Yeah #OutNow

Good Start to July with New Publication. Our ICA 2024 Political Communication Division Top Paper is now published online in iCS. 🔑: While broadband access boosts voter turnout in urban areas, it can suppress turnout in rural(!) Feedback and thoughts are most welcome! doi.org/10.1080/1369...

I just launched my academic website! You can find my research program, recent publications, and many many working projects. If you're interested in algorithmic platforms’ potential in reshaping democratic systems from a communication perspective, feel free to take a look! #LLMs #Platformization

📣 New pub alert! My new paper with Drs. Esther Thorson and Rachel Mourão is now available online at JITP. It is well known that conservatives fact-check less frequently than liberals. However, differences in how each group approaches verification remain underexplored.

Many feel that politics globally has become toxic and hostile over recent years. But is this actually the case? And if so, who's to blame? What issues are driving toxicity? We analyze 18M tweets from politicians in 17 countries to find out! w/ @julianachueri.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22411

Heartwarming to see citizens stand up to authoritarianism...

New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down. “I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"

Up to 4 postdocs in tech, social informatics, digital communications, algorithmic justice (and more - read full description it probably includes what you do!) at Berkeley - aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04845

I completed my comps defense last Friday and am now officially a PhD candidate! Huge thanks to my amazing committee for guiding me through this journey. @kthorson.bsky.social @tpvos.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social #MariaMolina This means I’m officially on the job market—wish me luck!

In this study, we propose that a code in a text may exist or not exist depending on one’s social space. Perhaps it’s time to rethink “intersubjectivity” in content analysis. *This will be presented at the next ICA Comps Methods div. @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social

🛎️New paper alert from Social Media+Society. Co-authored with the amazing #KjerstinThorson @kthorson.bsky.social & #ChankyungPak! Our findings suggest how overconfidence among young adults may lead to a counterintuitive outcome—more active news consumption🧐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You should all read brilliant PhD student Taewoo Kang’s @greennail.bsky.social (first sole authored) paper in Comm Research (!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... — fascinating relationships among geographic polarization, social media curation, efficacy, and trust.

Hi 🦋! Let me introduce my first solo project! The study explores how spatial polarization in political trust relates to political curation practices on social media. Hope this analysis adds a meaningful layer on this evergoing “polarization debate.” Thank you! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...