@polcomm.bsky.social is seeking a new Editor of Political Communication!! Please apply by Dec 31, 2025✅

🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨 Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out our latest paper on social media linking patterns across 186 platforms and two large social issue datasets 👇👇

Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

🌟pub🌟 "Communicative AI in the scientific public sphere" is out in Telematics & Informatics! w/ @yinizhang.bsky.social Jiawei Liu & Yukyung Yang We examine public discussions on generative AI tools from both cognitive and affective dimensions. first 50 copies 👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kmCI2dUkY...

President Yoon removed. Unanimous decision by the constitutional court. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

📄NEW PAPER📄 Ever wondered content people actually pay *attention* to online? Our new research reveals that you likely pay attention to far more varied political content than your likes and shares suggest

Honored to be a panelist today on an important #ThinkingGlobally panel on media and misinformation! @uconn.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social

With #FakeNews, #AI, & polarized #SocialMedia platforms, sharing information has become increasingly complicated. Join us for the first of three panels on #ThinkingGlobally in 2025 to discuss this growing challenge & its implications for #GlobalRelations: https://buff.ly/4hF77sU

By yours truly,

This is not a time for passive citizenship. Silence means approval. So what to do?

✨New article!✨"WordPPR: A Researcher-Driven Computational Keyword Selection Method for Text Data Retrieval from Digital Media" by Yini Zhang (@yinizhang.bsky.social), Fan Chen, Jiyoun Suk (@jiyoun-suk.bsky.social), and Zhiying Yue. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hang with the Huskies tonight at #nca24 #nca2024

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Everyone’s loving #starterpacks on #Bluesky. So, here’s a #thread of 12 starter packs for #digital #internet & #platform studies & adjacent disciplines (tech law, #css, #sts). Pls share/add. I start with my own pack on (digital) #activism & social movements. #AcademicSky bsky.app/starter-pack...