Scholar of social media, digital games, big data and social networks. Observer of all things tech. Prof at UC Davis. Mom of a cancer kid. Opinions are my own.
Davis, CA
Joined October 2007
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1/4 I've built a small tool, CiteVerify, to help researchers and journal editors check citation integrity, especially in the social sciences. I've found it useful in my own editorial work and hope others will too!
github.com/cuihuash/citeveri…
3/4 CiteVerify uses DOIs to check references and generates an HTML report highlighting potential issues. No LLM involved. It doesn't determine whether a citation is fake, but helps identify references worth investigating further.
4/4 Citation integrity is a shared concern, and I hope this tool can make editorial and research work a little easier.
If you're an editor, reviewer, or researcher, give it a try! Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #ScholComm
Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen retweeted
New CMMC Lab research out, led by my student Xinyi Liu! We develop an LLM-based analytical framework to unpack complex visual concepts like surrealism. Also thanks to @CCR_OpenJournal @ica_cm SI editors @alvinyxz @wrahool and Ewa Maslowska, more articles: journal.computationalcommuni…
How does surrealism manifest in photorealistic AI-generated images? In our new @CompCommRes paper with @YingdanL_kk, @kiyaoqp, @sijia_qian, @pengyilang & @cuihua, we develop an LLM-assisted framework to map surrealism across 28K+ AIGIs from Instagram: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2026.2.6.…🧵
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How does surrealism manifest in photorealistic AI-generated images? In our new @CompCommRes paper with @YingdanL_kk, @kiyaoqp, @sijia_qian, @pengyilang & @cuihua, we develop an LLM-assisted framework to map surrealism across 28K+ AIGIs from Instagram: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2026.2.6.…🧵
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Communication Professor Cuihua (Cindy) Shen weighs in on the evolution of hate speech online. Learn more @UCDavisMagazine @cuihua
ucdavis.edu/magazine/what-ex…
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Happy 2025! @cuihua and I are happy to announce new forum piece in @polcommjournal where we argue for a need to focus more on visual content when trying to understand the causes and manifestations of political polarization.
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🚨New paper out in @JhcOffice
Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures.
A quick read: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Just published in @Nature!
Research by @GoogleDeepMind including Nobel Laureate @demishassabis introduces a novel technique for reliably identifying LLM-generated content.
At its core, this approach subtly alters the next-token sampling process to introduce minor adjustments into the distribution of generated text.
These slight modifications embed a “signature” in the LLM-generated text that would be nearly invisible to a human reader but detectable using specific statistical tools.
A major advantage of this method is its efficiency: detection doesn’t require resource-intensive computations or direct access to the underlying LLM, which is often proprietary.
Full paper: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen retweeted
Job season! @CNMnus we are looking for outstanding young colleagues to join us as prestigious PYP (Assistant Prof). Areas: Media Studies, Visual Communication, Science Communication, Cultural Studies, Computational Communication. Deadline: Nov 30 2024.
fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/nus-pres…
Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen retweeted
Sadly, we still default to granting more respect to men than women.
8 studies: we're >2x as likely to call male politicians, athletes, teachers, and authors by their last names. It matters: surnames signal higher status.
It's long past time to use consistent standards.
Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen retweeted
Most pre-registrations are too vague, and have done little to limit p-hacking and publication bias in economics
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab…
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63 algorithmic interventions designed to make #Facebook temporarily provide less polarizing and more reliable content likely distorted the data sets that @Meta fed to academic researchers and helped get publish with Meta employees as co-authors. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Happy to see that our CMMC lab's student-initiated project has turned into something concrete👏 We study how social media users produce #AI generated visuals. We examine the themes and styles of this emerging genre, and its potential for misuse in spreading #misinformation.
Excited to share our CMMC lab’s latest preprint “Crafting Synthetic Realities: Examining Visual Realism and Misinformation Potential of Photorealistic AI-Generated Images”! Thank u co-authors @YingdanL_kk @pengyilang @sijia_qian @2slimcat @cuihua. Check arxiv.org/abs/2409.17484!
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Excited to share the latest preprint from our CMMC Lab! We compiled a large corpus of 30,824 AI-generated visuals collected from Instagram and Twitter, and combined quantitative and qualitative analysis to unpacks AI photorealism of AIGIs. Check out👉arxiv.org/abs/2409.17484
Excited to share our CMMC lab’s latest preprint “Crafting Synthetic Realities: Examining Visual Realism and Misinformation Potential of Photorealistic AI-Generated Images”! Thank u co-authors @YingdanL_kk @pengyilang @sijia_qian @2slimcat @cuihua. Check arxiv.org/abs/2409.17484!
Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen retweeted
Excited to share our CMMC lab’s latest preprint “Crafting Synthetic Realities: Examining Visual Realism and Misinformation Potential of Photorealistic AI-Generated Images”! Thank u co-authors @YingdanL_kk @pengyilang @sijia_qian @2slimcat @cuihua. Check arxiv.org/abs/2409.17484!
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Some evidence for what everyone suspected:
(Some) authors don't want to share data because they don't want people to see how the sausage was made
journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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Take it from the people who worked for him: Donald Trump is a danger to our troops, our security, and our democracy.
He should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States.
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Job alert: My department @UFMPMT in the College of Journalism and Communications @UFJSchool is recruiting two tenure track positions. One focuses on emerging media: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…; the other focuses on media management: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…. DM if you have questions