The Computational Communication Science-Lab was represented at International Communication Association's 67th Annual Conference in San Diego, CA with a total of five papers.

Furthermore, we are proud to announce Jakob-Moritz Eberl was awarded the "Top Student Paper Award" in the Political Communication Division for the fourth and final paper of his doctoral thesis.

We want to thank the organizers of #ICA17 for a well picked location and perfectly planned conference. We also thank the numerous anonymous reviewers who support #ICA17 and ensure the quality the papers presented.

Finally, we are already looking forward to #ICA18 in Prague!

Overview of papers presented for #ICA17:

Tolochko, P., Song, H., Boomgaarden, H.G. "Conceptualizing and Measuring Political Information Using Topic Modeling and Multilevel Two-mode Sematic Networks.”

Eberl, J.-M. "Lying Press: Three Levels of Perceived Media Bias and their Relationship to Political Attitudes."

Greussing, E. & Boomgaarden, H.G. "Shifting the Refugee Narrative? An Automated Frame Analysis of Europe's 2015 Refugee Crisis."

Greussing, E., Tolochko, P. & Eberl, J.-M. "Who Drives the Debate? Applying Document Similarity Measures in Political Agenda Setting and News Diffusion Research."

Song, H. & Boomgaarden, H.G. "Dynamic Spirals Put to Test: An Agent-Based Model of Reinforcing Spirals between Selective Exposure, Interpersonal Networks, and Attitude Polarization."