After the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the CN Tower in Toronto, this year's logo of the ICA hackathon is 'the One Big Willy' or 'Tower of Power.' Although not the tallest building anymore, with its pointy top, we find it the most iconic.

Photo by By Kgbo (Wikimedia)

We sincerely appreciate the sponsorship by ICA Computational Methods Division ICA Comp Methods and Mass Communication Division. And Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane for location support. We look forward to seeing you there!!

Excited to announce our ICA Preconference International Communication Association 'The Future of Computational Message Science' with Kaiping Chen Sijia Yang dr. yilang peng! Explore #ComputationalMessageScience theories and innovations with us on June 19 at Brisbane. More details at: sites.google.com/northwestern.e….

Meant to tag all the good people at APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions ICA Comp Methods Journalism Studies / ICA AEJMC Political Communication Division Newspaper & Online News Division of AEJMC to help get the word out!

Come work with me at Tilburg University! I’m hiring a #postdoc for a new project on #Digitalization in the Global South.

Application deadline is 15 May. Please share this opportunity with your students/colleagues.

Details at shorturl.at/fnyQ0

#datascience #digitalhumanities

On June 19 & 20 right before the International Communication Association conference 2024, we will be hacking in the Cube: thecube.qut.edu.au/visitCurious
Curious to find out why it might have that name?🧐
Then sign up for the ICA Comp Methods pre-conference hackathon here: forms.gle/7eqbDSAonzRkkW…

After years of work, we (w/ @simonchauchard) are releasing our new tool to collect WhatsApp data at scale! Introducing WhatsApp Explorer, a tool to collect data in a privacy preserving, opt-in, legal and practical way

paper: osf.io/k6qv5

whatsapp.whats-viral.me

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Meta announced that CrowdTangle will sunset in August of this year. Jo(sephine) Lukito, Kevin Yang, and I write in Tech Policy Press about CrowdTangle, the DSA, and information gathering to advocate for better data access for public interest research 1/ techpolicy.press/what-does-crow…

With Truth Social going public and Trump's net worth soaring as a result, timely research from Yini Zhang Jo(sephine) Lukito Jiyoun Suk, Ph.D. Antisomniac on the elephant thing.social and bsky finds that Trump's engagement on Truth Social drives news coverage across ideologies in Journal of Information Technology & Politics doi.org/10.1080/193316…

Lattice (Paris area) offers a 18 months postdoc position in comp. social sciences, beginning in May or June 2024. For details:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/200537
We are looking for a strong candidate with relevant publications, and experience in NLP/LLMs. Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) ICA Comp Methods DGPuK Methoden

Hot off the press! 🔥

Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait

In Political Communication 📓, we blend webtracking + survey data to paint a nuanced portrait of those who consume this content

Long(ish) thread👇

🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

You can learn more about this exciting upcoming conference at 2024.misdoom.org

🚀 signups are now open for #hackica24

1. Fill out this survey for the Hackathon Organizing Committee's records: forms.gle/mYfAfaNP4nwSmD…

2. Register via ICA pre-conference registration at this link: icahdq.org/event/ICA24-Ha…

This May, the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart) will host a CSH Spring School 2024 on 'Reproducible Science with Containerization on High Performance Computing Infrastructure' w/ Dr. Daniela Bendel, Dr. Konstantin Kuck & Dr. Johannes Bleher

Learn more:
uni-hohenheim.de/fileadmin/einr…

Last call: The extended abstracts for our special issue at the Journal of Communication are due on March 15 (this Friday). Journal of Communication The Communication & Technology Division of ICA ICA Comp Methods ICA_Mobile International Communication Association Human Communication Research Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication ICA Healthcomm academic.oup.com/joc/pages/cfp-…

Very excited to share our #CHI2024 paper on the ✨Situate AI Guidebook✨,

a toolkit designed in collaboration with public sector agencies & community advocacy groups, to scaffold early-stage deliberations around *whether or not* to move forward w/ developing a proposed AI tool🧵

Excited to moderate the panel next up, “Authority, Ideology, & Democracy in Global Perspectives.” Amazing grad students Tahereh Rahimi Xining Liao Yibing Sun Ken Wang will present their research on Iran journalism, Sino-US news coverage, hate symbols, and misinfo. #CrossroadsUW

I'm co-editing a special issue on listening in political conversations. If you might be interested in submitting an abstract in early Sept. '24 (& paper Jan '25), please contact me ASAP! Katy Coduto Molly Scudder Michael Neblo Guy Itzchakov Lisa Argyle shorturl.at/rESW3

Extremely excited to share this new work!

It introduces a systematic way to assess LLMs’ favoritism towards Western culture.

All LLMs (GPT-4, Aya, mT5, etc.) show favoritism, even when:
- prompt in non-English
- pre-training fully on non-English data

arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14456…

#AcademicTwitter
Interested in AI, misinfo, fairness, trust & more? Submit to Communication Horizons conference UC Davis. Great theme, sunny location, wine tasting in Napa, one foot in Special issue of Media Psych, &....these keynotes: Stuart Soroka Tanu Mitra.
communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2024