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Shengchun Huang
@sarahuang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UTJShool, studying AI-curated news environment and politics with computational methods and experiments
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Congratulations to Annenberg's newest Ph.D. @sarahuang.bsky.social, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday!

She will be joining the faculty at UT Austin’s Moody College of Communication as an Assistant Professor.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Huang!
August 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’ll be remotely presenting our work at the 7/23 8:30 AM ET hybrid session at IC2S2! By measuring both passive exposure and active engagement with news content, we provide a more nuanced view of how algorithmic curation and user agency shape digital news consumption.
July 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Hi #PolComm, I will present my dissertation which develops a trust-based theory of misinformation belief and sharing in social contexts using a dyadic interactive experiment on oTree at #ica25. The presentation will take place on Saturday at 1:30pm in Centennial F, Hyatt Regency. Come check it out!
Only one week left until the ICA! 🤩 We are pleased to present an overview of the Polcomm programme. Make a note of the sessions you cannot miss!
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🚀 Everyone’s using LLMs to generate message stimuli—but how well do they *actually* perform? Can they manipulate better than humans? Control confounds? We put them to the test—and the results are more surprising than you'd expect.

Check out our framework + evaluation here 👇

Happening In an hour!!
I'm going to share our work on how LLMs can generate stimuli for experimental research. Across 4 experiments, we tested whether GPT-generated stimuli could effectively manipulate variables while avoiding confounders. The results? Promising, but complicated! Catch us here👇
@sarahuang.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Due time extended! March 21! Plz spread the word to your students and friends🌸
SICSS-Penn ⏭️2025! See y’all in Philly 🌸🌻
SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️ sicss.io/2025/penn/ap...
@duncanjwatts.bsky.social @dhopkins1776.bsky.social
#computational #socialscience #SICSS
March 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Applications for our @cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship are due on Valentine’s Day, so no one will miss it for the love of it! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
www.asc.upenn.edu
February 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
SICSS-Penn ⏭️2025! See y’all in Philly 🌸🌻
SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️ sicss.io/2025/penn/ap...
@duncanjwatts.bsky.social @dhopkins1776.bsky.social
#computational #socialscience #SICSS
February 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Job alert! Interested in working with PRL as a postdoc next year? Apply by January 15! We offer the opportunity to collaborate on and lead projects related to democratic attitudes, elite behavior, and more! polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/
Hiring
Visit the post for more.
polarizationresearchlab.org
December 20, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Looks like TikTok may be "banned" in the US if it doesn't sell by Jan 19. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b... I have two questions about this that the article doesn't answer:
TikTok Faces U.S. Ban After Losing Bid to Overturn New Law
The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM