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View article: DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter Open
Social media play a pivotal role in disseminating web content, particularly during elections, yet our understanding of the association between demographic factors and information sharing online remains limited. Here, we introduce a unique …
View article: DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter Open
Social media play a pivotal role in disseminating web content, particularly during elections, yet our understanding of the association between demographic factors and information sharing online remains limited. Here, we introduce a unique …
View article: Curation Bubbles
Curation Bubbles Open
Information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information, and those users in turn share information that promotes their identities and interests. We arg…
View article: Does Russian Propaganda Lead or Follow? Topic Coverage, User Engagement, and RT and Sputnik’s Agenda Influence on US Media
Does Russian Propaganda Lead or Follow? Topic Coverage, User Engagement, and RT and Sputnik’s Agenda Influence on US Media Open
Russian state propaganda outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik are an important part of Russian foreign policy and key global sources of disinformation. Previous work has argued that they focus on exploiting social divisions among foreign …
View article: Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Open
Racial violence is central to the American polity. We argue that support for violence, specifically anti-Black violence, has a long historical arc in American politics dating back to chattel slavery. In this paper, we argue that the racial…
View article: Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented natural experiment providing insights into the emergence of collective behavioral changes of both exogenous (government mandated) and endogenous (spontaneous reaction to infection risks) origin…
View article: Inequalities in Online Representation: Who Follows Their Own Member of Congress on Twitter?
Inequalities in Online Representation: Who Follows Their Own Member of Congress on Twitter? Open
Members of Congress increasingly rely on social media to communicate with their constituents and other members of the public in real time. However, despite their increased use, little is known about the composition of members' audiences in…
View article: Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Open
Racial violence is central to the American polity. We argue that support for violence, specifically anti-Black violence, has a long historical arc in American politics dating back to chattel slavery. In this paper, we argue that the racial…
View article: White Supremacy, Democrats, and Anti-Abortion Support
White Supremacy, Democrats, and Anti-Abortion Support Open
White supremacist attitudes are on the rise in the United States. In this paper, we assert that there are latent white supremacist sentiments, deeply connected to the changing racial demographics of the U.S., that can shift white Democrats…
View article: The Long Shadow of the Civil War: The Recurrent Historical Centrality of Anti-Black Political Threat in Eroding Public Support for American Democracy
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: The Recurrent Historical Centrality of Anti-Black Political Threat in Eroding Public Support for American Democracy Open
Racial threat from demographic change is a central component in driving democratic backsliding in the U.S. We show that the threat which emerges in the minds of Americans is predominantly Black political threat (BPT), which connects to dee…
View article: The speech we miss: How keyword-based data collection obscures youth participation in online political discourse
The speech we miss: How keyword-based data collection obscures youth participation in online political discourse Open
In this work, we leverage a panel of over 1.6 million Twitter users matched with public voter records to assess how a standard keyword-based approach to social media data collection performs in the context of participatory politics, and we…
View article: Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented natural experiment providing insights into the emergence of collective behavioral changes of both exogenous (government mandated) and endogenous (spontaneous reaction to infection risks) origin…
View article: Online engagement with 2020 election misinformation and turnout in the 2021 Georgia runoff election
Online engagement with 2020 election misinformation and turnout in the 2021 Georgia runoff election Open
Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President Donald Trump, promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Joe Biden’s close victory in Georgia was fraudulent. Such conspiratorial claims could impl…
View article: Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election
Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election Open
This archive contains code needed to replicate "Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election." This is the restricted-access version of the Zenodo archive, containing data that can onl…
View article: Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election
Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election Open
This archive contains code needed to replicate "Online Engagement with 2020 Election Misinformation and Turnout in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Election." Due to data-use agreements and privacy concerns, not all data in the open-access reposito…
View article: Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy
Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy Open
With a dataset of testing and case counts from over 1,400 institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States, we analyze the number of infections and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in the counties surrounding these IHEs during the Fall 2…
View article: Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy
Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy Open
With a dataset of testing and case counts from over 1,400 institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States, we analyze the number of infections and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in the counties surrounding these IHEs during the Fall 2…
View article: netrd: A library for network reconstruction and graph distances
netrd: A library for network reconstruction and graph distances Open
This library provides a consistent, NetworkX-based interface to various utilities for graph distances, graph reconstruction from time series data, and simulated dynamics on networks.
View article: Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets
Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets Open
Social media data can provide new insights into political phenomena, but users do not always represent people, posts and accounts are not typically linked to demographic variables for use as statistical controls or in subgroup comparisons,…
View article: Pandemics, Protests, and Publics
Pandemics, Protests, and Publics Open
As an integral component of public discourse, Twitter is among the main data sources for scholarship in this area. However, there is much that scholars do not know about the basic mechanisms of public discourse on Twitter, including the pr…
View article: The COVID States Project #18: Fake news on Twitter
The COVID States Project #18: Fake news on Twitter Open
Social media acts as a conduit for fake news websites, where we define fake news as information that mirrors legitimate news in form, but “lacks the news media’s editorial norms and processes for ensuring the accuracy and credibility of in…
View article: Network comparison and the within-ensemble graph distance
Network comparison and the within-ensemble graph distance Open
Quantifying the differences between networks is a challenging and ever-present problem in network science. In recent years, a multitude of diverse, ad hoc solutions to this problem have been introduced. Here, we propose that simple and wel…
View article: Communicating Sequential Agents: An Analysis of Concurrent Agent Scheduling
Communicating Sequential Agents: An Analysis of Concurrent Agent Scheduling Open
Concurrent scheduling of agents presents a challenge for researchers who wish to develop scalable agent-based models (ABMs) without sacrificing intelligibility or fine control over model elements. In this thesis, I advance our understandin…