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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
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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
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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
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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:20230216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T235900
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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;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T110000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220623T110000
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SUMMARY:Professor Shimon Edelman\, Cornell University: Conscience\, conditional cooperation\, and the prospects of surviving capitalism
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T110000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T110000
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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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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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