Joined September 2025
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Tonight was the @LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad Awards Ceremony where students, staff, and faculty are recognized for their talents and contributions to the program. In almost every award category for graduate students, SMAC members won at least one of the awards: (1/3)
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Hamilton Fellowship (@MorganBadurak) Sanderson Research Award (Adwoa & Kristina) Benoit Graduate Research Award (Adwoa, @CaleyRose1998 & @MorganBadurak) Outstanding Graduate Student Award (Madeline) Graduate Student Teaching Award (@mushtarinn) (2/3)
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Our lab director Dr. @fannyanner was also recognized as having been awarded the Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award. Shout out to ALL of the Manship award winners, and a special congratulations to Morgan, Caley, Adwoa, Kristina, Madeline, and Dr. Ramirez!
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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. (...)
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A member of the Social Media Analysis & Creation Lab, Gender & Politics Research Lab, and Digital Cognition & Computational Analytics Lab, Dr. Hewitt has kept busy with numerous publications and conference presentations, and has many to come. Congrats again to Caley Hewitt, PhD!
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The @NatComm annual conference is always a great experience to share our work and learn from others, and the @LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad SMAC Lab is always ready for more! (9/9)
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29 Nov 2025
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)
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29 Nov 2025
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)
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26 Nov 2025
Friday @NatComm 2025 Pt1/2:@LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad SMAC members were coauthors for presentations! @mushtarinn w/ “Introducing A Virtual Sisterhood: Exploring The White Dress Project’s Online Community of Care” in Communicating about Chronic Illness and Condition...(5/9)
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26 Nov 2025
Friday @NatComm 2025 Pt 2/2: ...and Adwoa Baffour and Kristina Shustova were co-authors on “Does AI Speak Your Language?: Mapping Language Inclusivity in Artificial Intelligence” (6/9)
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26 Nov 2025
Thursday @NatComm 2025 Pt 1/3:Submissions from SMAC/members @LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad were all in the Communication and the Future High-Density session. The SMAC paper was titled “Innovation or Infiltration? The U.S. Media and Public Reactions to China's DeepSeek”...(2/9)
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26 Nov 2025
Thursday @NatComm 2025 Pt 2/3: @MorganBadurak and Dr.@fannyanner had a paper titled “Banned and Borderless: The TikTok Exodus to RedNote as Decline of U.S. Digital Sovereignty” and… (3/9)
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26 Nov 2025
Thursday @NatComm 2025 Pt 3/3: Dr. @oops_janicelee was a co-author on “Digital Inequality at Work: Examining Gendered Occupation in AI Adoption Through A Technology Acceptance Model” (4/9)
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24 Nov 2025
Busy weekend at the 2025 annual @NatComm conference outside of Denver, CO! Here is what the @LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad SMAC Lab and members presented! (1/9)
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14 Nov 2025
The 111th annual @NatComm conference is next week in Aurora, CO and we are #excited! With 1 presentation out of the SMAC lab and an additional 6 that @LSU @MassCommGrad @ManshipSchool SMAC members are authors on, we are set for a busy weekend.
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18 Oct 2025
SUMMER RECAP 3: Sunday @AEJMC 2025 Closing out the conference and our summer recap, @LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad @MorganBadurak and @fannyanner were co-authors on “Beyond Censorship: Understanding the Complexities of Social Media Bans and the Rejection of Regulation”(10/10)
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16 Oct 2025
SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @AEJMC 2025 pt.4/4 The second paper presentation to come from the @LSU @ManshipSchool @MassCommGrad SMAC Lab was "Digital Archive Collective Memory and The End of TikTok” (9/10)
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15 Oct 2025
SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @AEJMC 2025 pt.3/4 The extended abstract for “From Red Scare to RedNote: TikTok Refugees and the Rejection of U.S. Digital Hegemony” was a paper written and presented by @MorganBadurak and Dr. @fannyanner (8/10)
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15 Oct 2025
SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @AEJMC 2025 pt.2/4 The extended abstract for “I’m not a TikToker, but…”: A Computational Content Analysis of TikTok Non-Users’ Discourse on the National TikTok Ban in the US” was presented, another paper with co-authorship by SMAC’s Hayley Booth (7/10)
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