Can we gamify interventions to reduce political polarization? I'm really excited about recent research in this area-- sample sizes are small, but I really like to see new/creative solutions e.g. kvaccaro.com.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/News… and dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Our recent paper “Game, Set, and Conflict: Evaluating Conflict and Game Frames in #indianelection News Coverage” W/ Tejasvi Chebrolu Ashwin Rajadesingan Harsha & Rohan
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.04331…
#Elections #Politics #Media #IndianPolitics #framing
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📢 I'm hiring for the iGyro project at NUS CTIC! Exploring the future of digital society, privacy, freedom of expression, misinformation, & more.

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We are hiring School of Information!

If you work on accessibility, we have an open rank faculty position. Come join the fabulous research environment in our school, and at University of Michigan broadly in the accessibility and disability studies space!

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I'm hiring a predoc interested in doing computational social science research on social media and politics.

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So absolutely thrilled to see this essential Social Media+Society special issue on Political Influencers, which I had the pleasure to edit with Martin Johannes Riedl and @samuelwoolley. This is especially timely in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

Happy to share that my paper, “Negative Sentiment, Virality, and Media Bias: A Computational Analysis of News Content on Social Media”, won a top paper award at AEJMC’s Mass Comm & Society Division! Thank you Talia Stroud, Jo(sephine) Lukito, and Ashwin Rajadesingan for the great feedback!

handcuffing your own students for protesting? Is this how we want universities to engage with their students? As an alum, I am so disappointed with umich, but not surprised.

Stoked to welcome Dr. Munmun De Choudhury, PhD to our computational social science speaker series this month. If you are in Austin on Monday March 20th, drop by for her talk on Bridging Machine Learning and Participatory Research. texasmoodymedia.org/events/computa…

🚨New QAnon publication out in Political Communication 📓: “No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event, co-authored with Jacob Gursky, Jordan Foley, Yunkang Yang, PhD, Katie Joseff & Porismita borah!

tandfonline.com/eprint/5FH92ZD…

Delighted to welcome the amazing Dr. Kaiping Chen to TEXAS Moody for our computational social science speaker series! If you are in Austin, drop by on Monday (Feb 20th) at 1:30pm for what is sure to be an intriguing talk on equity and conversational AI.

🙌We are pleased to announce our collaborative report on The State of Digital Media Data, 2023, sponsored by SSRC Media, Technology, & Politics . The report highlights current practices & challenges in digital media data research at the collection, analysis, and sharing level. Highlights below: 1/n

Finally created an account there @[email protected], it's less effort than trying to ignore elmo here

Thanks Ashwin Rajadesingan UT Austin for spending last 2 days with us. Giving a talk 'Mixing #Politics & Play: Can Leisure Sustain Deliberative Democracy?', discussing research with students & playing #Tennis . Special thanks for kick starting the #Merchandise #Cap season 😛😛. #PrecogsRock

Interested in #Politics #Democracy & how people engage online on these topics? Attend in-person-talk by Prof. Ashwin Rajadesingan UT Austin. At IIIT Hyderabad on Dec 1, 1530hrs. Talk is #OpentoAll , anybody outside campus are welcome to attend. #ProfGiri #C2S2 #ComputationalSocialScience

I am in the academic job market this cycle!

I study the potential and challenges of using our digital ecosystem for new insights on behavioral wellbeing + the role of algorithmic estimates of behavior in the future of work.

Please keep an eye out for me and bump ahead!⚡️