📢 CCR needs a new Editor in Chief! 📢
@vanatteveldt.com is rotating out so we are inviting (self)nominations to lead our journal through its next phase. Deadline 15 January, see link for details: journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
Just one week left to submit your abstract to the CCR Special Issue on Computational Approaches to Researching Short Videos - reach us at ccreditorialteam@gmail.com if you have any questions!
📣Call for Papers:
CCR Special Issue on Computational Approaches to Researching Short Videos
co-edited by Jing Zeng, @lrossi.bsky.social, and @rupertkiddle.com
Abstract deadline: 25-Jul-2025
See announcement for more information -
journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
📢 Call for Papers!
Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era
Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2
co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social
More details below 👇
link: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
📰Published: Conversation can change minds. @Mark Pogson and @Tom Nicholls of @CommediaLivUni model this with simple opinions. Diversity can make public opinion more extreme. Minority influence can be significant. They show how social media activity may interact with breaking news.
New article at CCR: @thieled.bsky.social leverages word-embedding representations of dictionaries and machine translation to investigate user-generated populism in comments during COVID-19 in 7 European countries, finding varying effects of restrictive policies. Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
📣New article @ CCR! L. de Bruyne,
@tonivdmeer.bsky.social , O. De Clercq and V. Hoste leverage machine learning models to analyze emotions in Dutch crisis-related tweets and introduces a framework for monitoring emotional climates on social media during crises. Link: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Thank-you for the correct handles, Jakob-Moritz! Old habits are hard to shake. 🔵☁️
New Paper! @jana_bhard and @boomgaardenhg investigate the role of validation methods in topic model selection, showing how different approaches can influence the chosen model, impacting study results, and thus also theory development. Available here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
