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Incivility in Comparison: How Context, Content, and Personal Characteristics Predict Exposure to Uncivil Content Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Felix Schmidt, Sebastian Stier, Lukas Otto
Incivility, that is, the breaking of social norms of conversation, is evidently prevalent in online political communication. While a growing literature provides evidence on the prevalence of incivility in different online venues, it is still unclear where and to what extent Internet users are exposed to incivility. This paper takes a comparative approach to assess the levels of incivility across contexts
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Human or Not?: An Experiment With Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Ke M. Huang-Isherwood, Jaeho Cho, Joo-Wha Hong, Eugene Lee
Chatbots have a growing role to play in political discourse, including in political campaigns, voter mobilization ventures, and dissemination of political news, though chatbots in the political domain are relatively understudied. While testing the machine heuristics and political self-concepts frameworks, we carried out a 2 × 2 experiment where both perceived conversational partner (i.e., bot, human)
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Use and Abuse of Social Media as a Punitive Remedy in Light of Criminal Law: A Tool or a Court? Analysis of the Chilean Regulation Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Alejandra Castillo Ara
Over the last few years, Chile’s judicial system has witnessed a rise in criminal assumptions generated through social networks, under its hypotheses of funas, doxing, flagging or, in general, the exposure of the personal data of an individual, whether motivated by the performance of conduct of criminal relevance or simply of dubious morality or social appropriateness. Although these conducts originated
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Online and Unkind: Examining the Personality Correlates of Online Political Incivility Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Luke Ryan Mungall, Scott Pruysers, Julie Blais
Many forms of online political incivility threaten democratic norms, contribute to polarization, and are often directed at women and racial minorities. Recent research shows that online political incivility may come from a minority of users that are just as hostile offline as they are online, meaning that individual differences in personality traits may be an important predictor of online political
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Citizens’ Acceptance of Data-Driven Political Campaigning: A 25-Country Cross-National Vignette Study Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Rens Vliegenthart, Jade Vrielink, Katharine Dommett, Rachel Gibson, Esmeralda Bon, Xiaotong Chu, Claes de Vreese, Sophie Lecheler, Jörg Matthes, Sophie Minihold, Lukas Otto, Marlis Stubenvoll, Sanne Kruikemeier
This paper investigates how the acceptance of data-driven political campaigning depends on four different message characteristics. A vignette study was conducted in 25 countries with a total of 14,390 respondents who all evaluated multiple descriptions of political advertisements. Relying on multi-level models, we find that in particular the source and the issue of the message matters. Messages that
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Documenting and Exchanging Simulation Specifications: A Language-Agnostic Approach Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Alan G. Isaac
Simulation experiments have increased their influence on social science, creating a need for documentation tools and practices that facilitate replicability. Two crucial components common to many simulation experiments require particularly detailed documentation: the baseline parameterization, and the experimental designs. This paper explores the adaptability to these needs of a recent but already
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Serious Games, Knowledge Acquisition, and Conflict Resolution: The Case of PeaceMaker as a Peace Education Tool Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Iolie Nicolaidou, Ronit Kampf
Israeli-Jews and Palestinians cannot easily be exposed to contradicting information about “the other” in the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict because of the emotionally charged situation and prevailing ethnocentrism. Serious games like PeaceMaker are used as innovative interventions for peace education. Winning PeaceMaker indicates better conflict resolution skills and developing an informative
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Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Jessica Daikeler, Leon Fröhling, Indira Sen, Lukas Birkenmaier, Tobias Gummer, Jan Schwalbach, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Katrin Weller, Clemens Lechner
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on
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Detecting Respondent Burden in Online Surveys: How Different Sources of Question Difficulty Influence Cursor Movements Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Franziska M. Leipold, Pascal J. Kieslich, Felix Henninger, Amanda Fernández-Fontelo, Sonja Greven, Frauke Kreuter
Online surveys are a widely used mode of data collection. However, as no interviewer is present, respondents face any difficulties they encounter alone, which may lead to measurement error and biased or (at worst) invalid conclusions. Detecting response difficulty is therefore vital. Previous research has predominantly focused on response times to detect general response difficulty. However, response
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Covering the Campaign: Computational Tools for Measuring Differences in Candidate and Party News Coverage With Application to an Emerging Democracy Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Aaron Erlich, Danielle F. Jung, James D. Long
How does media coverage of electoral campaigns distinguish parties and candidates in emerging democracies? To answer, we present a multi-step procedure that we apply in South Africa. First, we develop a theoretically informed classification of election coverage as either “narrow” or “broad” from within the entire corpus of news coverage during an electoral campaign. Second, to deploy our classification
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How Elites Invigorate Emotionality and Extremity in Digital Networks Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Anson Au
The October 2017 Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest shooting in modern American history, but little scholarship has examined the public uproar in its wake, particularly in digital networks. Drawing on a corpus of 100,000 public Tweets and 1,119,638 unique words written in reaction to the shooting, this article addresses this lacuna by investigating the topics of reactions and their linkages with
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Are Large-Scale Data From Private Companies Reliable? An Analysis of Machine-Generated Business Location Data in a Popular Dataset Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou, Mario L. Small
Large-scale data from private companies offer new opportunities to examine topics of scientific and social significance, such as racial inequality, partisan polarization, and activity-based segregation. However, because such data are often generated through automated processes, their accuracy and reliability for social science research remain unclear. The present study examines how quality issues in
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The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Lena Clever, Lena Frischlich
Consuming conspiracy theories erodes trust in democratic institutions, while conspiracy beliefs demotivate democratic participation, posing a potential threat to democracy. The proliferation of social media, especially the emergence of numerous alternative platforms with minimal moderation, has greatly facilitated the dissemination and consumption of conspiracy theories. Nevertheless, there remains
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Unorthodox Information Sources of Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis in the Ultra-Orthodox Society Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 David Levine, Tali Gazit
This study examines the role of information sources in the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish community’s coping with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Israel by comparing their use of digital versus traditional information platforms. The study examined coping with COVID-19, considering explanatory variables such as Community Sense of Coherence (C-SOC), Internet usage, and other demographic variables
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Artificial Intelligence, Rationalization, and the Limits of Control in the Public Sector: The Case of Tax Policy Optimization Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jakob Mökander, Ralph Schroeder
In this paper, we first frame the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the public sector as a continuation and intensification of long-standing rationalization and bureaucratization processes. Drawing on Weber, we understand the core of these processes to be the replacement of traditions with instrumental rationality, that is, the most calculable and efficient way of achieving any given policy
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Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Nonresponse in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Anne Reinhardt, Sophie Mayen, Claudia Wilhelm
Mobile Experience Sampling (MES) is a promising tool for understanding youth digital media use and its effects. Unfortunately, the method suffers from high levels of missing data. Depending on whether the data is randomly or non-randomly missing, it can have severe effects on the validity of findings. For this reason, we investigated predictors of non-response in an MES study on displacement effects
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Analysis of Web Browsing Data: A Guide Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Sebastian Stier, Ana S. Cardenal, Andrew M. Guess, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Magdalena Wojcieszak
The use of individual-level browsing data, that is, the records of a person’s visits to online content through a desktop or mobile browser, is of increasing importance for social scientists. Browsing data have characteristics that raise many questions for statistical analysis, yet to date, little hands-on guidance on how to handle them exists. Reviewing extant research, and exploring data sets collected
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Tell Me an Instagram Story: Ephemeral Communication and the 2018 Gubernatorial Elections Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Terri L. Towner, Caroline L. Muñoz
Political campaigns are embracing the visual social media platform Instagram. One digital feature, the Story, has taken over feed sharing across social media. A Story is a sequence of images or videos uploaded to a profile that disappear after 24 hours. The Story is a novel feature relatively unexamined in political communications and marketing research. Specifically, it is unclear how Gubernatorial
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The Impact of Inequalities on Data Policies: Favelas Unified Dashboard Case Study Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Elisa Maria Campos
Data is the new asset of the current digital revolution. It is heralded as the “new oil” that will transform the world and function as a magic tool for development policies, with great potential to solve global health dilemmas. However, deep societal inequalities give datafication the risk of escalating disparities through data policies instead of solving them. The pandemic unmasked the price to pay
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How to Regulate Platforms Through a Non-Exploitative User-Generated-Content Levy Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Weijie Huang, Xi Chen
The democratization of technology to re-create content and make that content publicly available has spurred a wave of user-generated content (UGC), which has produced remarkable social and economic benefits. However, under current copyright law, UGC creators face the dilemma of being deterred from creating UGC because of the risk of copyright infringement, copyright owners can rarely obtain remuneration
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Measuring Smartphone Use: Survey Versus Digital Behavioral Data Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Alexander Wenz, Florian Keusch, Ruben L. Bach
While digital technology use and skills have typically been measured with surveys, digital behavioral data that are passively collected from individuals’ digital devices have recently emerged as an alternative method of measuring technology usage patterns in a more unobtrusive and detailed way. In this paper, we evaluate how passively collected smartphone usage data compare to self-reported measures
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How Peer Privacy Concerns Affect Active and Passive Uses of Social Networking Sites: A Dual Peer Privacy Calculus Model Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Tin Trung Nguyen, Van Thi Thanh Tran, Minh Tu Tran Hoang
Social networking sites (SNSs) have emerged as parallel societies, providing individuals with a platform to interact with peers and construct their desired self-identities. However, maintaining a positive image and safeguarding oneself from social judgment often necessitate self-censorship in self-identity expression. Drawing upon the privacy calculus theory, this study investigates how SNS users engage
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Social Live-Streaming Use and Well-Being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-Being on Twitch.tv Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Grace H. Wolff, Cuihua Shen
This study examines how active participation, financial commitment, and passive participation in the leading social live-streaming service, Twitch.tv, relate to individuals’ psychological well-being. The three dimensions of social capital—structural, relational, and cognitive—as well as parasocial relationship are explored as mediators. Cross-sectional survey data from 396 respondents was analyzed
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Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions): Facebook, Women, and the Gender Emoji Gap in US Election Campaigns Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Justin Bonest Phillips
In 2017, Facebook’s news feed algorithm began weighting emoji reactions (e.g., love and angry) as five times more valuable than the like button. Such a change is theoretically intriguing because existing research largely suggests that women tend to use emojis more than men on social media. Within the context of political campaigns, prior work has revealed a host of other “gender gaps,” from documenting
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Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Piotr Konieczny, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski
As one of the most popular sources of information in the world, Wikipedia is edited by a large, global community of contributors. User-generated nature of this online encyclopedia ensures that the information reflects a wide range of topics. Hovewer, Wikipedia articles are created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, some topics may be presented with varying degrees of completeness
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Do Shy Individuals Engage in Cyber Aggression? The Multiple Mediation of Passive Use and Relative Deprivation and the Moderation of Moral Sensitivity Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jinzhe Zhao, Zhen Guo, Liying Jiao, Mengke Yu, Huiyue Shi, Yan Xu
Shyness has been shown to be linked to aggression. However, whether this relationship occurs in cyberspace and the mechanisms that might affect it are largely unexplored. Based on the social fitnes...
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Why Device-Related Digital Inequalities Matter for E-Government Engagement? Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Matías Dodel
Mobile devices were key drivers for recent Internet expansion in lower-income countries, democratizing access. Nonetheless, concerns arose regarding their role in the creation of new digital underc...
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Synchronous Undetected HPV+ Cancer in a HPV− Tongue Cancer Patient Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Soroush Ershadifar, Sarah Ustrell, Morgan Angus Darrow, Andrew Birkeland
We report a case of a 63-year-old male who presented with synchronous pT1N1 p16-positive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the left tonsil and pT4N0 p16-negative SCC of the left tongue.
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The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale for Spleen Does Not Equally Predict Interventions in Penetrating and Blunt Trauma Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Hossam Abdel-Aziz, Clark Murray, Drew Roberts, Gwenviere Capron, Frederic Starr, Faran Bokhari, William Brigode
BackgroundThe American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Organ Injury Scale (OIS) for the spleen (and other organs) was created in 1989. It has been validated to predict mortality, need ...
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More on the Use of Goggles and Snorkel in Learning-to-Swim: New Results for Children Without Fear of Water Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Fatmir Misimi, Tajna Kajtna, Igor Štirn, Dajana Zoretić, Samir Misimi, Jernej Kapus
In recent research, we found that the use of goggles and snorkel benefited non-swimmers with fear of water in a learn-to-swim program. Our purpose in this study was to examine the effects of using ...
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Implications of COVID-19 Infection on Arteriovenous Fistula Thrombosis Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Camila Franco-Mesa, Elliot T. Walters, Nikhil R. Shah, Alen Palackic, Steven E. Wolf, Michael B. Silva
Objective: This study aims to identify and analyze implications of COVID‐19 positivity on AVF occlusion, subsequent treatment patterns, and ESRD patient outcomes. Our aim is to provide a quantitati...
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The Tertiary Survey as a Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Trauma Care Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Emily Ulloa, Jessica Archie, Sruthi Slevakumar, Marc Levy, Adel Elkbuli, Donald Plumley
BackgroundPatients are at risk of missed or delayed injuries in the setting of multisystem trauma, which may be identified with a tertiary trauma survey (TTS). There is limited literature to suppor...
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Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design for Low-Volume Roads Impacted by Freeze–Thaw Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 David P. Orr, Geoffrey R. Scott, Nick Kuzmik
Low-volume roads (LVRs) make up more than half the centerline mileage in the United States and most of these roads are not designed. Instead, a standard thickness is used for all roads or a rough c...
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Closed-form solutions to investigate the nonlinear response of foundations supporting operating machines under blast loads Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Ayman Abd-Elhamed, Soliman Alkhatib, Mohamed A. Dagher
Machine foundations are subjected to significant dynamic impacts. These impacts could spread to the surrounding regions, affecting workers, sensitive equipment in the same institution, or nearby ar...
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Evolution of Mode Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Implications for the Future of Transit Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Tassio B. Magassy, Irfan Batur, Aupal Mondal, Katherine E. Asmussen, Chandra R. Bhat, Deborah Salon, Matthew Bhagat-Conway, Mohammadjavad Javadinasr, Rishabh Chauhan, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Sybil Derrible, Ram M. Pendyala
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about transformative changes in human activity-travel patterns. These lifestyle changes were naturally accompanied by and associated with changes in transportation...
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Mind the Like-Minded. The Role of Social Identity in Prosocial Crowdfunding Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Anna Monik, Michał Parzuchowski
Current social challenges have increased the interest in globally spread collective actions, especially those taking place in virtual space. Crowdfunding is one form of online activism that has rec...
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From Calculations to Reasoning: History, Trends and the Potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Manolis Peponakis, Sarantos Kapidakis, Martin Doerr, Eirini Tountasaki
The domains of computational social anthropology and computational ethnography refer to the computational processing or computational modelling of data for anthropological or ethnographic research....
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Machines As Social Entities (MASE) Scale: Validation of a New Scale Measuring Beliefs in the Sociality of Intelligent Machine Agents Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Joo-Wha Hong
Researchers examining the social relationship between humans and machine agents have been faced with a series of obstacles, mainly due to the lack of appropriate study tools. To address this need f...
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Performative Quantification: Design Choices Impact the Lessons of Empirical Surveys About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Hubert Etienne, Florian Cova
In recent years, researchers have emphasized the relevance of data about commonsense moral judgments for ethical decision-making, notably in the context of debates about autonomous vehicles (AVs). ...
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Online Hate Speech as a Moral Issue: Exploring Moral Reasoning of Young Italian Users on Social Network Sites Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Francesca Ieracitano, Caterina Balenzano, Sabrina Girardi, Cataldo Giuliano Gemmano, Francesca Comunello
Taking a neo-Kohlbergian approach, we explore the moral reasoning of 486 young Italian users of social network sites exposed to moral dilemmas concerning online hate speech. The aims are to underst...
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Confirmation Bias in Seeking Climate Information: Employing Relative Search Volume to Predict Partisan Climate Opinions Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Yifei Wang, Kokil Jaidka
In an increasingly digitized world, online information-seeking (OIS) behaviors have reflected people’s intentions and constituted a critical component in synthesizing public opinion. Climate change...
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An Informed Neural Network for Discovering Historical Documentation Assisting the Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Human Remains Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Md Abul Bashar, Richi Nayak, Gareth Knapman, Paul Turnbull, Cressida Fforde
Among the pressing issues facing Australian and other First Nations peoples is the repatriation of the bodily remains of their ancestors, which are currently held in Western scientific institutions...
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Dual Identity in Repressive Contexts: An Agent-Based Model of Protest Dynamics Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Alexander Petrov, Andrei Akhremenko, Sergey Zheglov
Protest campaign movements are often carried out by coalitions rather than by homogeneous groups. Accordingly, an opposition member has both a narrow partisan identity and a broad all-opposition id...
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Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Teresa Gil-López, Clara Christner, Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Michaela Maier, Silke Adam
This paper offers a critical look at the promises and drawbacks of a popular, novel data collection technique—online tracking—from the point of view of sample composition. Using data from two large...
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Textual Indicators of Deliberative Dialogue: A Systematic Review of Methods for Studying the Quality of Online Dialogues Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Alex Goddard, Alex Gillespie
High-quality online dialogues help sustain democracy. Deliberative theory, which predates the internet, provides the primary model for assessing the quality of online dialogues. It conceptualizes h...
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The Robot-Gender Divide: How and Why Men and Women Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Social Robots Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Elyakim Kislev
Recent developments foretell that social robots will soon become an integral part of everyday life, offering companionship and intimate closeness of different kinds. While research thus far is limi...
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Potential Pitfalls With Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Eddie L. Ungless, Björn Ross, Vaishak Belle
Automated sentiment analysis can help efficiently detect trends in patients’ moods, consumer preferences, political attitudes and more. Unfortunately, like many natural language processing techniqu...
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Divided by the Algorithm? The (Limited) Effects of Content- and Sentiment-Based News Recommendation on Affective, Ideological, and Perceived Polarization Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Katharina Ludwig, Alexander Grote, Andreea Iana, Mehwish Alam, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Christof Weinhardt, Philipp Müller
Recent rises in political polarization across the globe are often ascribed to algorithmic content filtering on social media, news platforms, or search engines. The widespread usage of news recommen...
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Attributing Values to Devices Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Avner Caspi, Shir Etgar, Gitit Kavé
This research examines anthropomorphism by testing the values that people attribute to electronic devices. We ask four main questions: Do people attribute human values to devices; Do devices differ...
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The More Competent, the Better? The Effects of Perceived Competencies on Disclosure Towards Conversational Artificial Intelligence Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Miriam Gieselmann, Kai Sassenberg
Conversational AI (e.g., Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa) is present in many people’s everyday life and, at the same time, becomes more and more capable of solving more complex tasks. However, it ...
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The Affiliative Use of Emoji and Hashtags in the Black Lives Matter Movement in Twitter. Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Mark Alfano, Ritsaart Reimann, Ignacio Ojea Quintana, Anastasia Chan, Marc Cheong, Colin Klein
Protests and counter-protests seek to draw and direct attention and concern with confronting images and slogans. In recent years, as protests and counter-protests have partially migrated to the dig...
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Alternative Layouts for Grid Questions in PC and Mobile Web Surveys: An Experimental Evaluation Using Response Quality Indicators and Survey Estimates Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Vasja Vehovar, Mick P. Couper, Gregor ehovin
The grid question refers to a table layout for a series of survey question items (i.e., sub-questions) with the same introduction and identical response categories. Because of their complexity, con...
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Identifying Utility-Maximizing and Equilibrium Coalitions of Political Parties in Government Formation Processes Using a Visualization Approach Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Robin Graichen, Suresh Lodha, Manav Bhatia, Udo Heller, Eric Linhart
As the formation of government coalitions between two or more political parties is a typical procedure in multiparty systems after elections and the parties’ decision on what coalition to form heav...
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The Mediating Process of Social Learning in Cyberspace: Korean College Students’ Cyberbullying Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Gang Lee, Hyunseok Jang, Yun-Suk Lee
Given the massive power of the virtual environment of online networks, the prevalence of cyberbullying and the misuse of information technology continue to increase with the development of more adv...
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Topic Modeling as a Tool to Analyze Child Abuse from the Corpus of English Newspapers in Pakistan Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Fasih Ahmed, Asim Khan
Child maltreatment is a global issue deeply rooted in cultural, economic, and social practices. The present study investigates the representation of child abuse in the mainstream newspapers of Paki...
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Examining Different Viewer Engagement Patterns for Social Capital on Streaming Communities Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan, Yu-Hao Lee
Live streaming is not only a popular form of entertainment but also a channel through which streamers and users can engage in social interactions and develop social capital. The current study surve...
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Social Network Analysis of Nonprofits in Disaster Response: The Case of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Xi Gong, Shuyang Peng, Yujian Lu, Shaohua Wang, Xiao Huang, Xinyue Ye
The COVID-19 pandemic has created complex problems that require organizations to collaborate within and across the sector line. Social media data can provide insights into how nonprofits interact f...
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The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Ying Xu, Jia-Qiong Xie, Fu-Xing Wang, Rebecca L Monk, James Gaskin, Jin-Liang Wang
Social media, such as Microblogs, have become an important source for people to obtain information. However, we know little about how this would influence our comprehension over online information....
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Who Says What in Which Networks: What influences Social Media Users’ Emotional Reactions to the COVID-19 Vaccine Infodemic? Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Aimei Yang, Shin Jieun, Hye Min Kim, Alvin Zhou, Wenlin Liu, Ke Huang-Isherwood, Eugene Jang, Jingyi Sun, Eugene Lee, Zhang Yafei, Dong Chuqin
This study aims to identify effective predictors that influence publics’ emotional reactions to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation as well as corrective messages. We collected a large sample of COVID-...
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Using Google Trends Data to Learn More About Survey Participation Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Tobias Gummer, Anne-Sophie Oehrlein
As response rates continue to decline, the need to learn more about the survey participation process remains an important task for survey researchers. Search engine data may be one possible source ...