Computational Methods Division of ICA

📣 Huge congratulations to our elected officers: Jiyoun Suk (U of Connecticut) – Secretary; Zening Duan (National U of Singapore) – Student and Early Career Representative. Also thanks to all the fantastic candidates who ran and to everyone who voted! @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social @zeningduan.bsky.social

🎉 New editorial: "Be Careful What You Prompt For: Generative AI in Computational Communication Research." It opens our special issue of 12 open-access papers, co-edited with @wrahool.bsky.social and @ewam.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

The ICA CM Division is seeking nominees for the secretary and student & early career representative. If you are interested in running for one of these positions, please contact k.welbers@vu.nl with a statement of interest. This information can also be found at www.icahdq.org/general/cust...

As we approach the end of the conference, let’s take a moment to recognize our paper award winners for their exceptional research and on-stage presence. Photo credit to Dr. Kasper Welbers! @kasperwelbers.bsky.social

The highlight reel at our reception 🎬✨

Excited to share the fourth day of our CM sessions! Here is the rapid-fire breakdown: Gender & Race in Digital Spaces 9:00 AM; LLM Text Annotation 12:00 PM; Tools & Demos 1:30 PM. Plus, don't miss our other panel, led by our dedicated members Dr. Agnes Horvat and Dr. Yingdan Lu!

A snapshot of this year's business meeting (ICA 26)! Credit to our Vice Chair Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social

Hi #ica26, interested in computational approaches and media use & effects? This is for you: 📢 CfP CCR Special Issue: From normalization to next frontiers: Media use & effects in the computational era. 🗓Abstracts due: Oct 16 journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement... @icacm.bsky.social

Dive into the latest methodological frontiers on Jun 7: Rethinking Digital Traces 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM; The LLM Simulation Frontier 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM; Tracing Narrative & Semantic Change 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM; and News Production & Engagement 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM. See you there!

Couldn’t have been happier about the outcome of our #ica26 Causal Turn Panel. The panelists highlighted the needs to move forward: 1. build theories on time and sequence in media effects 2. learn to control for confounding factors 3. develop analytical approaches like sequences analysis

Hi #ica26. We have an open 4.5 yr Postdoc position @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Berlin in PolComm/Comp Social Scienes on opinion dynamics in climate topics. Hit me up if you want a to talk about it in CT or send to colleagues who might be interested. www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Ready for another brainstorm? Today we’ll continue the journey with 4 sessions: Algorithmic Auditing & Online Incivility 9:00 AM; Auditing Algorithmic Curation 10:30 AM; The Causal Turn in Digital Trace Data Research 12:00 PM; Innovations in Multimodal Data Analysis 3:00 PM. See you there!

Wanna learn how the new #DSA EU data access to platform works for you, even outside Europe? Join our #ICA26 Bluesky workshop on Sat June 6 at 9:00 am in CTICC1, Lev 1, 1.52 with @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social Daniel Angus, Megan Brown

Are you ready for the upcoming sessions on Jun 5? Here is a quick preview: Network Perspectives on Polarization (9:00 AM); Emotional Profiles & Engagement (10:30 AM); Digital Ecosystems & Echo Chambers (12:00 PM); Rigor & Reliability (3:00 PM); AI in Research & Society (4:30 PM). See you there!

🐧 Marvin says hi and wanted to share some of his impressions from the first day of #HackICA26! What a start! And don't worry — Day 2 is in full swing! 🚀 We'll continue sharing updates, highlights, and recaps throughout ICA and beyond, so stay tuned. #ICAHackathon #ComputationalSocialScience

Dismantling US science ♾️ "The sweeping new regulations [...] would subject every federal research funding decision to political review" "This proposal would dramatically expand the power of political appointees to override expert assessments of scientific merit" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ICA26 is on the way! First and foremost, we'll have our business meeting from 4:30pm - 5:45pm on June 7 in the Diaz Room, Westin, Old Harbour Level. It is an important opportunity to learn about our division, and for us as a community to chart our path forward for the next year. Please join us!

Last chance to get registered to this year's hackathon at @icahdq.bsky.social @icacm.bsky.social

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This is taking place on Monday with colleagues from the @univie.ac.at @anniewald.bsky.social @societal-analytics.nl @sof14g1l.bsky.social and The Atlas Social Media Listening Lab at @ufjschool.bsky.social @n8carp.bsky.social @jieunshin.bsky.social

The Computational Methods Lab Showcase will be on Monday, February 16th, 4:00–5:30 PM CET / 10:00 AM–11:30 PM EST. If you're interested in joining through Zoom, please contact dr. Silvia Majo Vazquez (s.majovazquez@vu.nl) for details!

Dear CM folks, we're working on the Feb newsletter. Should you have updates or news for our upcoming newsletter edition, please reach out directly to Dr. Felicia Loecherbach at f.loecherbach@uva.nl. We thank you very much for your engagement in our community!

Dear members! Wish your new year starts off great! We're excited to share that the third annual Communication Horizons Conference at UC Davis will take place May 15–17, 2026. Check it out! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

Season’s Greetings from the ICA CM executive committee! Thank you for staying with us all the way. We appreciate your continued interest and participation in our community and look forward to bringing you more insights and updates in the year ahead. Wishing you a joyful holiday season!

Postdoc Opportunity at Northwestern University! Check this out. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉comap@northwestern.edu

Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟 Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆 Register 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

📢 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...

We hope you’ll just us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase! Registration is free and open to colleagues interested in computational methods

Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase @icacm.bsky.social Registration is free and open to colleagues interested in computational methods! DM me if you have questions 1/2

Big news! 🎉 Our colleague @aytalina.bsky.social has been elected International Liaison of the @icacm.bsky.social! 🌍👏We’re thrilled to see her representing and connecting the global #CompMethods community. compcommlab.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

Please consider taking the survey below about researcher preparedness to address data ethics issues

If you ran into me, @cfiesler.bsky.social or @vitak.bsky.social at #ICA25 you likely heard about the PERVADE Project and our current work assessing researcher preparedness to address data ethics issues in their work. ICA members can take the survey here: marquette.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It’s a wrap! On this final day of #ica25, we have both @jbgruber.bsky.social and @vanatteveldt.com presenting in the open science and data access session of @icacm.bsky.social. If you have not left Denver yet, be sure to check them out 🚀

It's the last day of #ICA25! We hope you'll join us at today's Computational Methods panels. We're looking forward to sessions on polarization, data access, and sentiment

@vanatteveldt.com presents a new Dutch stance detection datasets and makes important points that are often neglected in sentiment analyses in communication research #ica25

One person, R Studio, live coding. This is such a beautiful way to do tool demo by @jbgruber.bsky.social #ica25

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

Good morning #COMMSky from #ICA25! 🌞 If you have time from 3:00 PM to 5:45 PM, feel free to join us at our presentations! 🗣 @nibasaleem.bsky.social will be presenting an Intergroup Communication top paper! @garciaerick.bsky.social will be presenting on Risk, Race and Algorithms @icacat.bsky.social!

More great #ICA25 Computational Methods panels coming up today! We hope you'll join us today for sessions on network analysis, computational tools, news analysis, data donation, and data collection

Grateful and happy my Master‘s thesis work – with fantastic supervision from @fhopp.bsky.social – received a Top Student Paper award from @icacm.bsky.social at ICA! :))

@cfiesler.bsky.social is giving us such a wonderful tour of the duality of the Internet. Some great lessons for how we as a research community need to deeply consider the ethics and relationality in our work. For whom are we doing this, and how does this make things better? #ica25

🚀 Very happy (and proud!) that rockstar @michelleschimmel.bsky.social received a top student paper for her MSc thesis, which I had the pleasure to supervise. Excited to see this work out soon!

Hey #ica25, introducing The Mobile Observation of Advertising Toolkit, a new app for capturing ads in the wild from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, & YouTube. @icacm.bsky.social Data Collection Tools & Datasets Sunday 15th | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Colorado B (Grand 2) @internetobservatory.org.au

Looking for an interesting session on this second afternoon of #ICA25? @damiantrilling.net is presenting the project "Bias in Online Vaccination Content Using Machine Learning" in a high-density session @icacm.bsky.social. Go check it out!