PSA: deadline for @icahdq.bsky.social #ica26 less than 24 hrs away ⏰ Deadline is 1200 (noon) ICA Hdq time (eastern standard 🇺🇸) Good luck out there 🍀

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Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements”, by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

For folks not in higher ed, PhD programs are designed to be finished in five years minimum.

Happening today! #AEJMC25

Congrats to @stephedgerly.bsky.social for being awarded a Ver Steeg Fellowship. This fellowship supports the research of a tenured faculty member whose work enhances the reputation of Northwestern and comes with a research grant of $45,000: spr.ly/63326fYwpn

Fifty free copies of my TPV article "Using Deep Learning Neural Networks to Predict Violent Versus Nonviolent Extremist Behaviors." In it, my deep-learning model correctly predicted violent vs. non-violent offending among extremists in 94 percent of cases. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8966I...

SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to DJ’s latest Special Issue on "Digital Journalism in the Age of Technogarchy", edited by @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, & @gehrke.bsky.social. 🗓️Deadline: Sep 15, 2025 📷Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...

Academic freedom is under threat. Senior scholars from 11 countries examine the impact of political interference, censorship, and self-censorship in journalism studies. ➡️Read the commentary: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🌍We invite you to SIGN this article here: bit.ly/afsignatory

This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

#OutNow in #iCS What counts as algorithmic discrimination? This piece develops a grounded concept rooted in empirical cases, revealing how unequal outcomes emerge from routine design and classification practices. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties” @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵

Congrats to the AEJMC Tankard Book Award Winner: Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow, Gwyneth Mellinger, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Also congrats to the two finalists! #AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards

Way to go @bingbingzhang.bsky.social 🎉🎉

Here's the quick overview of the issue from Georgina Born and my introduction. In this introduction we also offer methodological reflections for the study of music and law, which I hope folks will find valuable. doi.org/10.1525/jpms...

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Looking forward to #ica26 in Cape Town 🇿🇦 First ICA conference in Africa 🌍

Apparently there are no more 'starter packs' on BlueSky, but I did make a #ica25 ICA Divisions and Interest Groups list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Had a wonderful time and many great conversations at our Social Media Radicalization #ica25 preconference yesterday. Thanks to all who attended!

📣 Deadline extended to August 22nd! To submit an abstract or the full CfP, check our website: edu.nl/nfd7h

Upcoming event: #Feminism #antifeminism & affective economies of rage 📌 Thurs 5 June 6.30-8pm Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape. 🎫 Join us in-person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Give @rishabn.bsky.social all the awards!!

Also, ICA will provide a legal assistance hotline for #ICA25 travelers for emergency situations when they are “on the go.”

#ICA25 attendees: ICA will hold an online panel "Know Before You Go" on U.S. immigration law and related concerns for those planning to attend ICA25. Date: 2 June 2025. Time: 10AM (EDT). Registration still possible: tinyurl.com/35vjnkkk Feel free to DM any questions for the panel.

Delighted to circulate this call for grant applications in my capacity as the Senior Research Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress and a partner affiliate of the Library of Congress.

New pub in New Media & Society led by the amazing Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd: “They’re trying to influence me to gain the more acceptable viewpoint”: The algorithmic imaginaries of politically activated social media users. Abstract below:

We're hiring! Looking for a 1-year visiting faculty member specializing in sport media and culture. Let me know if you have any questions/interest. jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

African workers labeling data and providing content moderation are the invisible backbone of AI development. They perform critical labor under challenging conditions, often for minimal pay, yet remain absent from our conversations about the AI value chain.

Shared a bit about our grant termination and the consequences of other canceled grants at UW-Madison. pbswisconsin.org/news-item/mi...

Labor-atories of Digital Economies: Latin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation. In this new article, I theorize how digital labor contexts update informality, dependency, solidarity economies in Latin America, considering data/AI work, etc ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

CfP Special Issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI for AI & Society journal, co-edited by me, Daphne Idiz and @zoeglatt.bsky.social . Deadline for sending abstracts: June 30 link.springer.com/journal/146/...

Starting now!

In one hour(!!), it's the 2025 State of Critical and Cultural Media Studies Symposium hosted by the Journal of Communication Inquiry. The full schedule and registration info are here: journalism.uiowa.edu/research/jou...

I've got a new report out today - on international factual programming on UK TV in 2023-24. Key finding: Travelogues dominate (58%) and 'male, stale and pale' presenters feature very heavily. Covered nicely in The Times - www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art... Full report: ibt.org.uk/reports/smal...

I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky. I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast. Short 🧵 1/n

Attending ICA this year? My research group is organizing a preconference about new theories and methods for studying social media and radicalization. Check out our featured speakers, draft schedule, and register here: cp3.org.uiowa.edu/ica-2025-pre...

We know it… but seeing it is still mind blowing. Read this piece and search which of your works were used to train AI models. Without remuneration. Dozens of chapters, articles, books www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Very proud of my advisee, Abubakar Ibrahim, for leading this project, based on his MA thesis research. In it, we introduce a typology of political campaign responses to information disorder and apply the typology to the 2023 Nigerian presidential campaign. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How does the rise of AI affect how young people are using news? We have an open fully-funded and full-time PhD position in "Journalism, generative AI and critical digital literacy". More info ⬇️ Application deadline: April 3 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

I'm excited to share the new forum I've co-edited with @marcowenjones.bsky.social for CSMC, here is our introduction: 'A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone' -check out the fascinating open access essays by our contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New @reutersinstitute.bsky.social factsheet out today with @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social looking at the gender breakdown of top editors. We find that only 27% of top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women. buff.ly/PdP9oxD Key findings in thread👇

New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models. Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

Come work with me! 1 year postdoc opportunity to work with me on workers' roles in AI safety. Social science and participatory methods a must, experience working with trade unions a + More info & apply here --> qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

My FB feed is 25% engagement bait about women's basketball and movies. Beyond politics, FB is a haven for slop, and it's gonna get worse.

Please submit! Social inequality may be a slow-burning issue but nonetheless one that deserves attention!

Proud of our student Alice Cruse for writing this piece.

The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate' 1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher; 2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent; 3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts #commsky @polcomm.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

In Iowa: NIH Funding: $209 million Jobs Supported: 2,579 Economic Activity Supported: $504 million www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... #iowa #iowacity