#ICA26 Student & Early Career Reps from LGBTQ+; Children, Adolescents & Media; Communication & Technology; Mobile Comm; & Philosophy Theory & Critique divs are jointly organizing a workshop to help students & early-career scholars. May 8 8:00AM EDT, 12:00PM UCT Register: forms.gle/AryewUXumCsC...

1) #ICA2026 Young Scholars Lunch in Cape Town! 🌍 Calling all members of the #MediaPsych division (DGPs) and #MiRezFo (DGPuK)—and anyone interested in our field! Join us for a casual Young Scholars Lunch at ICA. 🧵

Interested in intensive longitudinal studies (ESM, EMA, ...)? We will host a GESIS seminar in September that will teach you how to conduct and analyze these studies. Check it out here ⬇️

GESIS Training@gesistraining.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Learn from @lukotto.bsky.social and @klingelhoefer.bsky.social how to study people's behaviors and experiences in real time with smartphone-based data collection and multilevel modelling at the #GESISfallseminar. More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/MobileDataCo... @gesis.org

Our paper (below) showed that AI auto-complete writing assistants can shift your attitude about the topics you write about. But @advaitmb.bsky.social was wondering: what in the writing process triggers this shift? He set out to investigate in our 🥁new #chi2026 paper🥁. Spoiler: mental hijacking. 1/

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

Narrative scholars will appreciate this study

PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I made AI-generated study songs for my research methods class. Measurement playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Measurement Album | Module 3 Study Songs | COM 382 - YouTube

Six study songs covering the core measurement concepts from Module 3 of COM 382: Quantitative Research Methods in Communication at the University of Washingt...

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Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜

I'm excited to announce one of the two big Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conferences for spring 2026. In June, we're collaborating with Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics to host "AI and Social Research: Empathic AI, Metascience, and Methodology" here on campus and hybrid on Zoom.

My university had a nice write up of my recent research investigating audience enjoyment of easter eggs. Check it out here #commsky news.ku.edu/news/article...

Popcorn and Easter eggs

KU study finds when people spot Easter eggs in their movies, their enjoyment and fan behaviors are heightened.

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My students are conducting a survey for a class project to understand perceptions of media literacy and training they may have received. Please take this short survey, which closes today. #medialiteracy #AI #tech #phonebans #digitalliteracy kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thanks to the research cultivation grant from the National Communication Association, my latest study investigates the relationship between anthropomorphic characters & socioemotional lessons, which are often found in children's media. Read the study for more info www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7SNG9...

Interracial vs. Interspecies Interactions: Parent and Child Responses to Anthropomorphic vs. Human Characters Involving Racially Coded Themes

A preregistered online experiment was conducted with Black and White parent–child dyads (N = 381) to investigate children’s (ages 4–7) and parents’ evaluations of storybook content with human vs. a...

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This is the reality behind every CV. I recently received two rejects in one day. Onwards and upwards!

Gregory P. Perreault@acadianjprof.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm delighted to announce that I have had manuscripts rejected from ✨FIVE✨ different things this week. I know social media is primarily about our wins, but important to recognize that failures aren't really a side dish in academic life--they're the main dish. #commsky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please consider taking this survey about your opinions on media literacy and social media use for my senior students who are designing a campaign to increase the visibility of media literacy week. #medialiteracy #ai #socialmedia kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

Please consider submitting to our special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! Check out the call for papers below, with extended abstracts due on 31 July 2026. With Mora Matassi and @trinesy.bsky.social 📴📵🪩 journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Kansas City locals! I'm giving a talk tomorrow, February 15, 2pm, at the KC Public Library Plaza Branch on Get Out, through the GKCPI "Searching the Psyche through Cinema" series. I'll be talking about Frantz Fanon, "letter-perfect" racism, and the logic of fantasy. Get Out of the house and come by.

Check out my latest research conducted with the wonderful and brilliant Hannah Wing. We examined whether audiences search for "easter eggs" in entertainment and whether finding them contributes to their enjoyment. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Harvesting easter eggs: An exploratory study of enjoying transnarrative media

Transnarrative storytelling, or fragmented narratives, has been undertheorized yet is increasingly more common in entertainment. An exploratory study guided by entertainment enjoyment theories explore...

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Developed by political scientist Andrew Cesare Miller & now available on OSF, the new Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science template helps researchers document theories, variables, outcomes, & conditions—making predictions transparent & testable. Learn more in our Q&A:

Introducing the Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science Preregistration Template: Q&A with Andrew Cesare Miller

Interview with Andrew Cesare Miller, developer of the new Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science preregistration template on the Open Science Framework (OSF).

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I need to say this so very, very loudly: 👏 null 👏results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 no 👏 results 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 are 👏 not 👏 unfortunate 👏 👏 null 👏 results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 errors 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 do 👏 not 👏 need 👏 to 👏 be 👏 "fixed 👏 with 👏 "more data" 👏 We really need to sort this, y'all.

Sometimes you see a new paper and stop everything you are doing to read it. This is one of those papers. All-star work by an all-star team!

Xuanjun (Jason) Gong@gongxuanjun.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Enjoying Stranger Things during the holiday season? Have you thought about why some stories are more successful than others? Our new preprint investigates this question by studying the character networks in the narratives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

When you're digging around into the history of a theory and come across an interesting note about the origins of the academic who developed the theory. My goodness, mental models indeed!

"Ban harmful content from social media instead of us, say Australian teens" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Australia social media ban: Get rid of harmful content instead of us, say teens

From 10 December, social media firms must ensure Australians aged under 16 cannot have accounts.

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Happy "let's circle back in the New Year" season to all who celebrate.

Call for papers: IJPOR has a call for a special issue on AI, public opinion and democratic resilience. 1000 word initial abstract submission 🗓️: deadline February 15, 2026 @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @algosoc.org @polcomm.bsky.social #commsky academic.oup.com/ijpor/pages/...

Call for Papers: AI, Public Opinion, and Democratic Resilience

Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zuñiga and Hugo Marcos-Marne Editor-In-Chief: Porismita Bora

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Uses and gratifications theory (2025 update)

#commsky

Lucía Cores-Sarría@luciacores.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It is that time of the year when we should all complain about ICA's reviewer website (Abstract Central) and the fact that it was probably designed in 1997.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human - The Rumpus

It is against this background of a country that has reduced Muslims into a dark, foreign, terrorist “other,” that Mamdani ran a campaign that centers the affordability of the city for all who live wit...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped. But in poetry, whitespace matters! Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs. New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs

Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

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@bhyravajjula.bsky.social · 9mo ago

When you read a poem, do you wonder how the poet structures it through whitespace between/before words and lines? We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713 🧵👇