09/01/2026 (Friday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
Computational and Multimodal communication in AI-infused information ecosystems
Abstract:
This talk explores the opportunities and challenges brought by AI-infused information ecosystems. As online spaces become increasingly saturated with text, images, audio, and synthetic media, understanding how multimodal signals reshape communication is more urgent than ever. In this talk, I discuss recent advances in computational and multimodal analysis in the age of generative AI, and report findings from several studies regarding the perception, mechanism, and mitigation of multimodal misinformation.
Bio:
Cuihua (Cindy) SHEN is a professor of communication at University of California, Davis and the co-director of the Computational Communication Research lab. She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and the past chair of the Computational Methods Division of ICA. She is an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and was the founding associate editor of the journal Computational Communication Research, as well as an editorial board member of many flagship journals, including Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research and Communication Research. Her research focuses broadly on computational social science and multimodal (mis)information in AI-mediated environments.
