Social life increasingly occurs in digital environments and continues to be mediated by
digital systems. Big data represents the data being generated by the digitization of social life …

An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age. In just the
past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile …

We utilize longitudinal social network data collected pre–COVID-19 in June 2019 and
compare them with data collected in the midst of COVID in June 2020. We find significant …

We leveraged exogenous variation in weather patterns across geographies to identify social
contagion in exercise behaviours across a global social network. We estimated these …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

The consequences of anthropogenic climate change are extensively debated through
scientific papers, newspaper articles, and blogs. Newspaper articles may lack accuracy …

Information diffusion in online social networks is affected by the underlying network
topology, but it also has the power to change it. Online users are constantly creating new …

Social science is entering a golden age, marked by the confluence of explosive growth in
new data and analytic methods, interdisciplinary approaches, and a recognition that these …

Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers
to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes …

The current research chronicles the unfolding of the early psychological impacts of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by analyzing Reddit language from 18 US cities …