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Quantifying societal emotional resilience to natural disasters from geo-located social media content
Krishna C. Bathina, Marijn ten Thij, Johan Bollen
Natural disasters can have devastating and long-lasting effects on a community's emotional well-being. These effects may be distributed unequally, affecting some communities more p…
Depressed individuals express more distorted thinking on social media
Krishna C. Bathina, Marijn ten Thij, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces +2
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, but is often under-diagnosed and under-treated. One of the tenets of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is that individuals w…
Mining social media data for biomedical signals and health-related behavior
Rion Brattig Correia, Ian B. Wood, Johan Bollen +1
Social media data has been increasingly used to study biomedical and health-related phenomena. From cohort level discussions of a condition to planetary level analyses of sentiment…
Rethinking Resource Allocation in Science
Johan Bollen, Stephen Carpenter, Jane Lubchenco +1
US funding agencies alone distribute a yearly total of roughly $65B dollars largely through the process of proposal peer review: scientists compete for project funding by submittin…
Does putting your emotions into words make you feel better? Measuring the minute-scale dynamics of emotions from online data
Rui Fan, Ali Varamesh, Onur Varol +4
Studies of affect labeling, i.e. putting your feelings into words, indicate that it can attenuate positive and negative emotions. Here we track the evolution of individual emotions…
Power Structure in Chilean News Media
Jorge Bahamonde, Johan Bollen, Erick Elejalde +2
Even democracies endowed with the most active free press struggle to maintain the diversity of news coverage. Consolidation and market forces may cause only a few dominant players…