Sage's Social Science Computer Review
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Editor in Chief @DeanaRohlinger.bsky.social
SM profile managed by @ShelleyBoulianne.bsky.social
Journal website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ssc
SM profile managed by @ShelleyBoulianne.bsky.social
Journal website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ssc
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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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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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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Full paper:
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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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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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Check out the full article here:
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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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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....
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:
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Take a look at the different frames considered:
July 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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:
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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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July 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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....
July 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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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Here's a visual representation of the workflow.
Thanks for following the journal!
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Here's a visual representation of the workflow.
Thanks for following the journal!
July 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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Here's a visual representation of the workflow.
Thanks for following the journal!
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Here's a visual representation of the workflow.
Thanks for following the journal!
New article using content analysis of 4,000 trolling comments on 40 Facebook posts that were made by 20 politicians. #gendertrolling. Take a peek at the codebook and the full article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
July 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New article using content analysis of 4,000 trolling comments on 40 Facebook posts that were made by 20 politicians. #gendertrolling. Take a peek at the codebook and the full article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New article in our journal looks at the perception of chatbots' humanness and how it influences anxiety towards AI, based on a survey conducted in 2023 in China. Take a look!
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July 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New article in our journal looks at the perception of chatbots' humanness and how it influences anxiety towards AI, based on a survey conducted in 2023 in China. Take a look!
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New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Brand new article in SSCR. Stromer-Galley et al. (2025) compare the classification of political candidate social media messages between trained annotators, crowd annotators, and large language models from OpenAI (ChatGPT) and the paid API (GPT API). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
May 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Brand new article in SSCR. Stromer-Galley et al. (2025) compare the classification of political candidate social media messages between trained annotators, crowd annotators, and large language models from OpenAI (ChatGPT) and the paid API (GPT API). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
April 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New article: "minority-owned businesses were less likely to be claimed on Google Maps and received fewer consumer review comments compared to their non-minority counterparts." The findings have implications for which businesses survived during the pandemic.
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April 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New article: "minority-owned businesses were less likely to be claimed on Google Maps and received fewer consumer review comments compared to their non-minority counterparts." The findings have implications for which businesses survived during the pandemic.
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How does the use of different platforms for news relate to strong vs. weak ties as well as online political participation? Take a look at this new article in SSCR:
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April 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How does the use of different platforms for news relate to strong vs. weak ties as well as online political participation? Take a look at this new article in SSCR:
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"Being female, perceptions of social media influence, and fear of missing out predicted depressive symptoms."
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"Being female, perceptions of social media influence, and fear of missing out predicted depressive symptoms."
April 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"Being female, perceptions of social media influence, and fear of missing out predicted depressive symptoms."
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"Being female, perceptions of social media influence, and fear of missing out predicted depressive symptoms."
New article in SSCR using the technology acceptance model (TAM) to understand the problematic use of short-video apps among elderly adults. Link to article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
April 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New article in SSCR using the technology acceptance model (TAM) to understand the problematic use of short-video apps among elderly adults. Link to article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....