Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
#HackerNews #CrackerBarrelOutrage #Bots #SocialMediaResearch #OnlineManipulation #DigitalTrends
#SocialMediaResearch
🎓 Congrats to Max Caixàs on successfully defending his Master’s thesis in the #BIG5Project!
His research decoded food imagery on social media,uncovering platform differences and a big gap: 🌱 almost no mention of nature or sustainability.
🔗 Read more: https://big-5.eu/cracking-the-secret-language-of-food-maxs-thesis-at-big-5/
We sought to understand how #academics utilize #Mastodon for professional and scholarly purposes.
Our #research examined scholars' motivations, usage patterns, perceived benefits, and challenges through a mixed-methods approach.
➡️Literature review
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15583267
➡️Quantitative survey
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15583528
➡️Qualitative interviews
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15583745
#AcademicMastodon #ScholarlyComms #OpenScience #DigitalScholarship #SocialMediaResearch
📢 Missed the RECO_DAR Closing Event (25Mar)?
Catch up now to see Prof. Macdonald’s keynote on using AI to detect hate speech online, and tune into our panel discussion.
🔗 Watch the full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBg37r8i41M
#reco_dar #extremism #CounterExtremism #OnlineRadicalisation #DigitalHate #SocialMediaResearch #OnlineSafety #PreventViolence #HateSpeech #ExtremismResearch #SocialScienceResearch #SafeOnlineSpaces @EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu
Wie die AfD TikTok dominiert - und was demokratische Parteien besser machen können: Forschende des @fgz_risc haben
TikTok-Daten der Bundestagswahl 2025 analysiert und zeigen, dass die AfD vor allem durch schiere Masse punktete. Aber #reclaimTikTok scheint zu funktionieren, demokratische Parteien gewannen an Boden ⬇
https://fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/5898
#SocialMediaResearch #Bundestagswahl #PolitischeKommunikation
🚀 Addressing Selection Bias in Social Media Research 🌍
Yesterday at the Brown Bag Sessions at the Barcelona Super Computing Center, Ramin Soleymani-Fard (Software Engineer & PhD Researcher, BIG5 Team) shared insights on tackling selection bias in social media data.
are there any tools left which can scrape twitter/x data to some extent?
🚀Der Arbeitskreis Social Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis, eine Initiative von @nfdi4culture, @BERD_NFDI, @konsortswd und @Textplus, widmet sich in der "Show & Tell"-Reihe mit Social Media Daten in der Rechtsextremismus- und Demokratieforschung. Am 28.02. um 14 Uhr referieren Christian Donner (BAG »Gegen Hass im Netz«) und Pascal Siegers (Datenportal für Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung DP-R|EX).
➡️ https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6134
#NFDIrocks #democracy #rightwingextremism #socialmediaresearch
How do smartphones and social media shape youth mental health? Andrew Przybylski, a member of the COS Instagram Data Access Pilot editorial board, joined Freakonomics to share his research on this critical issue. Hear about his data-driven approach to understanding the balance between tech benefits and risks in young people's lives. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-screen-time-as-poisonous-as-we-think
Sometimes things that don't make sense-- don't.
Maybe here?
Review and commentary on #SocialMediaResearch that made a splash last year.
As usual, Meta's conclusion is the the biggest, most ubiquitous communication system ever built has no unanticipated negative effects, no matter what sewage is flowing through its network and available to billions. That's the constant refrain we hear no matter what we learn.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adt2983?af=R
Dear Friends,
#AI (or whatever you want to call it) inferred this shoe review text was referring to a jock strap.
". . . Getting them on is tricky with a tight stretchy strap, and they sound like flip flops when I walk, which I did not want."
Another
"They are cute, but the leather is very hard. The ankle area is too big, even with the Velcro strap, which I can't make tight enough."
This is why I don't use AI in my #insights development work.
Dear Friends,
The logo for X/formerlyTwitter is close enough to this if you need to add it for your work:
𝕏
MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X
Unicode: U+1D54F, UTF-8: F0 9D 95 8F
I was thinking on the logo it since 𝕏 is less relevant to *commercial* social media research.
From a branding perspective it has a nihilistic feel and sort of emblematic of #CancelCulture although the stated intent is the exact opposite - the "everything app."
ESM
For context: we've previously created maps for Facebook (https://github.com/fabiogiglietto/Global_CLSB) and recently tested the updated CooRTweet (sister package of CooRnet) on Twitter. In our #DataAnalysis of approx. 20M tweets containing links flagged problematic by Meta's 3rd-party #FactCheckers, we identified 446 coordinated accounts co-sharing these links within a 10-sec window at least 129 times. #SocialMediaResearch #CoordinatedBehavior"
📢 calling all social media & global politics researchers!
Lisa Gaufman and I are convening a workshop on social media and everyday IR at #EWIS2023 in Amsterdam
abstracts due 5 Feb
https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2023/
mobility fund available for PhD students, ECRs and scholars from the Global South
https://eisa-net.org/awards-funding/mobility-fund/
#callforpapers #socialmediaresearch #IRresearch
Moving my account > short #introduction: Swedish researcher #journalismresearch #socialmediaresearch #digitalmediaresearch with lots of other interests #allotment #woodenboat #knitting #indiesewing and suffering from #blackhumour.
#twittermigration where are my #socialmediaresearch and #digitalculture peeps?
Kann jemand den #Tech-/#IT-#Journalist:innen stecken, dass niemand weiß, wieviele #FakeAccounts/#Bots auf Twitter unterwegs sind? Auch #Twitter kann das nicht wissen. Es handelt sich also um ein von #Musk vorgeschobenes Argument.
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