Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

I had a great experience at SICSS-Penn last year. Highly recommend to any early-career scholar interested in Computational Social Science!

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨
Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong!
We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps:
i) want content moderation
ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers
thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Applications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host

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I'm eager to engage with folks here who are interested in building healthier communities, supporting the participants and drivers of these communities, and finding ways to leverage AI both to support community objectives and study these communities in new ways.

If that sounds like you, say hello!

Hello to all my new followers, most of whom are (luckily) nerds.

I will not let you down.

Here is a topic modeling of my college subreddit. Equipped with my deep domain expertise, I'm taking questions.

With oh so many social apps today, it's time for us social computing builders and designers to take a pause, zoom ALL the way out, and also take a trip down memory lane...

Check out @mbernst.bsky.social's talk on Wed at #CSCW2024 9:00 – 10:30 "Session 1d: Understanding and Shaping Online Behavior"!

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!

go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com

Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome!

github.com/brianckeegan...

Our team just published a "rapid" analysis of some of the rumors we've been tracking since the assassination attempt on Saturday, drawing on these foundational understandings of "collective sensemaking" during crises: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/07/15/t...

New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals.

These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

Conflicts are always “fog of war" situations — where information is uncertain & ambiguous. With recent disruptions to the info ecosystem (diminished moderation, Twitter's deterioration), we have perhaps never been so vulnerable to deception and manipulation. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is the clearest analysis I’ve seen of the fundamental problem with Community Notes in crisis situations: The overwhelming majority of impressions on tweets happen in the first 1-3 hours after posting, but it takes an average of 10 hours and 44 minutes for Community Notes to publicly show up.