Introducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.”

Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship.

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Incels (involuntarily celibates) are increasingly using violent language, particularly non-directed violent language in the largest incel forum, finds @danielmatter.bsky.social @miriamschirmer.bsky.social @nirg.bsky.social @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2401.02001

Awesome! We’d love to hear what you and your students think about it.

We are also grateful for comments received on earlier versions of this work from Diyi Liu, Eran Amsalem @patyrossini.bsky.social Alon Zoizner, and @orentsur.bsky.social & for funding from European Research Council (ERC), Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and BGU's Data Science Center.

Big shout-out to the people whose work enabled this research, including @sdmccabe.com @jongreen.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social Magdalena Wojcieszak @jatucker.bsky.social Subhayan Mukerjee @ylelkes.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @chriswells.bsky.social (pls tag others if missing).

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Finally, looking at the demographic composition of consumption "types", we find that the media-oriented clusters (exc. superconsumers) have older individuals, more women, and more registered Democrats.

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Even when putting aside the more extreme "media superconsumers", the two media-oriented clusters (which are ~20% of the population), get half or more of their political content *directly* from media organizations and journalists, without any mediation from peers.

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Americans also vary in the breakdown of actors that populate their feeds, but interestingly, the bulk of the population gets half or more of their political exposure from *traditional sources*—media organizations, journalists, and politicians.

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People's political feeds mostly map onto 8 distinct types that vary in the amount of politics they get, both in absolute #'s and as % the feed as a whole. Still, for nearly 90% of the population, about 1 in 12 posts from their network are political. Quite an engaged public!

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🚨New paper🚨 out in the International Journal of Press/Politics w/ Assaf Shamir and @jenny-oser.bsky.social 🎉

Here's what we learned from studying the composition of political content available to 600k+ registered U.S. voters on Twitter during the 2020 election.

doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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