Hanging sculpture from Xixian, Shanxi.

Super excited to have read all the fantastic papers in this panel and to share my observations on #AI generated visuals! Looking forward to meeting everyone #ica24 !

Good morning #singapore ! Excited to see things are getting ready for our #ica24 pre conference “a computational turn in journalism” Welcome everyone!

Our program starts with the fantastic keynote from Magdalena Wojcieszak , who argues that one overlooked problem is the low levels of quality news consumption among citizens, partially due to interest bias in #algorithm. We need to think about how to get ppl to consume more quality news!

Our first panel today starts with four great studies on various topics related to data, journalism, politics, and audience. We talked about practices of #datajournalism, data #journalism education, skin tone and electoral success, and audience metrics in newsrooms! #ica24

Our afternoon session looks into more issues surrounding AI and journalism. The panel covers research about automated journalism, gaps in this area, AI innovation, migrant publics on social media, and social bots! #ica24 #singapore

Our #ica24 pre conference ends with a provocative and wonderful keynote from edson , who talks about the adoption of gen AI in journalism and urges us to think about the normative standard of journalism about technologies. 👏👏

Our #ica24 pre conference “the future of computational message science” is starting today! First, our keynote from jeff hancock talks about how AI can communicate “more human than human” and how we can design responsible #AI for communication science.

Our first panel about “data and platform” features K0k!l J Sarah Shugars, who talk about the challenges of doing research with platform data. We exchange thoughts about data collection and deletion, interpreting and contextualizing digital traces, and doing cross platform comparison

Our next panel “digital interventions” features thought-provoking research from Talia Stroud covering the role of Facebook and Instagram in US election and Jingwen Zhang talking about using AI for persuasion in health contexts.

Do we want #AI in our life? Our next panel “AI and communication” talks about the promises, perils, hopes, and concerns surrounding AI applications. Dr. Norah Dunbar covers deception detection and AI for security and Rachel Kornfield looks at AI for improving mental health. #ica24

Method alert! The last panel in our #ica24 pre conference “the future of computational message science” covers computational text analysis. Speakers Hans Hanley Fabienne Lind Christian Baden talk about computational ways to measure narrative flows and do multilingual analysis.

Great way to end our pre conference with an incredible and inspiring keynote from Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen , who argues that we need to understand visual misinformation more, what makes visuals more credible, and the way to address misinformation should not only rely on users! #ica24

Great to be part of organizing this pre-conference! We had a fantastic lineup of scholars discussing various topics. Looking forward to more convos and research on computational methods to study messages and communication effects in the age of #AI and multimodal media at #ica24

Come check out our panel tmr, organized with Subhayan Mukerjee and Tian Yang, on computational communication research in the Global South. We will discuss research findings as well as the challenges and opportunities of conducting computational research in these contexts. #ica24

🚀We (Yingdan_Lu) had such an amazing panel today on "Image as Data in the Generative AI age" ICA Comp Methods. Our speakers showed representational biases, features and perceptions of AI-generated images across countries, and theorized what biases mean in vision language models. #ica24

Wow, thrilled to receive this year’s top paper award from APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions ! Please check out our paper today at 1:30 in room 7, GCCEC Upper. Our paper examines how outlet factors affect engagement on multiple social media platforms and highlights platform differences!

Happy to collaborate w/Xuzhen Yang dr. yilang peng Subhayan Mukerjee on this fantastic work! Thank you APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions for the recognition!

Wonderful to discuss #computervision methods to understand the credibility perceptions of climate visuals. Thanks for the invite, Prof Saffron O'Neill, Travis Coan, and Claire!

Oceans 🇦🇺