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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T110000
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Nancy Molina-Rogers - UCLA
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-nancy-molina-rogers-ucla/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group,Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Idan Blank - UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Understanding ‘Understanding’ in Large Language Models \nIdan Blank\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Psychology and Linguistics\, UCLA \nPart of the Department of Communication Speaker Series.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/10037/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group,Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20250922T172153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T033729Z
UID:10032-1763031600-1763037000@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Eunji Kim - Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:How social media creators shape mass politics: A field experiment during the 2024 US elections \nEunji Kim\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \nPart of the Department of Communication Speaker Series\, and co-organized with the Communication and Politics Group.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speakers-series-eunji-kim/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group,Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20250926T194328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T194328Z
UID:10053-1762959600-1762965000@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CPG Speaker: Marc André Bodet
DESCRIPTION:Accent as a factor of differentiation in a pluralistic society \nMarc André Bodet\, Professor\, Université Laval \nAbstract. There exists substantial research on the impact of various characteristics on the definition of national identity. Factors such as skin color and other phenotypical characteristics associated with race and ethnicity have played a central role along cultural and religious symbols. Language acquisition has also been a strong indicator of integration. In this article\, we focus on an understudied area that often signals otherness\, namely the importance of accent as a factor of differentiation. We focus on the impact of standard versus nonstandard accents\, alone and in combination with ethnic cues. Making use of a preregistered online experiment conducted in the Canadian province of Québec\, we randomize the ethnicity and accent of a person making a political statement and test whether these two characteristics are associated with differentiated evaluations of two types of statements about diversity (one more intercultural and one more multicultural)\, as well as assessments of the speaker’s belonging to the majority group. \nPart of the Communication and Politics Group speakers series.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-speaker-marc-andre-bodet/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2125
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20250922T172102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T172636Z
UID:10029-1761822000-1761827400@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Kaiping Chen
DESCRIPTION:From Digital Portrayals to AI Refusals: Gendered Patterns in Science and Technology Communication \nKaiping Chen\, Associate Professor in Computational Communication\, Department of Life Sciences Communication\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nPart of the Department of Communication Speakers Series\, and co-organized with the Communication and Politics Group.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-kaiping-chen/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group,Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251002T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251002T153000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20250922T171215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T194401Z
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SUMMARY:CPG Speaker: Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice
DESCRIPTION:Enemies of the (E)state: Examining the Role of Attacks on The Press and Media Content \nDan Haieshutter-Rice\, Michigan State University \nA healthy critique of the free press is vital in a democracy. Like the other pillars of a functional democratic system\, the press performs its role best under a receptive but critical eye. Yet broad and sustained attacks by political elites can undermine a free and independent press. These attacks may pressure outlets to alter their content\, potentially through defense of the press or pulling back their negative coverage. These responses may also vary based on the kind of news organizations. Certain outlets may be more susceptible than others; for example\, publicly funded media could be especially responsive to accusations of bias given their reliance on government support and donor goodwill. \nThis paper examines how a wide range of news outlets—including local news organizations\, public media\, major broadcast networks\, and cable news—have responded to public accusations of bias and threats of regulatory action over the past 20 years. Drawing on the Congressional Record and a database of political newsletters from members of Congress (DCInbox)\, it analyzes changes in tone\, language\, sourcing\, and thematic emphasis in news coverage following political attacks. The findings will illuminate the extent to which critiques of the press translate into measurable shifts in coverage\, and the conditions under which media outlets are most likely to alter their content in response to political pressure. \nPart of the Communication and Politics Group speakers series.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-speaker-dan-hiaeshutter-rice/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2125
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20241001T200233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T200408Z
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SUMMARY:"Adjusting the Margins: Political Communication Efforts by Marginalized Communities Over Time" Ben Epstein (DePaul University)
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/adjusting-the-margins-political-communication-efforts-by-marginalized-communities-over-time-ben-epstein-depaul-university/
LOCATION:Comm Project Room – 2310 Rolfe
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20241001T200131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T200131Z
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SUMMARY:"Generative AI and politics: what is next after the 2024 super election year" Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam)
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/generative-ai-and-politics-what-is-next-after-the-2024-super-election-year-claes-de-vreese-university-of-amsterdam/
LOCATION:Comm Project Room – 2310 Rolfe
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20241001T195959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T195959Z
UID:7858-1730467800-1730467800@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Measuring Resilience to Misinformation: A Global Multilevel Framework" Peter Van Aelst (University of Antwerp)
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/measuring-resilience-to-misinformation-a-global-multilevel-framework-peter-van-aelst-university-of-antwerp/
LOCATION:Comm Project Room – 2310 Rolfe
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20240328T064612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T032752Z
UID:7235-1715353200-1715358600@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:POSTPONES: CPG: Ben Epstein (DePaul)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Exploring Political Communication Strategies of Women’s Rights and LGBTQ+ Communities Over Time \n  \nAbstract: This study uses a mixed methods approach to explore the communication approaches of organizations advocating for greater political power\, access\, and representation for women and LGBTQ+ Americans over time. First\, I identify a diverse sample of organizations and publications advocating for greater political inclusion for women and LGBTQ+ Americans over the past two centuries\, with particular attention to those in the contemporary digital era. Next\, various print and digital communications efforts are analyzed\, applying a framework developed over a number of studies to compare the varied communication approaches of organizations advocating for marginalized communities. Finally\, content analysis is used to evaluate newspapers\, magazines\, social media posts and websites from these organizations and publications. Through these approaches I explore the rhetorical strategies and goals of political messages communicated by these groups by centering their words\, and find that while many notable changes have occurred\, much is remarkably consistent over time.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-ben-epstein-depaul/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20240328T064751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T234300Z
UID:7238-1714474800-1714480200@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CPG: Nikki Usher (USD)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How and why American journalism (accidentally) amplifies anti-democratic actors: Small town extremists\, media storms\, and a broken news industry \n  \nAbstract: Within a week\, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle. This newly-empowered politician\, Darren Bailey\, would go on to hijack the pro-business Republican party in Illinois toward extremism. Democratic backsliding emerges across all levels of politics\, but the threats posed by small town politicians to the rule of law have been overlooked. This research asks\, first what features of local political ecologies that might facilitate the rise of small town anti-democratic extremists? Second\, how does the political economy of the contemporary  news ecosystem–local\, regional\, national\, and partisan media–serve to amplify these bad actors? Ultimately\, this case study considers how small-town extremists are enabled by the structural\, cultural\, and normative dimensions of democratic life that they seek to undermine\, especially the difficulty the institutional news media faces in covering anti-democratic actors.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-nikki-usher-usd/
LOCATION:Comm Project Room – 2310 Rolfe
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20240405T174557Z
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SUMMARY:Dan Costanzo (NORC at the University of Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Researchers who conduct population surveys face escalating costs and declining response rates\, as they aim to collect data that is representative\, trustworthy\, and publishable. Sample recruitment is often prohibitively expensive to researchers\, and cheap convenience samples are fraught with representation and quality issues. NORC at the University of Chicago has built a survey panel called\nAmeriSpeak to help researchers navigate these choppy waters. AmeriSpeak is a probability (random) sample of US households recruited to take surveys for NORC. Dan Costanzo\, a Director of Business Development at NORC\, will talk about AmeriSpeak’s novel approach to sample recruitment\, which includes sending field interviewers located throughout the US to the homes of non-responders. The\nresult of NORC’s rigorous efforts is a panel that delivers higher response rates and a more representative sample of US adults than mail and phone recruitment efforts alone provide. AmeriSpeak is commercially available to academic\, government\, media\, and other researchers. Costanzo will also talk about the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)\, a federally funded program through\nNorthwestern University that enables academic researchers to use AmeriSpeak for free.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/dan-costanzo-norc-at-the-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20240123T010923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T222420Z
UID:7115-1709737200-1709742600@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CPG: Davin Phoenix (UCI\, Political Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Emotional Representation: Identifying the Characteristics and Consequences of Elected Officials Mirroring the Emotions of Their Constituents (with Christopher Stout\, Gregory Leslie\, and Elizabeth Schroeder)  \n  \nAbstract: In this study\, we identify a previously overlooked component of representation\, which we label ‘emotional representation.’ Emotional representation occurs when elected officials mirror the dominant emotional state of a constituent group through their public outreach. First\, to explore the existence of emotional representation\, we examine the degree to which members of Congress mirrored Black people’s documented increase in expressions of anger following the murder of\nGeorge Floyd in the Summer of 2020. Using a regression discontinuity design and sentiment analysis including 305\,358 tweets\, 190\,192 Facebook Posts\, and 35\,409 press releases\, we show that descriptively representative MCs provide the highest levels of emotional representation. Second\, to examine the impact of emotional representation\, we deploy a two-stage experiment to 390 Black respondents. We find that Black people who increased in anger after being primed with images of police violence view elected officials who engage in emotional representation as more\nfavorable\, empathetic\, and trustworthy.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-davin-phoenix-uci-political-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20240123T010711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240123T010748Z
UID:7112-1706108400-1706113800@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CPG: Marlon Twyman (USC\, Communication & Computer Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Metawisdom of the Crowd: How Choice Within Aided Decision Making Can Make Crowd Wisdom Robust \n  \nAbstract: Quality information can improve individual judgments but make group decisions less accurate; if individuals attend to the same information\, the predictive diversity that underlies crowd wisdom may be lost. We explore this tension within the context of decision support systems that provide the choice of decision aids and before then primary judgments. We argue that whenever a set of decision aids induce diverse errors\, this structure leads to higher group accuracy because aid choice will exhibit predictive diversity itself. In two experiments—the prediction of inflation (N=1907\, pre-registered) and a tightly controlled bean-count estimation task (N=1198)—we find strong evidence for this.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-marlon-twyman-usc-communication-computer-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20230927T011123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161956Z
UID:6856-1701433800-1701439200@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CPG: Je Hoon Chae (UCLA\, Communication)
DESCRIPTION:Title:Robust Persuasive Effect of Political Fact-Checking and Remaining Challenges \nAbstract:The proliferation of misinformation and the persistent gap in factual information among partisans represent significant concerns in contemporary U.S. politics. Fact-checking\, a journalistic intervention aimed at verifying the accuracy of claims and information\, is seen as a key strategy to address this issue. While early studies suggested a backfire effect\, where strong partisans reinforce their existing beliefs when presented with counter-attitudinal corrections from fact-checkers\, recent experimental evidence suggests this backfire effect is not replicable. Instead\, fact-checking effectively updates the factual beliefs of even staunch partisans in line with fact-checked information. This presentation addresses two critical questions. First\, to what extent is the persuasive effect of fact-checking effective across various scenarios? Through a series of randomized experimental designs\, I demonstrate that the persuasive effect of fact-checking remains robust even when presented by an out-group source\, when the credibility of fact-checkers is impaired\, or when headlines are automatically tagged on social media posts. Second\, how extensively do U.S. partisans consume fact-checking content\, particularly cross-cutting fact-checking? By analyzing original articles from PolitiFact\, their Twitter posts\, and retweet patterns\, I show that a disproportionate number of fact-checking articles written by PolitiFact\, a major political fact-checking organization\, are counter-attitudinal from the Republican standpoint. Furthermore\, the sharing patterns of these fact-checking posts suggest that Republicans or conservatives rarely share such content amongst themselves\, casting doubt on their exposure to cross-cutting fact-checking in their daily lives.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-je-hoon-chae-ucla-communication/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T121629
CREATED:20230921T200053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T184155Z
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SUMMARY:CPG: Christian Grose (USC\, Political Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Do Funding Communications Increase Election Officials’ Willingness to Open More Polling Places? A Field Experiment\n \nAbstract: Can encouragement communications cause election officials to open more polling places? Does increasing spending on elections to open more polling places lead to higher voter turnout? Public officials who administer elections make decisions about the operation of elections\, and these decisions are directly influenced by budgets available. However\, scholars of elections have rarely examined the role of budgets on elite choices regarding making it easier to vote. I theorize that some election administrators are stewards of voter access while others are not. A field experiment was conducted during the 2020 US general election where local election officials randomly received direct communications encouraging them to apply for funding by a nonpartisan university institute; and a control group of local election officials were not. Results of the field experiment show that the randomized communication led to a 3.9%-point increase in local officials applying for and receiving the funding compared to control group officials. In a 2SLS causal model and in correlational analyses\, there is evidence that exogenous increases to election budgets and exogenous increases in polling locations led to higher voter participation. The conclusions are that some public officials can be encouraged to increase voter access via budgetary or financial nudges and communications.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-christian-grose-usc-political-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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