🚩100 Citations Milestone Reached!

🚨New Pub🚨 Media-bashing became an identity. When Trump attacked the news media on social media, how did political influencers on the left and right amplify his rhetoric? Check out our new article (w/ @yinizhang.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z8NQW...

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🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨 How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵

What institutions and professions are most trusted by the American people? At the top: medical scientists (73%), the military (72%), scientists in general (71%). Near the bottom: The US Supreme Court (41%), the President (40%), Congress (32%). www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-america...

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Our method paper is published today! It is perfectly timely before I finish my PhD and before my new journey! This paper is to measure the content engagement capacity in online conversation using a network-based approach. We welcome any feedback, comments, application, and future collaboration!

Reviewed 2 journal articles to end my 2024😊

🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ve been engaging with this platform passively—most browsing, liking, and sharing posts from scholars in my field. Yet, my account is attracting "unknown" followers, many of which seem to be bots. Is this a sign of the platform’s growth or something more concerning, like botnets being deployed?

When reporting a suspected bot account, include the word "bot" in your reply comment. This will help the Bsky bot-hunting team and allow them to respond more quickly.

This is a very accurate reflection of my research area 🤔 blueskyroast.com/roast/wangru...

I've tried to make a starter pack within "AI in Media/journalism". Who am I missing? Let's have important conversations! #AI #media #journalism

Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username? On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username. We just refreshed our how-to guide:

For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

The findings of this article echo what we found in our recent study (shorturl.at/KdF3U): simply disclosing AI authorship to readers does not change their perceptions of the news article or journalism. We need to go further in terms of transparency when implementing AI in news production.

When I find myself in times of trouble, I sit down and write. My new book, Misinformation and Society, is now available for PRE-ORDER from Amazon and all other retailers!! www.amazon.com/Misinformati...

This is such an amazing list of political communication researchers. I am glad to be on it! Give them a follow ✅

After a week with the TikTok Research API, here are my thoughts: 1) It is super unstable (constant 500 errors and the only fix is to keep trying until it works); 2) The docs are a mess, especially for folks with different levels of coding/API experience, and there’s almost no community support.

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign. www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

🚨NEW study from @qutdmrc.bsky.social with eye-opening! 👀 findings! The computational analysis of engagement found that X's algorithm was changed in July 2024 to boost Republican-leaning & Elon Musk's accounts during US election #AlgorithmicBias #USElection2024 #Twitter #X eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

An excellent piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social on our struggle to find appropriate metaphors to think about what Large Language Models *are*. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In what could be described as both a perfect and horrifying timing, I will give a talk today at Penn Medicine on the politicization of science, the role of media, and the implications for vaccines and other health behaviors. Zoom link below if you're interested

Do podcasts play a decisive role in politics? This fascinating new paper maps the ecosystem using a large database of podcast transcripts from 2020. My first take away: politics is dwarfed by entertainment (not unlike social media): arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07892

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...

Leaving the massive network effect on the other site isn’t easy, especially for early-career researchers like me—building connections is challenging and takes time. But the longer I stay, the more I feel the chaos and lack of control over content visibility. Maybe it’s time to make the move.