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Data Science for the United Nations: 5 students in Chile
Prof. Hilbert and a team of five UC Davis students are developing a big data online observatory for the UN Secretariat in Latin America and the Caribbean. The project explores how public online data can be used to inform international development policies. Three students spent three months in Chile, while two others continue to stay there for even longer, and one new student will be joining the team.
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.
Facebook Integrity Foundational Research Award
Prof. Wojcieszak has won a Facebook Research Award for her proposal “How to Attenuate Selective Exposure and Affective Polarization”
PhD UX Researcher at Facebook
Jade (Jieyu) Ding, third-year Ph.D student, off to a 12-week paid internship at Menlo Park
Can video games can tell us about fundamental cultural differences?
World of Warcraft study analyzes social contracts about resource distribution
Children and media
New studies look into questions related to how children learn new vocabulary and old stigmatization from media
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Chuck Berger
It is with sorrow that we report the passing of Professor Emeritus and former Communication Department Chair Charles Berger.
Six PhD students off to new adventures
The 2018 cohort of PhD students is starting new positions at top universities and in Silicon Valley
Journalism of Excellence Award 2018
The Chilean Journalism of Excellence Award was awarded for an interview with Prof. Hilbert
PhD Student Jieyu Ding Awarded Fellowship for the STRIDE Data Incubator Summer Training Program
"Who are retweeting vaccine misinformation on Twitter? Dissemination of vaccine misinformation on Twitter"
JCMC publication on Self-Presentation on Facebook
One Size Fits All: Context Collapse, Self-Presentation Strategies and Language Styles on Facebook
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.
CITRIS 'Tech for Social Good' Project Funding
"Abrázame" will be a mobile app for users to securely share domestic abuse stories
Joe Walther's 2018 G. P. Mohrmann Memorial Lecture
The Department of Communication is honored to host Dr. Joe Walther's Mohrmann Memorial Lecture entitled 'Unconscious influence: How social media interactions lead to accidental inferences about the self and others.' Dr. Walther's talk is on Friday, April 20 2018 11am-12:30pm at the International Center, Room 1310, multipurpose room.
CITRIS 'Tech for Social Good' Undergraduate Project Funding
Congratulations to Ke "Maddie" Huang, Kimmiko James, Jeffrey Warner, Alejandra Amparo, Sagar Gupta, and Jorge Peña for receiving funding for their Tech for Social Good proposal. Using CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Tech for Social Good Program funding, the team will develop "Abrázame," a mobile app for users to securely share domestic abuse stories and receive social support. The app will be available in different languages, including Spanish, English, Standard Chinese, and Hindi.
UCD weighs in with over 20 interviews on digital development in Latin America
Throughout 2017, Prof. Hilbert gave a series of extensive interviews and key-note speeches about digital development in Latin America, covering topics from the risk big data poses to democracy, to the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence for developing countries.
MoU with leading South Korean University
The UCD Department of Communication has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the College of Communication, Yonsei University.
19 presentations at NCA in Dallas
Faculty and students from our Department give 19 different presentations at the NCA 103rd Annual Convention: Our Legacy, Our Relevance, Dallas, Nov 16-19, 2017
Jeanette Ruiz featured in UC Davis First Generation Faculty Project
The daughter of farmworkers, Ruiz became the first in her family to go college.
PhD Student Awarded Scholarship for Oxford Summer School
Graduate Student Awarded Scholarship to attend Oxford’s Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme
Video Games a Viable Treatment for Depression
Video games and mobile applications are increasingly touted as an effective treatment for depression. A new UC Davis study by Subuhi Khan and Jorge Peña carries it a step further, though, finding that when the video game users were messaged reminders, they played the game more often and in some cases increased the time spent playing.
Interview BBC MUNDO: Big Data
Entrevista en Espanol/Portuguese: "La democracia no está preparada para la era digital y está siendo destruida"
Entrevista THE CLINIC Chile
The Clinic is Chile's satirical/investigative newspaper. The extensive 5 page interview with Prof. Hilbert (en espanol) is about the role of Big Data in society.
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.
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
Are Men Better Gamers Than Women?
Study debunks the gender performance gap in two massively multiplayer online games.
Graduate Student Selected for Honors Seminar
Third year Ph.D. candidate Cassandra Alexopoulos has been accepted into the 2016 National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar to be hosted July 21-24 by the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.