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Kevin T. Greene, Matthew R. DeVerna, Joshua A. Tucker, and Cody Buntain have a new paper accepted at ICWSM 2025: Hot Tweets and Cold Posts: Variation in US Congresspeople’s Ideological Presentation on Twitter and Facebook Over Time Abstract: This work presents a novel observational study of US congresspeople’s link-based news-sharing behaviors and ideological presentations across…

Profs Brian McQuinn at the University of Regina and Matthew Taylor at the University of Alberta were recently awarded a grant from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), for a CIFAR Catalyst grant, called CIPHER: Countering Influence through Pattern Highlighting and Evolving Responses. Objective: This work will support the development of CIPHER, a human-in-the-loop…

When People are Floods: Analyzing Dehumanizing Metaphors in Immigration Discourse with Large Language Models. GEIS member, Julia Mendelsohn, and co-author Ceren Budak have a new pre-print on arXiv.

We’re organizing our first workshop at the annual WebSci conference, held this year at Rutgers. More information on our workshop at http://geis.institute/websci2025 and about the conference https://www.websci25.org/!

The first BIG10 Democracy Summit convened at UMD on February 10-11. Paul Brown was one of the organizers of this event, and Cody Buntain participated in the panel on “Higher Education’s Role in Safeguarding Democracy”.