Dhavan Shah
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Dhavan is Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research, Maier-Bascom Chair, and Director of the Mass Communication Research Center at the UW-Madison.
Madison, WI
Joined March 2008
Honored to be awarded a WARF Named Professorship from UW-Madison. And grateful to be able to name the professorship after a towering figure in our field, a pathbreaking scholar, and a mentor to so many, including me: Jack M. McLeod.
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Dhavan Shah, Maier-Bascom Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research through the Wisconsin Alumni Research...
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RT @CUP_PoliSci: New from @APSA_Preprints -. Podcasting the Crisis of Masculinity: Recognition Politics, the Manosphere, and the Joe Rogan ….
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Reupping this Call for Papers for a special issue of IJOC. Just over three months to go. Please share in your networks.
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RT @gael_lemens: 📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological a….
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RT @darbysaxbe: I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict….
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RT @skurka_chris: ICYMI, my college (@PSUBellisario) is hiring for two-tenure track positions!. Climate communication (associate or full,….
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RT @dvshah: Feel free to contact my fellow special issue co-editors @erikpbucy (erik.bucy@ttu.edu) and Martin Echeverría (martin.echeverria….
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RT @dvshah: We welcome submissions to our @IJoC_USC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30….
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International Journal of Communication: Special Issue Call for Papers: “Presidential Debates Across the Americas: Analyzing Candidate Performance in Hybrid Media Settings” Guest editors: Dhavan V....
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Feel free to contact my fellow special issue co-editors @erikpbucy (erik.bucy@ttu.edu) and Martin Echeverría (martin.echeverria@correo.buap.mx). We seek research that spans North and South America and considers candidate performance in hybrid media settings. @UW_MCRC @UW_CCCR.
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We welcome submissions to our @IJoC_USC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me (dshah@wisc.edu) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below.
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International Journal of Communication: Special Issue Call for Papers: “Presidential Debates Across the Americas: Analyzing Candidate Performance in Hybrid Media Settings” Guest editors: Dhavan V....
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The next step of our work simulating "social interactions" using LLMs by prompting the virtual agents to go "beyond demographics" and align with human belief networks. Again, led by @SeanChuang4.
Excited to present my paper on role-playing LLM agents at #EMNLP2024! 🎉. Paper Title: “Beyond Demographics: Aligning Role-playing LLM-based Agents Using Human Belief Networks”. Come say hi and let's chat about some exciting research! 🤖🧠✨. TL;DR: How can we make LLM agents
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Excited to share our team's work, led by @SeanChuang4, on understanding machine-to-machine communication by modeling social interactions among LLM agents.
(1/9) LLM agents are increasingly used to simulate human-like societies. But how human-like are their “social interactions,” actually? For example, can we really use them to simulate human-like debates on issues like climate change? Our recent work was accepted at NAACL 2024!
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RT @wmtv15news: The development of a property that houses beloved German beer hall and restaurant Essen Haus has been postponed, and the re….
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Customers and employees with Essen Haus and Come Back In were under the impression that the establishments would be demolished come August.
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RT @YiweiXuPhD: 🚨 Postdoc Job Alert! The @uwcip @uw_ischool @UW is hiring up to two Postdoctoral Fellows to join us in #Seattle #PNW: https….
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RT @AndyKimNJ: In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who vot….
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