In case you missed it: This article was published in September: Research on False Information
Detection Based on Herd Behavior From a Social Network Perspective
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New article in SSCR: Welcome to the Brave New World: Lay Definitions of AI at Work and in Daily Life. Check out the word cloud of words people report in relation to AI:
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New in SSCR: Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns...using the 2021 Turkey Family Structure Survey data. Check out the list of features influencing divorce:
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SSCR article: Riding the Tide: How Online Activists Leverage Repression. Looking at Twitter data over time related to the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
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Different format for an SSCR paper, but take a look at this paper, which looks at how six sociologists look at AI. Open access:
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NEW article: Selective Exposure to News, Homogeneous Political Discussion Networks, and Affective Political Polarization: An Agent-Based Modeling of Minimal versus Strong Communication Effects. Check out the innovative research design:
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NEW article in SSCR: Does AI Usage Diminish Human Creativity?: How Goal Orientation Theory Moderates the Negative Effects Between AI Usage and Creative Output
Check out the correlation matrix looking at the effects of habitual AI use. Full article here:
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NEW OPEN-ACCESS article in SSCR: Take Action Now! A Longitudinal Study of Political Party Calls to Action Across Social Media Platforms. Take a look at this figure showing the number of posts by political leaders in Norway over time. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW article in SSCR: Prompt Engineering for Large Language Model-Assisted Inductive Thematic Analysis. Different prompts to use:
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New article in SSCR: Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
NEW article in SSCR reports people's open-ended comments about their reasons for thinking an image was AI-generated.
The images were used as part of a vignette. Take a look at this open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW article in SSCR: Incivility in Reddit’s Top Political and News Subreddits: Prevalence, Moderation, and Engagement. Lots of interesting findings, but check out this summary of the moderation policies across different subreddits.
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NEW article in SSCR: Looks at 140,000 news articles in Estonia. Check out this figure and read more in this open-access article:
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Assessing Bias in LLM-Generated Synthetic Datasets: The Case of German Voter Behavior https://osf.io/97r8s !! Please refer to and cite the more recent, peer-reviewed, more comprehensive version of this paper published in Social Science Computer Review: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251 #sociology
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This special issue has many great papers. Take a look! 🔽
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ICYMI: open-access study shows GPT-4 outperforms human coders and supervised models in identifying politicians’ ideology across 11 countries. LLMs can now interpret nuance + context once thought uniquely human. By Petter Törnberg et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
📱Trending now: Phubbing or phone snubbing during social interactions is on the rise. Research finds TikTok use (not Instagram or YouTube!) predicts more phubbing, mediated by lower self-control. By Meredith E. David & James Roberts @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Deepfakes don’t just fool us. They make us cynical. Study finds that perceived exposure to deepfakes increases media cynicism, &. that confidence in one’s ability to detect them may worsen mistrust. By Christian Pieter Hoffmann et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
💔 New research uses ML to unpack why marriages end.
Using Turkey’s 2021 Family Structure Survey, Random Forest + Logistic Regression reveal key predictors of divorce: conflict style, cultural rituals, and political disagreement. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Check out this new open-access paper in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New methods piece in our journal.
Check out the visual of the workflow. Model tested on databases related to fake news/misinformation.
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New article on privacy protection behavior, using a large sample (3K) survey of Italians conducted in 2022. Very relevant for those who study privacy and digital inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
If you code news framing, you will want to read this new paper: Finding Frames With BERT: A Transformer-Based Approach to Generic News Frame Detection.
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Take a look at the different frames considered:
New open-access article introducing an LLM data extraction method, tested using Canadian federal and Quebec provincial politicians. Take a look at the results related to different federal parties and posts related to the environment. Read the full article here:
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New article using Twitter data from 2019 to 2024 (18K tweets) tracking the rise and fall of civil unrest (protests, riots) in South Africa. Super interesting! Take a look: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A new OPEN ACCESS article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social offers "A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis".
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Another new article about chatbots: "Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners"
The authors identify three typical user-bot relational pairings: customer-product, human-machine, and woman-man/woman-woman.
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