Diaries of Social Data Research
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
20. Navigating the Shores of Computational Text Analysis Validity with Christian Baden, Christian Pipa, and Mariken van der Velden
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Christian Baden, Christian Pipal, and Mariken van der Velden about their 2022 journal paper in Communications Methods and...
19. Constructing a Taxonomy of Implicit Hate Speech Grounded in Social Theory with Diyi Yang and David Muchlinski
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests on this episode are Diyi Yang, assistant professor at the School of Interactive Computing, and David Muchlinski, assistant professor in the...
18. Gender Patterns in English-Language Fiction and Interrogating Data with Ted Underwood and David Bamman
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Ted Underwood, a professor in the School of Information Sciences and Department of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-...
17. Hashtag Network Analysis and Interwoven Research Ethics with Ryan Gallagher and Brooke Foucault Welles
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests in this episode are Ryan Gallagher, a PhD Candidate in Network Science at Northeastern University, and Brooke Foucault Welles, an Associate...
16. Measuring Uptake in Classroom Conversations and Using NLP to Support Teachers with Dora Demszky
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dora Demszky, a PhD student in Linguistics at Stanford University. Dora works at the intersection of natural language processing...
15. Race in Computational Disinformation Analysis and Deep Reading with Deen Freelon
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in this episode is Deen Freelon, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina in the School of Journalism and Media. We chat abou...
14. The Past Decade of Computational Social Science Research with David Lazer
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with David Lazer, the University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences at Northeastern Universit...
13. Finding (Mis)alignments in Public Opinion and Wisdom in Collaboration Management with Kenneth Joseph and Sarah Shugars
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests on this episode are Kenneth Joseph, an assistant professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Buffalo, and Sarah Shug...
12. Understanding Conversational Patterns in Police Community Interactions with Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Camilla Griffiths
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests on this episode are Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, who was a computer science postdoc at Stanford and now a senior research scientist at Google, a...
11. The Effects of Friend-to-Friend Texting on Voter Turnout and Overcoming Project Setbacks with Aaron Schein
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Aaron Schein, a computer scientist and postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. We discuss his WWW 2021 paper "Assessing the ...
10. Political Discourse and Substantive-Methodological Intersections with Justine Zhang and Arthur Spirling
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Justine Zhang and Arthur Spirling. Justine is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and Arthur is a...
9. Reddit Debates and Interdisciplinary Multilingualism with Emaad Manzoor
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on this episode is Emaad Manzoor, an Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Al...
8. The Evolution of Computational Social Science from a Sociology Perspective with Chris Bail
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This unique episode centers on a "meta" discussion on interdisciplinary work involving large-scale social data. We interview Chris Bail, a Professor o...
7. The Power of Birth Stories’ Narratives and Intellectual Generosity with Maria Antoniak and Karen Levy
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Maria Antoniak, a PhD student, and Karen Levy, an assistant professor, who are both in the Department of Information Science at ...
6. Extracting Events from Text and Grad School Memories with Brendan O'Connor and Brandon Stewart
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests in this episode are Brendan O'Connor, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UMass Amherst, and Brandon Stewart, Assistant Professor of...
5. Opioid Use Recovery on Social Media and Mentoring Undergrad Collaborators with Stevie Chancellor
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked to Stevie Chancellor, who is the lead author on a 2019 CHI paper titled "Discovering Alternative Treatments for Opioid Use ...
4. COVID-19 Mobility Networks and Post-Publication Scientific Communication with Serina Chang
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the paper "Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening" with first author and Stanford computer science PhD...
3. Digital Health Communication and Punk Rock Academics with Ethan Zuckerman
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Ethan Zuckerman, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches public policy, communica...
2. Analyzing Menstrual Cycle Data and Math Transcending Boundaries with Emma Pierson
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Emma Pierson, PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and incoming assistant professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech, about her paper...
1. Abolitionist Newspapers and Maintaining 8-Year Project Momentum with Lauren Klein and Sandeep Soni
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features two guests: Lauren Klein, an associate professor of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University, and Sande...