Objective: Consumption of traditional and social media markedly increased at the start of the
COVID-19 pandemic as new information about the virus and safety guidelines evolved …

The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international protests and
brought unparalleled levels of attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. As we show, his …

Working from a dataset of 118 billion messages running from the start of 2009 to the end of
2019, we identify and explore the relative daily use of over 150 languages on Twitter. We …

Online misogyny has become a fixture in female politicians' lives. Backlash theory suggests
that it may represent a threat response prompted by female politicians' counterstereotypical …

We explore the relationship between context and happiness scores in political tweets using
word co-occurrence networks, where nodes in the network are the words, and the weight of …

Being recognized among the cradles of human civilization, ancient China nurtured the
longest continuous academic traditions and humanistic spirits, which continue to impact …

Evolving out of a gender-neutral framing of an involuntary celibate identity, the concept
of'incels' has come to refer to an online community of men who bear antipathy towards …

Abstract Language change is influenced by many factors, but often starts from synchronic
variation, where multiple linguistic patterns or forms coexist, or where different speech …

Quantitative cultural studies have witnessed a surge with the rapid development of computer
technology in recent years. Since ancient literature constitutes a long-time-span repository …

Background Mental health challenges are thought to affect approximately 10% of the global
population each year, with many of those affected going untreated because of the stigma …