Interested in the ICA Health Communication Division Mentorship program? While #ICA2024 is planned as an in-person conference, our mentor-mentee program will operate as a hybrid program. #ICA_HC

Please sign up here by April 15, 2024: clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Z…

🧵(1/n) Call for Papers - Information Integrity in a Digital Age. We're accepting submissions to (1) a special issue in Journal of Media Psychology and (2) a conference hosted by the Department of Communication UC Davis! Details below!

📣📣Call for Applications!

#IC2S2 + #SICSS in philly? YES! It is happening! The Penn Summer Institute in Computational Social Science is open for applications.

✍️Due March 15, 2024. Please visit sicss.io/2024/penn/ for more information!

Benedikt Werner and I analysed the role of hostile language when rebutting misinformation on vaccination and GMOs in public discussions. Turns out that hostile language has only trivial effects. More evidence that rebutting misinformation is a robust tool. Communications Psychology

Interested in algorithms, rabbit holes, radicalization? 👇Auditing YouTube's Recommendation System for Ideologically Congenial, Extreme, and Problematic Recommendations is finally out in PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Long hrs over 2+ yrs w/Muhammad Haroon Zubair Shafiq Prasant Mohapatra

'Lessons from COVID-19 for behavioural and communication interventions to enhance vaccine uptake' led by Stephan Lewandowsky and together with many great colleagues appeared now in Communications Psychology. You can find it here: nature.com/articles/s4427…

Join me tomorrow for my presentation on the impacts fact-checking labels! #NCA23

Learn about each of our 2023 Awardees! Descriptions of the awards and bios of the winners can be found on our Section linktr.ee/PHEHP

How do far-right media leverage social media logics and entertainment content to amplify their voices? We are excited to share our new research in New Media & Society (w/ Tian Yang FANG Kecheng 方可成 ). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

🚨Publication alert🚨

📝 What should we make of claims that generative AI will spell misinformation doom?

In our new peer-reviewed commentary for HKS Misinformation Review, Hugo Mercier, Sacha Altay & yours truly argue that such fears are overblown.

🤖 📰 misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/misinf…

A thought re X’s removal of headlines on links… Four and a half years ago, in response to older journalism being misrepresented as new coverage to mislead social media users, The Guardian became the first publisher to burn timestamps on Opengraph images…

📢[New Pub] How do people engage with emotional & identity cues in #TikTok videos on vaccination? How can we validate computational social science tools to study video as data? Excited to share our Political Communication 📓 paper w/Sang Jung Kim Isabel Villanueva.

tandfonline.com/eprint/BKIQE73…

Our paper in PNASNews!!!📣Decentralized info networks reduce diagnostic errors, and improve treatment recommendations, as compared to individuals’ independent reflection. Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, led by Damon Centola, with Douglas Guilbeault Joshua Becker Elaine Khoong and Jaya Aysola!

Presenting my poster about social learning biases and outcomes in technological innovation. Check out poster 74 😉 #IC2S2

Very happy that our paper 'ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks' is now out at PNASNews 😀

with Meysam Alizadeh & Maël Kubli

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

#ChatGPT #LLMs