Featured works
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A few featured works:
K. Hazel Kwon, Chun Shao, Shawn Walker, Tanush Vinay, "Mobilizing Consensus on Facebook: Networked Framing of the U.S. Gun-Control Movement on Facebook”
This study draws on networked framing and intermedia network agenda-setting theories to examine how different informational actors have framed the March for Our Lives gun control movement in 2018.
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/79730?mode=simpleDuncan Watts, Jennifer Allen, Markus Mobius, David M. Rothschild, "Examining Potential Bias in the Large-scale Censored Data"
This article explores the efficacy of the URLs dataset to answer key social science questions as well as lessons for the use of differential privacy and censorship in the release of this type of dataset. The article explores the question, how much fake and not-fake URL content do users click on from Facebook?
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/research-note-examining-potential-bias-in-large-scale-censored-data/Andy Guess, Kevin Aslett, Joshua Tucker, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, “Cracking Open the News Feed - Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data”
This study uses the URLs dataset to analyze exposure to and sharing of news from fake news publishers, purveyors of clickbait, and news about politics. The results support recent findings that fake news is more likely to be shared by older conservatives, that fake news is much more prevalent on Facebook than previously indicated, and fake news articles with central claims that are political are more popular among older Americans than those with clickbait headlines.
https://journalqd.org/article/view/2586/1822Pablo Ortellado, Márcio Moretto Ribeiro, Gabriel Kessler, Gabriel Vommaro, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Raga, Juan Pablo Luna, Eduarth Heinen, Laura Fernanda Cely, Sergio Toro, "Old Adults Are More Engaged on Facebook, Especially in Politics: Evidence From Users in 46 Countries"
This study leverages the URLs dataset to examine the age component of political polarization (that older people are more polarized and more conservative). The authors’ hypotheses explain two processes: social conditions seem to be making older people more engaged on Facebook regardless of the content, and older people are engaging more intensely with partisan, conservative political content. Some of the explanations offered include: older people have fewer social media connections, computer and social media literacy levels, and older adults have greater engagement in traditional political activities.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839688Cody Buntain, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A. Tucker, "Measuring the Ideology of Audiences for Web Links and Domains Using Differentially Private Engagement Data"
https://deepstory.huji.ac.il/publications/news-sharing-facebook-partisan-competition-over-narrativeGary King, Georgina Evans, "Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases with Application to the Facebook URLs Dataset"
https://gking.harvard.edu/dpdJuan Pablo Luna, Cristian Pérez, Sergio Toro, Fernando Rosenblatt, Bárbara Poblete, Sebastián Valenzuela, "Much Ado About Facebook? Evidence from Eighty Congressional Campaigns in Chile"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19331681.2021.1936334Jean-Philippe Cointet, Dominique Cardon, Andreï Mogoutov, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Guillaume Plique, Pedro Ramaciotti Morale, "Atlas Multi-Plateforme d'un Mouvement Social: Le cas des Gilets Jaunes"
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03311385/document
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.12073.pdf