Introduction: Transforming Communication Research Methods in the Era of Transformers
1. Foundations and Frontiers of Large Language Models for Communication Research
2. Prompt Engineering for LLM-assisted Communication Research
3. LLM-Powered Information Retrieval for Communication Research
4. Affective Computing with LLMs — Sentiment and Emotion Detection
5. Supervise vs. Prompting-based approaches to Framing Analysis Using Large Language Models
6. Topic Modeling with BERTopic for Communication Research
7. Studying Relational Complexity in Communication: Multilevel Multiplex Networks and LLM-Based Knowledge Graphs
8. Synthetic Data Generation for Communication Research in the Age of Large Language Models
9. Vision–Language Models: Multimodal AI for Communication Analysis
10. The End of the Lone Researcher: LLMs, AI Agents, and the Future of Communication Research
Index
Biography
Aimei Yang is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, USA.
