Shengchun Huang

TTAP @UTJSchool, studying AI-curated news environment and politics with computational methods and experiments

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

🚨New pub in @polcommjournal🚨Beyond algorithmic amplification, I identified two influence pathways addressing how YouTube algorithms redirect users away from news in the latest study w/@tianyangyt . More details🧵
https://t.co/hslifXSUGl

[Yingdan_Lu @YingdanL_kk]

Deadline extended! We will begin reviewing applications on January 30. Please consider applying, or feel free to forward this opportunity to anyone you think would be a good fit!

[Winson Peng @winsonpeng2011]

New editorial note out in Human Communication Research @HCR_Journal. https://t.co/kxMmhGzEnt

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

@yang3kc maybe not important enough to be not missed 🤣

[Weiyu Zhang @WeiyuZ]

JOB alert!!! My department has two prestigious President's Young Professor positions this year. One is in computational comm and one is in critical AI. Deadline is very close - Sept 30, 2025. Apply now!

https://t.co/DBjlZKotCI

[Hai (Tucker) Wang @wanghaitucker.bsky.social @wanghaitucker]

🚨 We’re hiring!
NTU invites applications for Lecturer in Digital Journalism. We’re looking for expertise at the intersection of journalism & new tech. Candidates should bring strong professional newsroom experience + a passion for teaching. https://t.co/wrI5gY5FzX

[Kiran Garimella @gvrkiran]

This paper presents a nice methodology to audit automation by AI.

By collecting data from 1,500 workers, 104 occupations, and 844 tasks they document mismatched expectations.

This paper is a nice take on the thinking beyond AI risk = job loss.

https://t.co/UYjhbTQ7jI

[Kevin Yang @yang3kc]

Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift.

Link in reply.

[Journal of Communication @Journal_Of_Comm]

Pub Alert! Introducing new @Journal_of_Comm publication: “Deliberation in online political talk: exploring interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility in the public spheres surrounding news vs. satire”, by Mark Boukes @markboukes
Read here: https://t.co/pma705EvRj

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

@haoning_xue @averyholton @icahdq @UUtah @UofUComm Congrats Haoning!!!

[Zening (“Ze”)Duan @Zening_Duan]

Our work presents a proof-of-concept for using LLMs to generate experimental stimuli. Qijia will share lessons we learned and best practices we’ve identified. If you’re around, come check out @Qijia_Ye’s presentation- we’d love to see you there!

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

Preprint check here: https://t.co/ZDCDRposvU

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

🚀 Everyone’s using LLMs to generate message stimuli—but how well do they *actually* perform? Can they manipulate better than humans? Control confounds? We put them to the test—and the results are more surprising than you'd expect.
Check out our framework + evaluation here👇

[Qijia Ye @Qijia_Ye]

🤖I am going to share our work on how LLMs can generate stimuli for experimental research #ICA25 Across 4 experiments, we tested whether GPT-generated stimuli could manipulate variables while avoiding confounders.

The results? Promising, but complicated!

Catch us👇Let’s talk!

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

@gvrkiran so sorry to hear that 😔

[Zening (“Ze”)Duan @Zening_Duan]

For @icahdq friends: Join us next Friday (June 13) for our second consecutive panel on “#GenerativeAI for Computational Communication Research”! A fantastic group of scholars will share insights & lessons on bringing LLMs into #CCR research practices. Thanks @ica_cm for hosting!

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

@hdeniswu @TheEconomist 😔

[Mark Boukes @MarkBoukes]

We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects on media trust, pluralism, media effects, and satire.

Link: https://t.co/8YAzYUIopb...

Please help me share it 🙏

[Shengchun Huang @Saarahuang]

@snyrai_ @c3_nlp @jeffrey_ch0 @khushi_shelat @sharathguntuku wow congrats Sunny!

[Yini Zhang @yinizhang2011]

What a cool project!

[Yini Zhang @yinizhang2011]

🚨New paper out in jqd:dm! 🚨
How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information.

[Subhayan Mukerjee @wrahool]

Deadline extended by a week: get your applications in for SICSS-Singapore ASAP!