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Cristina Monzer, Ph.D
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Postdoctoral Researcher @asc.upenn.edu | identity and symbolic politics, computational methods, multimodal data analysis, social media | @ResearchLex
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📊🌍New research article published together w/ the brilliant @profdimitrova.bsky.social: we analyzed over 500K Facebook posts to reveal how cultural values shape COVID-19 news engagement in Romania & UK. (1/4)

Access here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

#CommSci #journalism #engagement
The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K.
Abstract. Values are consequential for opinion formation and remain a persuasive factor in shaping public attitudes. Still, the role of values remains unde
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🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!!

📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm

📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining!

@alenakluknavska.bsky.social
🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication!

Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!
May 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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🚨 One week left to submit to #ECREAPolComm25 🚨
Working on anything political communication - empirical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, or applied? Submit your 3000-character abstract & join us in Innsbruck, Austria, this September! 🙂

⏳ Deadline: March 30, 2025
📍 CfP: www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...
March 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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One big step for COMPTEXT, and we’ll see about mankind! The COMPTEXT Association is finally here! After six conferences we are now ready to accept human members (agents are excluded, for now). Members enjoy perks! We welcome everyone to join us at bit.ly/3DvZiYl!
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀

Register now! Hack with us and join the free sunset mountain bus tour 🌄👩‍💻 Join the hack, and get to see a lot more than hotels and convention centers at this ICA!
March 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I just finished my registration for the ICA hackathon 👩‍💻 looking forward to it and seeing the Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado ⛰️ and check out their independent coffee shops 🙌 #ica25
Just registered for this year's ICA hackathon! Looking forward to to seeing you all in Colorado ⛰️
#ica25 #hackica25
🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀

Spots are limited—secure yours now: forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC...

📅 June 11-12, 2025
📍 UC Boulder (shuttle from Denver available)

No coding skills required! Join us to explore methodological & substantive challenges in communication science. See you there! 🍻
March 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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"Earlier this month, a Berlin court ordered Elon Musk-owned X to provide immediate access to public platform data to two civil society organizations seeking to study systemic risk around the country’s upcoming election."

X is now challenging that ruling. techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/x...
X challenges German court order granting data access to election researchers | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, a Berlin court ordered Elon Musk-owned X to provide immediate access to public platform data to two civil society organizations
techcrunch.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day! This month, we’re celebrating the Annenberg community — the individuals behind the scenes who make our work possible. Today, we’re highlighting Edwin, a computer whiz, pillar of kindness, and essential resource in bringing our mission to life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=irhb...
We Love Annenberg: Edwin Garcia Ramos
YouTube video by Annenberg School for Communication
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I'm conducting research on TikTok and looking to speak with someone who believes they have been shadowbanned. If this is you or someone you know, please LMK.
January 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I'm thrilled to share that I've joined @asc.upenn.edu as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working with @dfreelon.bsky.social on questions of #identity, #politics & #computational-methods! Excited to be part of such a dynamic and innovative team 🤩
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One of my favourite conferences to attend 😊 great pol comm community
PolComm crowd, mark your calendars!

This year's ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference will take place at the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, September 4-5.
Call for submissions is now open: www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...

Looking forward to welcoming you all!

#ecreapolcom25
January 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Safe prediction: Bluesky user #’s going up in next 48 hrs 📈🦋🆙

Almost at 28 million 🚀

bsky-users.theo.io
Bluesky User Counter
bsky-users.theo.io
January 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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✨Time for meta reflection✨

In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 10, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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🤓 How cool to see this in print! Wonderful collaboration with @cristinamonzer.bsky.social ☺️
December 11, 2024 at 2:01 PM
📊🌍New research article published together w/ the brilliant @profdimitrova.bsky.social: we analyzed over 500K Facebook posts to reveal how cultural values shape COVID-19 news engagement in Romania & UK. (1/4)

Access here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

#CommSci #journalism #engagement
The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K.
Abstract. Values are consequential for opinion formation and remain a persuasive factor in shaping public attitudes. Still, the role of values remains unde
academic.oup.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09).

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
Conferences, 2025
docs.google.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:33 PM
📢💫 Join the editorial leadership! Gender and Justice is seeking a Co-Editor in Chief to shape critical feminist scholarship. We welcome experts in sociology, geography, political science, law & related fields. Applications due Jan 31, 2025🎯

See details
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen...
Call for Co-Editor in Chief of Gender and Justice
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Looks like TikTok may be "banned" in the US if it doesn't sell by Jan 19. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b... I have two questions about this that the article doesn't answer:
TikTok Faces U.S. Ban After Losing Bid to Overturn New Law
The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Skal ikke alvorlige habilitetsbrudd få konsekvenser i norsk politikk? Jeg mener det er spesielt tre grunner til at Høyre burde konkludert annerledes i fortsatt støtte til Erna Solberg
www.tronderdebatt.no/vern-av-demo...
Vern av demokratiet er ikke en popularitetsmåling
Erna Solberg annonserte i en pressekonferanse mandag at hun fortsetter som Høyres leder og statsministerkandidat inn mot valget i 2025. Det er en avgjørelse som skaper en skummel presedens i norsk p...
www.tronderdebatt.no
November 14, 2023 at 8:13 AM
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The effect size and confidence interval guide has now been reformatted into a Quarto book. This guide contains all the equations and code you will need to compute effect sizes and their confidence intervals. It will be constantly updated and maintained! #stats
Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals
matthewbjane.quarto.pub
October 31, 2023 at 1:04 AM