Text has always been an important data source in political science. What has changed in
recent years is the feasibility of investigating large amounts of text quantitatively. The internet …

Social life increasingly occurs in digital environments and continues to be mediated by
digital systems. Big data represents the data being generated by the digitization of social life …

While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social
scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until …

Large language models (LLMs) offer new research possibilities for social scientists, but their
potential as “synthetic data” is still largely unknown. In this paper, we investigate how …

The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after
the 2016 presidential election. We examined exposure to and sharing of fake news by …

We demonstrate that exposure to the news media causes Americans to take public stands
on specific issues, join national policy conversations, and express themselves publicly—all …

Does activity on hard-right social media lead to hard-right civil unrest? If so, why? We
created a spatial panel dataset comprising hard-right social media use and incidents of …

This study examined the relationship between the price positioning of Airbnb listings,
measured in price difference between a hotel property and the nearby Airbnb listings as well …

Abstract We introduce Big Data Analytics (BDA) and Sentiment Analysis (SA) to the study of
international negotiations, through an application to the case of the UK-EU Brexit …

Measuring and forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is a long-standing
goal of big-data analytics. Despite the large amount of work addressing this question, there …