Excited to share our new Media & Democracy Coop publication! If you're using audio-as-data, we hope it’s a useful guide for doing analysis in a replicable way! 📊✨🥳

Thrilled to share our latest publication!

✨New from me and my amazing coauthors on audio-as-data🎙️ For both speech-to-text and computational phonology tools, we find that results across tools are generally similar, but some subtle preprocessing differences can materially change the output doi.org/10.17645/mac.7…

🚨 Thrilled to share Media & Democracy Coop 's latest peer-reviewed work in Media and Communication : 'Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing' by me, Jason Greenfield Yunkang Yang, PhD Ross Dahlke 🔑 Megan A. Brown Becca Lewis and Bin Chen !

cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommun…

Happy to share that I'll be joining the Department of Computer Science at American University as an Assistant Professor in the Fall! I'm immensely grateful for the support from so many people, especially the mentorship of my advisors at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics and University of Michigan Political Science/MICDE.

What does CrowdTangle's demise signal for data access under the DSA? Megan A. Brown, Jo(sephine) Lukito, and #KaiChengYang write that they are organizing researchers and journalists to find out.
techpolicy.press/what-does-crow…

On 8/14 CrowdTangle will be shutdown - replaced by the inferior MCL. Meta makes big promises but we have no way of gauging its tools & access.
That's why, partnered w/ Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, we are launching a #DataAccessAudit . If you work w/ #socialmediadata join us! bit.ly/3TNgduN

🚨Data Access Thread🚨

First: Coalition for Independent Technology Research and Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics are organizing an important DSA data access project (w/ Megan A. Brown, Kevin Yang, and me) and we need your help compiling information about researcher data access. See our site for the survey. 1/n

independenttechresearch.org/introducing-th…

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Jeff Harden and I are seeking a post-doc OR visiting Ph.D. student to join us for the 24/25 AY. The position involves no teaching responsibilities, research funds, and competitive compensation

Please reach out with questions!

apply.interfolio.com/142189

🚨Our new paper in Political Analysis presents a novel, cross-platform method for estimating the ideology of YouTube videos.

What we found: it is possible to do this at scale with an efficient, automated method!

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#OpenAccess from @PolAnalysis -

Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos - cup.org/3UEqPwF

- Angela Lai, Megan A. Brown, James Bisbee, Joshua Tucker, Jonathan Nagler & Richard Bonneau

#FirstView

“it’s incredibly difficult, if not impossible in many instances, to do the sort of monitoring the researchers used to do.” Read CITR's Rebekah Tromble speak on the dangers of researching misinformation this election season: fastcompanyme.com/technology/mis…

#ResearchersUnite ! Check out Reuters' video highlighting CITR’s survey of over 100 researchers affected by Elon Musk’s #twittertakeover . These restrictions are dangerous - not only for academics - but for the world! bit.ly/3sq9hZr

Since taking over Twitter, now known as X, Elon Musk has waged war on social media researchers, systematically dismantling the ability to study what was once the most influential network for news and information favored among world leaders and journalists reut.rs/3St5ZiA

Reduced ability to study Twitter/X content “makes users on X vulnerable to more hate speech, more misinformation and more disinformation,” says UT Austin assistant professor Jo(sephine) Lukito.

More than 100 studies on X, formerly Twitter, have been canceled, suspended or changed as a result of Elon Musk's policies limiting access to the social platform reut.rs/3FSZcap by Sheila Dang