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View article: Network Ripple Effects: How Twitter Deplatforming Flipped Authority Structure and Discourse of the Arizona Election Review Community
Network Ripple Effects: How Twitter Deplatforming Flipped Authority Structure and Discourse of the Arizona Election Review Community Open
Content moderation decisions can have variable impacts on the events and discourses they aim to regulate. This study analyzes Twitter data from before and after the removal of key Arizona Election Audit Twitter accounts in March of 2021. A…
View article: Social Science Is Necessary for Operationalizing Socially Responsible Foundation Models
Social Science Is Necessary for Operationalizing Socially Responsible Foundation Models Open
With the rise of foundation models, there is growing concern about their potential social impacts. Social science has a long history of studying the social impacts of transformative technologies in terms of pre-existing systems of power an…
View article: When does group chat promote cooperation in shared resource governance?
When does group chat promote cooperation in shared resource governance? Open
When people use shared resources, overextraction can occur. While deliberation tends to mitigate shared resource exploitation problems, the question remains: under what conditions does group chat improve cooperation in shared resource dile…
View article: Evolutionary biology as a frontier for research on misinformation
Evolutionary biology as a frontier for research on misinformation Open
The field of misinformation studies has experienced a boom of scholarship in recent years. Buoyed by the emergence of information operations surrounding the 2016 election and the rise of so-called “fake news,” researchers hailing from fiel…
View article: Collective action within an environment of unknown unknowns: Experiences with the port of Mars Game
Collective action within an environment of unknown unknowns: Experiences with the port of Mars Game Open
There is limited research about how groups solve collective action problems in uncertain environments, especially if groups are confronted with unknown unknowns. We aim to develop a more comprehensive view of the characteristics that allow…
View article: Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems Open
Successful collaborative governance (CG) of social-ecological systems (SES) involves multiple stakeholders convening iteratively over the long term to reach a commonly held vision. This often involves building knowledge for social learning…
View article: VIRAL HEALTH MISINFORMATION FROM GEOCITIES TO COVID-19
VIRAL HEALTH MISINFORMATION FROM GEOCITIES TO COVID-19 Open
Although often discussed in the public discourse as a phenomenon newly exacerbated by social media, the use of the Internet to spread health-related misinformation is as old as the Internet itself. Techniques, networks, and narratives from…
View article: Comparison of State-Level Regulations for Cannabis Contaminants and Implications for Public Health
Comparison of State-Level Regulations for Cannabis Contaminants and Implications for Public Health Open
Although individual jurisdictions can implement their policies and regulations for legalized cannabis, this study demonstrates the urgent need to mitigate the public health risk of cannabis contamination by introducing national-level guide…
View article: The IMPED Model: Detecting Low-Quality Information in Social Media
The IMPED Model: Detecting Low-Quality Information in Social Media Open
This article introduces a model for detecting low-quality information we refer to as the Index of Measured-diversity, Partisan-certainty, Ephemerality, and Domain (IMPED). The model purports that low-quality information is characterized by…
View article: Regulatory status of pesticide residues in cannabis: Implications to medical use in neurological diseases
Regulatory status of pesticide residues in cannabis: Implications to medical use in neurological diseases Open
Medical cannabis represents a potential route of pesticide exposure to susceptible populations. We compared the qualifying conditions for medical use and pesticide testing requirements of cannabis in 33 states and Washington, D.C. Movement…
View article: From advocacy to acceptance: Social media discussions of protected bike lane installations
From advocacy to acceptance: Social media discussions of protected bike lane installations Open
Many North American cities are building bicycling infrastructure. Lively discussions on social media, where people passionately support or reject bicycling infrastructure projects, provide a unique data set on attitudes towards bicycling i…
View article: Triangulation of History Using Textual Data
Triangulation of History Using Textual Data Open
This essay describes essential considerations and select methods in computational text analysis for use in the study of history, specifically the history of science and biomedicine. It explores specific approaches that can be used for unde…
View article: Towards a Poetics of Strangeness: Experiments in Classifying Language of Technological Novelty
Towards a Poetics of Strangeness: Experiments in Classifying Language of Technological Novelty Open
The trajectory of science fiction since World War II has been defined by its relationship with technoscientific imaginaries. In the Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein dreamed of the robots and …
View article: Aircraft Hangar Demolition and Reconstruction
Aircraft Hangar Demolition and Reconstruction Open
Reconstruction of Hangar Q, located at the Millville Airport in New Jersey, required structural design improvements and cost estimation. The DRBA, Delaware River and Bay Authority, is seeking assistance with this project and has asked Rowa…
View article: The Canoe and the Superpixel: Image Analysis of the Changing Shorelines on Historical Maps of the Great Lakes
The Canoe and the Superpixel: Image Analysis of the Changing Shorelines on Historical Maps of the Great Lakes Open
Local information cannot capture all of the image/scene constraints available for image segmentation.Imposing global constraints such as context and shape priors are known to often improve segmentation results.In this paper we consider two…
View article: Incorporating technical analysis in undergraduate curricula
Incorporating technical analysis in undergraduate curricula Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce instruction of technical analysis on the undergraduate level that can coincide with traditional teachings of fundamental analysis. Design/methodology/approach Through examples using the lat…