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An assessment of measuring local levels of homelessness through proxy social media signals
Yoshi Meke Bird, Sarah E. Grobe, Michael V. Arnold +5
Recent studies suggest social media activity can function as a proxy for measures of state-level public health, detectable through natural language processing. We present results o…
Blending search queries with social media data to improve forecasts of economic indicators
Yi Li, Asieh Ahani, Haimao Zhan +6
The forecasting of political, economic, and public health indicators using internet activity has demonstrated mixed results. For example, while some measures of explicitly surveyed…
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…
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…
Local information sources received the most attention from Puerto Ricans during the aftermath of Hurricane María
Benjamin Freixas Emery, Meredith T. Niles, Christopher M. Danforth +1
In September 2017, Hurricane María made landfall across the Caribbean region as a category 4 storm. In the aftermath, many residents of Puerto Rico were without power or clean runn…
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…