Self-reported sharing intentions of low-quality news in surveys is predictive of actual sharing of low-quality news on X, finds Antonio A. Aréchar Mohsen Mosleh Gordon Pennycook David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

TIPI is very excited to announce that we'll be hosting our guest speaker, Ethan Zuckerman, to discuss the Case for Unpermissioned Research on Social Media! Reserve a spot on Eventbrite through the link below: eventbrite.com/e/the-case-for… #texasmoody #utaustin #TexasTIPI

Just wrapped up my Computational Social Science course - Aimed at Masters students with little-to-no background in computing or social science - I tried to take the social science part seriously, requiring its own intro - Will definitely be changing it up in future, but first

Fascinating new study using web-browsing data to conceptualize a taxonomy of online news by Felicia Loecherbach @judith_moeller @[email protected] -Damian Trilling @vanatteveldt doi.org/10.1177/146488…

I’m delighted to announce the appointment of four outstanding scholars as Associate Editors for The International Journal of Press/Politics. Please join me in warmly welcoming: Hsuan-Ting (Ting) Chen Curd Knüpfer, Shannon McGregor & Patricia Rossini #IJPP

Hey I hope the ICA reviewer who told my Chinese grad student her work on Douyin isn’t generalizable because China is a communist country and rejected her from the conference steps on a lego.

📢 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…

Excited to see this in print! It speaks to a number of social science literatures—protest effectiveness, propaganda, stereotypes & morality, gender & politics, and disparate treatment within & between identity categories. Main findings summarized here: x.com/NotLipset/stat…

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 enters a new era. The journal has updated its editorial agenda, focusing on 5 key research areas. Read the article co-authored by the Associate & International Engagement Editors, led by Editor-in-Chief Oscar Westlund. ➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Computational communication research (CCR): An early and active adopter of computational social science (CSS) - Jonathan JH Zhu, Tai-Quan Peng, Hai Liang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Thrilled to be hosting the 3rd MEEW (Media Effects Empirical Workshop) at Columbia again. Hope to see some of you there! RSVP link is available at: sites.google.com/view/columbia-…

If you’re an experimentalist interested in using LLMs for communication research, check out our four pre-registered studies (w/ Zening (“Ze”)Duan & Shengchun Huang ) evaluating how well LLMs perform in generating message stimuli. Preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

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…

Currently in FirstView: “Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging.” Gael Le Mens and Aina Gallego use a variety of LLMs to take in political texts and position political actors in policy and ideological space.

中国留学生蒋雨融（Luanna）在哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲，表达了对哈佛广纳国际学生的赞许，以及对维护人类命运共同体的坚持和努力，回应当下国际和美国政治形势。 蒋雨融是肯尼迪学院公共管理学位国际发展发向（MPA/ID）的学生，她成为哈佛校史上第一位在毕业典礼演讲的中国女生。

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!

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