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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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November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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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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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November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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:
Full article here:
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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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November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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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November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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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November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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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November 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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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Check out the correlation matrix looking at the effects of habitual AI use. Full article here:
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November 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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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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....
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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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November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
NEW article in SSCR: Prompt Engineering for Large Language Model-Assisted Inductive Thematic Analysis. Different prompts to use:
Check out the full article here:
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Check out the full article here:
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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...
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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....
The images were used as part of a vignette. Take a look at this open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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....
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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November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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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November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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
June 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
Check out this open access paper in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... More details in the thread below.
November 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Check out this open access paper in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... More details in the thread below.
This special issue has many great papers. Take a look! 🔽
Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß:
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November 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This special issue has many great papers. Take a look! 🔽
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November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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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....
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October 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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....
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📱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/...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
📱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/...
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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/...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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/...
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💔 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....
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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October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
💔 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....
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....
Wow! That's a lot of work for the editor. Please submit your best papers to SSCR. We are happy to receive them.
@sscratsage.bsky.social received it 1,000th submission today - November 1st. Last year, the journal broke its submission record at 1,020. I wonder what we will do this year?
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Wow! That's a lot of work for the editor. Please submit your best papers to SSCR. We are happy to receive them.
Check out this new open-access paper in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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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Check out the visual of the workflow. Model tested on databases related to fake news/misinformation.
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July 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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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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....
July 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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....