Media MOSAIC Lab member @garciaerick.bsky.social highlighted some intersting points at this top paper presentation! Make sure to reach out to him if you'd like to chat more about online hate or counterspeech. Way to go Erick! 👏🏽 #NCA2025 #COMMSky #AcademicSky #SciComm

Way to go @len-s.bsky.social on showcasing some of the awesome work we do at the Media MOSAIC Lab! 👏🏽 #NCA2025 #COMMSky #AcademicSky #SciComm

Great news from the Media MOSAIC Lab! #COMMSky 🎉 Congratulations to @garciaerick.bsky.social on earning a Top Paper Award in the Group Communication division at #NCA2025! We’re so happy to be celebrating this achievement with you today! 🔝📄🏅 For more information, see his abstract + business mtg ⬇️

HELLO HELLO #COMMSky! It’s Day 3 of #NCA2025! ☀️ Today we’re excited to share a top paper and a few more presentations! 🔝📄🏅 It has been amazing getting to connect with everyone! If you’re at #NCA25, come and say hi at one of our sessions! 👋🏽 #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB See our Saturday schedule ⬇️

Big news from the Media MOSAIC Lab! #COMMSky 🎉 Congratulations to @len-s.bsky.social on earning a Top Paper Award in the Communication and Social Cognition division at #NCA2025! We’re honored to be celebrating this achievement with you! 🔝📄🏅 For more information, see her abstract + business mtg ⬇️

G’Morning #COMMSky! It’s Day 2 of #NCA2025! ⛰️ Today we’re excited to share a top paper, and present on pedagogy and mentorship! 🔝📄🏅 It was great meeting many of you yesterday—let’s keep it rolling! If you’re at #NCA25, stop by and say hi! 👋🏽 #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB See our Friday schedule ⬇️

Day 1 of #NCA2025 is here! 🎉 The Media MOSAIC Lab is ready for a full day of presentations, mentorship, and networking! 🗣️📄🤝 We’re excited to share our work and cheer on colleagues! Come say hi at #NCA25 if you see us around! 👋🏽 #COMMSky #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB See our Thursday lab schedule ⬇️

🚨 #COMMSky Spotlight Alert! 🚨 @nibasaleem.bsky.social is featured in the November 2025 edition of the #ICA (@icahdq.bsky.social) Newsletter! 🌟 Check out the member spotlight at the 🔗 below. We’re proud to see our PI's research focus and mentorship aspirations highlighted on the global stage! 🌎

Check out these amazing mentoring events organized by the Mentoring and Leadership Council at #NCA2025! Hope to see you there!

Are you headed to #NCA2025 this week? 🤔 If so, come see what the Media MOSAIC Lab is sharing this year. We’ve got a full lineup of presentations, mentoring events, and top paper awards! 🗣️📄🏆 See our full lab schedule in the 🧵⬇️, and come connect with us at NCA! #COMMSky #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB

Congrats to @ismaharif.bsky.social on receiving the National University of Singapore Overseas Graduate Scholarship (NUS-OGS)! He'll receive funding support for the remainder of his PhD to advance his research on bridging social divisions through the multidimensional perspective of social identity. 👏🏽

😎 UCSB COMM Grad Students 😎 Interested in hearing real experiences and tips from fellow grad students and junior faculty on building meaningful academic connections at conferences? 🤔 If so, come join us at our Conferences & Connections event on Monday, October 27th! For more info, see the flyer! 👀

📢If you're joining the APS Global Summit this week, do visit some of my awesome students' posters! #APSGlobal #commsky #psychology

Congrats to lab member @ismaharif.bsky.social on 4 posters accepted at the 2025 @psychscience.bsky.social (APS) Global Psychological Science Summit! 🧠 He'll present on the cross-domain (media, interpersonal, group) effects of identity threats, alongside posters presented by his mentored students. 👨🏽‍🏫

Check out this theory-driven piece offering an important framework for scholars interested in how diverse media content can be used for intergroup socialization. Truly impressive work by @len-s.bsky.social to publish as a sole author while in grad school! @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

New paper (2025) by @len-s.bsky.social proposes the PMSIS model: parents can use racially diverse entertainment media + "foreground co-viewing" + active mediation to improve children's intergroup socialization 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/annc... Great work Sovannie 👏👏👏 #commsky

📢 IMPORTANT #COMMsky PUBLICATION ALERT!! 📢 Media MOSAIC Lab member @len-s.bsky.social's latest article has been officially published in the Annals of the International Communication Association (@icahdq.bsky.social)! 👏🏽 For more information, see the 🧵 and 🔗 down below ⬇ doi.org/10.1093/annc...

Lovely time meeting and learning from you all at @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social @nibasaleem.bsky.social #ica25 #commsky #academicsky

Huge congratulations to @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social for receiving a Top Paper Award in the Intergroup Communication division at #ICA25! 🏆 We’re so proud of your well-deserved recognition and the amazing work presented at this year's @icahdq.bsky.social! 🎉 #COMMSky #AcademicSky

This year at #ICA25 we were reminded of how community can drive discussion, new ideas and help foster awesome collaborations! 🤝🏼 We are so grateful to have the opportunity to be able to reconnect with @drsrivi.bsky.social & @malenao.bsky.social, two amazing and wonderful scholars in #COMMSky! ✨

Good morning #COMMSky from #ICA25! 🌞 If you have time from 3:00 PM to 5:45 PM, feel free to join us at our presentations! 🗣 @nibasaleem.bsky.social will be presenting an Intergroup Communication top paper! @garciaerick.bsky.social will be presenting on Risk, Race and Algorithms @icacat.bsky.social!

Super proud of @len-s.bsky.social for receiving the Dissertation Award for Social Impact for her exciting dissertation proposal! Check out her work with @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

#COMMSky if you are at #ICA25 and are interested in racial diversity, entertainment media, and intergroup relationships, reach out to @len-s.bsky.social for a chat over coffee (or tea)! ☕🍵 P.S. Ask her about the lab's cool business cards and who designed the lab logo! 👀 #ICA2025 #AcademicSky

Big congratulations to our lab member @len-s.bsky.social for receiving the inaugural UC Santa Barbara Communication Department Dissertation Award for Social Impact! 🥳 The award recognizes outstanding dissertation research proposals in communication with a clear application for societal impact.✨

Hello, once again, Denver! (summer ver.) 🌞 If you are at #ICA25 this weekend, I'd love to connect! I'll be at many of the online hate panels, so come say hi if you want to chat about online hate, media effects, identity, and intergroup relations! 🤝🏽 P.S. Ask me about our lab's cool business cards 👀

Rise and shine from sunny Denver, CO! ☀️🌄 #ICA25 is in full swing today! 😎 We’re excited to discover the newest innovations in COMM research and methodology @icahdq.bsky.social! 📄📈 If you spot any of our lab members here at ICA, come connect! We’d love to chat! 👋🏽 #COMMSky #AcadmeicSky #ICA2025

So proud of @nmolinarogers.bsky.social for achieving this milestone! She will be starting her postdoctoral position at UCLA working with the incredible @snsoroka.bsky.social

Is that @garciaerick.bsky.social we see? 👀 Come support this awesome team of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social COMM graduate students (@overbye.bsky.social, Xinyi Zhang, and @laurentwang.bsky.social) on Sunday, June 15th! P.S. We love collaboration with our fellow media labs! @mediaskill.bsky.social ✨

Hey-o #CommSky!👋🏽 #ICA2025 week = lab squad on the move to Denver! ✈️ Our lab is heading to @icahdq.bsky.social later this week, and we are all super stoked to share the amazing work our lab members have been a part of! #AcademicSky 🥳 👇🏽 Here's where you can find us on Sunday, June 15th for #ICA25 👇🏽

We’re thrilled to share that our incredible lab member @nmolinarogers.bsky.social successfully defended her dissertation, "I Believe I Can, So We Did: A Test of Social Media Efficacy and Activism Among Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups"! 🎉 🥳 Huge congratulations to Dr. Nancy Molina-Rogers! 🥳

🧵New publication alert! with @ismaharif.bsky.social Does media shape identity, or does identity guide media use? Our new 3-year study with Muslim American youth tests this bi-directional link @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @hcr-journal.bsky.social @theispu.bsky.social

📢 New Publication Alert! 📢 The latest research from our lab at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social has just been published in @hcr-journal.bsky.social! 📄 @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social explored whether media shapes identity or whether identity influences media use.

@nibasaleem.bsky.social and colleagues’ meta-analysis reveals that negative media depictions of ethnic minorities lead to unfavorable evaluations of these groups, while positive portrayals produce the opposite effect.

📢 New publication alert! How do media portrayals of minority groups affect outgroup evaluations?

This one was a journey. Jobs changed, roles changed, zip codes changed, babies were born, but the meta-analysis kept going. Grateful to the brilliant team (most not on Sky) who made it happen. @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Good morning again from chilly and snowy Denver! 🌨 #SPSP2025 continues today for Day 2! Just a quick reminder that our wonderful PI @nibasaleem.bsky.social will be at today's symposia on Navigating Identity and Resilience. Hope to see many @spspnews.bsky.social attendees here later today! 🤩

Good morning from chilly Denver! 💨🏔 #SPSP2025 kicks off today! 🥳 We can't wait to come across everyone's groundbreaking research and interesting methods @spspnews.bsky.social! Don't be shy to connect with @nibasaleem.bsky.social or @garciaerick.bsky.social if you come to spot them at SPSP! 👋🏽

Excited to read this paper as it related to the ideas being developed by @ismaharif.bsky.social in @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social examining the potential for AI to be used for divisive topics.

We can't forget a good ol' poster session at #SPSP2025! ✨ Come visit lab member @garciaerick.bsky.social's poster at the Psychology of Media & Technology pre-conference on Thurs, Feb. 20th from 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM [Exhibit D, Exhibit Level]! 📊 See the attached research abstract for more details! ⬇

Will you be at #SPSP2025 on Fri, Feb. 21st? Join us from 1:45 PM - 2:55 PM at the Colorado Convention Center [Bluebird Ballroom 2H, Terrace Level] for @nibasaleem.bsky.social's symposia on Navigating Identity and Resilience. For more information on the symposia see the abstract poster below! ⬇

Hi #SocialPsychology #SocialPsyc friends! #SPSP2025 begins tomorrow! See you in Denver, CO! 🏔 We are excited to see all the stellar research at @spspnews.bsky.social! 👀 Keep an eye out, as we’ll be posting information w/ locations to all the wonderful talks our lab members will give this year! 🗣📄📊

So excited about this nuanced analysis examining the ways in which non-white Americans are thinking about their multiple identities and its social and political consequences for intra and intergroup dynamics. Related to new work by @nmolinarogers.bsky.social within @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Relevant to work in progress by @ismaharif.bsky.social within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social exploring the benefits of engaging in conversations rather than simply fact checking misinformed beliefs!

More great news! Thrilled to share that another paper was accepted at #ICA2025! A collaborative effort among incredible scholars! ✨ @nmolinarogers.bsky.social, @nibasaleem.bsky.social, @desireeschmuck.bsky.social, @malenao.bsky.social For more information on their paper, see the abstract below! 📄

Exciting news! Congrats to both @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social on their recent paper acceptance for #ICA2025! 📄 It's thrilling to know that our labs' innovative research will be presented at this year's conference. For more information on their paper, see the abstract below! 🎉

Relevant to the ideas @ismaharif.bsky.social is developing within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

Love the explanation of how social media is also contributing to critical consciousness and in turn political activism among marginalized youth. We have empirically documented this connection in several papers coming out of @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social.

Relates to the work of @len-s.bsky.social that she recently presented at @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social showing media representations and stereotypes of "Asians" most frequently depict East Asians relative to other subgroups. We need to rethink what we know about Asians based on existing research.

🌟 Lab Spotlight Alert! 🌟 This week at our lab meeting we hosted an amazing presentation by @len-s.bsky.social & her co-author Kyungin Kim. They shared their latest research: a content analysis examining subgroup representation and intergroup dynamics in entertainment media! 🎬📽📊

It was amazing getting to connect with many of you at #NCA2024! In case you missed it, here is a snapshot of @nmolinarogers.bsky.social presenting on Latino's social media efficacy during the 2020 presidential election! Feel free to reach out to her or visit our lab's website to learn more! 🗣📄