuses on emerging media: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5330…; the other focuses on media management: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5330…. DM if you have questions

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Some evidence for what everyone suspected: (Some) authors don't want to share data because they don't want people to see how the sausage was made journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Happy to see that our CMMC lab's student-initiated project has turned into something concrete👏 We study how social media users produce #AI generated visuals. We examine the themes and styles of this emerging genre, and its potential for misuse in spreading #misinformation.

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

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…

Sadly, we still default to granting more respect to men than women. 8 studies: we're >2x as likely to call male politicians, athletes, teachers, and authors by their last names. It matters: surnames signal higher status. It's long past time to use consistent standards.

Most pre-registrations are too vague, and have done little to limit p-hacking and publication bias in economics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Job season! NUS Communications and New Media we are looking for outstanding young colleagues to join us as prestigious PYP (Assistant Prof). Areas: Media Studies, Visual Communication, Science Communication, Cultural Studies, Computational Communication. Deadline: Nov 30 2024. fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/nus-presid…

Just published in nature! Research by Google DeepMind including Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis introduces a novel technique for reliably identifying LLM-generated content. At its core, this approach subtly alters the next-token sampling process to introduce minor adjustments

🚨New paper out in Journal of Health Communication Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures. A quick read: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy 2025! Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen and I are happy to announce new forum piece in Political Communication 📓 where we argue for a need to focus more on visual content when trying to understand the causes and manifestations of political polarization.

Communication Professor Cuihua (Cindy) Shen weighs in on the evolution of hate speech online. Learn more UC Davis Magazine Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen ucdavis.edu/magazine/what-…