Matthews, N., Bayer, J., Sude, D. J. & Sowden, W. (2023) How moral adaptability relates to communication and friendship with morally dissimilar others. Communication Monographs. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2231519 A great detail of research has been devoted to understanding how disagreement is managed in pluralistic societies, such as that of the United States, as a … Continue reading Hot off the press! How moral adaptability relates to communication and friendship with morally dissimilar others [open acess].
Hot off the press! Perceived platform features related to perceived prevalance of uncivil behaviors
Two large panel surveys examined Americans' perceptions of both the prevelance of uncivil behaviors on different platforms and key platform features. Specifically, every social media platform that a participant reported using regularly was examined, meaning that perceptions that are due to the platform could be disentangled from perceptions due to the user. First, perceptions were … Continue reading Hot off the press! Perceived platform features related to perceived prevalance of uncivil behaviors
Hot off the press! An open-access book chapter detailing conditions that strengthen and weaken the confirmation bias – from the individual’s desire to be right to social goals
In this open-access book chapter (free on Kindle and Nook), myself and Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick take a "multimotive" approach to the confirmation bias - the tendency to seek out and be ammenable to information that supports what we already believe. In summary: It's not just about wanting to be right. We also do this to … Continue reading Hot off the press! An open-access book chapter detailing conditions that strengthen and weaken the confirmation bias – from the individual’s desire to be right to social goals
Hot off the press! Gender-matching can diversify exposure to political content – Representation Matters
We had students browse a custom-programmed news aggregator site featuring political content taking pro- and contra-stances on a variety of perenial political and politicized science topics: everything from gun control to teaching evolution in public schools. Journalistic bylines featured either common male or common female first names, by random assignment. To get these names, we … Continue reading Hot off the press! Gender-matching can diversify exposure to political content – Representation Matters
Event: International Communication Association Annual Conference 2021
At this week's ICA I presented my paper with my co-authors, Axel Westerwick and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. Click here to view. I was also a co-author on a submission with Nicholas Mathews and Joe Bayer examining moral relativism, willingness to communicate with morally dissimilar others, social network cognition, and social network diversity.
Productivity and Remote Work: Weekend Thoughts
Read this Vox article on productivity and remote work: https://www.vox.com/recode/22435905/wework-ceo-sandeep-mathrani-remote-work-from-home-engagement-productivity-pandemicOne virtue of this article is the interrogation of the methods behind the data. What do they actually tell us?One thing left out is whether the nature of the productive work matters. Even momentary interruptions (from colleagues, from children, from pets, from spouses) can kill "deep" … Continue reading Productivity and Remote Work: Weekend Thoughts
Hot off the press! Budak, Garrett, and Sude (in press) Communication Methods and Measures!
Budak, C., Garrett, R. K., & Sude, D. (in press). Better crowdcoding: Strategies for promoting accuracy in crowdsourced content analysis. Communication Methods and Measures. In this work, we evaluate different instruction strategies to improve the quality ofcrowdcoding for the concept of civility. We test the effectiveness of training,codebooks, and their combination through 2x2 experiments conducted on … Continue reading Hot off the press! Budak, Garrett, and Sude (in press) Communication Methods and Measures!
Machine Learning Applications: Sunday Thoughts
A useful resource for building up intuitions about machine learning (in this case, supervised machine learning) https://healthcare.ai/visual-tour-lasso-random-forest/....People in my field will try to categorize social media posts as civil {uncivil} or low {high} in deliberative quality using these techniques. The goal, there, is to train machines that can, with a high but not perfect degree … Continue reading Machine Learning Applications: Sunday Thoughts
Publicity for “Self-expression just a click away”
https://news.osu.edu/liking-an-article-online-may-mean-less-time-spent-reading-it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/j2kqj0/liking_an_article_online_may_mean_less_time_spent/ This article garnered interest from normal science news sites (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200930094732.htm) to lifestyle magazines (https://www.equinox.com/landing/check-in-10-25?emmcid=EMM-1025CRMDailyCheckin-M-USCANUK10252020#learn-then-like) to career-building sites (https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/this-study-shows-how-the-internet-is-ruining-our-reading-habits).
Hot off the Press! Self-expression just a click away: Source interactivity impacts on confirmation bias and political attitudes.
Sude, D. J., Pearson, G. D. H., Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (2021). Self-expression just a click away: Source interactivity impacts on confirmation bias and political attitudes. Computers in Human Behavior. 114: (106571) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106571 Abstract: Information is now commonly consumed online, often displayed in conjunction with self-expression affordances (i.e., likes, votes) that create a sense of “self as … Continue reading Hot off the Press! Self-expression just a click away: Source interactivity impacts on confirmation bias and political attitudes.
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