Come work with us at the Annenberg School Health Comm & Equity Lab! We seek an equity-minded Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2023 academic year. We use communication science and #EngagedResearch to improve health equity. #LGBTQHealth #tobaccofree bit.ly/3V9sGaH

So saddened by this. A towering figure in the field. A genius scholar kind to students and junior researchers. Also the Santa who handed me a holiday gift at my first Xmas party in Annenberg. R.I.P.

Fill the Hill has begun! We're actively looking to re-home a rather large flock of #uwflamingos! Can you help support J-School students and send our friends up to Bascom Hill? Give a gift now: go.wisc.edu/jschool

Join us on Friday, Nov. 18 at Gordon Commons for "Renewing Civic Life in Wisconsin: Fulfilling the Legacy of Bill Kraus." The conference brings together academics, journalists, & politicians to discuss civic fracture and renewal. Use go.wisc.edu/civicrenewal for the live stream 1/

Job Posting: For those looking for a new job in the new year, please consider joining our team at UW-Madison as a research administrator working to improve the quality of political and health information. jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5159… Please share with others! Details below 1/3

We have an opening for a teaching faculty position in video storytelling!

Glad to receive this support together with Zening Duan Zen!ng “Ze” Duan. Hoping to build efficient vec-tionaries to contribute to message effects research and data-driven strategic comm!

Welcome to Madison, Dr. Wang :)

Today Mian (Gloria) Wei and Sijia Yang joined me to introduce our new preprint article using face detection techniques to examine gender biases in Image #GenerativeAI at the interactive session at Human-Machine Communication Preconference! #ICA2023: arxiv.org/abs/2305.10566 🧵

We are so excited to welcome three new faculty members to the J-School this fall! Read on to learn more about their backgrounds and experiences 🧵

Excited to announce the release of our latest paper, "Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI," published in JCMC! #AI #GenerativeAI #GenderBias #Visual #Feminism

(1/9) LLM agents are increasingly used to simulate human-like societies. But how human-like are their “social interactions,” actually? For example, can we really use them to simulate human-like debates on issues like climate change? Our recent work was accepted at NAACL 2024!

Excited to announce our ICA Preconference International Communication Association "The Future of Computational Message Science" with Kaiping Chen Sijia Yang dr. yilang peng! Explore #ComputationalMessageScience theories and innovations with us on June 19 at Brisbane. More details at: sites.google.com/northwestern.e….

Media literacy is important for combatting misperceptions, but it appears to be more helpful for liberals than conservatives in the context of COVID, finds Jianing Li Porismita borah Jisoo Kim Sijia Yang et al. in icsjournal doi.org/10.1080/136911…

Come and join our #ICA24 preconference on June 19 at QUT, Brisbane! Fantastic lineup of speakers and exciting discussions about computational message science! Registration deadline is now May 31 via this link: icahdq.org/event/computat…. ICA Comp Methods International Communication Association

The deadline extended to June 7! Come and join our #ICA24 preconference on computational message science on June 19 at QUT💡Check out our fantastic speakers lineup of speakers, and register here: icahdq.org/event/computat…

And a big thanks to the greatest team, Kaiping Chen Sijia Yang dr. yilang peng for working together in the past 10 months for this. Great thanks to Zen!ng “Ze” Duan and Xinyi Liu for their superb conference assistance!! Proud of us!!

#ICA2024 attendees, passionate about GenAI for communication research? You’re very welcome to join our early morning panel on this topic tmr at 9am in Star L3! The Communication & Technology Division of ICA International Communication Association I’m so excited to co-chair this panel with jeff hancock and be alongside such admired scholars!😻

🎵 Thrilled to share our latest Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication publication! Gaofei, Sijia Yang, and I tested how background music can improve #TikTok debunking videos by medical professionals—largely through distraction. Full paper link: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z…

Job alert: My department UF Media Production, Management & Technology Dept. in the College of Journalism and Communications UF College of Journalism and Communications is recruiting two tenure track positions. One focuses on emerging media: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5330…; the other focuses on media management: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5330…. DM if you have questions