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Duke Sociology PhD student (advised by Chris Bail), studying online communities, polarization, and social AI. Flute player, early career Computational Social Scientist
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

submitted 118 days ago • 3 comments

I had a great experience at SICSS-Penn last year. Highly recommend to any early-career scholar interested in Computational Social Science!

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...

submitted 144 days ago • 6 comments

Applications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host

submitted 213 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 214 days ago • 1228 comments

Hello to all my new followers, most of whom are (luckily) nerds. I will not let you down. Here is a topic modeling of my college subreddit. Equipped with my deep domain expertise, I'm taking questions.

submitted 219 days ago • 1 comment

With oh so many social apps today, it's time for us social computing builders and designers to take a pause, zoom ALL the way out, and also take a trip down memory lane... Check out @mbernst.bsky.social's talk on Wed at #CSCW2024 9:00 – 10:30 "Session 1d: Understanding and Shaping Online Behavior"!

submitted 221 days ago • 0 comments

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

submitted 219 days ago • 34 comments

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...

submitted 220 days ago • 16 comments

New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals. These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status. osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 499 days ago • 7 comments

Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

submitted 563 days ago • 5 comments

Conflicts are always “fog of war" situations — where information is uncertain & ambiguous. With recent disruptions to the info ecosystem (diminished moderation, Twitter's deterioration), we have perhaps never been so vulnerable to deception and manipulation. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 616 days ago • 1 comment

This is the clearest analysis I’ve seen of the fundamental problem with Community Notes in crisis situations: The overwhelming majority of impressions on tweets happen in the first 1-3 hours after posting, but it takes an average of 10 hours and 44 minutes for Community Notes to publicly show up.

submitted 616 days ago • 13 comments