@jessrcollier analyzed comments on fact-checking websites: 1/3 of all comments were not civil. #APSA2018

#APSA2018 wraps up today! Take a few minutes to reflect on your goals for the conference. Did you meet them? What would you do differently next conference?

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Many, many thanks to all presenters, discussants, chairs, audiences in the Pre-Conference and 28 #PolComm sessions at #APSA2018 in Boston! And for your interest here on twitter!

See you all in Washington for #ICA19 and #APSA2019!

https://vimeo.com/99061723

What do successful congressional bills look like? Do they use more technical, legal “boilerplate”? Interesting work from @MatthewJDenny developing text methods for identifying the “legal glue” of legislation. #apsa2018

Last #PolComm panel #28 at #APSA2018:

The Moderating Role of Gender in Political Communication, with @ThomasJBillard @LawrenceRegina Jennifer Cryer, Jaime E. Settle, Travis N. Ridout @kesearles @PatriciaStrach Katherine Zuber @efranklinfowler Anna Loup

http://tinyurl.com/yb4ukvx3

#PolComm panel #27 at #APSA2018:

Push and Pull: Selective Exposure and Political Polarization, with @JessicaFeezell Danny Hayes @prowag Juliet Carlisle, Bert Baumgaertner, Michael Clark, April K. Clark, Florian Justwan @kmmunger @Jonathan_Nagler

http://tinyurl.com/y9okpyso

It’s sufficiently professional to carry around a suit jacket, right? I don’t have to actually put it on? #apsa2018

If you're somehow still partly alive,
Come at 10 to Hynes room 205
I'll talk about text
With my finished slide deck:
A Bayesian Model for Conversations Online

#apsa2018

#PolComm panel #26 at #APSA2018:

The Political Significance of Entertainment and Social Media Discourse, with @JessicaFeezell @dannagal Jeremiah Castle, Kyla Stepp @eunjikim210 Jeremiah Garretson @Chen_Kerry Nathan Ross Lee, William Marble

http://tinyurl.com/yao6unjj

#PolComm panel #25 at #APSA2018:

Media Fragmentation, Selective Exposure, and Diverse Agendas, with @kmmunger Diana M. Owen @BenjaminToff @antoniskalog @DrAMDaniller Barbara Gomez Aguinaga @jldhouston @joshuadarr Brittany N. Perry @mingxiaosui

http://tinyurl.com/ydhjvev6

Debating your #apsa2018 plans? Come to the Political Networks business meeting (6:30, Marriott Vineyard) and/or the Networks reception (7:30, 177 Huntington Ave).

I especially encourage students to come — I want to be your friend!

Also, here’s what I couldn’t fit in the fridge:

.@lpargyle et al. #APSA2018 presentation 'Social Media Echo Chambers and Political Polarization: A Field Experiment' just finshed which was published in @PNASNews on August 28 and has until now an @altmetric score of 338! https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804840115 #PolComm

#PolComm panel #24 at #APSA2018:

Media and Political Polarization, with Stephanie Burkhalter @jldhouston Danny Hayes @jenlawlessUVA @dragz @AlessioCornia @rasmus_kleis @chris_bail @lpargyle Adam L Ozer

http://tinyurl.com/yby9o3g3

I am so 👏 excited👏 about Erin Rossiter’s new paper using topic models to measure agenda setting in debates and conversation. #apsa2018

Really cool work on training multilingual word embeddings from @yaoyao_dai. Python package coming soon! #apsa2018

#PolComm panel #23 at #APSA2018:

Gender Dynamics and Communication, with Laura A. van Assendelft, Jennifer C. Lucas @e_sharrow @JesseRhodesPS @TatisheNteta Jill S. Greenlee @AlexisStraka @nivenpolitics @mhajneam @IvyAMCargile @AnneliseRussell

http://tinyurl.com/y8bl9tnu

Some photos from the #PolComm poster session at #APSA2018:

Poster Session: Political Communication, with @MrSobolev Taylor Nicole Carlson, John Wagner @fangkc @A_Rilke @AngelisAndrea @MikeHabegger @LTobis Surachanee Sriyai, Ashley Lee, Breanna Wright

http://tinyurl.com/yc885st9

#PolComm panel #22 at #APSA2018:

Consequences of News Frames Across Issues of Terrorism and Immigration, with Aguinaga, Valentino, Richey, Llewellyn @MonaKleinberg Kowalik @scott_althaus Shalmon, Armstrong, French

http://tinyurl.com/y8ldmzkt

Academia is an endurance sport. #apsa2018

#PolComm panel #21 at #APSA2018:

Political Campaigns, the Press, and Platforms, with @profjsg @emilyvanduyn @shannimcg @ryanbq @ykrupnikov @SamaraKlar @kesearles @jesse_b_p

http://tinyurl.com/ybdgzvgq

#PolComm panel #20 at #APSA2018

Quantifying the Impact of Political Information on Political Engagement, with Gregory John Martin, David W. Nickerson @rchlgibson4 @25lettori Peter Smyth @rv_southern @DrAndrewFlores @Henders20Mike Nicholas Davis

http://tinyurl.com/ycllmkob

#PolCom panel #17 at #APSA2018:

The Persuasive Effects of Political Communication, with Jeffrey W. Koch @joshuadarr @ProfJaneGreen @jsradford @rchlgibson4 Peter Smyth @seth_j_hill @vavreck @CaitlinMilazzo @ryanbq Robert Bird

http://tinyurl.com/yd43lq7p

#PolCom panel #16 at #APSA2018:

Incivility and Media Credibility, with @EricVorst @ashleymuddiman @ElisaShearer @katmatsa @lauraruthsilver Katie Simmons @GinaMChen Jiwon Kim, Samuel C. Rhodes @Bryan_Gervais

http://tinyurl.com/ybp9von8

#APSA2018 continues! Take a couple minutes to write a brief reaction (a few sentences) to a paper you heard today. How does it connect to your research? How could you improve it? What made it memorable?

Why does being on one political mailing list get you on many political mailing lists? Because electoral collaboration — in the form of list sharing — follows patterns similar to legislative collaboration finds @ponderingpodob.

Collaboration even occurs across parties! #apsa2018

.@tedhchen introduces the citation-TERGM, a model designed to handle the peculiarities of citation networks. #APSA2018

#PolCom panel #15 at #APSA2018:

Poster Session: Political Communication, with @MrSobolev Taylor Nicole Carlson, John Wagner @fangkc @A_Rilke @AngelisAndrea @MikeHabegger @LTobis Surachanee Sriyai, Ashley Lee, Breanna Wright

http://tinyurl.com/yc885st9

Bonus points to @BerardoRamiro for his use of a Dr. Seuss poem from The Lorax in his talk on coordination around ecological challenges in Lake Erie. #apsa2018

Fun fact: the original version seen here actually called out Lake Erie as having particularly bad pollution.

After the Business Meeting, the @APSAtweets sections #PolCom and @apsa_itp invite you to a Joint Reception

#APSA2018 #PolCom

What are you doing at 6:30pm today?

See you all at the Political Communication Business Meeting, with @jldhouston & @claesdevreese in Hynes 103.

#APSA2018 ##PolCom