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Talia Stroud

@taliastroud.bsky.social

Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement

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The Trust Project’s trust indicators positively affect how people perceive the news. Delighted to have worked with Alex Curry and Sally Lehrman on this project.

27.03.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes β€” the amount of learning varies depending on how we embed news for those preferring entertainment (& also likely on the substance of the news content) …

29.01.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Comparing a BERT Classifier and a GPT classifier for Detecting Connective Language Across Multiple Social Media

Comparing a BERT Classifier and a GPT classifier for Detecting Connective Language Across Multiple Social Media

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A BERT classifier outperformed a GPT classifier in detecting connective language on social media, finds @jolukito.bsky.social, Chen, @ginammasullo.bsky.social, @taliastroud.bsky.social, with an analysis on how connective language relates to other types of language aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

28.12.2024 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Partnering ~~with~~ audiences to figure out how to be **listen-worthy** is critical. Thanks @niemanlab.org for the opportunity to share some thoughts!

20.12.2024 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New publication (4+ years in the making): β€œThe Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU
We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

11.12.2024 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 11
Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award - ISPP The Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award is given for the best book published in the field of political psychology during the previous calendar year. Befitting ...

Political Psychology books published in the last year? Send them my way!

The Juliette & Alexander George Book Award is given for the best book published in the field of political psychology during the previous calendar year (see www.ispp.org/awards/george).

02.12.2024 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Partisan Differences in the Sharing of Low-Quality News Sources by U.S Political Elites How often do political elites in the U.S. share low-quality news sources? Are there differences between the parties? While past work has investigated individuals sharing low-quality news sources, t...

members of Congress share more links to low-quality news sites than the public on Facebook; Republican members share considerably more than Democrats & this gap is increasing. only Republican members get increased engagement when sharing low-quality sites
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

15.02.2024 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 12
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Who Killed Trust? And What Can We Do About It? - In Reality podcast Eric Schurenberg discusses Trust in Media with Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas, Austin

πŸ“£NEW from In Reality!
@taliastroud.bsky.social & Eric Schurenberg discuss: medical misinfo, how newsrooms inadvertently feed polarization, why a popular silver bullet solution to algorithmic polarization won’t work, & bringing audiences & newsrooms closer together.
www.in-reality.fm/who-killed-t...

18.01.2024 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So proud of you!! You are amazing! Many congratulations!!!

23.01.2024 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Figure 1. Average daily new subscriptions by control and intervention news sites.

Figure 1. Average daily new subscriptions by control and intervention news sites.

Figure 2. Audience attitudes before and after six months after each intervention.

Figure 2. Audience attitudes before and after six months after each intervention.

Local news is on the decline πŸ“° πŸ“‰ But what could save it?

New field experiment with news sites by @taliastroud.bsky.social & @emilyvanduyn.bsky.social finds that engaged journalism initiatives can increase subscriptions and audience engagement.

doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad018

12.10.2023 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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04.10.2023 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Full tweet thread summarizing our findings here https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1684631397443489793?s=20

27.07.2023 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Great Facebook De-Siloing Study Listen to this episode from The Gist on Spotify. The 2016 election posed questions we still haven't fully answered about our elections, but today's guest, Dartmouth professor and elections researcher ...

Fun to talk with Mike Pesca on The Gist about our new study of like-minded sources on Facebook (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w) & our new Bright Line Watch report on the cases against Trump (https://tinyurl.com/trump-cases)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7paD9951E3iFhQUBgSNTFd

28.07.2023 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social med... The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.

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27.07.2023 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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So Maybe Facebook Didn’t Ruin Politics Large-scale experiments on social media, run behind the scenes during the 2020 election, suggest there is no simple fix for American democracy.

Four landmark studies from a collaboration between Meta and researchers. A summary of the results: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/meta-facebook-political-polarization-studies/674841/

28.07.2023 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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