✨🚨 New preprint with Michael Bang Petersen ! 🚨✨ "Motivations to affiliate with audiences drive the sharing of partisan (mis)information on social media" osf.io/nmg9h/

NEW PREPRINT: Our hands-on guide for web browsing data! Led by Bernhard Clemm w/Sebastian Stier Ana S. Cardenal Ericka Menchen-Trevino Magdalena Wojcieszak Covers analytical decisions re: - Filtering/cleaning - Measurement - Content classification - Experiments - Modeling LINK: osf.io/krhmq

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Kjerstin Thorson & @_afbat looks at the work that US young adults undertake to design and maintain their personal #media worlds across #digital platforms, and the consequences of those practices for #news use. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fascinating forum piece from Mike Wagner on how the Meta 2020 election studies were conducted, aptly titled "Independence by Permission". I urge you to read it: science.org/doi/full/10.11…

The media is placing an increased emphasis on social identities in their social media posts. Why? Social identity cues are associated with increases in online engagement deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?I…

🧵 [1/5] 🚨 New CCR Special Issue🚨 on Multilingual Text Analysis! Available right now, right here: aup-online.com/content/journa…

New paper: State Media Tagging Does Not Affect Perceived Tweet Accuracy sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/20… (w/great Dartmouth students!) Key findings: -People rarely noticed the tags -Counterproductive among people who say they trust state media (exploratory) Important for all platforms!

NEW: 1/3 of US newspapers will be gone by 2024, a year earlier than initially projected - The industry is falling so fast that even hedge funds are pulling back — there’s not much juice left to squeeze Story on Axios: axios.com/2023/11/16/new…

Reputation matters. Don’t bend under platform pressure | By Jieun Shin, Assistant Professor, College of Journalism and Communications – University of Florida Jieun Shin UF CJC Journalism Department digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2023/12/0…

The @DesignProsocial Network curates and researches evidence-based design solutions to bring out the best in human nature online. Here is their library of interventions that help foster more accurate and civil discourse online: prosocialdesign.org/#library It's worth checking out.

We went through three years of articles to find out what journalists think about "objectivity" -- and they dislike it by a three to one margin. But audiences are still into it. If objectivity isn't the standard anymore, what does journalism stand for now? betterconflictbulletin.org/p/if-journalis…

Jieun Shin (Jieun Shin), Kat Albrecht (Kat Albrecht), Kevin Lanning (Kevin Lanning), Nathan Carpenter, and myself are co-organizing, really looking forward to working together towards building up computational social science as a field!

I’m honored to be a guest speaker at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at FLORIDA (SICSS-Florida) in early July! If you’re there, I’ll be giving an overview of my new book, Mapping Texts, and a walk-through of some word embedding methods. sicss.io/2024/florida/

Today is the last day to apply to SICSS-Florida! x.com/aj_alvero/stat…

Our UF STEM Translational Communication Center is growing! Looking for an assistant prof in science, environmental, risk, or technology communication. Reduced teaching and incredible interdisciplinary possibilities. Review starts Aug 9 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5320… Please share, apply, or dm with q’s 🧪🌳🦠🐊

Another reminder that NMSU Sociology is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor position. Research specialization is open, but expertise in computational methods is required. App closes on 10/7 at 11:55p MDT! careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assistant…

ONLINE FIRST! Not all #clickbait is the same: according to this study by Jieun Shin, Chris DeFelice, and Soojong Kim, rage bait drives higher engagement than information bait, especially from digital-born and conservative media. ➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…