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Excellent study by @vukasin.bsky.social (2025) finds US liberals trust scientists more than conservatives across all fields. Despite generally high trust levels overall, the gap is largest for climatologists. 5 interventions failed to increase trust, suggesting attitudes resistant to interventions 🧪

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After nearly 6 years, I'm delighted to share a new paper in Journal of Media Psychology: "Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0". We studied cooperation using AR & low-cost EEG hyperscanning (doi.org/10.1027/1864...). 🧵Here’s how it started, what we found, & why it matters

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New study (2025) finds LLM "AMIE" shows promise for assisting with medical diagnoses. Clinicians using this LLM achieved modestly better accuracy (51.7% vs 36.1%) in challenging case studies, while AMIE alone performed well (59.1% accuracy vs 33.6% for unassisted doctors) 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Excellent overview by Fabris et al. (2025) of how algorithms are used in hiring, and the different ways these algorithms can unintentionally lead to discrimination 🧪 doi.org/10.1145/3696...

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Finally got the plaque from NCA's masters education section, thanks @rnevshep.bsky.social

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I'm excited to share that I'm officially a Ph.D. candidate 🎉 Meaning I'll be on the job market this fall (gulp). My research explores human-algorithm interaction and the social impact of emerging tech at the intersection of mass communication & decision-making. #commsky #AcademicSky

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Study by Geiß, @christinaviehmann.bsky.social & Kelly shows inflation of crisis coverage in newspapers 1785-2020, with crisis labeling increasing faster than crisis waves. Why? Government expansion, mediatization of politics & crisis frame sponsor activity drive increases, not critical conditions 🧪

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Hey hey hackers, this year’s #hackica25 is happening at the College of Media, Communication and Information in Boulder ⛰️ Huge thanks to our hosts 🫶 Registration is still open—come join us in the mountains!

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Just read an excellent study by Kordzadeh & Ghasemaghaei that provides an overview of algorithmic bias research & proposes a framework linking biased outputs to user perceptions & behaviors. Key takeaway: we need more research on how bias influences human-algorithm dynamics🧪 doi.org/10.1080/0960...

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Just registered! I highly recommend anyone who is thinking about going to #ICA25 to sign up for the hackathon, especially first time attendees and new grads as #hackica25 is a great place to make friends and learn some cool stuff 🚀

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Want to know more about algorithmic bias but don't want to read a full book or journal article? I just found this piece by Nicol Turner Lee, Paul Resnick & Genie Barton that is an excellent overview of what algorithmic bias is, why it matters & current solutions 🧪 www.brookings.edu/articles/alg...

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Congratulations Kylie! It was truly a wonderful talk 🥳

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Study shows algorithmic bias detection is challenging - only ~41% of participants recognized bias in a hiring algorithm, favoring German over Turkish applicants. Noticing the bias reduced attitudes towards both algorithms generally and the hiring algorithm specifically 🧪 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

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Study shows machine learning transparency affects user trust - when systems disclosed they were learning from users, they were viewed as helpful rather than privacy threats, regardless of performance quality. Why? Cues about AI learning triggered "helper heuristic," reducing frustration 🧪

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Just read the Social Biome by Andy Merolla and Jeff hall, and I have to say this is one of the most well-researched yet accessible book on interpersonal communication I have read. I highly recommend 🧪 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Study by @soojongkim.bsky.social (2024) shows racial identity shapes perceptions of algorithmic bias, with POC showing decreased trust when AI discriminates against them, while White participants show opposite patterns. Why? Lived experiences influence how people interpret AI outcomes 🧪

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New study (Dec. 2024) shows racial stereotyping thrives in online humor on r/RoastMe, with non-White roasts using racial and national stereotypes as humor. Why? Anonymous platforms amplify social identity cues, revealing how minimal context primes stereotypical associations 🧪 doi.org/10.1080/0363...

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Lots of new faces here on BlueSky from the UCSB Communication department since I last posted the starter pack! Follow for some great social science 🧪 go.bsky.app/TVVRTt1

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Why do users limit the extent to which their engagement w/news content can be seen by others? @oriten.bsky.social (2025) shows 4 key drivers: protection, pointlessness, personality & particularity. How? Through reducing volume of expression, using private spaces & preferring closed-ended reactions 🧪

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Research by @soojongkim.bsky.social (2025) shows Perception of AI discrimination varies among different demographics: those with higher digital literacy trust AI more despite bias, liberals are more skeptical, and higher income corresponded with viewing biased outcomes as more fair 🧪

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New paper (2024) explicates Machine Heuristic (MH) and creates validated scale for MH across mechanical and human tasks. The authors found six key dimensions shaping MH: machine as expert, efficient, rigid, superfluous, fair, and complex, with distinct patterns for mechanical vs human tasks 🧪

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Study by @mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al.(2024) compares 5 methods for detecting political searches in browser histories: Zero-shot AI (like GPT) achieves highest recall but needs human validation for accuracy. Best approach is AI-human collaboration: use AI to filter searches, then human review. 🧪

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New study by @dschiff.bsky.social finds AI ethics auditing focuses heavily on technical assessment (bias, privacy, explainability) but lacks stakeholder engagement & transparency. Despite regulatory pressure, auditors face challenges w/ unclear standards & limited resources🧪 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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New meta-analysis (2024) finds human-AI collaboration is task-dependent: performance increases for creative & open-ended tasks (like content creation), but performance drops for decision-making tasks. Furthermore, human-AI collaboration seems to work best when humans already outperform AI 🧪

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Looks like I'm going to #ica25. See y'all in Denver!

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Training AI on data with small biases amplifies bias; humans then learn these biases. This was found in perceptual (emotion & motion detection) and social tasks (employment profiling) where bias was operationalized as deviating from ground truth - 50/50 stimuli, motion %, demographic distributions 🧪

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🚨 Big news! 🚨 Another year of ICA, another pre-conference hackathon: The 2025 hackathon is happening in Boulder on June 11-12! Stay tuned 🚀

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New research by @paologerbaudo.bsky.social argues that TikTok has transformed social media from 'networked' to 'clustered' publics, where algorithmic interest-based grouping replaces friend-based connections, fundamentally changing how we experience and interact online 🧪 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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New research by Lu & Yuan (2024) shows AI disclaimers on deepfake parodies reduce perceived comprehension difficulty, which in turn influences enjoyment, discounting, and counter-arguing, subsequently affecting policy support and sharing intentions 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

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I'll be back to posting article summaries soon, but in the meantime meet the newest member of the Overbye-Thompson household 🐶

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For Christmas my brother got me a kit to build & program a computer with the classic 6502 microprocessor (why I don't know) I'm both touched and amused by his confidence in my abilities - now I just need to learn to read circuit schematics 😂 Great project for the week before the quarter starts 👩‍💻👷‍♀️

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New research by Zhang et al 2024 shows use of ChatGPT by students for brainstorming & feedback (academic support) is positively associated with academic self-efficacy & creativity but using it for completing assignments & answering exam questions (academic displacement) shows negative associations 🧪

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@mariekevhoof.bsky.social et al., 2024 find algorithmic personalization alone doesn't lead to different political information when using search engines; results depend far more on the search query than search history 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/jcmc... @damiantrilling.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social

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🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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