Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.

Code underlying published findings in the social sciences often fails to reproduce reported results when others re-run it on the original data. This Comment proposes four recommendations to strengthen...

International Communication Association conference, Cape Town, 4-8 June 2026

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

While TikTok is rapidly growing as a source of news for young people, they appear to have limited interest in news from traditional sources on the platform. Exploring whether there is a place for p...

Political Communication (Section 23) The purpose of this section is to foster the study of political communications within the discipline of political

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

Deadline: November 15th, 2025

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

Background: Online health information seeking is undergoing a major shift with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI)–powered technologies such as voice assistants and large language models (LLMs)...

Opinion: Felix M Simon argues that AI is unlikely to significantly shape election results in the near future, but warns that it could damage democracy through a steady erosion of institutional trust.

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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