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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 23h

In the meantime, welcome Major Major to the dogs of Bluesky! My girl Penny is a great big sis.

Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 23h

What a year so far! 915 submissions to @sscratsage.bsky.social as of today. Need to share and amplify the great work being done at the journal as soon as I can. Updating the website and the collections over the next week. Stay tuned!!!

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Aug 16

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a... last lines really land. “Everyone’s got to make their nut, even if some people’s nuts are bigger than others. Maybe it takes bleep-you money to buy your freedom. But maybe, “South Park” is telling us, freedom comes from deciding that your self-respect is priceless.”

Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢 Publication Friday!

This week, we highlight “Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond” by @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli

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Coe & Zulli – Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond – PolComm

Teaching Political Communication: Five Lessons From the Field and Beyond[1] Kevin Coe, University of Utah Diana Zulli, Purdue University https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-103947-1, P...

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Terrific @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Political Engagement at #asa2025 this am. Overall takeaway, conventional understandings of engagement are far too restricted to voting. E.g. Case's research says egalitarian and redistributive ballot initiatives are hugely popular, esp. in red states.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jul 21

So many great papers assessing how to use LLMs effectively. This article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social is OA.

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

A new OPEN ACCESS article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social offers "A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis".
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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jul 21

Check out this interesting paper and be sure to follow the journal!

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

Another new article about chatbots: "Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners"

The authors identify three typical user-bot relational pairings: customer-product, human-machine, and woman-man/woman-woman.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jul 8

Interested in trolling (academically speaking)? Learn more below!

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

New article using content analysis of 4,000 trolling comments on 40 Facebook posts that were made by 20 politicians. #gendertrolling. Take a peek at the codebook and the full article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jul 8

Check out this OA article on @sscratsage.bsky.social! While you’re there, look in our collections for papers organized by broad themes.

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

New article using Twitter data from 2019 to 2024 (18K tweets) tracking the rise and fall of civil unrest (protests, riots) in South Africa. Super interesting! Take a look: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

A new OPEN ACCESS article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social offers "A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis".
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

Here's a visual representation of the workflow.

Thanks for following the journal!

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

Another new article about chatbots: "Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners"

The authors identify three typical user-bot relational pairings: customer-product, human-machine, and woman-man/woman-woman.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

New article using content analysis of 4,000 trolling comments on 40 Facebook posts that were made by 20 politicians. #gendertrolling. Take a peek at the codebook and the full article is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

New article in our journal looks at the perception of chatbots' humanness and how it influences anxiety towards AI, based on a survey conducted in 2023 in China. Take a look!

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Jul 2

New OPEN ACCESS article in our journal looks at perceived exposure to deepfakes and media cynicism based on a survey of Germans conducted in 2022. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jul 2

Happy day!

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jul 2

Where is the joy on Bluesky? Asking for a friend…..

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 30

Trending topics less than 7 hours on Sona Weibo. Incredible!

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Apr 27

What's trending on Sina Weibo? This article finds that topics features, such as their semantic and textual features, significantly influence topic persistence...the median survival time of Weibo trending topic was 6.28 hours, with an average of 8.29 hours."
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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 30

One of a few new and forthcoming pieces on the topic of using LLMs on qualitative research.

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Apr 27

Great new methods article on qualitative analysis using GPT-4.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 24

Interesting article on electoral forecasting. Check out the abstract below.

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Apr 27

Check out this article using data from three Italian general elections "to evaluate discrepancies between pre-electoral polls and results, assessing key factors such as timing of data collection, survey methodology, sample size, and party system fragmentation."
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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 24

ICYMI! Great piece on minority business ownership, consumer reviews, and survival rates during the pandemic.

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Apr 27

New article: "minority-owned businesses were less likely to be claimed on Google Maps and received fewer consumer review comments compared to their non-minority counterparts." The findings have implications for which businesses survived during the pandemic.
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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 20

Happy Summer Solstice! Enjoying today.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 18

Great read. Check out the great pieces on SSCR’s website.

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Apr 27

How does the use of different platforms for news relate to strong vs. weak ties as well as online political participation? Take a look at this new article in SSCR:
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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 17

Big fan of @sobieraj!

Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 16

Check out the our methodological innovations and data analysis collection (n the collections tab). So many great advances!

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Apr 27

New article:
How can LLM be leveraged to study public opinion? The authors found that GPT-3.5 exhibits a bias towards the Green and Left parties based on their analysis of Germany. Read the open access article:
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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · Jun 16

Amplifying this. When I took @laurenfeldman.bsky.social’s course in political communication as a media studies doctoral student at Rutgers, she assigned us Jeffrey Berry & @sobieraj.bsky.social’s 2014 book “The Outrage Industry.” Worth checking out.

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Picture of Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj’s 2014 book, The Outrage Industry, about how regulatory, cultural, and technological changes influenced the proliferation of vitrolic radio and cable TV programming.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · Jun 1

Looks great!

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Molly Scudder @mollyscudder.bsky.social · May 30

Special issue on Democratic Listening forthcoming @polcommjournal.bsky.social. 9 excellent articles using experimental, observational, & philosophical methods to study this key component of political comm. Check out the TOC + intro essay by Michael Neblo & myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · May 17

@sscratsage.bsky.social received submission 410 this morning for 2025. While I have to reject most of these, it is really cool seeing the breadth of research done globally in the social sciences.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · May 3

Check out @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social most recent article in @sscratsage.bsky.social

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · Feb 14

Published in November 2024:

Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023
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Check out the cross-national and over time trends in self-identifying as feminist:

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