The School of Journalism and Media TEXAS Moody is hirng a TT AP position on emerging communication and media technologies. More information here: faculty.utexas.edu/career/137100

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Webinar on ‘Digital Media Revolution: Opportunities & Risks in a Changing World’

Mizuho India Japan Study Centre (MIJSC), an IIMB Centre of Excellence is pleased to announce a webinar on ‘Digital Media Revolution: Opportunities & Risks in a Changing World’
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Congratulations to our top faculty paper awardees for their paper on 'The Use of #BlackLivesMatter in Russian and Iranian Race-Related Influence Operations on Twitter' KAMI VINTON dhiraj murthy; Grace Kim; Drishti Gupta 🏆👑 #ICA23

We're at Kent room, starting with one of our top papers 'The Use of #blacklivesmatter in Russian and Iranian Race-Related Influence Operations on Twitter' by Kami Vinton; Dhiraj Murthy; Grace Kim; Drishti Gupta #ICA23 🎊

“The findings may not be robust to Elon Musk effect” Elon appears on another #websci23 paper!

Very engaging talk by dhiraj murthy on exploiting ChatGPT to generate misinformation 😲 this highlights the need to create accountable online platforms #websci23 #thewebconf2023

Really enjoying dhiraj murthy keynote WebSciConf in Austin today. A rallying call for social media research through a sociotechnical/web science lens

After #WebSci23 Day 2 is kicked-off by the keynote from dhiraj murthy, the first of three paper sessions of the day follows, focussing on Fairness and Bias. It is chaired by Harith Alani.

Thrilled to be doing a keynote at ACM #WebSci23 Day 2 (May 1st) UT Austin. (FYI TEXAS Moody) websci23.webscience.org/program/

Great talk by John Lee, PhD at #SRNT2023 - Identifying e-cigarette content on TikTok: Using BERT Topic Modeling Approach

Thanks to all who attended my talk “Effects of User Profile Attributes on E-cigarette-Related Searches on YouTube: Machine Learning Clustering and Classification” at #SRNT2023 (with my fabulous co-authors John Lee, PhD , Hassan Dashtian & Grace Kong)

after reading the super interesting paper by dhiraj murthy on ISIS videos in YouTube recommendations (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…), I added a 'linksSeed' column to the YouTube Data Tools' video network to study how seeds are linked back to by discovered videos

Dr David Corney Full Fact Good Systems Resources from Dr David Corney 's keynote:

1. Google Fact Checker Archive/API: toolbox.google.com/factcheck/expl…
2. 'Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers' Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2103.07769
3. See other cool things Full Fact is doing: fullfact.org

#DisinfoDay

#DisinfoDay is live now on Zoom! Tune in through 2pm for insightful discussions on curbing the spread of digital #disinformation . Details: disinfoday.com

Ben Nimmo dhiraj murthy looks at a critical first step for investigators: acquiring relevant data. From potential sources to ethical considerations, this piece lays out several things investigators must consider in the course of their work.
carnegieendowment.org/2022/10/25/per…

Come study with us! The UTexas Journalism and Media Program interdisciplinary PhD is seeking applications. See what we're doing at the Computational Media Lab (Computational Media Lab (CML)), computationalmedialab.com. Program & application details @  journalism.utexas.edu/graduate.

Registration is now open for Disinformation Day - Oct. 26! Join researchers and thought leaders working across disciplines and sectors to discuss approaches to curbing the spread of digital disinformation, tools for fact checkers & more. #disinfoday disinfoday.com

Big news this #DisinfoFriday !

#disinfoday - a virtual event on 10/16 brings together interdisciplinary stakeholders to discuss approaches to curbing the spread of digital disinformation. Dr David Corney Good Systems dhiraj murthy

For more visit disinfoday.com!

It is after midnight here Computational Media Lab (CML), but it is still Tuesday somewhere!
Meet Pranav Venkatesh for our #TeamTuesday series!
He disentangles disinformation through social bot detection.

See the full video here: youtu.be/2NbFwf8eWg0
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