Believe it or not, there were 13 papers (most of them full manuscripts) in my #ica26 system waiting to be reviewed. I’ve spent the entire day working on them.

🚨 New paper drop! How does a social movement once started out powerful somehow turn into a partisan battle? In our new publication in @icsjournal.bsky.social, we answer this question by analyzing 83 million #MeToo tweets from 2017–2020. 1/

Kudos to the amazing team @yinizhang.bsky.social @wangrui.bsky.social Dongdong Yang, Sara Holland Levin, Junwan Seo, and Xinxia Dong Free 50 copies available here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MD9E5...

From activism to polarization: temporal dynamics of #MeToo politicization on Twitter/X

This study is focused on how social media activism is politicized over time, attending to diverse groups of users and their response to real-world events on social media. Extending the scholarship ...

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🚩100 Citations Milestone Reached!

🚨New Pub🚨 Media-bashing became an identity. When Trump attacked the news media on social media, how did political influencers on the left and right amplify his rhetoric? Check out our new article (w/ @yinizhang.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z8NQW...

How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling

Extending existing research on right-wing populism and how the news media handles right-wing populists and their media-bashing rhetoric, this study examines how such rhetoric is amplified by politi...

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics@csmapnyu.org · last yr.

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Come join our team studying the impact of digital media on democracy! We're hiring a Technical Lead - Research Engineering to help us build and maintain the robust data infrastructure and custom tools that power our research. More info + apply: apply.interfolio.com/165833

🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨 How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵

What institutions and professions are most trusted by the American people? At the top: medical scientists (73%), the military (72%), scientists in general (71%). Near the bottom: The US Supreme Court (41%), the President (40%), Congress (32%). www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-america...

Thanks for sharing our study!

Information, Communication & Society@icsjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

#OutNow in #iCS In this article, Rui Wang and colleagues introduce the Content Engagement Capacity (CEC), a novel network-based method for evaluating how content frames facilitate political online conversations. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Our method paper is published today! It is perfectly timely before I finish my PhD and before my new journey! This paper is to measure the content engagement capacity in online conversation using a network-based approach. We welcome any feedback, comments, application, and future collaboration!

Yotam Ophir, Ph.D.@ophiryotam.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new paper, my 50th 😬, is out now. Led heroically by @wangrui.bsky.social it combines two novel methods for thematic analysis and engagement capacity to identify content that encourages deliberation. We validate the method on political discourse. paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

Reviewed 2 journal articles to end my 2024😊

🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science

Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...

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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ve been engaging with this platform passively—most browsing, liking, and sharing posts from scholars in my field. Yet, my account is attracting "unknown" followers, many of which seem to be bots. Is this a sign of the platform’s growth or something more concerning, like botnets being deployed?

When reporting a suspected bot account, include the word "bot" in your reply comment. This will help the Bsky bot-hunting team and allow them to respond more quickly.

This is a very accurate reflection of my research area 🤔 blueskyroast.com/roast/wangru...

I've tried to make a starter pack within "AI in Media/journalism". Who am I missing? Let's have important conversations! #AI #media #journalism

Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username? On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username. We just refreshed our how-to guide:

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For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

The findings of this article echo what we found in our recent study (shorturl.at/KdF3U): simply disclosing AI authorship to readers does not change their perceptions of the news article or journalism. We need to go further in terms of transparency when implementing AI in news production.

Behind the black box: The moderating role of the machine heuristic on the effect of transparency information about automated journalism on hostile media bias perception - Rui Wang, Yotam Ophir, 2024

Facing historically low levels of public trust, journalists had been increasingly interested in the potential of artificial intelligence to produce news content...

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AI, Media & Democracy Lab@aimediademlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Publication Alert🚨 Stanislaw Piasecki, Sophie Morosoli, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and Laurens Naudts in #InternetPolicyReview ⬇️ "AI-generated journalism: Do the transparency provisions in the AI Act give news readers what they hope for?". Full paper here: policyreview.info/articles/ana...

When I find myself in times of trouble, I sit down and write. My new book, Misinformation and Society, is now available for PRE-ORDER from Amazon and all other retailers!! www.amazon.com/Misinformati...

This is such an amazing list of political communication researchers. I am glad to be on it! Give them a follow ✅

Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe

After a week with the TikTok Research API, here are my thoughts: 1) It is super unstable (constant 500 errors and the only fix is to keep trying until it works); 2) The docs are a mess, especially for folks with different levels of coding/API experience, and there’s almost no community support.

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.

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Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign. www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

🚨NEW study from @qutdmrc.bsky.social with eye-opening! 👀 findings! The computational analysis of engagement found that X's algorithm was changed in July 2024 to boost Republican-leaning & Elon Musk's accounts during US election #AlgorithmicBias #USElection2024 #Twitter #X eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints

Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark (2024) A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

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An excellent piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social on our struggle to find appropriate metaphors to think about what Large Language Models *are*. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The metaphors of artificial intelligence

A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...

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In what could be described as both a perfect and horrifying timing, I will give a talk today at Penn Medicine on the politicization of science, the role of media, and the implications for vaccines and other health behaviors. Zoom link below if you're interested