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....

New article: "minority-owned businesses were less likely to be claimed on Google Maps and received fewer consumer review comments compared to their non-minority counterparts." The findings have implications for which businesses survived during the pandemic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How does the use of different platforms for news relate to strong vs. weak ties as well as online political participation? Take a look at this new article in SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Fear of missing out...on reading this article? Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... "Being female, perceptions of social media influence, and fear of missing out predicted depressive symptoms."

New article in SSCR using the technology acceptance model (TAM) to understand the problematic use of short-video apps among elderly adults. Link to article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article: How can LLM be leveraged to study public opinion? The authors found that GPT-3.5 exhibits a bias towards the Green and Left parties based on their analysis of Germany. Read the open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thinking of sending a paper to SSCR or another interdisciplinary global journal? Don’t forget to talk beyond your case. Tell the reader why they should care about your specific data by making it clear what process, point, variable matters and why. @sscratsage.bsky.social

We publish articles on o Consequences of AI o Cybersecurity, Privacy & Law o Digital Divides & Education o Methodological Innovations & Data Analysis o Politics, Policy, & Gov't o Social Behavior, Communication & Interactions o Social Media & Health

Published in November 2024: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Published in November 2024: Cyberbalkanization Without Monotonic Polarization: Temporal Dynamics and User Heterogeneity in Online Debates on Traditional Chinese Medicine. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Some findings:

Published in November 2024: Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the cross-national and over time trends in self-identifying as feminist:

Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.? Great question! It's the title of a new article in our journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article: People, Platforms, and Places: The Conditional Effects of Psychological Distances on Livestream Viewership journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

What kind of data are people willing to donate? Check out this new article: Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... People are willing to share their LinkedIn data. More details:

Trying to improve the response rate to an email survey? The new findings in this article might help: Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article about narcissists and AI: Do Narcissistic People Exhibit More Authentic Self-Disclosure to Generative AI? The Roles of Short-Form Video Addiction, Loneliness, and Usage Intention journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Here are some of the findings:

New article: A Dual-Role Trust Model for Social Media Influencers: The Paradox of Perceived Friendship. Available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Based on a survey of TikTok users, here are some findings:

New article: Machine Learning and Political Events: Application of a Semi-supervised Approach to Produce a Dataset on Presidential Cabinets by Bastián González-Bustamante. Available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hot topic: social media and depression, but with a different twist: “Depression is not Real; I Don’t Need Help”: Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media and Help Avoidance. Available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in misinformation? Read: Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hot topic: social media use and depression. Here's a new open-access article to read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Based on a sample of 849 Israeli men, here are some of the findings:

Last week, we published The Use of Religion Online by Indian Political Entities During the 2024 Lok Sabha Election: Religiopolitical Propaganda on Social Media. It's open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Check out some of the findings: