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View article: From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests
From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests Open
This paper examines how news frames on disruptive climate protests differ from coverage of conventional protests in news outlets with different political leanings. Analyzing 6632 articles from 21 ideologically diverse German news sources b…
View article: A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis
A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis Open
This paper provides a practical example and guide on how to augment or replace human coders with Large Language Models (LLMs) during content analysis. We demonstrate this by replicating and extending an influential study on environmental c…
View article: The Re-mediation of Legacy and New Media on Twitter: A Six-Language Comparison of the European Social Media Discourse on Migration
The Re-mediation of Legacy and New Media on Twitter: A Six-Language Comparison of the European Social Media Discourse on Migration Open
Scholarly literature has demonstrated that hybridity transforms both legacy and new media, but that this change is not even. We treat social media platforms as arenas of remediation, where users share and add their own context to informati…
View article: Do you really believe that? The effect of economic incentives on the acceptance of real-world data in a polarized context
Do you really believe that? The effect of economic incentives on the acceptance of real-world data in a polarized context Open
Attitudes and expectations towards others are major drivers of political polarization. However, there is limited understanding of their relevance when decisions with high stakes are taken. In this study, we compare self-reported attitudes …
View article: The uses of the term polarisation in Swedish newspapers, 2010–2021
The uses of the term polarisation in Swedish newspapers, 2010–2021 Open
In this article, we investigate the rhetorical uses and media frames associated with the term polarisation in Swedish print media from 2010 to 2021. We first produce a qualitative and detailed assessment of a sample of 240 articles and the…
View article: From Disruptive Protests to Disruptive Framing? Comparing German News on Fridays for Future and Letzte Generation
From Disruptive Protests to Disruptive Framing? Comparing German News on Fridays for Future and Letzte Generation Open
This paper examines whether disruptive climate protests are debated and portrayed differently from conventional protests in news outlets with different political leanings. Analyzing 6,632 articles from 21 ideologically diverse German sourc…
View article: Do you really believe that? The effect of economic incentives on the acceptance of real-world data in a polarized context
Do you really believe that? The effect of economic incentives on the acceptance of real-world data in a polarized context Open
Attitudes and expectations towards others are major drivers of political polarization, while little is known about actual differences in beliefs and behaviors between partisan groups. We designed an experiment where self-reported attitudes…
View article: Social conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context
Social conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context Open
This study examines whether and to what extent the bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence impact opinion formation in a polarized context, where individuals tend to be persistent in their policy attitudes. Focusing on contentious polic…
View article: Condensed Results Report of PROTECT's Research on Analyzing Media and Social Media Discourses
Condensed Results Report of PROTECT's Research on Analyzing Media and Social Media Discourses Open
Our research is aimed at exploring the way in which the topics of migration and refugees are reported, presented and discussed in traditional and social media. The study seeks to identify and analyze the dominant discourses and narratives …
View article: Hybrid media? A comparison of traditional and social media migration-related content along scope, function and curation
Hybrid media? A comparison of traditional and social media migration-related content along scope, function and curation Open
Media discourses affect people’s attitudes towards refugees and migrants, and from there even migration and asylum policies. Earlier research shows that traditional and social media accommodate different discourses and encourage different …
View article: Europeanization on Twitter? Mapping the trans-national Migration Discourse
Europeanization on Twitter? Mapping the trans-national Migration Discourse Open
Do social media lead to an increased Europeanization of the digital public discourse and, thereby, help develop a more integrated European-level political body? This paper probes the existence of a Europeanized public discourse on Twitter …
View article: A content and frame analysis of the social media discourse on refugees and migrants, in the context of the United Nations and the European Union, 2015-2019
A content and frame analysis of the social media discourse on refugees and migrants, in the context of the United Nations and the European Union, 2015-2019 Open
In this paper, we perform a cross-platform, cross-language comparison of social media content from Twitter, Reddit and YouTube related to refugees and migrants in the context of two major players in international protection: the United Nat…
View article: Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain Open
The relationship between environmental attitudes and behaviour is known to be weak, especially when these variables are measured as self-report items in surveys. In addition many environmental questions are highly polarised, making it even…
View article: Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals
Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals Open
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unusually high submission rate of scholarly articles. Given that most academics were forced to work from home, the competing demands for familial duties may have penalized the …
View article: Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe
Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe Open
In their studies of collective exploitation of common-pool resources, Ostrom and other scholars have stressed the importance of sanctioning as an essential method for preventing overuse and, eventually, the collapse of commons. However, mo…
View article: Comparisons of historical Dutch commons inform about the long-term dynamics of social-ecological systems
Comparisons of historical Dutch commons inform about the long-term dynamics of social-ecological systems Open
Human societies and natural ecosystems are under threat by growing populations, overexploitation of natural resources and climate change. This calls for more sustainable utilization of resources based on past experiences and insights from …
View article: Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation
Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation Open
This article presents a new and previously unchartered dataset on roll call votes for all 28 member states in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019 and studies the effects of politicisation on governments' oppositional voting in the …
View article: The public places more trust in scientists and politicians, when they appear individually, rather than together, to communicate Covid-19 public health measures
The public places more trust in scientists and politicians, when they appear individually, rather than together, to communicate Covid-19 public health measures Open
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians have been accompanied by scientists when communicating the need for anti-contagion measures. In this post, Mike Farjam discusses the results of a joint Italian/Swedish experiment into public at…
View article: Dangerous liaisons: an online experiment on the role of scientific experts and politicians in ensuring public support for anti-COVID measures
Dangerous liaisons: an online experiment on the role of scientific experts and politicians in ensuring public support for anti-COVID measures Open
The effectiveness of public health measures to prevent COVID-19 contagion has required less vulnerable citizens to pay an individual cost in terms of personal liberty infringement to protect more vulnerable groups. However, the close relat…
View article: If future generations had a say: An experiment on fair sharing of a common-pool resource across generations
If future generations had a say: An experiment on fair sharing of a common-pool resource across generations Open
Through an online experiment with 682 participants, we test how inter-generational resource sharing is affected by granting veto power to later generations. We specifically study the over-use of a common-pool resource (CPR) by early genera…
View article: Peer review and gender bias: A study on 145 scholarly journals
Peer review and gender bias: A study on 145 scholarly journals Open
No evidence that women are penalized in peer review and editorial processes, finds study on 145 journals in multiple disciplines.
View article: Long-Term Dynamics of Institutions: Using ABM as a Complementary Tool to Support Theory Development in Historical Studies
Long-Term Dynamics of Institutions: Using ABM as a Complementary Tool to Support Theory Development in Historical Studies Open
Historical data are valuable resources for providing insights into general sociological patterns in the past. How-ever, these data often inform us at the macro-level of analysis but not about the role of individuals’ behaviours in the emer…
View article: Replication Data for "Peer review and gender bias: A study on 145 scholarly journals"
Replication Data for "Peer review and gender bias: A study on 145 scholarly journals" Open
Contains Dataset, codebook and R-scripts needed to replicate the analysis in the paper
View article: Eco-evolutionary perspectives on emergence, dispersion and dissolution of historical Dutch commons
Eco-evolutionary perspectives on emergence, dispersion and dissolution of historical Dutch commons Open
Historical commons represent self-governed governance regimes that regulate the use and management of natural and man-made shared resources. Despite growing scientific interests, analyses of commons evolution and temporal dynamics are rare…
View article: Replication Data for Dangerous liaisons: An online experiment on the role of scientific experts and politicians in ensuring public support for anti-COVID measures
Replication Data for Dangerous liaisons: An online experiment on the role of scientific experts and politicians in ensuring public support for anti-COVID measures Open
R-script and data needed to replicate all graphs and tables shown in the manuscript. Protocollo.pdf contains the ethical approval that we got before running the experiment.
View article: The gap between self-reported and actual contributions to climate change mitigation in US residents
The gap between self-reported and actual contributions to climate change mitigation in US residents Open
Surveys measures of environmental concern are know to only weakly predict self-reported environmental behaviour. In addition, self-reported and actual behaviour may not match in empirical settings. To better explore the relation among thes…
View article: The Bandwagon Effect in an Online Voting Experiment With Real Political Organizations
The Bandwagon Effect in an Online Voting Experiment With Real Political Organizations Open
This study examined through an online experiment how pre-election pollsaffect voters. The results revealed that votes for the most popular optionincreased on average by 7% when polls were shared with participants, shiftingaway from both mi…
View article: Prospects and Challenges for the Computational Social Sciences
Prospects and Challenges for the Computational Social Sciences Open
Computational social sciences (CSS) refer to computer-enabled investigations of human behaviour and social interaction. They include three main components - (i) computational modelling and social ...
View article: No evidence of any systematic bias against manuscripts by women in the peer review process of 145 scholarly journals
No evidence of any systematic bias against manuscripts by women in the peer review process of 145 scholarly journals Open
This article examines gender bias in peer review with complete data on 145 journals in various fields of research, including about 1.7 million authors and 740,000 referees. We reconstructed three possible sources of bias, i.e., the editori…