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Friday #NCA 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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Friday #NCA 2025 Pt1/2:@lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC members were coauthors for presentations! @mushtarinn w/ “Introducing A Virtual Sisterhood: Exploring The White Dress Project’s Online Community of Care” in a chronic illness communication panel...(5/9)

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Thursday #NCA 2025 Pt 3/3: Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee 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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Thursday #NCA 2025 Pt 2/3: Morgan Badurak and Dr.@ramirez-fa.bsky.social 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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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Thursday #NCA 2025 Pt 1/3:Submissions from SMAC @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social were 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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Busy weekend at the 2025 annual NCA conference outside of Denver, CO! Here is what the @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC Lab and members presented! (1/9)

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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The 111th annual #NCA conference is next week in Aurora, CO and we are #excited! With 1 presentation out of the @lsu.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social SMAC lab and an additional 6 that SMAC members are authors on, we are set for a busy weekend.

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International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Sunday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 Closing out the conference and our summer recap, @manshipschool.bsky.social Morgan Badurak and @ramirez-fa.bsky.social were co-authors on “Beyond Censorship: Understanding the Complexities of Social Media Bans and the Rejection of Regulation” (10/10)

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.4/4 The second paper presentation to come from the @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC Lab was "Digital Archive Collective Memory and The End of TikTok” (9/10)

SMAC Lab members in front of a poster titled “The End of an Era: From FYP to Farewell” that was created for the paper “The Digital Archive Collective Memory and The End of TikTok” From L to R: Caley, Morgan, Hayley, and Nabila

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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @aejmc.bsky.social 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 Morgan Badurak and Dr. @ramirez-fa.bsky.social (8/10)

Morgan in front of the poster for the paper “From Red Scare to RedNote: TikTok Refugees and the Rejection of U.S. Digital Hegemony” written by her and Dr. Ramirez

Dr. Fanny Ramirez @ramirez-fa.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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Excited to see this article published! A wonderful collaboration with two Manship grads @masscommgrad.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday @aejmc.bsky.social 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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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Saturday@aejmc.bsky.social 2025pt1/4 @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social SMAC’s Hayley Booth co-authored “National Security vs. Freedom of Speech: How Media Exposure, Personal Values, and Media Framing Influence Non-Users’ Support for A National Ban on TikTok”(6/10)

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Friday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.2/2 The paper “Understanding the Role of Political Affiliation in Childhood Vaccination Intention in Louisiana” was presented, which SMAC’s Dr. Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee is a co-author of (5/10)

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Friday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.1/2 Caley Hewitt and Hayley Booth presented the extended abstract for their paper “From Airwaves to Ballots: Presidential Candidates’ Podcast Appearances And Their Impact on Their Credibility” (4/10)

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Thurs @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.2/2 Morgan Badurak & @caleyrose1998.bsky.social presented their paper “Should Influencers Speak Up? Political Expectancy Violations Among Gen Z” & Dr. Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee moderated “Issue Management and Social Advocacy for Various Contexts” (3/10)

Caley and Morgan in front of their poster for their paper “Should Influencers Speak Up? Political Expectancy Violations Among Gen Z”

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Thursday @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 pt.1/2 SMAC’s @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social first presentation was an extended abstract for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI” (2/10)

Dr. Chen, Morgan, Nabila, and Caley in front of the SMAC Lab poster for the paper “From Headlines to Hashtags: Comparing U.S. News and User Discourses on China’s DeepSeek AI”

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 3: Finally, @aejmc.bsky.social 2025 in San Fran, CA this August, SMAC members had 9 presentations, 2 of which came directly from SMAC Lab @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social: "From Headlines to Hashtags" & "The Digital Archive Collective Memory" (1/10)

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 2: In August, @nabilamushtarin.bsky.social did her two weeks in the SICSS program at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social working with others in the program to present a research project titled "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures" (3/3)

Nabila (right of front in a green-ish shirt) and her program cohort members in front of the Haas Center for Public Service on the Stanford campus.

Nabila in front of the title slide to her research group's powerpoint presentation, "From Aprons to Almond Milk: Femininity in Online Womens' Subcultures"

Nabila in front of the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford campus

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 2: Morgan Badurak spent her two weeks of June/July in the SICSS program at the University of Pennsylvania, working with other members to create and present a research project titled "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash" (2/3)

A banner on the University of Pennsylvania campus with the university's crest and the text "Penn Engineering; University of Pennsylvania"

Morgan (far right) and her research group members in front of the title slide to their research presentation, "Progressive Insurgencies and Intersectional Backlash"

Morgan posed in front of The Liberty Bell.

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 2: SICSS More in our #recap, Morgan Badurak and @nabilamushtarin.bsky.social were at U of Penn and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social through the SICSS sicss.io, a program designed to educate and train researchers in new social science and media research methods (1/3)

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LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 1: Drs. @ramirez-fa.bsky.social and Jeonghyun (Janice) Lee also participated in @icahdq.bsky.social panels during the conference with discussions around digital affordances and agency in gendered contexts, community engaged health research, and media coverage of health topics (3/3)

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

SUMMER RECAP 1: This was SMAC Lab's Adwoa B's first @icahdq.bsky.social where she presented her paper "Scroll, Share, Vote: The Influence of Social Media and Peer Influence on the Voting Intention and Political Engagement of Teen First-Time Voters" for which she received a travel grant (2/3)

Adwoa B at the entrance to the 75th Annual ICA Conference in Denver, CO.

Adwoa B posed with the travel grant awarded to her at the 75th Annual ICA Conference

LSU SMAC Lab @smaclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

SUMMER RECAP 1: ICA 2025 Members in the SMAC Lab @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social had 4 papers at the annual @icahdq.bsky.social conference in June this year with papers in Political Communication, Health Communication, and Feminist Scholarship (1/3)