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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:20240425T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240425T121500
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Dana Mastro (UCSB\, Communication)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Threat in the form of News: Examining the ways that news coverage of immigration constrains systemically marginalized groups\n \nAbstract: Although U.S. media portrayals of racial\, ethnic\, and other historically excluded identities vary based on the group\, platform\, and genre\, generally speaking these groups have tended to be both underrepresented and\, at times\, unfavorably depicted across the media landscape. The current talk addresses this issue with a particular focus on coverage of immigration in the news. Specifically\, the manner in which U.S. news characterizes immigration and immigrants will be addressed followed by a discussion of empirical research investigating how variations in the themes in this content affect opinions about\, feelings toward\, and behaviors regarding immigration and immigrants among both ‘dominant’ and traditionally marginalized groups.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-dana-mastro-ucsb-communication/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T121500
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Emilio Ferrara (USC\, Communication & Computer Science)
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: AI & Social Manipulation \n  \nABSTRACT: In this talk\, I will overview my decadelong journey into understanding the implications of online platform manipulation. I’ll start from detecting malicious bots and other forms of manipulation including troll accounts\, coordinated campaigns\, and disinformation operations. The impact of my work will be corroborated with examples of findings enabled by our technology\, e.g.\, our unveiling of the “Russian bots” operation prior to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election\, which informed official Senate investigations and new regulations. I will then illustrate similar issues with the 2020 U.S. Election\, as well as COVID-related conspiracies and public health misinformation. I’ll conclude by discussing the ML tools we developed to model online mis/disinformation\, reveal the malicious adversaries behind the curtains\, and characterize their activity\, behavior\, and strategies\, suggesting how they are changing the way researchers and study online platforms in the era of automation and artificial intelligence.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-emilio-ferrera-usc-communication-computer-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T150000
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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
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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:20240229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T121500
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA\, Psychology)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from psychology\, neuroscience\, and social network analysis\n \nAbstract: This talk will cover work integrating theory and methods from psychology\, neuroscience\, and social network analysis to examine how people track\, encode\, and are influenced by the social networks that they inhabit. One set of studies tests if\, when\, and how people retrieve knowledge of familiar others’ positions in their real-world social networks when encountering them. Related research tests how this knowledge\, once retrieved\, shapes downstream processing and behavior. A second set of studies tests if human social networks exhibit assortativity in how their members perceive\, interpret\, and respond to their environment. Consistent with this possibility\, we find that proximity between people within their social networks is linked to similar neural responses to naturalistic stimuli\, similar subjective construals of such stimuli\, and similar patterns of brain connectivity. A final set of studies examines how shared understanding relates to overall levels of social connectedness within communities. We find that people who process the world in a manner that is more reflective of community norms have greater overall levels of subjective and objective social connection. All human cognition is embedded within social networks\, but research on information processing within individuals has progressed largely separately from research on the social networks in which individuals are embedded. The set of findings to be reviewed in this talk suggests that integrating approaches from psychology\, neuroscience\, and social network analysis can provide new insights into how individuals perceive\, shape\, and are shaped by the structure of their social world.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-carolyn-parkinson-ucla-psych/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T100000
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SUMMARY:Comm Undergraduate Information Session
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/comm-undergraduate-information-session/
LOCATION:Rolfe 3134
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T110000
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Scott Page (University of Michigan\, Business\, Political Science\, Complex Systems\, and Economics)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott E. Page (University of Michigan\, Santa Fe Institute). (website) \nTitle: Organizations and Cultural Coherence \nAbstract: I construct a mathematical framework to elucidate and analyze the interdependence between structural features of an organization and some of its cultural attributes.  By the structure of an organization\, I mean whether individual actions are assigned hierarchically\, agreed upon through a more equal democratic process\, or encouraged through incentives.  By culture\, I will focus on standard measurable features such as tightness\, individualism\, trust\, risk taking\, and uncertainty avoidance.  I show that congruence – the alignment of organization structure and culture – though an often articulated organizational goal does not\, except in rare cases\, imply efficiency.   The creation of a healthy\, constructive culture and not congruence should therefore be the goal of organizations. \n 
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-scott-page/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T163000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
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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:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230927T011123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161956Z
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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:20231116T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T121500
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230908T171750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T183335Z
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Swabha Swayamdipta (USC\, Computer Science)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Understanding Online Discourse through Social Context and Structured Pragmatics \nAbstract: In an increasingly online world\, understanding discourse on social media is akin to understanding our society. However\, when it comes to social media discourse\, a disproportionate amount of focus has been laid on content moderation via hate speech detection. In this talk\, I will address a key limitation of this application: existing hate speech detection systems are riddled with racial biases introduced during annotation\, which are reinforced and propagated by models trained on such data. I will present the inadequacies of current methods for debiasing hate speech detection and show how the subjectivity of this task design leads to debiasing failures. Next\, I will focus on uncovering the origin of bias in toxic language detection. I will demonstrate how annotators’ demographics and beliefs influence their toxicity ratings\, and how ignoring such societal context can lead to biased outcomes. Finally\, I will present some ongoing work on understanding online discourse on homelessness\, which presents some unique challenges. Overall\, I will argue for the value of rethinking traditional the hate speech classification task\, and the need for richer context and nuance when considering online discourse.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/swabha-swayamdipta-usc-computer-science/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T121500
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230908T165601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T164009Z
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Jimmy Calanchini (UCR\, Psych)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Putting the Environment Back in Person-Environment Fit\n \nAbstract: Psychology scientists have recognized for decades that individual behavior is a function of both the person and the environment. However\, due to a dominant focus on individual differences\, psychological data on intergroup bias have historically been collected through small\, controlled experiments with the individual as the unit of analysis – to the relative exclusion of the environment. Recent technological advancements facilitate massive amounts of data to be collected from diverse populations and locations. Capitalizing on these newly-available data\, researchers can geolocate the responses of individuals to provide insight into regional variation in intergroup biases with a degree of ecological validity impossible in the laboratory. In this talk\, I will present correlational evidence linking regional biases to outcomes of consequence\, propose a novel theoretical perspective for understanding regional intergroup bias\, and discuss future directions for this emerging line of research.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-jimmy-calanchini-ucr-psych/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230512T180645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T183208Z
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SUMMARY:Natalie Kahn Colloquium in Communication speaker Ashley Martin from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Natalie Kahn and Roy Patience
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/natalie-kahn-colloquium-in-communication-speaker-ashley-martin-from-the-stanford-graduate-school-of-business-with-natalie-kahn-and-roy-patience/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T120000
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CREATED:20230203T173220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230511T174557Z
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SUMMARY:Ashley Martin\, Ph.D. - Brown Bag Talk
DESCRIPTION:Gendered Cognition: The Primacy of Gender in Seeing Human \nWhat does it mean to be (seen as) human? In this talk\, I explore this question and show that the attribution of gender is a critical component of seeing someone—or something—as human. Given gender’s primacy in social cognition\, I propose that gender is linked to “seeing human” in a way that cannot be said of other social categories (i.e.\, race\, age\, sexual orientation\, religion\, or disability). I test this hypothesis in a number of studies that induce humanization (i.e.\, anthropomorphism) and measure social-category ascription\, as well as those that include (versus remove) gendered information and measure humanization. I then present new work that explores gendered cognition using “non-binary” stimuli and among non-binary individuals. Finally\, I explore the implications of gendered cognition for people’s preferences for\, and attachment to\, gendered technology. These findings underscore the importance of gender in humanization and have theoretical and practical implications for research on gender\, (de)humanization\, and social cognition\, as well as for current discussions on gender neutrality.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/ashley-martin-brown-bag-talk/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T110000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230503T183122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T183122Z
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SUMMARY:Dept of Communication - Undergraduate Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/dept-of-communication-undergraduate-information-session/
LOCATION:Dodd 175
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230428
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230203T172727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T173128Z
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SUMMARY:Jeff Hancock - Brown Bag Talk
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/jeff-hancock-brown-bag-talk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230316
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230317
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230203T172625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T191111Z
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SUMMARY:Norah Dunbar - Brown Bag Talk
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/norah-dunbar-brown-bag-talk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T110000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230216T001726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T001859Z
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SUMMARY:Comm Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Questions about the \nUNDERGRADUATE MAJOR? \nFor more information about our program we invite you to attend our quarterly \n***INFORMATION SESSION*** \nWednesday\, Feburary 22 at 10am  \nRolfe 3126 \nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/comm-information-session-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230203T171725Z
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SUMMARY:Measuring Media Accuracy workshop
DESCRIPTION:Colleagues\, \nThe Measuring Media Accuracy workshop\, funded by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership at UCLA\, is on Friday February 17th at the Luskin Conference Center. The details are attached in pdf.  The program is as follows: \n9:15    Welcome\, by Stuart Soroka (UCLA\, website)\n9:30    Robert Bond (Ohio State University\, website)\n10:30  Amber Boydstun (UC Davis\, website)\n11:30  Christopher Wlezien (UT Austin\, website)\n12:30  Lunch\n1:45    Kasper Welbers (VU University Amsterdam\, website)\n2:45    Leticia Bode (Georgetown\, website) \nThe workshop is open to any interested faculty or students at UCLA.  You are welcome to come to some or all of the day. (I recommend all!)  An RSVP would be helpful so we can plan appropriately — and it’s especially useful if you think you’d like to join us for lunch as well. You can RSVP here: https://forms.gle/ezcaM9BTqUev4y6G8 \nIf you’ve any questions\, please do get in touch.  And I’ll hope to see you on the 17th! \n 
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/measuring-media-accuracy-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T235900
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230203T172511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T222757Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Pan - Brown Bag Talk "Digital Repression"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to\, or actually do\, raise the costs of activism\, protest\, and/or social movement activity. The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements and/or to the use of digital tools in repression\, which is spread across many disciplines and areas of study. This paper organizes this growing welter of research under the concept of digital repression by expanding a typology that distinguishes actions based on actor type\, whether actions are overt or covert\, and whether behaviors are shaped by coercion or channeling. This delineation between broadly different forms of digital repression allows us to develop expectations about digital repression\, better understand what is “new” about digital repression in terms of explanatory factors\, and better understand the consequences of digital repression.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-pan-brown-bag-talk/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230210
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230203T172327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T172331Z
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SUMMARY:Ritwika Vallomparambath Panikkassery Sugasree - Brown Bag Talk
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/ritwika-vallomparambath-panikkassery-sugasree-brown-bag-talk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T121500
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20230117T222127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T222133Z
UID:6171-1674126000-1674130500@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Winter 2023 Brown Bag series - Jennifer Whitson\, UCLA Anderson School of Management
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Whitson\nUCLA Anderson School of Management\n\nTitle: Conspiracy Theories and the Search for Structure\nAbstract: Conspiracy theories cast disparate or unrelated entities as engaging in concerted\, malevolent action. In this talk\, I explore antecedents and consequences of beliefs in conspiracy theories. I first present evidence that individual characteristics (i.e.\, regulatory focus\, political identity) and aspects about the environment (i.e.\, COVID-19 and social media) shape peoples’ receptiveness to conspiratorial beliefs. I then examine a timely consequence of conspiracy theories. Specifically\, how COVID-19-related conspiratorial beliefs have had a significant negative impact on the perception of COVID-19 vaccine importance in the U.S.. Finally\, I suggest a possible intervention that may help ameliorate the adverse effect of conspiratorial beliefs. In particular\, interdependent self-construal may mitigate the relationship between the COVID-19-related conspiratorial beliefs and reduced vaccination rates by increasing the perceived health risks of going unvaccinated. Our intervention differs from previous efforts in that it does not rely on rational persuasion to dissuade people of conspiratorial notions. Instead\, we focus on reducing the impact of conspiratorial beliefs by altering the way people think about their existing identities and groups.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/winter-2023-brown-bag-series-jennifer-whitson-ucla-anderson-school-of-management/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220623T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220623T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20220623T135950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T140047Z
UID:5684-1655982000-1655987400@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Professor Shimon Edelman\, Cornell University: Conscience\, conditional cooperation\, and the prospects of surviving capitalism
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/prof-shimon-edelman-cornell-university-conscience-conditional-cooperation-and-the-prospects-of-surviving-capitalism/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220612T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220612T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20220601T062711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220601T062718Z
UID:5652-1655029800-1655040600@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Department of Communication Commencement
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-of-communication-commencement/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20220420T185858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T203204Z
UID:5501-1653330600-1653337800@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Censorship and the Visual Art in Los Angeles hosted by Professor Paul Von Blum
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/censorship-and-the-visual-art-in-los-angeles-hosted-by-professor-paul-vonblum/
LOCATION:Rolfe 1200
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20220418T225244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T230118Z
UID:5492-1652958000-1652963400@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comm Brown Bag Talk: Silvia Pagliarini
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 19 @ 11:00
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/comm-brown-bag-talk-silvia-pagliarini/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20220418T225036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T230054Z
UID:5488-1652353200-1652358600@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comm Brown Bag Talk: Guadalupe (Lupita) Madrigal “We Won’t Give Amnesty to People with Kids”: The Effects of Integration\, Family\, and Community Cues in Immigration News
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 12 @ 11:00
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/comm-brown-bag-talk-guadalupe-lupita-madrigal-we-wont-give-amnesty-to-people-with-kids-the-effects-of-integration-family-and-community-cues-in-immigration-news/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220511T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20210202T151303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T223534Z
UID:4019-1652266800-1652270400@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dept. of Communication - Information Session
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URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/communication-information-session/
LOCATION:Haines 39\, Haines 39
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095644
CREATED:20220418T224648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T230022Z
UID:5482-1650538800-1650544200@comm.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comm Brown Bag Talk: Seungbae Kim "Applied Machine Learning: Multi-Modal Graph Neural Network for Social Media Marketing"
DESCRIPTION:Dear Faculty\, Students\, and Staff\, \nPlease mark your calendars for our upcoming Brown Bag talk featuring Seungbae Kim!\n\nWhen: Thursday\, April 21\, 11:00\nWhere: Rolfe 2303A
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/comm-brown-bag-talk-seungbae-kim/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
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