On behalf of the International Society for Computational Social Science, I want to thank Xi Song, Dan Hopkins, and their team for putting on a spectacular IC2S2 2024 Penn this past week. Big crowd, great energy, and high quality content! Looking forward to next year in Sweden!

In a new @Science article, Team Scientists @DuncanJWatts & David G. Rand find that “factual, vaccine-skeptical” Facebook content contributes to more vaccine hesitancy than blatantly false information. Read more in Penn Today: bit.ly/3RCMP8Q

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Investigating the Impact of Media Bias on News Readers On Amir Tohidi's and Samar Haider's presentation at IC2S2 mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/investiga…

While fake news is often at the forefront of concern around media consumption, a new study draws attention to the risks of a lesser considered, but more influential variable: biased news. Read about the research from @DuncanJWatts, David G. Rand & Jennifer Allen: whr.tn/3WMkSP1

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Death in the news: The mortality risks we face and the ones media organizations talk about Written by: calvinisch mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/death-in-…

Although outright COVID-19 vaccine misinformation reduced vaccination intentions, factually-true "vaccine-skeptical" content that was unflagged by fact checkers on Facebook had a 46x greater impact on vax intentions, finds Jennifer Allen Duncan Watts David G. Rand doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

.Emily Hu, a 4th-year The Wharton School student, has launched an award-winning Team Communication Toolkit with CSSLab at Penn. This open-source python package simplifies analysis of text communication among teams. Learn more: teamcommtools.seas.upenn.edu

Developed using OpenAI's GPT infrastructure by The Wharton School's @DuncanJWatts and @CSSPenn, the Media Bias Detector analyzes articles from major news publishers, categorizing them by topic and examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selections: whr.tn/4dGl4ow

Emily Hu, a Ph.D. student at CSSLab at Penn and The Wharton School, created the Team Communication Toolkit, enabling researchers to analyze group communication with 160+ research-backed features. Her toolkit won the 2024 IACM Technology Innovation Award. bit.ly/3M9qqgi

Listen: Microsoft Research economist David Rothschild 🌻 is one of those behind the Media Bias Detector Project, which “Tracks and classifies the top stories published by a collection of prominent publishers spanning the political spectrum in close to real time.” itsalljournalism.com/632-editorial-…

Nice story about CSSLab at Penn's Media Bias Detector. thepenngazette.com/detecting-medi… Check out the bias detector here: mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu David Rothschild 🌻

Great story about CSSLab at Penn lab member and The Wharton School PhD student Emily Hu's newly launched team communication toolkit penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wharton-h… teamcommtools.seas.upenn.edu

Led by Wharton Ph.D. student @XEmilyHu, a group of graduate and undergraduate student researchers at Penn have created an open-source toolkit to help social scientists analyze the dynamics of team communication: whr.tn/3Tg790L “The toolkit and its announcement are just

Amidst a rollercoaster of seemingly endless political news, CSSLab at Penn's Media Bias Detector website can “classify media content in somewhat close to real time,” says The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences faculty affiliate Duncan Watts. thepenngazette.com/detecting-medi…

📢 Excited to announce that the Knight Foundation Knight Foundation has provided a grant for the U of Penn to establish the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy led by CSSLab at Penn director Duncan Watts and Penn Law Prof. Christopher Yoo 🎉 Read more here: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/universit…

NEWS: We’re proud to support Penn’s new Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy alongside the @KnightFdn, Penn Engineering, Annenberg School, Penn Arts & Sciences, @PennLaw, & PennSP2: whr.tn/4dOUSIV Led by Profs. @DuncanJWatts & Christopher Yoo, the Center will propel research

New Media Bias Detector 🔎 Blog Post 📝 - What the Media Bias Detector is telling us going into the upcoming Trump v. Harris debate (and it will tell us coming out of it) David Rothschild 🌻 Duncan Watts mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/what-medi…

Penn PhD student Xinlan Emily Hu leads a group of budding engineers & social scientists who study communication across teams. The group has developed a new toolkit aimed at helping researchers analyze and measure teamwork. The Wharton School Penn Arts & Sciences Penn Engineering penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wharton-h…?