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View article: An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign
An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign Open
This article introduces a dataset of all posts by candidates during the 2024 General Election in the United Kingdom with a presence on the X (formerly Twitter) platform. The article relies on a crowd-sourcing innovation in the United Kingd…
View article: Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings
Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings Open
The ability of news media to report on events and opinions that are critical of the executive branch of government is central to media freedom and a marker of meaningful democratization. Existing indices use scoring criteria or expert surv…
View article: Information diets are more diverse in attention than in engagement
Information diets are more diverse in attention than in engagement Open
What political content do we pay attention to online? Diverse political information is essential for democratic competence, yet online media raises concerns about fragmented information diets. Research on selective exposure highlights how …
View article: Did local civil rights protest liberalize whites’ racial attitudes?
Did local civil rights protest liberalize whites’ racial attitudes? Open
Mazumder investigates the long-term effect of protest on political attitudes. He finds that whites have more liberal views on race and are more likely to be Democrats in counties where Civil Rights protest was reported in the early 1960s. …
View article: Emergent LLM behaviors are observationally equivalent to data leakage
Emergent LLM behaviors are observationally equivalent to data leakage Open
Ashery et al. recently argue that large language models (LLMs), when paired to play a classic "naming game," spontaneously develop linguistic conventions reminiscent of human social norms. Here, we show that their results are better explai…
View article: An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign
An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign Open
This article introduces a dataset of all posts by candidates during the 2024 General Election in the United Kingdom with a presence on the $\mathbb{X}$ (formerly Twitter) platform. The article relies on a crowd-sourcing innovation in the U…
View article: Information diets are more diverse in attention than in engagement
Information diets are more diverse in attention than in engagement Open
What political content do we pay attention to online? Diverse political information is essential for democratic competence, yet online media raises concerns about fragmented information diets. Research on selective exposure highlights how …
View article: Information diets are more diverse in attention than in engagement
Information diets are more diverse in attention than in engagement Open
What political content do we pay attention to online? Diverse political information is essential for democratic competence, yet online media raises concerns about fragmented information diets. Research on selective exposure highlights how …
View article: Prompt Stability Scoring for Text Annotation with Large Language Models
Prompt Stability Scoring for Text Annotation with Large Language Models Open
Researchers are increasingly using language models (LMs) for text annotation. These approaches rely only on a prompt telling the model to return a given output according to a set of instructions. The reproducibility of LM outputs may nonet…
View article: The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution
The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution Open
Revolutionary protest rarely begins as democratic or revolutionary. Instead, it grows in a process of positive feedback, incorporating new constituencies and generating new demands. If protest is not revolutionary at its onset, theory shou…
View article: Did the Musk takeover boost contentious actors on Twitter?
Did the Musk takeover boost contentious actors on Twitter? Open
After his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk pledged to overhaul verification and moderation policies. These events sparked fears of a rise in influence of contentious actors—notably from the political right. I investigated whether these ac…
View article: Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017–2019
Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017–2019 Open
How does protest affect political speech? Protest is an important form of political claim-making, yet our understanding of its influence on how individual legislators communicate remains limited. Our paper thus extends a theoretical framew…
View article: Replication Data for: "Did the Musk takeover boost contentious actors on Twitter?
Replication Data for: "Did the Musk takeover boost contentious actors on Twitter? Open
After his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk pledged to overhaul verification and moderation policies. These events sparked fears of a rise in influence of contentious actors—notably from the political right. I investigate this question by …
View article: Replication Data for: The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution
Replication Data for: The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution Open
Replication data for the article "Replication Data for: The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution." Note that raw Twitter is retrievable from the Dropbox link provided in the relevant R scri…
View article: Replication Data for: Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017-2019
Replication Data for: Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017-2019 Open
Replication materials for Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017-2019. Note that Twitter data have been included as, given they are tweets by elected legislators, the authors deem them to be in the …
View article: Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings
Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings Open
The ability of news media to criticize the executive branch of government is central to media freedom and a marker of meaningful democratization. Existing indices use scoring criteria or expert surveys to develop country year measures of m…
View article: Replication Data for: Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case-Control Approach
Replication Data for: Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case-Control Approach Open
Who joins extremist movements? Answering this question is beset by method- ological challenges as survey techniques are infeasible and selective samples pro- vide no counterfactual. Recruits can be assigned to contextual units, but this is…
View article: Did the Musk Takeover Boost Contentious Actors on Twitter?
Did the Musk Takeover Boost Contentious Actors on Twitter? Open
Twitter has been accused of a liberal bias in its account verification and content moderation policies. Elon Musk pledged, after his acquisition of the company, to promote free speech on the platform by overhauling verification and moderat…
View article: Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013–2018
Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013–2018 Open
What are the determinants of ethnic violence? Existing research has forwarded a range of often competing explanations, from political opportunism to economic competition to state incapacity. We argue that this diversity of accounts is attr…
View article: Replication Data for: Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013-2018
Replication Data for: Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 Open
What are the determinants of ethnic violence? Existing research has forwarded a range of oftentimes competing explanations, from political opportunism to economic competition to state incapacity. We argue that this diversity of accounts is…
View article: Faces in the crowd: Twitter as alternative to protest surveys
Faces in the crowd: Twitter as alternative to protest surveys Open
Who goes to protests? To answer this question, existing research has relied either on retrospective surveys of populations or in-protest surveys of participants. Both techniques are prohibitively costly and face logistical and methodologic…
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Replication Data for: Open
Replication data files for the article "Sect, Nation, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment after the Fall of Mosul" in the American Journal of Sociology.
View article: Sect, Nation, and Identity after the Fall of Mosul: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Sect, Nation, and Identity after the Fall of Mosul: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Open
How does war affect group identity? Does common threat unite ethnic groups behind the nation? What explains subethnic heterogeneity in identity responses? To answer these questions, scholarship to date has relied on laboratory settings or …
View article: Political sociology in a time of protest
Political sociology in a time of protest Open
We live in a time of protest. Relative to sociology, political science has traditionally paid little attention to ‘extra-institutional’ forms of political behaviour. For its part, sociology has tended to prioritize the explanation of mobil…
View article: academictwitteR: an R package to access the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint
academictwitteR: an R package to access the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint Open
Barrie et al., (2021). academictwitteR: an R package to access the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(62), 3272, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03272
View article: Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Contaminated Case Control Approach
Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Contaminated Case Control Approach Open
Who joins extremist movements? Answering this question poses considerable methodological challenges. Survey techniques are practically infeasible and selective samples provide no counterfactual. Assigning recruits to contextual units provi…
View article: Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Case-Control Approach
Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Case-Control Approach Open
Who joins extremist movements? Answering this question poses considerable methodological challenges. Survey techniques are infeasible and selective samples provide no counterfactual. Recruits can be assigned to contextual units, but this i…
View article: Kingdom of Trolls? Influence Operations in the Saudi Twittersphere
Kingdom of Trolls? Influence Operations in the Saudi Twittersphere Open
Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of Twitter penetration in the world. Despite high levels of repression, the platform is frequently used to discuss political topics. Recent disclosures from Twitter have revealed state-backed attem…