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2026

07-06 The Meme Is the Message: Generative Memesis and AI Visuals in the 2024 USA Presidential Elections

06-01 Images Amplify Misinformation Sharing in Vision-Language Models

05-26 Visual moral inference and communication

05-25 Seeing the Surreal: Mapping Surrealism in Photorealistic AI-Generated Images Using Large Language Models

05-24 What Makes Politicians’ Instagram Posts Popular? Analyzing Social Media Strategies of Candidates and Office Holders with Computer Vision

05-08 The Antecedents and Manifestations of Political Polarization in Visual Media: Key Questions and Future Directions

05-07 Learning to See: Convolutional Neural Networks for the Analysis of Social Science Data

05-01 From Metrics to Insights: Computational Analysis of Visual Data in the Age of AI

04-28 How Visual Aesthetics and Calorie Density Predict Food Image Popularity on Instagram: A Computer Vision Analysis