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Kenneth Joseph
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Open AccessDemocrats are better than Republicans at discerning true and false news but do not have better metacognitive awareness
Insight into one’s own cognitive abilities is one important aspect of metacognition. Whether this insight varies between groups when discerning true and false information has yet to be examined. We investigate...
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A Systematic Review of Sophisticated Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics in Child Welfare: Accuracy, Equity, and Bias
Child welfare agencies increasingly use machine learning models to predict outcomes and inform decisions. These tools are intended to increase accuracy and fairness but can also amplify bias. This systematic r...
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Open AccessA qualitative, network-centric method for modeling socio-technical systems, with applications to evaluating interventions on social media platforms to increase social equality
We propose and extend a qualitative, complex systems methodology from cognitive engineering, known as the abstraction hierarchy, to model how potential interventions that could be carried out by social media plat...
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Mining online communities to inform strategic messaging: practical methods to identify community-level insights
The ability of OSNs to propagate civil unrest has been powerfully observed through the rise of the ISIS and the ongoing conflict in Crimea. As a result, the ability to understand and in some cases mitigate the...
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Scalable computational techniques for centrality metrics on temporally detailed social network
Increasing proliferation of mobile and online social networking platforms have given us unprecedented opportunity to observe and study social interactions at a fine temporal scale. A collection of all such soc...
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Exploring characteristics of suspended users and network stability on Twitter
Social media is rapidly becoming a medium of choice for understanding the cultural pulse of a region; e.g. for identifying what the population is concerned with and what kind of help is needed in a crisis. To ...
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Arab Spring: from newspaper
Agent-based simulation models are an important methodology for explaining social behavior and forecasting social change. However, a major drawback to using such models is that they are difficult to instantiate...
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Open AccessTraining providers: beyond the basics of electronic health records
Training is a critical part of health information technology implementations, but little emphasis is placed on post-implementation training to support day-to-day activities. The goal of this study was to evalu...
