Aman Abhishek
PhD student at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Abhishek, A. & Graves, L. (2024). Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism. Digital Journalism. [DOI], [PDF]
Abhishek, A. (2022). The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India. Digital Journalism. [DOI], [PDF].
Abhishek, A. (2021). Overlooking the political economy in the research on propaganda. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. [DOI], [PDF].
Lukito, J., Sarma, P., Foley, J., Abhishek, A., Bucy, E., Doroshenko, L., Sun, Z., Pevehouse, J., Sethares, W., Shah, D. (2021). Resonant Moments in Media Events: Discursive Shifts, Agenda Control, and Twitter Dynamics in the First Clinton-Trump Debate. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 1-32. [DOI], [PDF].
Ghosh, S., Su, M. H., Abhishek, A., Suk, J., Tong, C., Kamath, K., Hills, O., Correa, T., Garlough, C., Borah, P., & Shah, D. (2020). Covering #MeToo across the News Spectrum: Political Accusation and Public Events as Drivers of Press Attention. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 1-28. [DOI], [PDF].
Zhang, Y., Shah, D., Foley, J., Abhishek, A., Lukito, J., Suk, J., Kim, S. J., Sun, Z., Pevehouse, J., & Garlough, C. (2019). Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012–2014. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 24(4), 182–202. [DOI], [PDF].
Suk, J., Abhishek, A., Zhang, Y., Ahn, S. Y., Correa, T., Garlough, C., & Shah, D. V. (2019). #MeToo, Networked Acknowledgment, and Connective Action: How “Empowerment Through Empathy” Launched a Social Movement. Social Science Computer Review, 1-19. [DOI], [PDF].
Lukito, J., Sarma, P. K., Foley, J., & Abhishek, A. (2019). Using time series and natural language processing to identify viral moments in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate. Third Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, 54–64. [PDF].
Projects
Conference Papers
Abhishek, A. & Graves, L. (2023); “Analyzing Code: The Editorial Role of Computational Analysis in Data Journalism Stories”. Presented at the 2023 Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Abhishek, A. (2022); “A Natural Experiment to Discern the Effect of Advertising on News Coverage”. Presented at the 2022 Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, France.
Abhishek, A. & Shah, D. (2020); “Punching Above Their Weight: Broadcast Versus Viral Diffusion of Presidential Debate Posts on Twitter”. Presented at the 2020 Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Virtual Conference.
Foley, J. M., Borah, P., Bucy, E., Doroshenko, L., Abhishek, A., Sun, Z., Shah, D. & Pevehouse, J. (2020); “Dual-Screening Campaign Debates: Candidate Cues and the Dynamics of Twitter Response During the 2016 Presidential Debates”. Presented at the 2020 Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Virtual Conference.
Lukito, J., Sarma, P., Foley, J., Pevehouse, J., Abhishek, A., Shah, D., Bucy, E., Wells, C. & Pelled, A. (2019); “Highlights of Two U.S. Presidential Debates: Identifying Candidate Insults that Go Viral”. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Toronto, Canada.
Lukito, J., Sharma, P., Foley, J. & Abhishek, A. (2019). “Using time series and natural language processing to identify viral moments in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate”. Presented at the NLP+CSS Workshop of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Minneapolis, USA.
Abhishek, A. (2018); “What Drives Virality on Social Media?”. Presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, USA.
Foley, J. M., Bucy, E. P., Lukito, J., Shah, D. V. & Abhishek, A. (2018); “Dual-screening and Dynamic Communication Flows: The Interplay of Candidate Cues and Social Media Expression during the 2016 Presidential Debates”. Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Zhang, Y., Shah, D., Foley, J., Abhishek, A., Pevehouse, J., Lukito, J., Kim, S., Suk, J., Yang, F. & Garlough C. (2018); “The Features of Tragedy, Expressions of Sympathy, and Debates over Policy: A Time Series Analysis of Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses”. Presented at the 2018 Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
Wells, C., Friedland, L., Wagner, M., Shah, D., Cramer, K. & Abhishek, A. (2018); “Think Global, Act Local: Populist Themes and Politics during the Wisconsin Recall”. Presented at the 2018 Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
Wells, C., Shah, D., Cramer, K., Friedland, L., Wagner, M., Abhishek, A., Foley, J., Hughes, C., Metzler, M., Suk, J. & Tischauser, J. (2018); “Listening Technologies for Understanding Public Opinion”. Presented at The Politics of Contention: Communication, Populism & the Crisis of Democracy Conference held at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Friedland, L., Wells, C., Shah, D., Wagner, M. & Abhishek, A. (2017); “The Civic State Under Threat: How Social, Political, and Media Changes Eroded Wisconsin’s Civic Culture”. Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Meetings, San Diego, California, USA.