Events
Current events in the Department of Communication
- Under the hood of Qualtrics: Custom user interfaces for more meaningful surveys
- Presenter(s): Seth Frey, PhD
- How do online virality metrics influence behavioral intention?
- Presenter(s): Christopher (CJ) Calabrese
- Thanksgiving Break (No Brown Bag Meeting)
- Have a nice break!
- Cancelled (No Brown Bag Meeting)
- "Controversial Science in an Age of Fake News and Polarized Politics"
- A talk by Dietram Scheufele
- NCA (No Brown Bag Meeting)
- NCA Prep Presentations
- Presenter(s): Skye Wingate
- Commenting on social media posts: Do message position and incivility encourage or discourage commenting?
- Presenter(s): Xudong Yu
- Understanding Entertainment as a Social Venue: Expanding the Two-Factor Model
- Presenter(s): Bingqing Wang
- "Making the Most of Summer" Grad Series: Internships
- Presenter(s): Ingrid Zhou Malloch, Bingqing Wang, Yuhan Zhou
- "Making the Most of Summer" Grad Series: Educational Opportunities
- Presenter(s): Calvin Koon-Stack, Teresa Gil-Lopez
- Brown Bag Scheduling
- Gender and collaboration networks in online worlds: Combining empirical analysis with Agent-based models
- Presenter: Wensen Huang (Fudan University)
- QE Q&A: How to prepare for the qualifying exam
- Panelists: Bo Feng and Laramie Taylor
- ICA Prep Presentations
- Presenter(s): Grace Benefield & Cuihua Shen; You Zhan
- The credibility revolution in psychological science
- Presenter(s): Simine Vazire, Department of Psychology
- Bridging Communication Gaps with Social Computing Interaction Designs of Communication Channels
- Presenter(s): Hao Chuan Wang
- Facilitating Productive Conversations about Difficult Topics
- Presenter(s): Heather J. Hether and Jeanette B. Ruiz
- Unconscious Influence: How Social Media Interactions Lead to Accidental Inferences About the Self and Others
- Joseph Walther of UC Santa Barbara, in a Gerald P. Mohrmann Memorial Lecture, will discuss how social media leads to misattributions—mistaken judgments about who people are and why they act as they do.
- When Can We Predict Romantic Outcomes?
- Presenter(s): Paul W. Eastwick, Department of Psychology
- Situated Multimodal Dialog Systems
- Presenter(s): Zhou Yu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
- Pretesting and Piloting are Time-Consuming, yet Necessary, aspects of Experimental Research: Lessons Learned from Two Experiments (and Four Pilots)
- Presenter(s): Sarah Weigel, Jocelyn Young, and Nik Palomares
- Effects of Online Virality Metrics on Behavior Intention; Disguised in Conspiracy or Uncertainty? Effects of Vaccine Misinformation on MMR Vaccine Attitude
- Presenter(s): Christopher (CJ) Calabrese and Jieyu (Jade) Ding
- Predicting the development of online informal political conversations in a protest context
- Presenters: Teresa Gil Lopez & Cuihua (Cindy) Shen
- Asking questions about (and with) existing message systems
- Presenter: Laramie Taylor
- Families that Play Together Stay Together: Investigating Family Bonding through Video Games
- Presenter: Bingqing Wang
- Library Research in Communication Studies
- Presenter: David Michalski
- All the World's a Stage: Creating New Interactive Experiences with Playable Models
- Presenter: Josh McCoy
- Researching Roommates: Past research and future directions
- Presenter: Karen Erlandson
- The Great Equalizer? The Internet and Political (In)Equality
- Presenter: Saifuddin Ahmed