@ericka.bric.digital
Co-founder and Executive Director @ BRIC (Behavioral Research Innovation Center) https://bric.digital in Chicago - Ph.D. in Media Technology & Society, Northwestern University. I'll be posting about research software, with occasional #fungifriends photos
Currently in FirstView: In “Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data,” Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Tiago Ventura, @jonathannagler.bsky.social, @ericka.bric.digital, & Magdalena Wojcieszak provide evidence on survey professionalism across three samples.
I didn’t touch it, but I guess it was woodie in texture
Round fungus, res and yellow on a tree trunk
Possibly Ischnoderma resinosum, found in Tennessee #fungifriends
Then, once you scrape that news, make it available to others for "non-consumptive research" - osf.io/gz3xf_v1 @jbgruber.bsky.social @vanatteveldt.com #ica25
Very impressive work to build a modular open-source infrastructure for news scraping by @jbgruber.bsky.social that should be adapted and built upon by anyone scraping news!
A conference in the NYT v OpenAI case today impacts the privacy of 400m+ ChatGPT users. No matter the case’s merits, there’s no way the chat outputs of *all* users should be saved without constraint. CDT’s @bankston.bsky.social on why the judge must craft a nuanced approach: cdt.org/insights/in-...
YouTube's API search function is "not adequate for robust academic research, especially concerning Digital Services Act requirements".
Clear and problematic conclusions by @riederb.bsky.social Adrian Padilla & Oscar Coromina
#commsky #DSA #dataacess #youtube
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727
@jbgruber.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com argue that as data become more difficult to collect (no APIs, scraping more difficult) we need to share existing data more. And how non-consumptive research is a way to do that without goi g to jail! #ica25
Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is
@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25
Bye Denver! An amazing and well organized #ica25 conference as usual.
Check out the tracker here: www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
A 25-year view of Research Publishing using Dimensions - James Butcher
Proportion of "Gold" OA fell in 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_U...
DYK our @communalytic.org social media research tool has a built-in network analyzer? What sets this network analyzer apart is that the edges that connect the nodes can carry weights such as sentiment scores or toxicity & prosocial scores. communalytic.org/docs/network...
The Internet Archive continues to do important work! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... @archive.org
I'm happy that my submission with @cjkarr.bsky.social "Tool demo: Ongoing quality assurance for computational data collection using Passive Data Kit (PDK)" has been accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association - see you in Denver! #ica25
After two lawsuits filed against Character AI, "the American Psychological Association (APA) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging the regulating body to investigate whether any chatbot companies are engaging in deceptive practices."
Good.
futurism.com/american-psy...
I second ‘visit’ - life is short 🤗
It doesn't have to be fact checking OR community notes
They can and should work hand in hand to make platforms better
#AGU24 Today I am participating in a session on Publication Transparency - talking about bringing publications closer to day-to-day research tools, to improve transparency, openness and give researchers much more control over how their work is communicated.
agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...
After last week's kerfluffle over AI "researchers" harvesting Bluesky posts to train LLMs and other models, I created a mechanism that I'll be curating here for folks to register their preference.
Follow @dont.sharemyposts.online to just say "no".
Follow @do.sharemyposts.online to say "yes".
Highly recommended: my colleagues at the GESIS Computational Social Science department are searching for a new team lead.
Great people, great research, work on research infrastructure and open science. Plus: tenure option ("Entfristung")
New white paper on web scraping issues: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23432 by @michaelzimmer.bsky.social and colleagues - important topic!
I love this about UIC where I did my MA and where I’ll be teaching in the spring: today.uic.edu/uic-wall-str...
This visualization makes me think about a presentation I saw on translating survey response scales. Think about how this would look in another language and trying to choose equivalent words…
Has someone been granted access to the Meta Content Library/API? I'm trying to collect feedback on pros and cons for a report, and would love to have a chat with people who have used it.
On Friday, we'll tell you more re: the new Civility Analyzer in @communalytic.org, our computational social science research tool for studying online communities & public discourse on social media.
The Civility Analyzer will find what the AI and human content moderators have "decided" to leave up.
What if we could do data exploration, visualization, modeling, writing, typesetting, and publishing all on *one* platform? What if it was HTML? Check out this technical talk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUt... and the Celine library: maxbo.me/celine/
Germany has the best government funding for media studies I've found (Hans-Bredow-Institut is just one example) --- maybe we will have it as well in the aftermath