Excited to share my latest paper with @snsoroka.bsky.social. We show cross-cutting patterns in news commentary, drawing on a unique dataset of 250 million comments from six million users on a news aggregator. If you're interested in collective dynamics of news commentary, this might be for you!
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Great ICA presentation at by @shnoh.bsky.social, a PhD Candidate from UCLA’s Communication Department, on Expressive News Preferences. Using Verasight data, she showed how traditional studies can overestimate news echo chambers.
Thanks for sharing your insights! #ICA25 #ICA2025
3️⃣ Expressive News Preferences:
An experimental study showing that people often express attitude-consistent news preferences they don’t actually intend to read.
It suggests expressed preferences may reflect identity signaling more than actual intent.
→ Currently under review!
2️⃣ Negativity Biases Online (w/ @snsoroka.bsky.social):
How stable, trait-level negativity biases interact with algorithmic news provision on a mobile app.
We found these biases shape both what users select and what appears in their feeds.
→ Recently accepted at Media Psychology!
1️⃣ The Funnel of Engagement:
How engagement segregation intensifies as users move from viewing to clicking to reading based on co-engagement networks.
Using large-scale digital trace data to track clustering at each phase.
→ Ongoing project—hoping to wrap it up this summer. Stay tuned!
Just got back from #ICA2025 — so grateful for the thoughtful feedback and connections!
And I launched my Bluesky, thanks to a great tip from #PolcommPreconference25.
I presented three projects on digital news engagement and news selection bias. Here's quick recap ⬇️
