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Congratulations to Musa Malik and sungbinyouk for their Top Paper in ICA Comp Methods titled "Evaluating the Structural Position, Cinematographic Representation, & Emotional Portrayal of Female Characters in International Feature Films" #ICA23

This work presented an "excellent application of vision research to the most communication-centric problem, with impressive empirical treatment of the topic. ..This nicely illustrates how computational method could push and innovate one of the field's oldest questions." #ICA23

On the last day of #ICA23 our very own Musa Malik presented his work on female representation and portrayal in international films which won Top Paper in ICA Comp Methods! Thank you to everyone who attended this panel. It was wonderful to share this important work.

The UCSB press office wrote a nice piece on our Measuring and Tracking Inclusion (MTI) platform (inclusion.mnl.ucsb.edu; UCSB Dept. of Comm; UCSB Psychological and Brain Sciences) and on a recent collaborative research project with our friends Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and Snapchat. Check here: news.ucsb.edu/2023/021111/co…

So happy to report that our paper entitled "Measures of Argument Strength: A Computational, Large-Scale Analysis of Effective Persuasion in Real-World Debates" has been published in Communication Methods and Measures. Full access here: doi.org/10.1080/193124…

Cheers to our own Musa Malik for presenting his innovative research about the prevalence, prominence, and portrayal of gender biases in YouTube news coverage at #NCA2023! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to hear the talk.

In the lead-up to #ICA24 we are featuring Top Papers from CSaB. Today's post features Musa Malik sungbinyouk & René Weber's paper looking for moral understanding in user comments on YouTube short films: commscience.org/ica-top-paper-…

Genuinely humbled this week to receive the Edwin Schoell Award for Excellence in Teaching at UC Santa Barbara! Couldn't be more grateful to my wonderful students, colleagues, and academic mentors for their tireless support at every stage of this journey ❤️❤️❤️

🧨We (Yingdan_Lu) are so excited to organize "Image-as-Data Methods in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence" #ICA24 ICA Comp Methods! Our speakers will share computational methods for studying AI-Generated Images to understand misinformation and equity. Check our panel below👇

Amazing research at the forfront of AI and Computational Methods being presented in the Large Language Models, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research Pannel by Musa Malik and Dave Markowitz! #ica24

🚀We (Yingdan_Lu) had such an amazing panel today on "Image as Data in the Generative AI age" ICA Comp Methods. Our speakers showed representational biases, features and perceptions of AI-generated images across countries, and theorized what biases mean in vision language models. #ica24

Cheers to Musa Malik for his presentation on moral understanding on YouTube! Wonderful turn out and great research from all of the presenters! #ica24 csaba

Congratulations to Musa Malik, sungbinyouk, Frederic R. Hopp and co-authors who recieved a Top Paper Award *and* a Top Student Paper Award for "The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform" #ICA24

🎉 Just wrapped up #ICA24 in Australia with a triple win - 3 top paper awards! 🏆🏆🏆 Thanks to everyone who made this conference unforgettable! 🌟 Musa Malik ky

Just published: Beyond the Screen: Exploring Moral Understanding via User Comments on YouTube Short Films: Journal of Media Psychology: Vol 36, No 4 econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/18…. Kudos to Musa Malik, sungbinyouk for their hard work on this! (RW).

I was happy to talk a bit about the role and representation of racial minorities in popular movies. Many of these insights were produced by a study led by the brilliant Musa Malik in collaboration with Media Neuroscience Lab and myself. Full study link: aup-online.com/content/journa…

Incredibly excited to have received a top paper award from the Communication and Social Cognition Division as well as a mentorship award from the Mentorship and Leadership Council at this year's National Communication Association conference! #NCA2024

Had an excellent time this weekend with the amazing folks at YouTube. Got to share insights from some recent work that explores how variations in technological mediums shape representational disparities in content!

Kudos to Musa Malik who presents our work on the global representation of morality and its ecological determinants at the Media and Morality conference in Buffulo. It is a terrific conference with many new and in part provocative ideas.

🚨 I’m pleased to announce: The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD) – a new and improved way to detect moral themes in text, for use in moral psychology + natural language processing (NLP) Media Neuroscience Lab🧵