sM is exhausting, which is saying something as an academic. Is the a pt to this?
Deana A. Rohlinger
@deanarohlinger.bsky.social
Sociologist studying digital technologies, political participation, & politics. Editor in Chief of Social Science Computer Review. Getting by in Florida.
@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?
We talked about ‘sovereign AI’ today. Sovereignty isn’t just about who owns the model. It’s about whose imaginary defines the future it serves. When states frame AI as a race, they imagine citizens as data resources. How do we reclaim sociotechnical imaginaries that center the public, not power?
💔 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....
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New article! ABM on affective polarization: Selectivity structure is the main driver. Paradox: low homophily + low selective exposure → highest polarization (backfire). Strong local social influence ↓ social diversity; media alone ≠ convergence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Trending now: How repression reshapes digital activism. Using OWS 2011 Twitter, mass arrests/eviction threat ↓assortativity (more inter-group engagement) while cross-group ties stayed stable - evidence of structural, network-wide shifts. By Hansol Kwak journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Riding the Tide: How Online Activists Leverage Repression - Hansol Kwak, 2025
How does repression reshape the way online activists engage with target audiences? While prior research has primarily examined changes in overall online partici...
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Watching It again with my youngest. Clown are the worst!
a clown is standing in front of a screen that says breaking news
ALT: a clown is standing in front of a screen that says breaking news
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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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📱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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Another one! OA guide shows how to replace or augment human coders with LLMs for content analysis - scaling studies 10x, handling multilingual data, and improving transparency. Practical, replicable, and affordable on consumer hardware. By Mike Farjam et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis - Mike Farjam, Hendrik Meyer, Meike Lohkamp, 2025
This paper provides a practical example and guide on how to augment or replace human coders with Large Language Models (LLMs) during content analysis. We demons...
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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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Have you published in @sscratsage.bsky.social in the last several months and want to publish a blog about your piece on Sage Perspective? Let me know! Contact me deana.rohlinger at fsu.
In the meantime, welcome Major Major to the dogs of Bluesky! My girl Penny is a great big sis.
What a year so far! 915 submissions to @sscratsage.bsky.social as of today. Need to share and amplify the great work being done at the journal as soon as I can. Updating the website and the collections over the next week. Stay tuned!!!
📢 Publication Friday! This week, we highlight “Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond” by @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli politicalcommunication.org/article/coe-...
Coe & Zulli – Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond – PolComm
Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond[1] Kevin Coe, University of Utah Diana Zulli, Purdue University https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-103947-1, P...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a... last lines really land. “Everyone’s got to make their nut, even if some people’s nuts are bigger than others. Maybe it takes bleep-you money to buy your freedom. But maybe, “South Park” is telling us, freedom comes from deciding that your self-respect is priceless.”
Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance
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Terrific @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Political Engagement at #asa2025 this am. Overall takeaway, conventional understandings of engagement are far too restricted to voting. E.g. Case's research says egalitarian and redistributive ballot initiatives are hugely popular, esp. in red states.
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....
So many great papers assessing how to use LLMs effectively. This article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social is OA.
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.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". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Here's a visual representation of the workflow. Thanks for following the journal!
Check out this interesting paper and be sure to follow the journal!
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.Another new article about chatbots: "Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners" The authors identify three typical user-bot relational pairings: customer-product, human-machine, and woman-man/woman-woman. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.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! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Check out this OA article on @sscratsage.bsky.social! While you’re there, look in our collections for papers organized by broad themes.
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.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/...
Where is the joy on Bluesky? Asking for a friend…..
Trending topics less than 7 hours on Sona Weibo. Incredible!
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.What's trending on Sina Weibo? This article finds that topics features, such as their semantic and textual features, significantly influence topic persistence...the median survival time of Weibo trending topic was 6.28 hours, with an average of 8.29 hours." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
One of a few new and forthcoming pieces on the topic of using LLMs on qualitative research.
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.Great new methods article on qualitative analysis using GPT-4. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Interesting article on electoral forecasting. Check out the abstract below.
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.Check out this article using data from three Italian general elections "to evaluate discrepancies between pre-electoral polls and results, assessing key factors such as timing of data collection, survey methodology, sample size, and party system fragmentation." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI! Great piece on minority business ownership, consumer reviews, and survival rates during the pandemic.
Sage's Social Science Computer Review@sscratsage.bsky.social · last yr.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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
