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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…
Quantifying language changes surrounding mental health on Twitter
Anne Marie Stupinski, Thayer Alshaabi, Michael V. Arnold +5
Mental health challenges are thought to afflict around 10% of the global population each year, with many going untreated due to stigma and limited access to services. Here, we expl…
Sirius: Visualization of Mixed Features as a Mutual Information Network Graph
Jane L. Adams, Todd F. Deluca, Christopher M. Danforth +6
Data scientists across disciplines are increasingly in need of exploratory analysis tools for data sets with a high volume of features of mixed data type (quantitative continuous a…
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community
Kelly Gothard, David Rushing Dewhurst, Joshua R. Minot +3
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 the…
Probability-turbulence divergence: A tunable allotaxonometric instrument for comparing heavy-tailed categorical distributions
P. S. Dodds, J. R. Minot, M. V. Arnold +4
Real-world complex systems often comprise many distinct types of elements as well as many more types of networked interactions between elements. When the relative abundances of typ…
Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter
Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Michael V. Arnold +5
In real-time, social media data strongly imprints world events, popular culture, and day-to-day conversations by millions of ordinary people at a scale that is scarcely conventiona…
Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters
Michael V. Arnold, David Rushing Dewhurst, Thayer Alshaabi +4
We study collective attention paid towards hurricanes through the lens of -grams on Twitter, a social media platform with global reach. Using hurricane name mentions as a proxy…
The growing amplification of social media: Measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009-2020
Thayer Alshaabi, David R. Dewhurst, Joshua R. Minot +4
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. W…
Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of `being talked about' for United States' presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop
Peter Sheridan Dodds, Joshua R. Minot, Michael V. Arnold +5
When building a global brand of any kind -- a political actor, clothing style, or belief system -- developing widespread awareness is a primary goal. Short of knowing any of the st…