Voting matters, Wisconsin! Grateful to Charlie Berens for doing the first live The Cripescast Podcast to encourage voter turnout in the WI state Supreme Court race! Here’s a clip from our conversation. m.youtube.com/shorts/NpH-xkP…

Editorial: Why Nature is updating its advice to authors on reporting race or ethnicity go.nature.com/3o4zpGT

😵‍💫Overwhelmed by #ICA23's program? Why not use our handy 1-page #PolComm at-a-glance guide?! Your 1-stop shop to find your panels for each day. Brought to you by your very own Political Communication Division 🫶🫵

A gift for GIF-lovers 🎁 You can now access GIPHY’s entire treasure trove of GIFs directly in /image blocks!

Such a teamwork with all the amazing collaborators. Mentioned it with a couple others about the gender bias in GPT/OpenAI in #Hackathon #ICA2023 hackingcommsci The piece is such a timely one!

Had so much fun in the 2-day Hackathon! So many ideas, tools and cool people. #ICA23 Recommend to everyone who have interests in computational methods!

Liwei Shen and Yibing Sun presenting our group effort at #ica23 where we examine how ads promotion and social bits perform at conducting misinformation correction. Other dreamy collaborators: @LeticiaBode @ekvraga Porismita borah Dhavan Shah @sijiayang_camer and Danielle Lee

Honored to be awarded a WARF Named Professorship from UW-Madison. And grateful to be able to name the professorship after a towering figure in our field, a pathbreaking scholar, and a mentor to so many, including me: Jack M. McLeod. journalism.wisc.edu/news/professor…

Another #hashtagactivism #MeToo paper just came out in icsjournal, this time it’s about global! 🌏 Our paper examined how the global hashtag has become a transnational movement, crossing borders and platforms. Free 50 copies: doi.org/10.1080/136911… 1/n

Our #ComputerVision #Multimodal classification paper is now in Comm Methods & Measures (first 50 downloads free). We combine video & audio features with speech coding of debate performances to understand changing patterns of aggressive political style. tandfonline.com/eprint/ZIQ24YG…

Checking the proofs for the 2nd ed. of the Handbook of Digital Politics, edited by Stephen Coleman and myself. Out in October. We have an amazing line-up of star contributors and up-and-coming scholars, including:

📢Enjoyed a lot with the project. Within this research, we coded the TikTok videos related to COVID 19. We found a lot of people imitating zombies as if they are the side effects of vaccinations. Fun but with frustration about their effects.

Excited to announce the release of our latest paper, "Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI," published in JCMC! #AI #GenerativeAI #GenderBias #Visual #Feminism

Check out our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly aapor! We introduce a novel measure integrating self-reported media use with outlet bias scores to measure the “shape” of news consumption and its impact on beliefs in electoral fraud and distrust in the electoral system.

Together with UW Political Science and UW-Madison Psychology and support from Knight Foundation, we are seeking two assistant professors who focus on research in communication, social identity and civil society to start in August 2025. Learn more and join our team today. buff.ly/3MvToqE

How do we know that can we trust the vote count? Check out Episode 1 of the Civic Sift, our new digital show from the CCCR that sheds light on important questions of the day, using evidence from experts and practitioners. Let’s sift & winnow together! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-9VD…

🚨We (Alvin Zhou @ehmaslowska) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24 Full papers: Apr 30 '25 ICA Comp Methods Computational Communication Research

We welcome submissions to our International Journal of Communication special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me ([email protected]) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below. mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/13/mcr…