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Shifting Polarization and Twitter News Influencers between two U.S. Presidential Elections
James Flamino, Alessandro Galezzi, Stuart Feldman +7
Social media are decentralized, interactive, and transformative, empowering users to produce and spread information to influence others. This has changed the dynamics of political…
Assessing Gender Bias in Particle Physics and Social Science Recommendations for Academic Jobs
R. H. Bernstein, M. W. Macy, C. J. Cameron +3
We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP), where about 15% of faculty…
Going beyond accuracy: estimating homophily in social networks using predictions
George Berry, Antonio Sirianni, Ingmar Weber +2
In online social networks, it is common to use predictions of node categories to estimate measures of homophily and other relational properties. However, online social network data…
Estimating group properties in online social networks with a classifier
George Berry, Antonio Sirianni, Nathan High +3
We consider the problem of obtaining unbiased estimates of group properties in social networks when using a classifier for node labels. Inference for this problem is complicated by…
Psychological and Personality Profiles of Political Extremists
Meysam Alizadeh, Ingmar Weber, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla +2
Global recruitment into radical Islamic movements has spurred renewed interest in the appeal of political extremism. Is the appeal a rational response to material conditions or is…
Automated Hate Speech Detection and the Problem of Offensive Language
Thomas Davidson, Dana Warmsley, Michael Macy +1
A key challenge for automatic hate-speech detection on social media is the separation of hate speech from other instances of offensive language. Lexical detection methods tend to h…