3 papers
cs.SI2025
Detecting sub-populations in online health communities: A mixed-methods exploration of breastfeeding messages in BabyCenter Birth Clubs
Calla Beauregard, Parisa Suchdev, Ashley M. A. Fehr +7
Parental stress is a nationwide health crisis according to the U.S. Surgeon General's 2024 advisory. To allay stress, expecting parents seek advice and share experiences in a varie…
cs.CL2025
A suite of allotaxonometric tools for the comparison of complex systems using rank-turbulence divergence
Jonathan St-Onge, Ashley M. A. Fehr, Carter Ward +6
Describing and comparing complex systems requires principled, theoretically grounded tools. Built around the phenomenon of type turbulence, allotaxonographs provide map-and-list vi…
cs.CY2024
Hollywood's misrepresentation of death: A comparison of overall and by-gender mortality causes in film and the real world
Calla Beauregard, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
The common phrase 'representation matters' asserts that media has a measurable and important impact on civic society's perception of self and others. The representation of health i…