A primer on open-source, experimental social media simulation software: Opportunities for misinformation research and beyond

A Jagayat, BL Choma - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Social media simulation software (SMSS) allows researchers to collect behavioural data on
how participants to engage with researcher-specified social media content using natural …

The (Mis) Information Game: a social media simulator

LH Butler, P Lamont, DLY Wan, T Prike… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Given the potential negative impact reliance on misinformation can have, substantial effort
has gone into understanding the factors that influence misinformation belief and …

From social media to artificial intelligence: improving research on digital harms in youth

KL Mansfield, S Ghai, T Hakman, N Ballou… - The Lancet Child & …, 2025 - thelancet.com
Summary In this Personal View, we critically evaluate the limitations and underlying
challenges of existing research into the negative mental health consequences of internet …

On the need for thoughtful data collection for multi-party dialogue: A survey of available corpora and collection methods

K Mahajan, S Shaikh - Proceedings of the 22nd annual meeting of …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
We present a comprehensive survey of available corpora for multi-party dialogue. We survey
over 300 publications related to multi-party dialogue and catalogue all available corpora in a …

Yourfeed: Towards open science and interoperable systems for social media

Z Epstein, H Lin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07478, 2022 - arxiv.org
Existing social media platforms (SMPs) make it incredibly difficult for researchers to conduct
studies on social media, which in turn has created a knowledge gap between academia and …

Towards Multi-Party Conversation Modeling

K Mahajan - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Recent advances in the field of Natural Language Processing, specifically in Natural
Language Generation (NLG) towards Dialogue Systems have focused mainly on two-party …

[PDF][PDF] Outnumbered online: An experiment on Partisan imbalance in a dynamic social media environment

MB Allamong, A Trexler, F Alqabandi, T Tucker, C Bail… - OSF [Preprints], 2023 - files.osf.io
Research on the impacts of online political discussions have focused on social media “echo
chambers,” but less is known about how people respond to online environments dominated …

[PDF][PDF] Outnumbered Online: The Consequences of Partisan Imbalance in Online Political Discussions

MB Allamong, A Trexler, F Alqabandi, T Tucker, C Bail… - 2024 - files.osf.io
Much research on online political discussions has focused on social media “echo chambers”
of like-minded individuals, but less is known about how people respond to online …

Investigating How Social Media Definitions and Mindsets Relate to Naturalistic One-Click Reactions

L Rhee - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Researchers have repeatedly deliberated on the question of “What is social media?” for the
past two decades. More recent perspectives have suggested that measuring individual …

The dynamics of attention in digital ecosystems

Z Epstein - 2023 - dspace.mit.edu
With more than half of the population of earth now using social media, it has become a
critical tool for individuals to gain information about the world around them and to connect …