The following is a statement by faculty at the department of sociology at Columbia University. (1/16)

Qualitative researchers: what are common critiques/questions you get in reviews? I created a doc last yr outlining major critiques+responses, but I'm always looking to expand: docs.google.com/document/d/1jH…

It already discusses:
*quantifying data
*IRR
*method justification
*sample size

Please share! Open-rank faculty position in Racial Justice and Technology at University of Michigan's School of Information: si.umich.edu/people/faculty…

We are thrilled to announce #JCMC ’s newest special issue on Sensor-Mediated Communication edited by Didem Özkul, Germaine R. Halegoua, Rowan Wilken, & Lee Humphreys. Read the introduction to this special issue here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z…
Articles include:

Very proud and happy to have these amazing papers out in the world!

What an amazing #ICA23 ! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. It was great to re-connect with so many collaborators, friends, and the broader JCMC and CAT communities. Can't wait to see you all again next year!

New episode of JCMC: The Discussion Section out now! In this one you’ll hear limor shifman Blake Hallinan and Tommaso Trillò speak with Dr. Nicole Ellison about social media rituals across different platforms and cultures. Listen here: …mc-thediscussionsection.transistor.fm/episodes/jcmc-… noshir @[email protected] International Communication Association #ICA22

hey #CHI2023 if you are leaving today from Hamburg airport, give yourself plenty of time - security machines were down and lines are very long.

Happy to be here in Hamburg for #CHI2023 seeing old friends after so long. Also very much enjoying the interesting scholarship and seeing my co-advised student Cassidy Pyle do such a wonderful job presenting at CHI in person for the first time.

One of the most important papers I've ever worked on just came out--one that lays bare the inequities at the top of our field. 3 years in the making. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar… Dr. Meredith L. Pruden Kirsten Eddy, Ph.D. Rachel Kuo

Introducing the newest #jcmc publication “Walled cosmopolitanization: how China’s Great Firewall mediates young urban gay men’s lives” by Lin Song and Shangwei Wu. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z…

We are excited to announce the newest #jcmc publication 'Different platforms, different uses' by @dsude and Shira Dvir-Gvirsman. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z… 1/2

We are excited to announce the newest #jcmc publication “Language use in online support provision: the impact of others’ supportive messages, support-seeking strategy, and channel publicness” by Yanmengqian Zhou and Andrew C High! Read the full article here:

🎆I am excited to share that our paper just came out at Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication👇

We showed how national identity language became contagious in public discourse about COVID19 #conspiracy theories on social media in China.

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Summary: Just because they didn’t click doesn’t mean they aren’t paying attention to, talking about, or thinking about your post! Paper is here for those interested:
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2. Maybe they don’t want to become visible to other third-party audiences, like mutual friends or trolls. Or 3. perhaps they don’t want the platform/algorithm to “see” they’ve liked something, because they don’t necessarily want more of that content or related advertising. 4/

1. It may be that they don’t want you, the poster, to be aware they’ve seen it - maybe they don’t want to be held accountable for having to respond or don’t want to encourage certain behaviors 3/

In our paper, “Why we don’t click: Interrogating the Relationship Between Viewing and Clicking in Social Media Contexts by Exploring the “Non-Click,” we find three audience-related reasons why people don’t click on content they otherwise attend to or find meaningful. 2/

I’m seeing people feeling upset or disappointed by the views vs clicks ratio on their tweets now that view counts are visible. Don’t! There are many reasons why someone might not Like a post even if they read & enjoy it. Our recent JCMC research paper asks this exact question!A🧵

We’re excited to announce the newest #jcmc publication “The Social Movement was Live Streamed: A Relational Analysis of Mobile Live Streaming during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests” by FANG Kecheng 方可成! Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z… 1/3