Muniba Saleem
Assoc Prof @ UC Santa Barbara Comm, faculty affiliate @rcgd-isr.bsky.social, PI of @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social | studying how media influences intergroup relations using social psych theories and social science methods.
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemHELLO HELLO #COMMSky! It’s Day 3 of #NCA2025! ☀️ Today we’re excited to share a top paper and a few more presentations! 🔝📄🏅 It has been amazing getting to connect with everyone! If you’re at #NCA25, come and say hi at one of our sessions! 👋🏽 #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB See our Saturday schedule ⬇️
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemGreat news from the Media MOSAIC Lab! #COMMSky 🎉 Congratulations to @garciaerick.bsky.social on earning a Top Paper Award in the Group Communication division at #NCA2025! We’re so happy to be celebrating this achievement with you today! 🔝📄🏅 For more information, see his abstract + business mtg ⬇️
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemG’Morning #COMMSky! It’s Day 2 of #NCA2025! ⛰️ Today we’re excited to share a top paper, and present on pedagogy and mentorship! 🔝📄🏅 It was great meeting many of you yesterday—let’s keep it rolling! If you’re at #NCA25, stop by and say hi! 👋🏽 #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB See our Friday schedule ⬇️
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemIf you'd like to join us in congratulating @len-s.bsky.social and her co-author @kyungin-kim.bsky.social, stop by the Communication and Social Cognition business meeting today from 4-5:15 PM in Juniper Ballroom B! 🎉👏🏽 We hope to see some of #COMMSky here! 🤩 #NCA2025 #NCA25 #AcademicSky #UCSB
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemBig news from the Media MOSAIC Lab! #COMMSky 🎉 Congratulations to @len-s.bsky.social on earning a Top Paper Award in the Communication and Social Cognition division at #NCA2025! We’re honored to be celebrating this achievement with you! 🔝📄🏅 For more information, see her abstract + business mtg ⬇️
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemDay 1 of #NCA2025 is here! 🎉 The Media MOSAIC Lab is ready for a full day of presentations, mentorship, and networking! 🗣️📄🤝 We’re excited to share our work and cheer on colleagues! Come say hi at #NCA25 if you see us around! 👋🏽 #COMMSky #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB See our Thursday lab schedule ⬇️
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemAre you headed to #NCA2025 this week? 🤔 If so, come see what the Media MOSAIC Lab is sharing this year. We’ve got a full lineup of presentations, mentoring events, and top paper awards! 🗣️📄🏆 See our full lab schedule in the 🧵⬇️, and come connect with us at NCA! #COMMSky #AcademicSky #SciComm #UCSB
- Check out these amazing mentoring events organized by the Mentoring and Leadership Council at #NCA2025! Hope to see you there!
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemExcited to present some new research I’ve been working on at #NCA2025 tomorrow! We are in the early Comm and Social Cognition session starting at 8:15AM!
- Our meta-analysis of 60 studies which was published in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social was covered by @spspnews.bsky.social Representation in Media Can Deepen or Undo Prejudice | SPSP spsp.org/news/charact... @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social
- Check out the full article at: doi.org/10.1080/1521...
- Incredible achievement by @ismaharif.bsky.social So proud of you!!!
- Congrats to @ismaharif.bsky.social on receiving the National University of Singapore Overseas Graduate Scholarship (NUS-OGS)! He'll receive funding support for the remainder of his PhD to advance his research on bridging social divisions through the multidimensional perspective of social identity. 👏🏽
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemCongrats to lab member @ismaharif.bsky.social on 4 posters accepted at the 2025 @psychscience.bsky.social (APS) Global Psychological Science Summit! 🧠 He'll present on the cross-domain (media, interpersonal, group) effects of identity threats, alongside posters presented by his mentored students. 👨🏽🏫
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemNew work on school cell phone bans just dropped. "Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemNew neuroscience research shows that when people try to persuade, their brains sync less and cover fewer ideas. But when they enter a discussion to learn or compromise, their brains diverge in ways that foster creativity, understanding, & shared solutions. www.scientificamerican.com/article/good...
- Check out this theory-driven piece offering an important framework for scholars interested in how diverse media content can be used for intergroup socialization. Truly impressive work by @len-s.bsky.social to publish as a sole author while in grad school! @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social
- 📢 IMPORTANT #COMMsky PUBLICATION ALERT!! 📢 Media MOSAIC Lab member @len-s.bsky.social's latest article has been officially published in the Annals of the International Communication Association (@icahdq.bsky.social)! 👏🏽 For more information, see the 🧵 and 🔗 down below ⬇ doi.org/10.1093/annc...
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemHuge congratulations to @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social for receiving a Top Paper Award in the Intergroup Communication division at #ICA25! 🏆 We’re so proud of your well-deserved recognition and the amazing work presented at this year's @icahdq.bsky.social! 🎉 #COMMSky #AcademicSky
- Related to @ismaharif.bsky.social research interests within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social
- Super proud of @len-s.bsky.social for receiving the Dissertation Award for Social Impact for her exciting dissertation proposal! Check out her work with @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social
- Big congratulations to our lab member @len-s.bsky.social for receiving the inaugural UC Santa Barbara Communication Department Dissertation Award for Social Impact! 🥳 The award recognizes outstanding dissertation research proposals in communication with a clear application for societal impact.✨
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemHey-o #CommSky!👋🏽 #ICA2025 week = lab squad on the move to Denver! ✈️ Our lab is heading to @icahdq.bsky.social later this week, and we are all super stoked to share the amazing work our lab members have been a part of! #AcademicSky 🥳 👇🏽 Here's where you can find us on Sunday, June 15th for #ICA25 👇🏽
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemIs that @garciaerick.bsky.social we see? 👀 Come support this awesome team of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social COMM graduate students (@overbye.bsky.social, Xinyi Zhang, and @laurentwang.bsky.social) on Sunday, June 15th! P.S. We love collaboration with our fellow media labs! @mediaskill.bsky.social ✨
- Next up for our #ICA25 presentations: Risk, Race, and Algorithms: Understanding Perceptions of Algorithm Bias Through the RPA Framework 🧠🤖 By @overbye.bsky.social, @garciaerick.bsky.social, Zhang & @laurentwang.bsky.social 📅 Sunday June 15 🕟 4:30–5:45 PM 📍Grays Peak B (Grand Conv Center 2)
- So proud of @nmolinarogers.bsky.social for achieving this milestone! She will be starting her postdoctoral position at UCLA working with the incredible @snsoroka.bsky.social
- We’re thrilled to share that our incredible lab member @nmolinarogers.bsky.social successfully defended her dissertation, "I Believe I Can, So We Did: A Test of Social Media Efficacy and Activism Among Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups"! 🎉 🥳 Huge congratulations to Dr. Nancy Molina-Rogers! 🥳
- Very interesting paper! Related to the ideas @ismaharif.bsky.social is working on within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social
- Prejudice is common in modern societies. Reducing prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective & scalable manner. Can AI help reduce prejudice? My new working paper w @semrasevi.bsky.social, @mbosley.bsky.social & Crabtree examines this question! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- 🧵New publication alert! with @ismaharif.bsky.social Does media shape identity, or does identity guide media use? Our new 3-year study with Muslim American youth tests this bi-directional link @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @hcr-journal.bsky.social @theispu.bsky.social
- Guided by the Social Identity Gratification Theory, we tracked 220 ethnically and linguistically diverse Muslim American adolescents to examine how different types of media consumption (in native & English language) and identity development interact over time.
- 📈 We used latent growth curve modeling to test bi-directional effects. We found stronger evidence for media shaping identity, rather than identity shaping media choices, especially in within-person changes across the three-year period.
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View full thread📖 Read the full manuscript here: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
- Reposted by Muniba Saleem🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social, our (w/@nibasaleem.bsky.social, Ian Hawkins, Steve Rains, Dana Mastro) meta-analysis finds that positive depictions of minority groups lead to favorable evaluations, & negative depictions to unfavorable evaluations, by majority group members.
- This one was a journey. Jobs changed, roles changed, zip codes changed, babies were born, but the meta-analysis kept going. Grateful to the brilliant team (most not on Sky) who made it happen. @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social
- @nibasaleem.bsky.social and colleagues’ meta-analysis reveals that negative media depictions of ethnic minorities lead to unfavorable evaluations of these groups, while positive portrayals produce the opposite effect.
- NCA Division Awards deadline is May 15, 2025! If you or your students are doing great work in communication, apply or spread the word. Recognition matters. 🏆💬 #NCA2025 www.natcom.org/nca-national...
- Ah yes, masks at protests? Totally unacceptable. But ICE agents pretending to be “police” while covering their faces to arrest someone with a valid student visa? Completely fine, apparently. Love that consistent commitment to free speech and constitutional rights. Really inspiring stuff. 🙃
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemI’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemListen to every word.
- Despite the outcry that DEI is "taking over" every industry, newsrooms remain overwhelmingly white and male. And that matters. A LOT. Let’s talk about how media “objectivity” is anything but. 👇🏾 @pewresearch.org
- When newsrooms lack diversity, bias seeps into every step of the storytelling process: 📌 Which stories get covered? 📌 Who gets interviewed? 📌 What’s in the headline? 📌 What images are used? 📌 Where does the story begin? 📌 What voices & sources are included?
- Or look at protests. When marginalized communities protest injustice, the framing is often: 🚨 “Riots,” “looting,” “danger” But when white groups protest (even violently), the language softens: 🎭 “Passionate,” “concerned citizens,” “constitutional rights”
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View full threadThe myth of “objective journalism” has allowed biases to go unchecked for too long. #MediaBias #RepresentationMatters #DEI #NewsroomDiversity
- Great talk by @danielbarnett7.bsky.social at #SPSP2025 examining themes within far-right communities. Related to work done by Dr. Ian Hawkins examining SIMCA themes within White nationalists YouTube videos published within New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461...
- Wonderful to connect with @sylviapperry.bsky.social at #SPSP2025!!! Here is hoping our shared interests blossom into a new and productive collaboration!!!
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Dear American National Election Studies (ANES) User Community, we are pleased to announce the preliminary release of pre-election data for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study. The data and documentation can be downloaded from the study page at: electionstudies.org/data-center/... - Excited to read this paper as it related to the ideas being developed by @ismaharif.bsky.social in @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social examining the potential for AI to be used for divisive topics.
- Really excited about this WP we just posted - folks w questions or ideas about why we found GPT4 to be effective at debunking conspiracy theories should check out Tom's thread + the paper. This fig summarizes it to me: it's the facts and evidence that are doing the persuading, not any AI mumbo jumbo
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemWe can't forget a good ol' poster session at #SPSP2025! ✨ Come visit lab member @garciaerick.bsky.social's poster at the Psychology of Media & Technology pre-conference on Thurs, Feb. 20th from 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM [Exhibit D, Exhibit Level]! 📊 See the attached research abstract for more details! ⬇
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemNew postdoc opportunity from Sloan to study how AI impacts scientific research. We have a great community growing around AI/STS at Princeton and I would be very happy to consider supporting applications as a mentor - please email if you are interested! sloan.org/programs/dig...
- Can we talk about how food service companies need to stop making us use our names for orders? 😩 It’s awkward for customers and stressful for employees. Just last week at the airport, I got handed a completely new identity. Let me explain… 🧵👇 #NameStruggles
- I ordered a coffee, and like clockwork, the cashier asked for my name. Me: "Muniba." (knowing what’s coming) Immediately starts spelling it to help them out. They nod, type it in… but I can already tell there’s confusion.
- Fast forward to pickup. The barista looks at the cup… then at me… then back at the cup. They’re visibly panicking. 😬 I watch as they turn to their coworker for backup: "Uh… how would you pronounce this?"
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View full threadWe can easily fix this: 🔹 Use order numbers instead of names. 🔹 Or at least give people the option. Until then, I’ll just be Monica. 😅 #CoffeeNameFails #OrderByNumberPls
- So excited about this nuanced analysis examining the ways in which non-white Americans are thinking about their multiple identities and its social and political consequences for intra and intergroup dynamics. Related to new work by @nmolinarogers.bsky.social within @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social
- New @repslab.bsky.social paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social, "Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization." cup.org/4hUWSRu
- Relevant to work in progress by @ismaharif.bsky.social within the @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social exploring the benefits of engaging in conversations rather than simply fact checking misinformed beliefs!
- Address science misinformation not by repeating the facts, but by building conversation and community @us.theconversation.com Anne Toomey theconversation.com/address-scie...
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemExciting news! Congrats to both @nibasaleem.bsky.social & @ismaharif.bsky.social on their recent paper acceptance for #ICA2025! 📄 It's thrilling to know that our labs' innovative research will be presented at this year's conference. For more information on their paper, see the abstract below! 🎉
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemMore great news! Thrilled to share that another paper was accepted at #ICA2025! A collaborative effort among incredible scholars! ✨ @nmolinarogers.bsky.social, @nibasaleem.bsky.social, @desireeschmuck.bsky.social, @malenao.bsky.social For more information on their paper, see the abstract below! 📄
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemThe OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemJust called my senators and representative to oppose the federal funding freeze. If you want help deciding what to say my colleagues created this template - customized for Tennessee concerns about research grants but easily modifiable for other states and issues. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Muniba Saleem🏆 The ICA Awards deadline is tomorrow, 29 January, at noon Eastern time. Get your nomination in before it's too late! 🏆 buff.ly/3WgoaJv
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemOn April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemI can't think of a better person to learn about "Longitudinal Data Analysis and Visualization" from than Dr. Andrea Howard, offered in-person in Calgary July 15-16, 2025, at Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy. A trip to Banff is included. More information at haskayne.ucalgary.ca/ccram/academy
- Right . . . these programs are what resulted in "shameful discrimination". NASA's own stats about their employees' race were clearly reflecting historically equitable hiring practices
- Reposted by Muniba SaleemIf you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
- Growing increasingly frustrated with academic reviews: 1 paper stuck in review for 2+ years due to changing editors/reviewers, another rejected after 2 rounds of review over a procedural error, and 1 sent to 8 reviewers. Conference feedback often feels barely read or AI-generated. #AcademicChatter
