Subhayan Mukerjee

Subhayan Mukerjee

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Publication in Journal of Communication!

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I’m very excited to announce a new co-authored publication in the Journal of Communication. This work, that builds on our recent paper in Political Communication, offers a timely audit of Twitter’s shadowban algorithms between 2020-21, thereby shedding light on (one of) the most contentious issues around social media today.

Read it here. A Twitter thread summarising the findings can be found here.

joc shadowban screengrab

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New Publication in Information, Communication & Society

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Last week, the empirical findings from my Ph.D. dissertation was published by Information, Communication & Society. In this paper, I introduce a concept called “Audience Mobility” to investigate longitudinal changes in India’s online news consumption landscape. It’s hard to find journals willing to publish research which is ostensibly about non-Western contexts, and so I’m glad that after several rejections for over 2 years, this piece found utterance at ICS. Read more

SICSS-Singapore is back!

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I am super excited that SICSS is returning to Singapore in 2024 for its THIRD edition! SICSS (Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science) is a global initiative to bring together graduate students, postdocs and early career faculty members for intensive study and interdisciplinary research in computational social science. Read more

Appearance on the CCS Podcast

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I was recently invited by Prof. Emese Domahidi (TU Ilmenau) to appear on the What is it about computational communication science podcast to talk about the power of platforms. We (Emese, Mario Haim, and myself) talked about the increasingly pervasive role that digital platforms play in mediating our access to information and news, the importance of social media metrics, audience fragmentation, and the need for a global perspective in answering these questions. It was a fun 45 minute conversation, but in the end we were left with more questions than answers. Read more

ICA Pre-Conference on Journalism and Computation in Singapore!

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I am super excited to announce that my colleagues and I are organising an ICA preconference titled “A Computational Turn in Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges in a Cross-Dsiciplinary Field” in Singapore! We welcome submissions from those who are conducting research at the intersection of computational methods and journalism. Read the full CFP here and submit your abstracts by January 26! Read more