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Dhavan Shah

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Dhavan is Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research, Maier-Bascom Chair, and Director of the Mass Communication Research Center at the UW-Madison.
Madison, WI journalism.wisc.edu/~dshah/ Joined March 2008
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Dhavan Shah @dvshah
Honored to be awarded a WARF Named Professorship from UW-Madison. And grateful to be able to name the professorship after a towering figure in our field, a pathbreaking scholar, and a mentor to so many, including me: Jack M. McLeod.
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sjmc.wisc.edu Professor Dhavan Shah Awarded WARF Named Professorship Dhavan Shah, Maier-Bascom Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research through the Wisconsin Alumni Research...
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Dhavan Shah @dvshah
Don’t post here often, but want to draw attention to this work led by @SeanChuang4 and our collaborative team at the UW. Testing LLM role-playing agents and the evolution of their opinions over multiple rounds of interactions. Take a look.
Sean Yun-Shiuan Chuang @SeanChuang4 Mar 15
LLM role-playing agents can look human-like in short interactions. But once they debate each other in groups over multiple rounds, do their collective opinions evolve like real human groups?

We introduce DEBATE: the first large-scale benchmark built specifically to evaluate the human-likeness of simulated opinion dynamics in role-playing LLM agents.

💬 To build DEBATE, we collected real human data from a demographically diverse pool of 2,832 participants in 708 groups across 107 controversial topics through a structured online discussion platform, yielding 30,707 messagesand privately reported beliefs.

📊 Main result: LLM groups over-converge toward consensus relative to human groups. Post-training with SFT/DPO narrows this gap and improves alignment, even on unseen topics.

🌐 Website: debate-benchmark.vercel.app
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25110
🤗 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/seant…
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Dhavan Shah @dvshah
@bariweiss is an embarrasment to the storied legacy of @CBSNews and the practice of journalism. Right-wing propaganda, false balance, and the burying of actual reporting, all for a corporate merger. How the mighty have fallen. Murrow, Cronkite, and Friendly would be horrified.
Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 Verified account @TaraSetmayer Jan 10
So, CBS News decided not to air this 25 yr veteran federal agent pointing out all the ways the ICE agent was in the wrong for shooting Renee Good, on its broadcast (I wonder why🤨).
At least it’s online. Reshare.

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Dhavan Shah @dvshah
The deadline for submissions to our @IJoC_USC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas” has been extended to June 15, 2025. Email me (dshah@wisc.edu) or my co-editors w/ questions & share the CfP in your network. Link to call below (under the original link).
Dhavan Shah @dvshah Dec 13, 2024
We welcome submissions to our @IJoC_USC special issue on "Presidential Debates Across the Americas." CfP is open until April 30, 2025. Email me (dshah@wisc.edu) or my co-editors w/ questions and share with others in your network. Link to full call below.
mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/2024/12/13/mcr…
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