⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026

📍 University of Leeds
🗓 13–17 July

📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026
📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026

Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!!

📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm

📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining!

@alenakluknavska.bsky.social

🚨 One week left to submit to #ECREAPolComm25 🚨
Working on anything political communication - empirical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, or applied? Submit your 3000-character abstract & join us in Innsbruck, Austria, this September! 🙂

⏳ Deadline: March 30, 2025
📍 CfP: www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...

Congratulations!

One big step for COMPTEXT, and we’ll see about mankind! The COMPTEXT Association is finally here! After six conferences we are now ready to accept human members (agents are excluded, for now). Members enjoy perks! We welcome everyone to join us at bit.ly/3DvZiYl!

@azadekakavand.bsky.social sounds great, Azade! Do you have a working paper or some slides you could share? 😍

🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀

Register now! Hack with us and join the free sunset mountain bus tour 🌄👩‍💻 Join the hack, and get to see a lot more than hotels and convention centers at this ICA!

I just finished my registration for the ICA hackathon 👩‍💻 looking forward to it and seeing the Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado ⛰️ and check out their independent coffee shops 🙌 #ica25

Hi! I would like to be added to the list, please 🙏🤩

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At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.

Congratulations! 🥳

X challenges German court order granting data access to election researchers | TechCrunch Earlier this month, a Berlin court ordered Elon Musk-owned X to provide immediate access to public platform data to two civil society organizations

"Earlier this month, a Berlin court ordered Elon Musk-owned X to provide immediate access to public platform data to two civil society organizations seeking to study systemic risk around the country’s upcoming election."

X is now challenging that ruling. techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/x...

We Love Annenberg: Edwin Garcia Ramos YouTube video by Annenberg School for Communication

Happy Valentine’s Day! This month, we’re celebrating the Annenberg community — the individuals behind the scenes who make our work possible. Today, we’re highlighting Edwin, a computer whiz, pillar of kindness, and essential resource in bringing our mission to life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=irhb...

I'm conducting research on TikTok and looking to speak with someone who believes they have been shadowbanned. If this is you or someone you know, please LMK.

Thanks! ☺️

Thank you 🤗

Thank you 🙌

Thank you, Daniel!

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined @asc.upenn.edu as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working with @dfreelon.bsky.social on questions of #identity, #politics & #computational-methods! Excited to be part of such a dynamic and innovative team 🤩

One of my favourite conferences to attend 😊 great pol comm community

Safe prediction: Bluesky user #’s going up in next 48 hrs 📈🦋🆙

Almost at 28 million 🚀

bsky-users.theo.io

✨Time for meta reflection✨

In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🤓 How cool to see this in print! Wonderful collaboration with @cristinamonzer.bsky.social ☺️

(4/4) Major implications for journalism 📰: Cultural values shape news content alongside traditional factors like journalistic routines & organizational features. Suggests a circular relationship between audience engagement and journalistic value choices ♻️

(3/4) We identified four novel categories of value references in news: 🔍
* Universal (consistent across countries/topics)🌐
* Cultural (country-specific)
* Topic-based (vary by topic)
* Situational (vary by both country & topic)🎯

(2/4) Key contribution: unique application of Schwartz’s universal values framework to computational text analysis of news content. Opens new paths for studying how values shape public discourse🌟

The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K. Abstract. Values are consequential for opinion formation and remain a persuasive factor in shaping public attitudes. Still, the role of values remains unde

📊🌍New research article published together w/ the brilliant @profdimitrova.bsky.social: we analyzed over 500K Facebook posts to reveal how cultural values shape COVID-19 news engagement in Romania & UK. (1/4)

Access here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

#CommSci #journalism #engagement

Conferences, 2025

🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09).

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!

Call for Co-Editor in Chief of Gender and Justice

📢💫 Join the editorial leadership! Gender and Justice is seeking a Co-Editor in Chief to shape critical feminist scholarship. We welcome experts in sociology, geography, political science, law & related fields. Applications due Jan 31, 2025🎯

See details
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen...