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Congratulations to SJMC Associate Professor Brian Ekdale and Comm Studies graduate student Ebenezer Aidoo on publishing a new article, “Navigating platform work through solidarity and hustling: The case of ride-hailing drivers in Nairobi, Kenya.” 1/2

Rachel Young of UIowa SJMC and Kate Magsamen-Conrad of @IowaCommStudies are just two of the many faculty members who work in community-engaged scholarship to help connect the university to its community. Learn about their work: bit.ly/3BtbJ5w

New co-authored publication: Tweeting, talking, or doing politics? Testing the influence of communication on democratic engagement. We found that the actions of Twitter users indicate that those engaged online may not be engaged offline. doi.org/10.1016/j.tele…

Check on our graduate program! We have fantastic faculty and students~

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa seeks to hire a full-time instructional-track faculty member. This is an open-rank, non-tenure-track position. UIowa SJMC jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/7…

New Pub Alert! Have you ever unfriended or unfollowed others because of political disagreement? We examined the affective responses of political unfriending and unfollowing and the role of need to belong. doi.org/10.17645/mac.8…

In a hyper-connected world, are we truly free to disconnect? Our new open access issue explores the complexities of disconnection, showing how it can be both a voluntary act and a forced response to systemic problems. Issue: shortt.link/mac456x

New Pubs Alert! Our research found that conspiracy mentality is positively related to policy issue concerns, while policy issue concerns are negatively associated with the perception of government performance. Araceli Mateos Homero Gil de Zúñiga academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/…

New Pub Alert! Our online experiment found user comments and partisan worldview influences the effectiveness of political fact-checking messages in terms of political misbelief and political attitudes and behaviors. emerald.com/insight/conten…

Now accepting proposals! Visit cp3.org.uiowa.edu for preconference details and submission guidelines.

Meet Bingbing Zhang (Bingbing, UIowa SJMC), researcher affiliate at the Center for Social Science Innovation. Zhang examines how media messages can promote scientific and political literacy. To read her full profile story, click here: shorturl.at/fi8Bp

Social Media Radicalization ICA Preconference "Social Media Radicalization: Definitions, Theories, Methods" Submission Deadline Extended to February 7 Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 9am–5pm Location: Metropolitan State University of Denver (1 mile from ICA conference hotel)

📢 Call for Nominations: Lynda Lee Kaid Best Article Award 📢 AEJMC PLCD is accepting nominations for outstanding political communication research published in 2024. The winning article’s first author receives $250! 📅Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 🔗 forms.gle/RyJQWxcLhKccHP…

📢 New article alert! "Understanding Government Public Opinion: How Conspiracy Mentality and Policy Issue Concerns Shape Government Performance Evaluations" 📊 by Bingbing, Araceli Mateos Díaz & Homero Gil de Zúñiga: bit.ly/3WSuoj1

New Pub Alert! Will climate information exposure on social media help booster for climate-related political participation? Check my findings for it~ tandfonline.com/eprint/SMSGRG6…

Thank you for the great leadership on this paper, done Xiao Through interviews with 17 journalists, 6 AI technologists, and 3 AI workers from leading news organizations, we explore current practices, challenges, and opportunities for AI-driven collaboration in journalism.

Under the leadership of done Xiao, through an ethnography, we examine how millions of fans mobilize to influence social media algorithms. If you want to see how fans use algorithms to mobilize their actions. check it out~

Will people accept disparagement more when it is disguised in humor? You can find out about it in my new publication~ tandfonline.com/eprint/SFHYDMX…

Does source of inoculation matter? Check our study about how source credibility interacts with the inoculation process against climate misinformation. Juliet Pinto tandfonline.com/eprint/Y2YIKWU…

Our special issue "the state of visual evidence" in Visual Communication Quarterly (guest edited with Dr. Sang Jung Kim and Dr. Alex Scott is officially out! tandfonline.com/journals/hvcq20