Announcements

Don’t miss our team presentations at this year’s International Communication Association Conference: FRIDAY, JUNE 13 Did Twitter Become More Inhospitable to Minoritized Groups After Elon Musk’s Takeover? A Computational Analysis of LGBTQIA+ Tweets 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM; Capitol 5 (Regency 4) Gyo Hyun Koo; Josephine Lukito; Gina… Read More

Ashwin Rajadesingan receives Test of Time Award for sarcasm detection research. Read More

  Catch our CME team members at the American Political Science Association (APSA) conference September 5-8!   THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Cross-Ideological Diverse Sharing Is Motivated, Not Sincere 3:30 to 4:00pm Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), Hall A Yujin Kim, University of Texas at Austin   FRIDAY,… Read More

  Catch our CME team members at AEJMC August 8-10!    THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 Consumer Perceptions of Non-Fungible Tokens as Virtual Influencers’ Fan Merchandise 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Franklin Hall 11/4th Scholar-to-Scholar (Poster) Refereed Research Paper Session Jiemin Looi, Texas at Austin; Hong Kong Baptist, Texas at Austin;… Read More

Attending ICA ’24? Don’t miss these presentations from our Center for Media Engagement researchers. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2024 Censorship, Dissent, and Political Expression 10:30 AM.– 11:45 AM Surfer’s Paradise 3 (Star L3) Chair: Josephine Lukito (The University of Texas at Austin) Supporting the Stack: Considerations… Read More

The Center for Media Engagement congratulates Anthony Dudo on his election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Each year, AAAS elects members whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science, or its applications, are scientifically or socially distinguished.” Dudo is being honored for his… Read More

In 2023, the Center for Media Engagement worked to improve newsroom practices, help scientists with communication training, challenge students to think about ethical questions from multiple vantage points, and educate policymakers and the public about the effects of social media as well as the spread of propaganda and misinformation via… Read More

  Catch CME researchers at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, August 7-9! MONDAY, AUGUST 7 Catalyzing Effects: Paradoxical Effects of Attempts to Chill on Journalism 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EST Independence Salons A-E (M4) Taeyoung Lee, Josephine Lukito, Anita Varma, and… Read More

Attending ICA ’23? Don’t miss these presentations from our Center for Media Engagement researchers. Read More

  Join us for a free panel discussion with graduate worker organizers who will share their insights into labor issues that news coverage often overlooks. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/higher-ed-strikes-workers-rightsimproving-news-coverage-of-labor-issues-tickets-532211909147 ABOUT THE EVENT: Higher education’s growing labor movement has made local, national, and international headlines lately, in part due to… Read More

Discussion with Iranian journalists and media scholars on what reporting in solidarity with Iranian women means right now. Read More

The Center for Media Engagement is thrilled to welcome Ashwin Rajadesingan to the team. Read More

Join us for a workshop on solidarity reporting for democracy, including concrete guidance on priorities and practices for how news organizations can move from declaring themselves “pro-democracy” to putting promises into practice as a public service for voters. Read More

Attending ICA ’22? Don’t miss these presentations from our Center for Media Engagement researchers. Read More

Dr. Samuel Woolley to testify in front of the U.S. House of Representatives. Read More

The Digital Data Conference brings together researchers collecting and analyzing digital media data to discuss the practice and ethics of digital data research. Read More

This talk will highlight one underappreciated aspect: how the Internet has the capacity to improve the human species by increasing pro-social interactions and reducing anti-social ones. Read More

News coverage of trans issues has grown in recent months, with reporting on legislation, protests, and profiles of trans individuals. Yet much of this coverage still silences, re-marginalizes, and alienates trans people. How can journalism do better? Read More

Join us for a panel discussion that explores the connection between journalism and advocacy. Read More

The Center for Media Engagement is thrilled to welcome Dr. Craig R. Scott and Dr. Anita Varma to the team. Read More

Join Azeta Hatef and Anita Varma for a discussion of key issues in reporting on Afghanistan. Read More

The Center for Media Engagement is thrilled to announce Dr. Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito as a Senior Faculty Research Associate on our Propaganda team. Read More

Join us for our SXSW panel “How Newsrooms Can Help Bridge Divides.” Read More

In this talk, Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) draws from current findings regarding political polarization to argue that, as important a social good as democracy is, it is nonetheless possible for citizens to overdo it. Read More

Civic Signals, a project created to explore what makes digital spaces public-friendly, released the results of a two-year-long study, the largest global survey of social media superusers to date. Read More

The Center for Media Engagement is proud to host COGSEC, an online conference that will bring together a community of practitioners on the front lines of dealing with and actively combatting the efforts of malign actors online. Read More

The latest issue of Media Ethics Magazine is available online. Read More

The Center for Media Engagement is joined by panelists David Fahrenthold, Arthel Neville, and Dan Rather for a conversation on the media's role in 2020 events. Read More

What is the role of journalism and the press in a time when the truth is malleable, fake news is on the rise, and journalistic freedom is being put into question? How can our democratic society find real and sustainable solutions to our problems of disinformation, political polarization, and new… Read More

Attending ICA's virtual conference? CME Researchers will be virtually presenting on a variety of topics. Read More