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Characterizing disruptions in online gaming behavior following software patches
Xiaozhe "Arcadia" Zhang, Brian C. Keegan
Multiplayer online games are ideal settings for studying the effects of technological disruptions on social behavior. Software patches to online games cause significant changes to…
A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic
Brian C. Keegan, Chenhao Tan
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic was a historic social disruption with significant consequences felt around the globe. Wikipedia is a freely-available, peer-produced encyclopedia with…
Understanding the Diverging User Trajectories in Highly-related Online Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jason Shuo Zhang, Brian C. Keegan, Qin Lv +1
As the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting life worldwide, related online communities are popping up. In particular, two "new" communities, /r/China flu and /r/Coronavirus, emerged on…
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Jason Baumgartner, Savvas Zannettou, Brian Keegan +2
Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding. However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media data in…
Designing for Participation and Change in Digital Institutions
Peter Krafft, Brian Keegan, Seth Frey
Whether we recognize it or not, the Internet is rife with exciting and original institutional forms that are transforming social organization on and offline. Issues of governance i…
Mobilizing the Trump Train: Understanding Collective Action in a Political Trolling Community
Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Brian C. Keegan, Saiph Savage
Political trolls initiate online discord not only for the lulz (laughs) but also for ideological reasons, such as promoting their desired political candidates. Political troll grou…