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(Mis)alignment Between Stance Expressed in Social Media Data and Public Opinion Surveys
Kenneth Joseph, Sarah Shugars, Ryan Gallagher +4
Stance detection, which aims to determine whether an individual is for or against a target concept, promises to uncover public opinion from large streams of social media data. Yet…
Say Their Names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd
Henry H. Wu, Ryan J. Gallagher, Thayer Alshaabi +7
The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international protests and renewed attention in the Black Lives Matter movement. Here, we characterize ways in which the on…
Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States
Ryan J. Gallagher, Larissa Doroshenko, Sarah Shugars +2
The ongoing, fluid nature of the COVID-19 pandemic requires individuals to regularly seek information about best health practices, local community spreading, and public health guid…
Generalized Word Shift Graphs: A Method for Visualizing and Explaining Pairwise Comparisons Between Texts
Ryan J. Gallagher, Morgan R. Frank, Lewis Mitchell +4
A common task in computational text analyses is to quantify how two corpora differ according to a measurement like word frequency, sentiment, or information content. However, colla…
A Clarified Typology of Core-Periphery Structure in Networks
Ryan J. Gallagher, Jean-Gabriel Young, Brooke Foucault Welles
Core-periphery structure, the arrangement of a network into a dense core and sparse periphery, is a versatile descriptor of various social, biological, and technological networks.…
Anchored Correlation Explanation: Topic Modeling with Minimal Domain Knowledge
Ryan J. Gallagher, Kyle Reing, David Kale +1
While generative models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have proven fruitful in topic modeling, they often require detailed assumptions and careful specification of hyper…
Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter
Ryan J. Gallagher, Andrew J. Reagan, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of ext…