Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century

D Lazer, E Hargittai, D Freelon, S Gonzalez-Bailon… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Science rarely proceeds beyond what scientists can observe and measure, and sometimes
what can be observed proceeds far ahead of scientific understanding. The twenty-first …

Hypothetical bias in stated choice experiments: Part II. Conceptualisation of external validity, sources and explanations of bias and effectiveness of mitigation methods

M Haghani, MCJ Bliemer, JM Rose, H Oppewal… - Journal of choice …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper follows the review of empirical evidence on the existence of hypothetical bias
(HB) in choice experiments (CEs) presented in Part I of this study. It observes how the …

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

DMJ Lazer, A Pentland, DJ Watts, S Aral, S Athey… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The field of computational social science (CSS) has exploded in prominence over the past
decade, with thousands of papers published using observational data, experimental …

Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education

RF Kizilcec, J Reich, M Yeomans… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Online education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and
continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals …

Cross-platform emotions and audience engagement in social media political campaigning: Comparing candidates' Facebook and Instagram images in the 2020 US …

M Bossetta, R Schmøkel - Political Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides a cross-platform, longitudinal investigation of pictures depicting political
candidates posted to Facebook and Instagram over a 15-month period during the 2020 US …

Social media and morality

JJ Van Bavel, CE Robertson… - Annual review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: Evidence from a large archive of campaigns' own experiments

L Hewitt, D Broockman, A Coppock… - American Political …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Political campaigns increasingly conduct experiments to learn how to persuade voters. Little
research has considered the implications of this trend for elections or democracy. To probe …

Challenges in understanding human-algorithm entanglement during online information consumption

S Lewandowsky, RE Robertson… - Perspectives on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Most content consumed online is curated by proprietary algorithms deployed by social
media platforms and search engines. In this article, we explore the interplay between these …

The emerging science of content labeling: Contextualizing social media content moderation

G Morrow, B Swire‐Thompson, JM Polny… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the online information ecosystem, a content label is an attachment to a piece of content
intended to contextualize that content for the viewer. Content labels are information about …

The distorting prism of social media: How self-selection and exposure to incivility fuel online comment toxicity

JW Kim, A Guess, B Nyhan… - Journal of Communication, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Though prior studies have analyzed the textual characteristics of online comments about
politics, less is known about how selection into commenting behavior and exposure to other …