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"A ritual view of communication is directed not toward the extension of messages in space but toward the maintenance of society in time; not the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs." (James W. Carey, Communication as Culture)

We're hiring! "Assistant Professor: Data, Media and Identity" American University jobs.chronicle.com/job/37358147/a… Please share!

#JobOpportunity The Communication Studies program at American University's School of Communication invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. More info: apply.interfolio.com/116720

Come work with us AU SOC! Tenure-track Assistant Prof. of Data, Media and Identity - including teaching in the PhD in Communication at American University and MA in Media, Tech & Democracy programs. Apply asap for full consideration. Full job advert: apply.interfolio.com/116720

PhD candidates, please consider applying to the The Communication & Technology Division of ICA and ICA_Mobile *in-person* doctoral consortium! Details here: icahdq.org/members/group_… Deadline: 1 Feb 2023

📢Reducing or increasing news exposure has no positive or negative over-time effects. We paid people to use no news (🇺🇸) or more news (🇵🇱) and......nothing happened. #OpenAccess #publication @HSScommns w/ Bernhard Clemm Ericka Menchen-Trevino Andreu Casas nature.com/articles/s4159…

I've spent hours experimenting with using multiple large language models (LLMs) such as Bard AI, GPT-4, GPT-3.5 and Bing AI for academic research. They're extremely powerful but with some very painful pitfalls. Here's my guide to using LLMs as your personal research assistant:

Bright and early starting off #MPSA2023 at 8:00 in 3rd Salon 10, Michael Heseltine will be presenting our paper with Bernhard Clemm and Magdalena Wojcieszak: "Effects of Exposure to Partisan Media and Coverage of Polarization on Perceived Polarization." Findings from the US 🇺🇸 and Poland 🇵🇱

shout-out to our paper discussants Dr. Regina Lawrence, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @JesperStromback, Cristian Vaccari; Patrícia Rossini is inactive here., Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, @c_baden, @judith_moeller, Sanne Kruikemeier, Jo(sephine) Lukito, Rens Vliegenthart, Darren Lilleker, Dhavan Shah, Nicoleta Corbu and Betsi Grabe

Ericka Menchen-Trevino presenting on the validity of trace data at #ICA23 ICA Comp Methods in a fully packed room.

Magdalena Wojcieszak Michael Heseltine Ericka Menchen-Trevino APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions Michael Heseltine showing that coverage of polarization has effects that go beyond partisan exposure effects

Excited to present a poster today from 12:00-1:15 in the Exhibit Hall "Gender Bias and Search Queries: Is Autocomplete the Problem?" (Answer: Probably not - stop by to find out why!) #ICA2023

Great to be on the very first Research Escalator ICA Comp Methods! Our wonderful Sijia Qian presented our work (w/ Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen dr. yilang peng, and Huacen Xu), and we are fortunate to receive tons of helpful feedback from Ericka Menchen-Trevino!!

Love the format and had a great time discussing with my mentor and peers. Thank you Ericka Menchen-Trevino for all the valuable feedback!

The great Xudong Yu presenting #ICA23: unobtrusive nudges to #YouTube #algorithm increase recommendations *and* exposure to news, *and* diversifies recommendations and exposure for Strong Conservatives. Nudges to users do nothing. with Haroon Ericka Menchen-Trevino

Do non-news sites expose citizens to more news than actual news sites? Yes, but overall, online news consumption is infrequent. Cool paper by Magdalena Wojcieszak Ericka Menchen-Trevino Bernhard Clemm et al. 👇🏼 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW PREPRINT: Our hands-on guide for web browsing data! Led by Bernhard Clemm w/Sebastian Stier Ana S. Cardenal Ericka Menchen-Trevino Magdalena Wojcieszak Covers analytical decisions re: - Filtering/cleaning - Measurement - Content classification - Experiments - Modeling LINK: osf.io/krhmq

Fantastic research by Magdalena Wojcieszak Ericka Menchen-Trevino Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Sjifra de Leeuw, João Gonçalves, Sam Davidson & Alexandre Gonçalves on polit news from non-news websites Quant study corresponds well with my work on politics in online tabloids tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

So proud to share our new Journal of Communication publication examining the association between mainstream news use and media trust over time. Working on this with great coauthors was the best therapy I could think of in probably the worst year ever. doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…