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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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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: Full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

SSCR article: Riding the Tide: How Online Activists Leverage Repression. Looking at Twitter data over time related to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Different format for an SSCR paper, but take a look at this paper, which looks at how six sociologists look at AI. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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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: Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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...

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: Check out the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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....

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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW article in SSCR: Looks at 140,000 news articles in Estonia. Check out this figure and read more in this open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Assessing Bias in LLM-Generated Synthetic Datasets: The Case of German Voter Behavior https://osf.io/97r8s !! Please refer to and cite the more recent, peer-reviewed, more comprehensive version of this paper published in Social Science Computer Review: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251 #sociology

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Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events - Annie Waldherr, Nicola Righetti, Ryan J. Gallagher, Kira Klinger, Daniel...

The deaths of Black victims of police brutality, such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and Philando Castile, have become focusing events and symbo...

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*New publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social!* The deaths of Black victims of police violence have become focusing events for #BlackLivesMatter. We wanted to know why some victims receive a high amount of social media attention wile others do not. Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

This special issue has many great papers. Take a look! 🔽

Heinz Leitgöb@heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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.

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....

📱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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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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💔 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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Wow! That's a lot of work for the editor. Please submit your best papers to SSCR. We are happy to receive them.

Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@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?

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Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

New methods piece in our journal. Check out the visual of the workflow. Model tested on databases related to fake news/misinformation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Here's a visual representation of the workflow. Thanks for following the journal!

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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