Subhayan Mukerjee

Deadline for SICSS Singapore extended by 1 week. Get your applications in by 22 April!

More details here: sicss.io/2025/singapore

🚨🚨SICSS Singapore returns for its *FOURTH* edition! We have a stellar lineup of speakers from public health, psychology, communication, computer science, urban mobility, business + more tbc soon. Graduate students, postdocs, early-career faculty apply by 15 April! @cssh-nus.bsky.social

A sentiment I whole-heartedly agree with, given what I’ve just been working on for the last 5 years!

Thanks!

Fantastic new Forum piece in @polcommjournal.bsky.social - a must-read for all interested in visual communication 👇👇👇

The Antecedents and Manifestations of Political Polarization in Visual Media: Key Questions and Future Directions In this article, we argue for a deeper integration of visual media into the study of political polarization, suggesting that visual content serves as both a driver and reflection of ideological, af...

Read it here or DM for access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy 2025! Cindy Shen and I are happy to announce a new forum piece in @polcommjournal.bsky.social where we argue for a need to focus more on visual content when trying to understand the causes and manifestations of political polarization.

Maybe it's recency bias, but watching Bruno's performance in the Liverpool-United game got me thinking: when was the last time our world-class attacking midfielder and captain dominated a big game so decisively, leaving his mark across all phases of play? @gunnerblog.bsky.social #arsecastextra

[Extended Abstract Deadline: January 15, 2025]

We’ve pushed the deadline back two weeks to give everyone a little extra breathing room during the holidays. Take your time, and we look forward to your submissions! #GenAI #AI #Computational

Deadline for abstracts for our GenAI special issue for @computationalcommunication.org is due in ~2 weeks!

The Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities, where, I'm deputy director, is now on BlueSky!

The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.

Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.

It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.

A thread:

We are looking for a new lead author of the Digital News Report.

See below for details.

Thanks to Nic Newman who has done a fantastic job steering the report for the last 10 years.

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I just used the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome extension to find my X following on Bluesky, and it found over 600 matching users for me. Pretty amazing!

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Since we're all making starter packs, here's one dedicated to journals and conferences in communication, political science, media, public opinion, etc. Let me know what I've missed! go.bsky.app/B4h2y66 #polisci #comm

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

Dream Theater, Singapore 2023. My fourth time seeing them live 🤘🏻

🚨We (@alvinyxz.bsky.social, @ewam.bsky.social) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai

Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24
Full papers: Apr 30 '25

@computationalcommunication.org

(he says to his 3 followers on Bluesky 🫠)

Yes! We are hosting the third iteration of #SICSS Singapore this June. PhD students, postdocs, earlier career faculty and researchers interested in the intersection of the social and data sciences are encouraged to apply! Deadline is 31 March.