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Bridging the offline and online: 20 years of offline meeting data of the German-language Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites worldwide. Thousands of volunteers are contributing to it daily, making it an example of how productive...
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It’s my turn: empirical evidence of upstream indirect reciprocity in society through a quasi-experimental approach
This study estimated the effect of receiving help during a disaster on an individual’s subsequent cooperation for a common-pool resource. Such a...
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Tweet topics on cancer among Indian Twitter users—computational approach using latent Dirichlet allocation topic modelling
Understanding the extent and content of conversations on cancers inform the stakeholders regarding the needs of the community in terms of knowledge,...
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Social media-based social–psychological community resilience analysis of five countries on COVID-19
Community resilience (CR) has been studied as an indicator to measure how well a given community copes with and recovers from a given disaster....
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Temporal communication dynamics in the aftermath of large-scale upheavals: do digital footprints reveal a stage model?
It has long been theorized that the exchange of information in the aftermath of large-scale upheavals ensues dynamics that follow a stage model,...
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The value of manual annotation in assessing trends of hate speech on social media: was antisemitism on the rise during the tumultuous weeks of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover?
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in research on hate speech on social media. However, researchers face many challenges in producing...
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Between news and history: identifying networked topics of collective attention on Wikipedia
The digital information landscape has introduced a new dimension to understanding how we collectively react to new information and preserve it at the...
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Multi-balanced redistricting
The one person–one vote principle for political redistricting requires balancing populations across districts. We address the matter of...
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Ethnic segregation and spatial patterns of attitudes: studying the link using register data and social simulation
We theorize the causal link between ethnic residential segregation and polarization of ethnic attitudes within and between ethnic groups (e.g....
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Detecting science-based health disinformation: a stylometric machine learning approach
The COVID-19 pandemic showed that misleading scientific health information has become widespread and is challenging to counteract. Some of this...
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The impact of depression forums on illness narratives: a comprehensive NLP analysis of socialization in e-mental health communities
While depression is globally on the rise, the mental health sector struggles with handling the increased number of cases, especially since the...
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What motivated mitigation policies? A network-based longitudinal analysis of state-level mitigation strategies
Understanding which factors informed pandemic response can help create a more nuanced perspective on how each state of the United States handled the...
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Pulling through together: social media response trajectories in disaster-stricken communities
Disasters are extraordinary shocks that disrupt every aspect of the community life. Lives are lost, infrastructure is destroyed, the social fabric is...
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Predicting declining and growing occupations using supervised machine learning
In the United States (U.S.), structural changes in the economy remain varied, yet continuous, prompting the need for regular analyses of both...
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Grounding force-directed network layouts with latent space models
Force-directed layout algorithms are ubiquitously used tools for network visualization. However, existing algorithms either lack clear...
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Centre assessment grades in 2020: a natural experiment for investigating bias in teacher judgements
The COVID-19 pandemic meant that, in 2020, students in England were unable to sit their examinations and instead received predicted grades, or...
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Framing climate change in Nature and Science editorials: applications of supervised and unsupervised text categorization
Hulme et al. (Nat Clim Change, 8:515–521, 2018) manually coded ‘frames’ in 490 Nature and Science editorials (1966–2016) they found relevant for...
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You are how (and where) you search? Comparative analysis of web search behavior using web tracking data
In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of web search behaviors in Switzerland and Germany. For this aim, we rely on a combination of web...
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Computational approach to studying media coverage of organizations
Media coverage of organizations is a social science topic that attracts attention from various domains. While there is a clear opportunity to expand...
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COCO: an annotated Twitter dataset of COVID-19 conspiracy theories
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a surge of misinformation on social media which covered a wide range of different topics and contained...
