Congratulations to SMAC’s newest PhD, Dr. Caley Hewitt! @CaleyRose1998 has spent the last six years in the @MassCommGrad@ManshipSchool@LSU doing work on gender, politics, and technology in mass media. (...)
Saturday @NatComm 2025 Pt 2/2: @MorganBadurak and @CaleyRose1998 presented their paper “Stay in Your Lane? Political Expectancy Violations and Gen Z’s Relationship with Social Media Influencers” in a panel about political communication methods in new media (8/9)
Saturday @NatComm 2025 Pt 1/2: Our last day of presenting! @MorganBadurak and Dr. @fannyanner spoke on a panel called “Elevating Classroom Dialogue: “Ideologically Accessible” Pathways for Teaching Polarizing Content” and… (7/9)
ALT Panel members left to right: Renyi Hong, Jonathan Bullinger, Jessica Crowell, Fanny Ramirez, Morgan Badurak, and Katie McCollough
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Perils, Pitfalls, and Potential of Data Systems for Evidence on Diverse Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls
Submission deadline: March 15, 2026
Submit to: Dr. Alexis Palfreyman at hello@civah.org
Send a DM for full submission guidelines.
SUMMER RECAP 3: Thursday @AEJMC 2025 pt.1/2
SMAC’s @ManshipSchool@MassCommGrad@LSU first presentation was accepted as the extended abstract for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI” (2/10)
ALT Dr. Chen, Morgan, Nabila, and Caley in front of the SMAC Lab poster for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI”
SUMMER RECAP 3: Our last big summer event was @AEJMC 2025 in San Francisco, CA this August. SMAC members had 9 presentations, 2 of which came directly from SMAC Lab @LSU@ManshipSchool@MassCommGrad: "From Headlines to Hashtags" and "The Digital Archive Collective Memory" (1/10)
SUMMER RECAP 2: In August, @nabilamushtarin did her two weeks in the SICSS program at @Stanford working with others in the program to present a research project titled "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures" (3/3)
ALT Nabila (right of front in a green-ish shirt) and her program cohort members in front of the Haas Center for Public Service on the Stanford campus.
ALT Nabila in front of the title slide to her research group's powerpoint presentation, "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures"
ALT Nabila in front of the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford campus
If you are interested in our Ph.D. program in Media & Public Affairs @ManshipSchool@MassCommGrad, come visit our virtual open house on Oct 10th! And you can learn more about our doctoral program from our faculty, students and alumni! đź’ś
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/phd-virtual…
SUMMER RECAP 2:
@MorganBadurak spent her two weeks of June/July in the SICSS program at @Penn, working with other members to create and present a research project titled "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash"
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ALT A banner on the University of Pennsylvania campus with the university's crest and the text "Penn Engineering; University of Pennsylvania"
ALT Morgan (far right) and her research group members in front of the title slide to their research presentation, "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash"
SUMMER RECAP 2: SICSS
More in our #recap, @MorganBadurak and @nabilamushtarin were at @UofPenn and @Stanford through the SICSS sicss.io, a program designed to educate and train researchers in new social science and media research methods (1/3)
SUMMER RECAP 1: Drs. @fannyanner and @oops_janicelee also participated in @icahdq panels during the conference with discussions around digital affordances and agency in gendered contexts, community engaged health research, and media coverage of health topics (3/3)
SUMMER RECAP 1:
This was SMAC Lab's Adwoa B's first @icahdq where she presented her paper "Scroll, Share, Vote: The Influence of Social Media and Peer Influence on the Voting Intention and Political Engagement of Teen First-Time Voters" for which she received a travel grant (2/3)
SUMMER RECAP 1: ICA 2025
Members in the SMAC Lab @LSU@ManshipSchool@MassCommGrad had 4 papers at the annual @icahdq conference in June this year with papers in Political Communication, Health Communication, and Feminist Scholarship (1/3)
While school was out @LSU, the @ManshipSchool@MassCommGrad SMAC Lab stayed BUSY! After a summer of conferences, summer programs, publications and awards, we're gearing up for more research, new and old. In the mean time, watch for a #recap of everything we got up to!
Is TikTok the new TV? In this new paper, @luvalealfa and I explore how people watch television on TikTok through algorithmic flows, “uncommitted attention,” and cross-platform practices. Out today in @tvnewmedia! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
CfP Special Issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI for AI & Society journal, co-edited by me, @d_idiz and @ZoeGlatt. Deadline for sending abstracts: June 30 link.springer.com/journal/14…
My Sunshine Week op-ed on the need for more transparency in higher education is available for everyone to publish, along with some other great columns on open records and #FOI. Watch out, Penn State. I'm coming for your 'state-related' status!
sunshineweek.org/content-for…
“Artificial intelligence is revolutionising our digital world—but in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon used against children...used to create hyper-realistic abusive images and synthetic media that exploit children.” @E_Martellozzo@MediaLSEblogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202…
Exciting news for the digital world...
I'm officially now one of the people trying to buy TikTok US — and bring it on-chain.
TikTok has been a game-changer for creators, and it's future should be built by them↓
⚡️CFP⚡️ International conference "Digital intimacies, young people and everyday life," 25-26 September at
the University of Padova, Italy.
Closing date for applications: 27 April. See digitalintimacies.eu/confere… for more info.