#computationalsocialscience

The ANU HASS Digital Research Hub is advertising a research software engineering position, to contribute to the Social Science Research Infrastructure Network (SSRIN) project, funded by ARDC and led by University of Queensland. It would be a great role for someone interested in computational social science and/or research software engineering.

https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-software-engineer-social-science-research-infrastructure-network-canberra-act-act-australia

Please circulate to your networks.

#socialscience #digitalsocialscience #computationalsocialscience

New publication in the @GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by Jo Lukito, Sebastian Stier, Mareike Wieland, @danica, Frank Mangold, and me:
"Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
https://rrr.is/dbdethics
#computationalsocialscience #digitaltraces #researchethics

New publication!

Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti, @Bruna, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & Kateryna Maikovska

50 open-access copies are available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V9SRJQFI5SV5ZNVKZJHZ/full?target=10.1080/1369118X.2025.2470229

This study is particularly relevant in light of the current wave of traditionalist radicalism.
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

New paper by Sebastian Stier, Pascal Siegers, and me in European Sociological Review: "Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany"
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae051
#computationalsocialscience #polcomm

The deadline for #COMPTEXT2025 is approaching! Submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15, 2025, 11:59:59 PM CET Don’t miss out!
#commodon #computationalsocialscience
Details: https://www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-comptext-conference-2025/

The @GESIS Meet the Experts talk by Dimitar Dimitrov and me on "Collecting and Providing Web Data for the Social Sciences" is now available online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gZzzpURzfk
#computationalsocialscience

Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025

Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science

Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

#commodon #computationalsocialscience

New publication in the GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data series by Julian Kohne, M. Rohangis Mohseni, Annika Deubel, and me: "How to Collect Data with the YouTube Data API"
https://rrr.is/ytapiguide
#computationalsocialscience
#commodon
@communicationscholars

At the end of the semester in my data analysis and visualization course, we're working on mapping. Here's the exercise for next week. Mapping NYC restaurant inspection grades. #DataAnalysis #DataViz #Mapping #Sociology #ComputationalSocialScience

Hi all, I'm a french physicist from Marseille.

I work at the interface between statistical physics, network science and sociology (sometimes labelled #sociophysics or #ComputationalSocialScience). I'm basically interested in universal properties in human behaviour, and the mechanisms responsible for these properties.

I also teach maths, network science and Python in Aix-Marseille Univ.

The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna, April 24-26. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring!
https://shorturl.at/AmocX
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

For our new project "Fostering Proactive Replicability in Computational Communication Science via Frontloading Effort and Automating Protocols" within the DFG priority program META-REP, @drfollowmario and I are looking for a Ph.D. student: https://rrr.is/repccs2job
Application deadline: Dec 6, 2024
Project start: March 1, 2025
#commodon
@communicationscholars
#computationalsocialscience

#LLMs #digitalresearch #computationalsocialscience

We wrote an article on the perils and challenges of using LLMs to simulate humans or social interactions: https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/19576 It's a part of a special issue of Sociologica (check it out!). Our main point is that, while tempting, using LLMs to simulate users is not such a great idea and it rests on top of many problematic assumptions. it's very tempting and we're afraid it might grow rapidly

Join us for the first talk in our Computational Social Science Speaker Series

Interactivity & Democracy: Online Media Effects in the Age of AI
Dr. S. Shyam Sundar, Penn State
Sept 20, 1:30-2:30 pm
DMC 5.102

#AI #ComputationalSocialScience #Democracy #TechForGood

New open-access publication by Philipp Knöpfle, @drfollowmario, and me in Publizistik: "Key topic or bare necessity? How Research Ethics are Addressed and Discussed in Computational Communication Science" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11616-024-00846-7
#computationalsocialscience #commodon @communicationscholars

Excited to present my student Harmony Peura's and my work today at #INSNA in #Edinburgh: an agent-based simulation of dynamic vote-seeking campaigns in the presence of a heterogeneous electorate.

http://stephendavies.org/DaviesPeura.pptx

#ComputationalSocialScience #ABM #networkscience

Another deep truism from ANNSIM last week: "modeling is more important than the model." In other words, the process of developing a model, and experimenting and learning through a simulation, is of more value to a stakeholder than the finished product itself.

#ComputationalSocialScience #abm #annsim

Political candidates adjust their articulated positions on issues during campaigns, in order to appeal to voters. (Example: Kari Lake recently walking back her stance on an abortion ban.)

How much does this affect the rationality of election outcomes? See the results from our agent-based model, presented at #ANNSIM last week, for an analysis: http://stephendavies.org/writings/DaviesPeura2024.pdf

#ABM #ComputationalSocialScience #polarization #elections

Ethan Zuckerman's extensions lawsuit vs. Meta would help #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience researchers -- not to mention, _users_! https://www.wired.com/story/meta-section-230-users-algorithm/

#Servicetoot für die #Soziologie -Bubble (rutscht vielleicht sonst durch, da in der Informatik-Fakultät angesiedelt):
An der Uni #Bamberg ist eine W3-Professur für "Computational Social Science und Künstliche Intelligenz" ausgeschrieben: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakultaeten/wiai/dateien/Berufungsverfahren/Ausschreibung_HTA_KI_CSS_DE_FINAL.pdf #ComputationalSocialScience