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Rui Wang

@wangrui.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @LoyolaUniversityMaryland | Ph.D. @U Buffalo| RutgersCommInfo Alumni | AI, political communication, computational social science👩‍💻 ruiwangcomm.com

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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Believe it or not, there were 13 papers (most of them full manuscripts) in my #ica26 system waiting to be reviewed. I’ve spent the entire day working on them.
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Jiyoun Suk @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨 New paper drop! How does a social movement once started out powerful somehow turn into a partisan battle? In our new publication in @icsjournal.bsky.social, we answer this question by analyzing 83 million #MeToo tweets from 2017–2020. 1/
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Jiyoun Suk @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Kudos to the amazing team @yinizhang.bsky.social @wangrui.bsky.social Dongdong Yang, Sara Holland Levin, Junwan Seo, and Xinxia Dong Free 50 copies available here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MD9E5...
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From activism to polarization: temporal dynamics of #MeToo politicization on Twitter/X
This study is focused on how social media activism is politicized over time, attending to diverse groups of users and their response to real-world events on social media. Extending the scholarship ...
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚩100 Citations Milestone Reached!
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨New Pub🚨 Media-bashing became an identity. When Trump attacked the news media on social media, how did political influencers on the left and right amplify his rhetoric? Check out our new article (w/ @yinizhang.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z8NQW...
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How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling
Extending existing research on right-wing populism and how the news media handles right-wing populists and their media-bashing rhetoric, this study examines how such rhetoric is amplified by politi...
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Yini Zhang @yinizhang.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨 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. #socialmedia🧵
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Annenberg Public Policy Center @appc.upenn.edu · 23/04/2025
What institutions and professions are most trusted by the American people? At the top: medical scientists (73%), the military (72%), scientists in general (71%). Near the bottom: The US Supreme Court (41%), the President (40%), Congress (32%). www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-america...
Graphic showing how trusted different professions are by the American people.
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Thanks for sharing our study!
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our method paper is published today! It is perfectly timely before I finish my PhD and before my new journey! This paper is to measure the content engagement capacity in online conversation using a network-based approach. We welcome any feedback, comments, application, and future collaboration!
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Reviewed 2 journal articles to end my 2024😊
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Yara Kyrychenko @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science
Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I’ve been engaging with this platform passively—most browsing, liking, and sharing posts from scholars in my field. Yet, my account is attracting "unknown" followers, many of which seem to be bots. Is this a sign of the platform’s growth or something more concerning, like botnets being deployed?
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 06/12/2024
When reporting a suspected bot account, include the word "bot" in your reply comment. This will help the Bsky bot-hunting team and allow them to respond more quickly.
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is a very accurate reflection of my research area 🤔 blueskyroast.com/roast/wangru...
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Peder Hammerskov @journalistik.ai · 21/11/2024
I've tried to make a starter pack within "AI in Media/journalism". Who am I missing? Let's have important conversations! #AI #media #journalism
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 21/11/2024
Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username? On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username. We just refreshed our how-to guide:
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How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...
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Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI
Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The findings of this article echo what we found in our recent study (shorturl.at/KdF3U): simply disclosing AI authorship to readers does not change their perceptions of the news article or journalism. We need to go further in terms of transparency when implementing AI in news production.
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Behind the black box: The moderating role of the machine heuristic on the effect of transparency information about automated journalism on hostile media bias perception - Rui Wang, Yotam Ophir, 2024
Facing historically low levels of public trust, journalists had been increasingly interested in the potential of artificial intelligence to produce news content...
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Yotam Ophir, Ph.D. @ophiryotam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
When I find myself in times of trouble, I sit down and write. My new book, Misinformation and Society, is now available for PRE-ORDER from Amazon and all other retailers!! www.amazon.com/Misinformati...
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is such an amazing list of political communication researchers. I am glad to be on it! Give them a follow ✅
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
After a week with the TikTok Research API, here are my thoughts: 1) It is super unstable (constant 500 errors and the only fix is to keep trying until it works); 2) The docs are a mess, especially for folks with different levels of coding/API experience, and there’s almost no community support.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 18/11/2024
Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
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Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign. www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14
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Stéphane Bilodeau @smbilodeau.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🚨NEW study from @qutdmrc.bsky.social with eye-opening! 👀 findings! The computational analysis of engagement found that X's algorithm was changed in July 2024 to boost Republican-leaning & Elon Musk's accounts during US election #AlgorithmicBias #USElection2024 #Twitter #X eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
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A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints
Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark (2024) A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/11/2024
An excellent piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social on our struggle to find appropriate metaphors to think about what Large Language Models *are*. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
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Yotam Ophir, Ph.D. @ophiryotam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In what could be described as both a perfect and horrifying timing, I will give a talk today at Penn Medicine on the politicization of science, the role of media, and the implications for vaccines and other health behaviors. Zoom link below if you're interested
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Do podcasts play a decisive role in politics? This fascinating new paper maps the ecosystem using a large database of podcast transcripts from 2020. My first take away: politics is dwarfed by entertainment (not unlike social media): arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07892
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 14/11/2024
Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...
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GitHub - brianckeegan/bluesky-datascience: Exploratory notebooks for data science using Bluesky data
Exploratory notebooks for data science using Bluesky data - brianckeegan/bluesky-datascience
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Rui Wang @wangrui.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Leaving the massive network effect on the other site isn’t easy, especially for early-career researchers like me—building connections is challenging and takes time. But the longer I stay, the more I feel the chaos and lack of control over content visibility. Maybe it’s time to make the move.
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