Predicting ethnicity with first names in online social media networks
Bas Hofstra,Niek C. de Schipper +1 more
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This study provides a method to upgrade individual detail in terms of ethnicity in data gathered from social media via the use of register data, and finds that this method provides the most conservative tests of hypotheses.Abstract:
Social scientists increasingly use (big) social media data to illuminate long-standing substantive questions in social science research. However, a key challenge of analyzing such data is their low...read more
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Paradigm Wars Revisited: A Cartography of Graduate Research in the Field of Education (1980–2010):
TL;DR: In the late 1980s, the conflict developed into a war between interpretive and causal paradigms as mentioned in this paper, and the confrontation resulted in the emergence of a new paradigm in education.
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On the body of the consumer: performance‐seeking with wearables and health and fitness apps
TL;DR: The paper offers an interpretative perspective on runners as performance-seeking fitness consumers engaged in long-term self-management of health driven by a profound motivation to visualise and embody a long- term state of fitness.
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Facets of Specialization and Its Relation to Career Success: An Analysis of U.S. Sociology, 1980 to 2015:
TL;DR: The authors investigate how sociology students garner recognition from niche field audiences through specialization, using a dataset consisting over 80,000 sociology-related dissertations completed at U.S. universities.
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Helping Users Tackle Algorithmic Threats on Social Media: A Multimedia Research Agenda
TL;DR: This paper performs a comprehensive survey of algorithmic threats on social media and uses it as a lens to set a challenging but important research agenda for effective and real-time user nudging.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
TL;DR: The homophily principle as mentioned in this paper states that similarity breeds connection, and that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
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Missing data: Our view of the state of the art.
Joseph L. Schafer,John W. Graham +1 more
TL;DR: 2 general approaches that come highly recommended: maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian multiple imputation (MI) are presented and may eventually extend the ML and MI methods that currently represent the state of the art.
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The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites
TL;DR: Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.