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The Red Line Project will be covering a few local Chicago races on Election night and updating with a page of social media coverage during the day. Our preview and archives can be found here: buff.ly/3YNps0q #election #uicdigital @commuic @zizip

The Red Line Project will be covering a few local Chicago races on Election night and updating with a page of social media coverage during the day. Our preview and archives can be found here: buff.ly/3YNps0q #election #uicdigital @commuic

Did you vote by mail? It may take days for it to even be counted. This Red Line Project story from last spring's Illinois Primary explains why. buff.ly/3JPWncc #uicdigital #election24 @commuic @zizip

The Red Line Project will be covering a few local Chicago races on #election night and updating with a page of social media coverage during the day. Our preview and archives can be found here: buff.ly/3YNps0q #uicdigital @commuic

Did you vote by mail? It may take days for it to even be counted. This Red Line Project story from last spring's Illinois Primary explains why. buff.ly/3JPWncc #uicdigital #election24 @commuic

Eileen O'Neill Burke cruised to an easy win in the Cook County State's Attorney's race Tuesday night. She will replace the controversial Kim Foxx, who did not run for reelection. Laaiba Mahmood's story: buff.ly/3NWLaIV @commuic @zizp #uicdigital

Eileen O'Neill Burke cruised to an easy win in the Cook County State's Attorney's race Tuesday night. She will replace the controversial Kim Foxx, who did not run for reelection. Laaiba Mahmood's story: buff.ly/3NWLaIV @commuic

The Red Line Project has launched an AI storytelling page where our @commuic students use AI tools to supplement reporting. It launched today with a series of editorials on issues with AI. We disclose the tools and how we used them in our reporting buff.ly/40EJQlw

ICYMI - @commuic doctoral student Lauren Levine talks to @voxdotcom about the political divide in comedy bit.ly/3GHpaPr

With #migrants living in tents outside of #Chicago police stations, the city is working to build "tent cities" to house them temporarily this winter. Not everyone is on board with this plan. Story: redlineproject.news/2023/12/04/a-c… @staciechan #vidiofy @commuic #uicdigital

The average rental price in #Chicago is $1,958 as of November 2023, compared to $1,795 a year earlier. That 8.7% hike has hit low-income families hard. We dig into why ... and how people are coping. ow.ly/kS6150QfgjQ @commuic #uicdigital #housing #chicagorentals

Our three-part series on #Chicago neighborhood crime: -- Carjackings on the North Side: ow.ly/WEje50Qfh7T -- Safe Passage workers: ow.ly/6hHc50Qfh7V -- Logan Square crime on the rise: ow.ly/RaR050Qfh7U @commuic #uicdigital

Our two-part look at #Chicago housing: -- Rents are rising: ow.ly/hH9B50QfgpW -- Affording #housing on minimum wage: ow.ly/WMNN50QfgpX @commuic #chicagohousing

Our two-part look at the #Chicago #migrant housing crisis: -- Pleas for better housing: ow.ly/hMZy50QfgzP -- Crisis intensifies as tent cities emerge: ow.ly/Lk5M50QfgzQ #uicdigital @commuic

Safe Passage workers earn about $15 an hour. They make sure your kids get to school safe. But they say they're not making enough to cover living costs. ow.ly/qwmc50QfgH0 @commuic @staciechan #vidiofy

The average rental price in #Chicago is $1,958 as of November 2023, compared to $1,795 a year earlier. That 8.7% hike has hit low-income families hard. We dig into why ... and how people are coping. ow.ly/kxP650Qfgs7 @commuic #uicdigital #housing #chicagorentals

“Platforms as we knew them are over. They have outlived their utility,” @commuic prof. & head Zizi Papacharissi tells @borneo_bulletin borneobulletin.com.bn/making-social-…

Journal impact factors and related metrics were recently released for the year! For the second year in a row, New Media and Society (edited by our @s_t_e_v_e_jones) is ranked number 1 and Social Media and Society (edited by our @zizip) ranked number 2 in Communication.

Interested in digital activism? @commuic PhD student Rocky Roque and professor @Ishani79 will be presenting the following paper," Mapping #MeToo in America and India: Cross-cultural critical review of sexual harassment and digital activism research", at #NCA2023 in November

Congratulations to Niloufar Hajirahimikalhroudi, @commuic PhD student, whose innovative paper, “The Work of Art In Time of 'Artificial Intelligence,” has been accepted to the 2023 4S Meeting in Honolulu