A free press is crucial to democracy. Today, we are thinking of Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter who has been wrongfully detained by the Russian government for over one year. His arrest is an attack on journalists around the world. #IStandWithEvan

Great job opportunity. Work with us on 'political influencers.'
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions , International Communication Association

ICYMI: Teaching intro stats or quant methods?

My syllabus, lecture slides, interactive graphs, and some of the other materials we provide instructors using DSS are here: bit.ly/teaching_dss

I hope they are helpful! #rstats #academictwitter #politicalscience #econtwitter

🤝 Thank you to the many attendees, speakers, panelists and organisers of last week's EU AI Act event.
📊 Both sets of slides are now available
🖼️ As are more photos
See these as well as some takeaways from the event here:
networkinstitute.org/2024/05/02/sum…

You can expect a day of exciting panels that explore new developments like automated, #data and immersive #journalism - disseminating #news with the use of #AI , #VR , AR, #socialmedia etc. - and the computational methods used to study them.

If you're off to the ICA in Australia or are a communication scholar/student/observer in Singapore who's keen to network with #journalism & #computation scholars from worldwide, register for our ICA preconference NUS on journalism's computational turn by May 1!

Come work with us!

🌟 Exciting Opportunity! Join our PhD Summer School on LGBTI+ (In)Equalities 🌈 in Cluj-Napoca.

We're offering 25 fully funded spots.

Dive into workshops and mentoring, engage in research, and +! Apply by May 3rd! 📅✈️

COST
LGBT(In)equalities
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Fact-checkers play a vital-often largely invisible-role working with newsroom colleagues when covering breaking news stories Shayan Sardarizadeh rightly underlines (implicitly reminds us how live coverage w/o dedicated fact-checking can be vulnerable to hoaxes and deceptive claims) #ijf24

ONLINE FIRST! Drawing on a political economic framework and in-depth interviews, Louisa Lincoln explores precarity among nonprofit news founders in the US and their strategies to ease the burden of instability.
➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Looking forward to having you here Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam very soon too 📰📺📻📲

Looking forward to joining the Columbia Journalism PhD colloquium tomorrow to talk about my new book on news avoidance! If you’re in New York, feel free to reach out journalism.columbia.edu/events/phd-col…

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He’s always been the smarter 🐈‍⬛

Portugal has a very important legislative election taking place today.

Here’s a thread with some context and a few things to look for:

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OA in Journal of Communication: High prevalence of mental health issues among media and communication researchers. ECRs and non-permanent employees are particularly vulnerable. Publication pressure is no 1 concern.
Antonia Markiewitz Henrik Bodker
#AcademicTwitter

doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…

📈¿Quieres acercarte al análisis de datos y la programación en R? ¡Estás de suerte! Acaba de ver la luz el libro Fundamentos de ciencias de datos en R, publicado por McGraw Hill y coordinado por Gema Fernández-Avilés Calderón y José María Montero, que me han dejado participar en dos capítulos.

👨‍🔬 Meet the academy assistants: Come to our next research lunch to see what the Network Institute Academy Assistants (NIAA) are up to through poster presentations.
🗓️ 14.3, 12-13:30pm
📍Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam NU-2B05
❔networkinstitute.org/2024/02/27/res…
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Teaching or learning stats and R?

I'm creating self-graded practice exercises so that students can test their understanding of the material without the help of an instructor.

I just created some related to how to estimate causal effects using randomized experiments ...

#rstats