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Demographic Confounding Causes Extreme Instances of Lifestyle Politics on Facebook
Alexander Ruch, Yujia Zhang, Michael Macy
Lifestyle politics emerge when activities that have no substantive relevance to ideology become politically aligned and polarized. Homophily and social influence are able generate…
Cultural Values and Cross-cultural Video Consumption on YouTube
Minsu Park, Jaram Park, Young Min Baek +1
Video-sharing social media like YouTube provide access to diverse cultural products from all over the world, making it possible to test theories that the Web facilitates global cul…
The Opacity Problem in Social Contagion
George Berry, Christopher J. Cameron, Patrick Park +1
Fads, product adoption, mobs, rumors, memes, and emergent norms are diverse social contagions that have been modeled as network cascades. Empirical study of these cascades is vulne…
Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics
Peter M Krafft, Michael Macy, Alex Pentland
The use of bots as virtual confederates in online field experiments holds extreme promise as a new methodological tool in computational social science. However, this potential tool…