Communication Methods and Measures

CMM publishes advancements in qualitative & quantitative methodology for communication research, focusing on improving research design, measurement, and theory.

[AEJMC CT&M Division @AEJMC_CTM]

Call for Panel Proposals

The #CT&M division is seeking submissions of panel proposals for the 2026 #AEJMC annual conference in New Orleans, LA, August 5-8, 2026.
• Panels must be submitted by Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
• Submit your proposal here: https://t.co/cG4KlWVOjq

[AEJMC CT&M Division @AEJMC_CTM]

Call for Panel Proposals: The CT&M division is seeking submissions of panel proposals for the 2026 #AEJMC annual conference in New Orleans, LA, August 5-8, 2026. Panels must be submitted by Tuesday, October 7, 2025.Submit your proposal here: https://t.co/cG4KlWWm8Y

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👣"Uncovering Digital Trace Data Biases: Tracking Undercoverage in Web Tracking Data" by Bosch et al. @orioljbosch @patricksturg @Revilla2Melanie Read: https://t.co/ytagIadIz1

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Did you know that Comm Research and Methods is published on behalf of the CT&M Division @AEJMC_CTM of AEJMC? If you are attending @AEJMC in San Francisco, please attend our Business Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on August 9, immediately following the Best of CT&M session!

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📢 "Bootstrapping public entities. Domain-specific NER for public speakers" by Sami Nenno. Read: https://t.co/rCFaSjHYv5

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📢 New article in the latest issue of Comm Methods and Measures! "JST and rJST: joint estimation of sentiment and topics in textual data using a semi-supervised approach" by Pipal et al. @christianpipal Read: https://t.co/bhWxyAptFO

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👁️📱"Automated object detection in mobile eye-tracking research: comparing manual coding with tag detection, shape detection, matching, and machine learning" by Segijn, Menheer, Lee, Kim, Olsen, & Hofelich Mohr (@ajhmohr). Read here: https://t.co/py9jN3fg4M

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🔍📷 "Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories" by van Hoof, Trilling, Meppelink, Möller & Loecherbachl. (@marieke_vhoof @damian0604 @fe_loe). Read more here: https://t.co/96CSMjnfKU

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Featured in the latest issue!⚖️"On Measurement Validity and Language Models: Increasing Validity and Decreasing Bias with Instructions" by Laurer (@MoritzLaurer), van Atteveldt (@vanatteveldt), Casas (@CasAndreu) & Welbers. Read more here: https://t.co/MwVxKggsDD

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🆕article!✨"Beyond sentiment: an algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora" by Overbeck (@Max_Overbeck), Baden, Aharoni (@tali_aharoni), Amit-Danhi (@EeDanhi), and Tenenboim-Weinblatt (@KerenTenenboim). Read: https://t.co/NN3Ta6Q8Dx

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📢 NEW in our first issue of 2025! "Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation" by Miriam Brinberg, Denise Haunani Solomon, Graham D. Bodie (@GrahamBodie), Susanne M. Jones, and Nilam Ram (@nilam_time). Read here: https://t.co/DFfagjqit5

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Wishing our academic community a peaceful holiday season filled with inspiration.✨ Thank you for another year of advancing knowledge together!🎄

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🎭 “Automatically Finding Actors in Texts: A Performance Review of Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Tools” by Paul Balluff, Hajo G. Boomgaarden & Annie Waldherr (@annie_waldherr). Read here: https://t.co/iYFFunZEC8

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New pub!📝“What’s in a name? The effect of named entities on topic modelling interpretability” by Petro Tolochko, Paul Balluff, Jana Bernhard (@jana_bhard), Sebastian Galyga, Noëlle S. Lebernegg (@nosolebt) & Hajo G. Boomgaarden. Read here: https://t.co/ii2nmtuJcz

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✨New article!✨"WordPPR: A Researcher-Driven Computational Keyword Selection Method for Text Data Retrieval from Digital Media" by Yini Zhang (@yinizhang2011), Fan Chen (@ftrevorc), Jiyoun Suk (@jiyoun_suk), and Zhiying Yue (@yue_zoey). Read here: https://t.co/JZg63dXRZy

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New article! "Speaker landscapes: machine learning opens a window on the everyday language of opinion" by Maria Schuld (@MariaSchuld), Kevin Durrheim (@DurrheimKevin), and Martin Mafunda (@martinmafunda1). Read here: https://t.co/aqaA48T7dF

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Our latest issue is out! Introducing new research from @cmmjournal: “Message-level Claims Require Message-level Data Analyses: Aligning Claims and Evidence in Communication Research” by Daniel J. O’Keefe (@djokeefe). Read here: https://t.co/KkNV94c5xM

[Moritz Borrett-Laurer @MoritzLaurer]

Last paper of my PhD is finally published! We show that providing instructions to language models reduces group-based biases and increases validity compared to standard LM classifiers without instructions.

Open access article: https://t.co/F9PCa8SROl

With @vanatteveldt @CasAndreu @KasperWelbers
in @cmmjournal

[OOIR @ObserveIR]

Trending in #Communication:
https://t.co/upyXtU0Aau

1) Critical media discourse analysis of boys’ love dramas in Japan (@femmediastudies)

2) Whitexicans, or the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico

3) Googling Politics? Computational Methods to Identify Political Searches from Web Browser Histories (@cmmjournal)

4) Migrant identity & affective positioning in curated NGO stories (@critdiscstuds)

5) Climate Misinformation on YouTube

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Deadline is TODAY! Get those abstracts in.

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✍️WE WANT YOUR ABSTRACTS!
We are seeking submissions for our special issue on "Understanding and Addressing the Biases in Computational Social Science." Submit your 900-1,200 word abstract by April 15, 2024. Read the full call here: https://t.co/DL7LH06CPH