Department Speaker Series: Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA, Psychology)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis Abstract: This talk will cover work integrating theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, and social […]
CPG: Davin Phoenix (UCI, Political Science)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: Emotional Representation: Identifying the Characteristics and Consequences of Elected Officials Mirroring the Emotions of Their Constituents (with Christopher Stout, Gregory Leslie, and Elizabeth Schroeder) Abstract: In this study, […]
Dan Costanzo (NORC at the University of Chicago)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303ABSTRACT: 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 […]
Department Speaker Series: Emilio Ferrara (USC, Communication & Computer Science)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303TITLE: AI & Social Manipulation ABSTRACT: 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 […]
Department Speaker Series: Dana Mastro (UCSB, Communication)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: Threat in the form of News: Examining the ways that news coverage of immigration constrains systemically marginalized groups Abstract: Although U.S. media portrayals of racial, ethnic, and other historically excluded identities […]
CPG: Nikki Usher (USD)
Comm Project Room - 2310 RolfeTitle: How and why American journalism (accidentally) amplifies anti-democratic actors: Small town extremists, media storms, and a broken news industry Abstract: Within a week, a no-name Republican state representative from […]
POSTPONES: CPG: Ben Epstein (DePaul)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: Exploring Political Communication Strategies of Women’s Rights and LGBTQ+ Communities Over Time Abstract: This study uses a mixed methods approach to explore the communication approaches of organizations advocating for greater […]
Comm Information Session
Rolfe 1200Department Speaker Series: Megan Burkhardt-Reed (UCLA, Communication)
Comm Conference Room - Rolfe 2303Title: The emergence of communication in infancy: Development and evolution Abstract: Do gestures truly precede vocalization in modern human development and in the evolutionary origin of language? Or is vocalization […]