Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

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

New methods piece in our journal.

Check out the visual of the workflow. Model tested on databases related to fake news/misinformation.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1 3

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

New article on privacy protection behavior, using a large sample (3K) survey of Italians conducted in 2022. Very relevant for those who study privacy and digital inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1 6

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

If you code news framing, you will want to read this new paper: Finding Frames With BERT: A Transformer-Based Approach to Generic News Frame Detection.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Take a look at the different frames considered:

3

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

New open-access article introducing an LLM data extraction method, tested using Canadian federal and Quebec provincial politicians. Take a look at the results related to different federal parties and posts related to the environment. Read the full article here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1 3

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....

3 3

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!

1 2

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/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

3

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....

1 4

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!

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

1 1

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/...

2 3

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

😮

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.

1

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

2 3

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1 3

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1 1

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

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."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

1 2

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

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.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1 1

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

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."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

1 2

Reposted by Sage's Social Science Computer Review

Christian Pieter Hoffmann @cphoffmann.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 New OA publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social from our #DeepfakeProject. We find that perceived exposure to deepfakes is linked to media cynicism, and that detection self-efficacy positively moderates this relationship. No effect for intellectual humility :/
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

1 1 1

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · May 9

New article in SSCR: A Theory-Driven Approach to Fake News/Information Disorder Analysis and Explanation via Target-Based Emotion–Stance Analysis (TESA) and Interpretive Graph Generation (IGG) #misinformation #fakenews

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A Theory-Driven Approach to Fake News/Information Disorder Analysis and Explanation via Target-Based Emotion–Stance Analysis (TESA) and Interpretive Graph Generation (IGG) - Xingyu Ken Chen, Jin-Cheon...

Information disorder (IDO) presents a persistent challenge to society, necessitating innovative approaches to understanding its dynamics beyond just merely dete...

journals.sagepub.com

1

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · May 9

New article in SSCR shows that female Twitter users are more likely to be hacked! The authors link this finding to the three-level digital divide. Check the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Exploring Gender Disparities in Experiences of Being Hacked Using Twitter Data: A Focus on the Third-Level Digital Divide - Ern Chern Khor, Moon Choi, 2025

Despite millions of hacked accounts fueling cybercrime, research on the hacking experience, particularly sociodemographic aspects, remains sparse. This study ex...

journals.sagepub.com

1

Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · May 5

Brand new article in SSCR. Stromer-Galley et al. (2025) compare the classification of political candidate social media messages between trained annotators, crowd annotators, and large language models from OpenAI (ChatGPT) and the paid API (GPT API). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1 3

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

Can social media use reduce prejudice? This study finds that "social connectedness in nonpolitical groups was associated with diminished blatant prejudice and lower levels of global prejudice, a measure that includes both subtle and blatant components."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

1 2

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

Methods article published in SSCR:

"Using PISA 2015 data from 58 countries/economies, we analyze patterns of correlations between the enjoyment of science and science test scores across response time."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

4

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."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

3

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

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

2