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The SEMI-ME is a research group that studies selection, processing and effects of mediated messages. Furthermore, the group investigates the content, creation and sharing of mediated messages.

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Dr. Knobloch-Westerwick

Dr. Knobloch-Westerwick

The SEMI-ME group is led by Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, a professor at the School of Communication at The Ohio State University and a Fellow of the International Communication Association. She serves as co-editor of Communication Research, a flagship journal of communication science.

 

 

SEMI-ME MEETING SCHEDULE Fall 2021

9/2 Kick-off meeting — pics on what you did last summer

9/14 Silvia reflects on UCU/connectedness/majority threats and affordances/message environments

9/21 Jorge brainstorms research plans

9/28 Daniel shares a draft of IJOC paper

10/5 Morgan gets input on MISSY design

10/12 Wenbo presents/shares MARIA

10/19 silvia on the road, can’t meet

10/26 Kristina specifies measures/research design [Halloween attire requested!]

11/2 Ling new project plans

11/9 George pre-election confirmation bias

11/16 ICA deadline approaching, swap papers for feedback?

11/23 Turkey week?

11/30 open

12/7 holiday gathering

SEMI-ME MEETING SCHEDULE Spring 2021

Jan 29 – ZOOM Daniel Sude: Workshop rtweet, NLP with quanteda

March 5  – Zoom: general check-in on activities

March 12 – zoom: Wenbo Li discussion on MIRA paper, popularity cues

March 19 – zoom: Kate Luong presents findings from the kw-janin/Serena study

April 9 – zoom: SKW & DJS, Self-esteem & confirmation bias paper feedback

April 15 – Zoom: Guest presenters from U-Wisconsin: AnneMarie McClain & Marie-Louise Mares

May 5 – Zoom: Wenbo Li and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick present project plan on intergroup contact online

May 19 – zoom: Kristina Medero presents project plan on selective exposure to intergroup contact

May 25 – zoom: Discussion of Daniel’s new research project idea

June 16 – zoom George Pearson & Daniel Sude ask for feedback on issue publics paper

 

SEMI-ME MEETING SCHEDULE Fall 2020

August 21 – ZOOM kickoff meeting for fall 2020, introductions & summer experiences

August 28 – Morgan Ellie

September 4 – Silvia Seren(a)

September 11 – Silvia Potpourri of Studies

September 18 – NO MEETING

September 25 – Ling SIT Japan

October 2 – Daniel Be(M)atrix Reloaded

October 9 – Wenbo Job Talk

October 16 – George Data Scraping

October 23 – George Data Scraping

October 30 – ICA deadline

Nov 6 – SEMI-ME check-in coffee hour

Nov 13 – Best practices for online data collections – jointly Morgan, Wenbo, Daniel, George, Silvia

Nov 20 – Silvia research presentation

Dec 4 – Comparing notes research software development and data scraping — jointly Morgan, Jarod, George et al.

Dec 11 – Inaugural Virtual Holiday Party

 

SEMI-ME MEETING SCHEDULE Spring – Summer 2020

Jan 10 – Welcome Back! Snacks!

Jan 17 – Semri Model Presentation, Dr. Ann Rousseau

Jan 24 – Start at: 9:45AM; Mobile Selective Exposure (Morgan Ross) / Job Talk George

Jan 31 – Meeting start at 10:15; Rachel’s instagram study; Wenbo’ Mira 2 Presentation

Feb 7 – Saumya, Presenting on Spiral of Silence

Feb 14 – Kate <3 Dissertation <3 Valentine’s Day <3

Feb 21 – Elizabeth Talks Marilyn

Feb 28 – Silvia’s paper “Filter bubble”

Mar 6 – R scripts (Thank you, Daniel!)Mar 13- Spring Break!

Mar 20 – //Spring Break extended due to COVID-19// no meeting

Mar 27 – ZOOM meeting — checking in, updates during pandemic

Apr 3 – ZOOM meeting — Elizabeth Thesis

Apr 10 – ZOOM meeting (Daniel dissertation defense test run) Elizabeth’s Birthday!

Apr 17 – ZOOM meeting (Elizabeth thesis project presentation ) Apr 24 – at 9 am! ZOOM presentation from Tokyo – Ling presenting data from Japan

May 1 – ZOOM presentation, Silvia and George, information verification impacts

May 15 – ZOOM presentation, Rachel, thesis, mental health support seeking on Instagram
May 15 – ZOOM presentation, Jill Morris [senior grant specialist, OSU]: Grant Acquisition Resources

May 22 – ZOOM, feedback for Elizabeth’ paper on online video selection (Marilyn)

May 28 (Thursday) – ZOOM meeting, Daniel’s discussion of theory piece in the making
May 28 (Thursday) – ZOOM feedback on REDDIT study procedure

June 5  – ZOOM meeting, Kate’s “emotion and online selective exposure” chapter — feedback
June 5  – ZOOM meeting Morgan’s overview of pre-registration of studies

June 12  – ZOOM meeting, Daniel’s confirmation bias chapter
June 12  – ZOOM meeting, Kate dissertation test-run

June 16 – ZOOM meeting, Elizabeth on “Marilyn 2”
June 16 – ZOOM meeting, Jarod first thoughts

July 7 – ZOOM meeting Morgan & Jarod: prelim Ellie findings

July 10 – ZOOM meeting Dr. Joe Bayer: Synthesio

August 8 – ZOOM meeting, Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick & Axel Westerwick: Do Filter Bubbles Affect Self-Esteem?