Celebrating the people that make Manship special 💫 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Manship Awards! #GeauxManship

Having a truly insightful workshop on biosensors (e.g., eye tracking, facial expression) thanks to Dr. Yang and Manship Grad Program LSU Manship School of Mass Communication one day to go!

🚨Recent Survey Findings: 50% of journalists surveyed say they’ve experienced government overreach in the last year. Learn more about journalist perceptions on press freedoms and the AI era of journalism in our recent report: innovating.news/2024-journalis…

Louisiana State University (the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in health communication starting from August 2025! Details here: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/Journa…

Our team just launched three new tools to help you explore social media data: 🌉NewsBridge – Adds AI-powered context to Facebook posts 🔎Barney’s Tavern – Search 34B social media posts 🌎OSoMeNet – Visualize how info spreads across platforms osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

Textual analysis cheat sheet

6/7 papers/abstracts accepted for #AEJMC25 and job hub CV submitted 🤞🏻I guess I should be ready for the job market soon! Btw, I have known of SF since I was in elementary school watching Charmed. It’s like a dream come true in August 🫶

📣 We have a new publication outlining the “AI turn” in journalism — a turn that forces a rethink about the role, identity, and audience dynamics of news amid the distinctive nature of AI technologies. Read (and please share) the full piece (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Excited to share our new AJPS paper! We analyze 5M+ Douyin videos from 18K+ regime-affiliated accounts and show how propaganda is now produced and spread through a decentralized model on social media. Four years of work with an incredible team: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

🔓OPEN ACCESS!🔓 Does political partisanship impact the way we verify news information? This article proposes 2 verification strategies and finds differences in the strategic tendencies of Democrats and Republicans. ➡️MSU Rachel Mourão, PhD 📚tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

For International Communication Association friends: Join us next Friday (June 13) for our second consecutive panel on “#GenerativeAI for Computational Communication Research”! A fantastic group of scholars will share insights & lessons on bringing LLMs into #CCR research practices. Thanks ICA Comp Methods for hosting!

Join us at June 13 noon to discuss the past, the present, and the future of Asian communication education and research! Both offline (Centennial E at Hyatt Regency) and online (via ICA Conference APP)! #ica25

My co-authors and I will present three papers at #ica25 today and tomorrow! Join us if you are interested in journalists’ AI adoption, press freedom interpretation, and how media are conceptualized in research on authoritarian contexts.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Ruth Moon, whose book Authoritarian Journalism has won the 2025 Best Book Award from the ICA Journalism Studies Division! This prestigious honor from the International Communication Association recognizes excellence in journalism

Saying how the students love you without saying they love you :)

CSEAS Fellowships in Kyoto University invites experienced scholars from around the globe to spend time conducting independent research in Southeast Asian studies. 14 fellowships each year of 3-6 months duration Details at kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/2025/0… Apply by 31st August 2025

#OutNow in #iCS Zhang applies Sentence-BERT to trace AI discourse on X, uncovering how narratives of futurity and expertise emerge through platform dynamics, shaping what AI is imagined to be, and by whom. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out. With my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the 10 papers: