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Finding Common Ground: Graded Communal Knowledge in Bluesky Starter Packs
Sagar Kumar, Lawrence Swaminathan Xavier Prince, Julia Mendelsohn +2
Communication is made possible by common ground---the unspoken knowledge that people share and presuppose of one another, whether that be online or offline. In his conception of co…
Computational frame analysis revisited: On LLMs for studying news coverage
Sharaj Kunjar, Alyssa Hasegawa Smith, Tyler R Mckenzie +3
Computational approaches have previously shown various promises and pitfalls when it comes to the reliable identification of media frames. Generative LLMs like GPT and Claude are i…
From Flowers to Fascism? The Cottagecore to Tradwife Pipeline on Tumblr
Oliver Mel Allen, Yi Zu, Milo Z. Trujillo +1
In this work we collected and analyzed social media posts to investigate aesthetic-based radicalization where users searching for Cottagecore content may find Tradwife content co-o…
A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset
Alyssa Smith, Ilya Amburg, Sagar Kumar +2
Large-scale networks have been instrumental in shaping how we think about social systems, and have undergirded many foundational results in mathematical epidemiology, computational…
Invisible Labor: The Backbone of Open Source Software
Robin A. Lange, Anna Gibson, Milo Z. Trujillo +1
Invisible labor is an intrinsic part of the modern workplace, and includes labor that is undervalued or unrecognized such as creating collaborative atmospheres. Open source softwar…
Multi-strain spreading dynamics under arbitrary transmission kernels
Sagar Kumar, Moritz Laber, Maimuna S. Majumder +2
Compartmental models of epidemic dynamics have long described the propagation of a single, immutable transmissible state through a population via pairwise contact, and multi-strain…
Large Language Models for Automatic Milestone Detection in Group Discussions
Zhuoxu Duan, Zhengye Yang, Samuel Westby +3
Large language models like GPT have proven widely successful on natural language understanding tasks based on written text documents. In this paper, we investigate an LLM's perform…
Multimodality in Group Communication Research
Robin Lange, Brooke Foucault Welles, Gyanendra Sharma +3
Team interactions are often multisensory, requiring members to pick up on verbal, visual, spatial and body language cues. Multimodal research, research that captures multiple modes…
igraph enables fast and robust network analysis across programming languages
Michael Antonov, Gábor Csárdi, Szabolcs Horvát +7
Networks or graphs are widely used across the sciences to represent relationships of many kinds. igraph (https://igraph.org) is a general-purpose software library for graph constru…
How Voice and Helpfulness Shape Perceptions in Human-Agent Teams
Samuel Westby, Richard J. Radke, Christoph Riedl +1
Voice assistants are increasingly prevalent, from personal devices to team environments. This study explores how voice type and contribution quality influence human-agent team perf…
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…
Contrasting social and non-social sources of predictability in human mobility
Zexun Chen, Sean Kelty, Brooke Foucault Welles +3
Social structures influence a variety of human behaviors including mobility patterns, but the extent to which one individual's movements can predict another's remains an open quest…
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.…