GEIS researchers continue to advance scholarship across computational social science. Among the highlights:
- Kevin T Greene, Matthew R. DeVerna, Joshua A. Tucker, Cody Buntain published Hot Tweets and Cold Posts: Variation in US Congresspeople’s Ideological Presentation on Twitter and Facebook Over Time at ICWSM. Read the paper here: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/35841.
- Afia Abedin, Abdul Bais, Cody Buntain, Laura Courchesne, Brian McQuinn, Matthew E. Taylor, and Muhib Ullah published A Call to Arms: Automated Methods for Identifying Weapons in Social Media Analysis of Conflict Zones in the Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 306–314. https://doi.org/10.1145/3717867.3717886
- Julia Mendelsohn released a new paper on dehumanizing metaphors in immigration discourse, When People are Floods: Analyzing Dehumanizing Metaphors in Immigration Discourse with Large Language Models. Read the paper here: https://arxiv.org/html/2502.13246v1.
