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JCMC publication on Self-Presentation on Facebook

One Size Fits All: Context Collapse, Self-Presentation Strategies and Language Styles on Facebook

We are pleased to announce that four members of our department have just published an article on the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, together with colleagues from the Stanford and Cambridge.

Congratulations!

 

Cyber Support: Bo Feng

How do people respond to advice? How do their responses vary when that advice comes from cyberspace? Associate Professor of Communication Bo Feng explores what factors improve the effectiveness of supportive cyber-messaging.

Communication varies across contexts. Figuring out effective, as well as ineffective, ways of communication requires a scientific approach.

25 papers accepted at ICA

69th Annual International Communication Association Conference

Students and faculty will present over 20 papers at the 69th Annual International Communication Association Conference

Communication Beyond Boundaries

Washington Hilton Hotel; Washington, D.C.; 24-28 May 2019

New faculty member Prof. Zhang starts $400k grant

The grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio uses network science to improve physicians' decisions

Prof. Jingwen Zhang just joined the Department this fall, and has already received a grant for a collaborative project with the project's PI Dr. Damon Centola, from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Interdisciplinary hiring of 10+ new computational science faculty across UC Davis

UC Davis is dramatically expanding in the field of computational science, especially in the interrelated areas of data science, model building, network science, and computational neuroscience. 10+ new faculty hires have been approved across a range of departments and centers over a 3-year period, including communication, computer science, ecology, physics, psychology, statistics, mathematics, and neuroscience.

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PhD UX Researcher at Facebook

Jade (Jieyu) Ding, third-year Ph.D student, off to a 12-week paid internship at Menlo Park Jade (Jieyu) Ding, third-year Ph.D student, was offered a summer internship as a quantitative UX Researcher at Facebook in 2019. This is a 12-week paid internship at Menlo Park, starting in early June until late August. She will be doing research about misinformation, especially but not limited to fact check.

Over a dozen interviews about AI, big data & digital communication

During a recent visit to Chile, Prof. Hilbert gave a series of extensive interviews and key-note speeches about current transformations of the digital communication landscape, including the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and social media, and the increasing power of Computational Social Science.

 

Children and media

New studies look into questions related to how children learn new vocabulary and old stigmatization from media

Prof. Cingel published two articles in the latest issue of Media Psychology, a top-ranked interdisciplinary journal and received a grant to support a follow-up study. The first paper (published with colleagues at the University of Amsterdam) examined how the social context (e.g., viewing alone vs.