Michael W. Macy

TL;DR: In this article, a field is emerging that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors at a large scale, such as behavior patterns.

TL;DR: The strength of weak ties is that they tend to be long and connect socially distant locations, allowing information to diffuse rapidly as discussed by the authors, which may explain the widely observed tendency for social movements to diffuse spatially.

TL;DR: This work used a crowd-sourced hate speech lexicon to collect tweets containing hate speech keywords and labels a sample of these tweets into three categories: those containinghate speech, only offensive language, and those with neither.

TL;DR: Agent-based models (ABMs) as mentioned in this paper have been widely used in computational sociology to model social life as interactions among adaptive agents who influence one another in response to the influence they receive, such as diffusion of information, emergence of norms, coordination of conventions or participation in collective action.

TL;DR: Individual-level diurnal and seasonal mood rhythms in cultures across the globe are identified, using data from millions of public Twitter messages, and it is found that individuals awaken in a good mood that deteriorating as the day progresses.