In case you missed it: This article was published in September: Research on False Information Detection Based on Herd Behavior From a Social Network Perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article in SSCR: Welcome to the Brave New World: Lay Definitions of AI at Work and in Daily Life. Check out the word cloud of words people report in relation to AI: Full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New in SSCR: Unpacking Divorce: Feature-Based Machine Learning Interpretation of Sociological Patterns...using the 2021 Turkey Family Structure Survey data. Check out the list of features influencing divorce: Full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

SSCR article: Riding the Tide: How Online Activists Leverage Repression. Looking at Twitter data over time related to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Different format for an SSCR paper, but take a look at this paper, which looks at how six sociologists look at AI. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW article: Selective Exposure to News, Homogeneous Political Discussion Networks, and Affective Political Polarization: An Agent-Based Modeling of Minimal versus Strong Communication Effects. Check out the innovative research design: Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW article in SSCR: Does AI Usage Diminish Human Creativity?: How Goal Orientation Theory Moderates the Negative Effects Between AI Usage and Creative Output Check out the correlation matrix looking at the effects of habitual AI use. Full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW OPEN-ACCESS article in SSCR: Take Action Now! A Longitudinal Study of Political Party Calls to Action Across Social Media Platforms. Take a look at this figure showing the number of posts by political leaders in Norway over time. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW article in SSCR: Prompt Engineering for Large Language Model-Assisted Inductive Thematic Analysis. Different prompts to use: Check out the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article in SSCR: Generative AI Usage by Individuals During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW article in SSCR reports people's open-ended comments about their reasons for thinking an image was AI-generated. The images were used as part of a vignette. Take a look at this open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW article in SSCR: Incivility in Reddit’s Top Political and News Subreddits: Prevalence, Moderation, and Engagement. Lots of interesting findings, but check out this summary of the moderation policies across different subreddits. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW article in SSCR: Looks at 140,000 news articles in Estonia. Check out this figure and read more in this open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Assessing Bias in LLM-Generated Synthetic Datasets: The Case of German Voter Behavior https://osf.io/97r8s !! Please refer to and cite the more recent, peer-reviewed, more comprehensive version of this paper published in Social Science Computer Review: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251 #sociology

Check out this open access paper in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... More details in the thread below.

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ICYMI: open-access study shows GPT-4 outperforms human coders and supervised models in identifying politicians’ ideology across 11 countries. LLMs can now interpret nuance + context once thought uniquely human. By Petter Törnberg et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📱Trending now: Phubbing or phone snubbing during social interactions is on the rise. Research finds TikTok use (not Instagram or YouTube!) predicts more phubbing, mediated by lower self-control. By Meredith E. David & James Roberts @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Deepfakes don’t just fool us. They make us cynical. Study finds that perceived exposure to deepfakes increases media cynicism, &. that confidence in one’s ability to detect them may worsen mistrust. By Christian Pieter Hoffmann et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

💔 New research uses ML to unpack why marriages end. Using Turkey’s 2021 Family Structure Survey, Random Forest + Logistic Regression reveal key predictors of divorce: conflict style, cultural rituals, and political disagreement. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Wow! That's a lot of work for the editor. Please submit your best papers to SSCR. We are happy to receive them.

Check out this new open-access paper in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New methods piece in our journal. Check out the visual of the workflow. Model tested on databases related to fake news/misinformation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article on privacy protection behavior, using a large sample (3K) survey of Italians conducted in 2022. Very relevant for those who study privacy and digital inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If you code news framing, you will want to read this new paper: Finding Frames With BERT: A Transformer-Based Approach to Generic News Frame Detection. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Take a look at the different frames considered:

New open-access article introducing an LLM data extraction method, tested using Canadian federal and Quebec provincial politicians. Take a look at the results related to different federal parties and posts related to the environment. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article using Twitter data from 2019 to 2024 (18K tweets) tracking the rise and fall of civil unrest (protests, riots) in South Africa. Super interesting! Take a look: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A new OPEN ACCESS article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social offers "A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Here's a visual representation of the workflow. Thanks for following the journal!

Another new article about chatbots: "Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners" The authors identify three typical user-bot relational pairings: customer-product, human-machine, and woman-man/woman-woman. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article using content analysis of 4,000 trolling comments on 40 Facebook posts that were made by 20 politicians. #gendertrolling. Take a peek at the codebook and the full article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article in our journal looks at the perception of chatbots' humanness and how it influences anxiety towards AI, based on a survey conducted in 2023 in China. Take a look! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Check out the our methodological innovations and data analysis collection (n the collections tab). So many great advances!

Great read. Check out the great pieces on SSCR’s website.

ICYMI! Great piece on minority business ownership, consumer reviews, and survival rates during the pandemic.

Interesting article on electoral forecasting. Check out the abstract below.

One of a few new and forthcoming pieces on the topic of using LLMs on qualitative research.

Trending topics less than 7 hours on Sona Weibo. Incredible!

📢 New OA publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social from our #DeepfakeProject. We find that perceived exposure to deepfakes is linked to media cynicism, and that detection self-efficacy positively moderates this relationship. No effect for intellectual humility :/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article in SSCR: A Theory-Driven Approach to Fake News/Information Disorder Analysis and Explanation via Target-Based Emotion–Stance Analysis (TESA) and Interpretive Graph Generation (IGG) #misinformation #fakenews journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article in SSCR shows that female Twitter users are more likely to be hacked! The authors link this finding to the three-level digital divide. Check the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Brand new article in SSCR. Stromer-Galley et al. (2025) compare the classification of political candidate social media messages between trained annotators, crowd annotators, and large language models from OpenAI (ChatGPT) and the paid API (GPT API). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Can social media use reduce prejudice? This study finds that "social connectedness in nonpolitical groups was associated with diminished blatant prejudice and lower levels of global prejudice, a measure that includes both subtle and blatant components." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Methods article published in SSCR: "Using PISA 2015 data from 58 countries/economies, we analyze patterns of correlations between the enjoyment of science and science test scores across response time." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What's trending on Sina Weibo? This article finds that topics features, such as their semantic and textual features, significantly influence topic persistence...the median survival time of Weibo trending topic was 6.28 hours, with an average of 8.29 hours." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Great new methods article on qualitative analysis using GPT-4. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this article using data from three Italian general elections "to evaluate discrepancies between pre-electoral polls and results, assessing key factors such as timing of data collection, survey methodology, sample size, and party system fragmentation." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A systematic review of 28 articles finds "studies consistently identify bias in media outlets." Check out the open-access article: Automated Detection of Media Bias Using Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing: A systematic review journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....