Cornell Social Media Lab
@CUSocialMedia
Communication, social behavior and technology | Social Media TestDrive: http://socialmediatestdrive.org/modules.html
🎓🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Zhao! We're celebrating @Pengfei_Zhao_ on her successful dissertation defense. We’re so proud of you at the SML, and will miss you dearly!




🎉 Congratulations to SML Ph.D. student @bae_inhwan on receiving the 2024-25 PCCW Frank H.T. Rhodes Mission Grant! 🌟 Her project focuses on combating online toxicity against women and nonbinary persons with tailored persuasion messages using large language models.
SML members @bae_inhwan @isabellemcdaph @haesooheatherk and Julia Sebastien had a lovely meeting with the students @btf_bluetree about youth social media safety! It was great to chat, @ParkChanJun_ , thank you for inviting us! #bluetreefoundation
We are excited to welcome Han Li, @HanLi_1231 to SML! Han joined our collaborative project on "Deterring Objectionable Behaviors Online," socialsciences.cornell.edu/deterring-obje… She comes to us after her postdoc at the NUS where she worked with Dr. Renwen Zhang (@renwenzhang). Welcome, Han!

Our Ph.D. student @haesooheatherk represented the SML at the UN’s 63rd Session of the Commission for Social Development! Invited by @btf_bluetree, she spoke on what academic research can do to build a safer online future. #BTF webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1t/k…

📣Cornell Postdoc Position: Join our interdisciplinary, NSF-funded project on deterring objectionable speech online with @nataliebazarova @drewmargolin @difrad Details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27892 Thank you for sharing
Congratulations to Mandy, an SML PhD alumna, for being featured in the Cornell Chronicle! news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…
Tomorrow (Oct. 5)! Dr. Fei-Fei Li (@Stanford) gives the @CornellCCSS Annual Lecture, discussing "AI with a human perspective." Co-sponsored by @CornellCIS and @CornellDataSciC. Open to the #Cornell and #Ithaca communities. Details: socialsciences.cornell.edu/events/annual-…
Introducing the newest #jcmc publication "Digital parenting divides: the role of parental capital and digital parenting readiness in parental digital mediation" by @Pengfei_Zhao_, @nataliebazarova & @NaterciaValle! Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/z…
Congratulations communication professor @nataliebazarova appointed to a one-year term as an associate vice provost in the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation! 🎉 news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…
Heads-up: JARMAC invites proposals from the research community for a target article on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on cognition in applied settings. More information will follow. @APA_Journals @OfficialSARMAC #AI apa.org/pubs/journals/…
Congratulations to SML member, @Pengfei_Zhao_!
Thrilled to announce that I am now officially a PhD candidate! 🎉 A heartfelt thank you to my incredible committee for their guidance and support: @nataliebazarova, @drewmargolin, @LeeHumphreys, and @QiWang_Cornell. All but dissertation!
Congratulations to SML undergraduate RA, Amber Arquilevich, on being accepted to the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar Program! Excited to see how this program will help you grow as a scholar 🥳 scl.cornell.edu/get-involved/c…
Congratulations @diana_freed! We're excited for you and can't wait to see what you'll do during this fellowship!
@BKCHarvard is thrilled to announce an extraordinary cohort of incoming fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. The group’s expertise and interests range from intellectual property law and algorithmic infrastructure, to privacy, AI, and journalism. cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-07/…
Social #medialiteracy has been proposed as a way to mitigate risks and maximize the benefits of social media use. Thus, there is a need to develop validated measures. A. Purington Drake, @MasurPhil, @nataliebazarova et al. developed a 90-item social #medialiteracy inventory.
Our recent study on digital safety was featured in the Cornell Chronicle!
Youth in the U.S. are targets of cross-platform digital abuse, with threats ranging from harassment and sexual violence to financial fraud, according to a collaborative study and call-to-action from @CornellCIS and @Google researchers. @TheOfficialACM news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…