Measuring algorithmically infused societies

C Wagner, M Strohmaier, A Olteanu, E Kıcıman… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
It has been the historic responsibility of the social sciences to investigate human societies.
Fulfilling this responsibility requires social theories, measurement models and social data …

A research agenda for the study of social norm change

G Andrighetto, E Vriens - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social norms have been investigated across many disciplines for many years, but until
recently, studies mainly provided indirect, implicit and correlational support for the role of …

[PDF][PDF] Can large language models transform computational social science?

C Ziems, W Held, O Shaikh, J Chen, Z Zhang… - Computational …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language
processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify …

Simulating social media using large language models to evaluate alternative news feed algorithms

P Törnberg, D Valeeva, J Uitermark, C Bail - ar** in the social sciences
A Luscombe, K Dick, K Walby - Quality & Quantity, 2022 - Springer
Web scra**, defined as the automated extraction of information online, is an increasingly
important means of producing data in the social sciences. We contribute to emerging social …

Argumentative conversational agents for online discussions

R Hadfi, J Haqbeen, S Sahab, T Ito - Journal of Systems Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising our communication practices and the ways in which
we interact with each other. This revolution does not only impact how we communicate, but it …

Introduction to the handbook of computational social science

U Engel, A Quan-Haase, SX Liu… - … of Computational Social …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
We write the introduction to the two-volume Handbook of Computational Social Science with
excitement and awe. The handbook brings together a considerable corpus of research and …

Environmental criminology in the big data era

T Snaphaan, W Hardyns - European Journal of Criminology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines to what extent new and emerging data sources or big data have been
empirically used to measure key theoretical concepts within environmental criminology. By …