📢 Excited to share our new research in Public Relations Review (w/ Yingdan_Lu dr. yilang peng Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen Huacen Xu)! Our study examines how advocacy organizations use visuals on Twitter and Instagram to convey complex climate issues. Full article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm curious, please share! If you are a PI, to what extent do you check / reanalyze your students' data analyses? Fully reproduce = go through script, check assumptions, make sure you get same results. Provide feedback = discuss plan during meetings or writing (Your career stage)

We are hiring AP on emerging tech and media. Come and work with us. Happy to answer questions. apply.interfolio.com/144419?fbclid=…

‼️Don't miss the “Media Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” symposium on Friday, April 12, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.💡Discover how AI shapes our digital lives and connect with experts on AI's societal impact.✨Register for free: go.unl.edu/media-lit

Excited to launch our Computational Multi-Modal Communication Lab website: sites.google.com/view/cmmclab! With Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen, dr. yilang peng & our excellent students, we're dedicated to understanding visual and multimodal information using #computationalmethods . Visit our website to learn more!

Excited to announce that we will be hosting the Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences at Chicago #SICSSChicago2024 on August 4-8, 2024! Applications now open: sicss.io/2024/chicago/a…. Check out our fantastic speaker lineup and join us for #ComputationalSocialScience

Speakers:

Bryce J. Dietrich - Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue Liberal Arts.

Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen - professor of communication at UC Davis and the co-director of the Computational Communication Research lab.

T.J. Thomson | @[email protected] - Senior Lecturer at RMIT University Australia 2/3

Join us for our 2024 Visual Media Symposium on April 8 at 3pm-6:30pm via Zoom! Listen to experts in the field of visual communication discuss the current challenges and opportunities that synthetic media pose for the contemporary media environment. 1/3

Found this powerful scraping tool lately. It's a browser extension, so it works on all web pages you can visit and no coding is needed. Below is what it looks like when I try to scrape my Twitter timeline. It works especially well on tables. 1/2

#AcademicTwitter
Interested in AI, misinfo, fairness, trust & more? Submit to Communication Horizons conference UC Davis. Great theme, sunny location, wine tasting in Napa, one foot in Special issue of Media Psych, &....these keynotes: Stuart Soroka Tanu Mitra.
communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2024

ICA24 ICAKIDS (and caregivers) Picnic: 23 June

The ICAKids' picnic is in its third year at #ICA24 !
Commiserate on parenting/caregiving in academia & make new parent friends! A child- and adult-friendly lunch will be provided.

RSVP: evite.me/BygPQaQ5sx

The Special Issue “Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces” is out Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication! This project started in ICA-Paris'22. Thx to Agnes LINK-NU for co-editing w me & to Dr. Nicole Ellison & Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen for their vision. The issue includes seven fantastic articles, more here: academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/2…

✍️WE WANT YOUR ABSTRACTS!
We are seeking submissions for our special issue on 'Understanding and Addressing the Biases in Computational Social Science.' Submit your 900-1,200 word abstract by April 15, 2024. Read the full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/174xR9u…

🧵 The historic NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast.

Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇

#JobAlert We are looking for a full-time RA to work with us in digital activism and social movement using Twitter data. Please spread the word! Yingdan_Lu dr. yilang peng Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…

We (w/ Shangyuan Wu, Tian Yang, dr. yilang peng, Sílvia Majó-Vázquez, Thorsten Quandt) are super excited to announce a preconference at the intersection of computational methods and journalism, here in Singapore, just before ICA in Australia.

📢 Exciting news! Claes de Vreese, Dian de Vries and Jessica Piotrowski \ jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social helped developing a new tool 👉 DigIQ. With this tool you can test your #digital skills and your knowledge about the #internet . 🌐 dedigiq.nl/#/

Fascinating forum piece from Mike Wagner on how the Meta 2020 election studies were conducted, aptly titled 'Independence by Permission'. I urge you to read it: science.org/doi/full/10.11…

NEW: I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to help end our nation’s gun violence crisis.

The American people are sick of Congress’ inaction.

The 28th will enshrine 4 widely supported gun safety freedoms -- while leaving the 2nd Amendment intact:

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Every ICA Comp Methods session I've attended has been absolutely packed!