The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has
produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies …

Abstract Language can provide important insights into people, and culture more generally.
Further, the digitization of information has made more and more textual data available. But …

What conditions enable novel intellectual contributions to diffuse and become integrated into
later scientific work? Prior work tends to focus on whole cultural products, such as patents …

Abstract Objective Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eventually
recommended wearing masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the practice …

The digitization of music has changed how we consume, produce, and distribute music. In
this paper, we explore the effects of digitization and streaming on the globalization of …

Digital trace data from giant platforms are gaining ground in the study of human behavior.
This trend accompanies contestations regarding representativeness, privacy, access, and …

Este é um livro sobre o fenómeno da comunicação da comunicação. Ou seja, quando o ato
comunicativo se centra sobre o que outro já, previamente, comunicou. Nas palavras de …

What social processes guide the spread of ethnic or racial exclusion? I investigate the
diffusion of medieval expulsions of Jews among over 500 polities in the western Holy …

The Internet, since its inception, has been imagined as a technology that enables
information to overcome barriers of language and geography. As a handful of social media …

This article introduces the concept of scalar mediation to describe a central aspect of the
work of global consecrating organizations. Existing work has demonstrated how scales …