Featured Publications
- Mechkova, V., Pemstein, D., Seim, B., & Wilson, S.L. (2024). Measuring online politics: introducing the digital society project dataset. Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
CSDS research areas: Digital Politics
- Weitzel, D., Gerring, J., Pemstein, D., & Skaaning, S. (2024). Measuring backsliding with observables: observable-to-subjective score mapping. PS: Political Science & Politics.
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Government & Politics
- Majdik, Z. P., & Wynn, J. (2023). Building better machine learning models for rhetorical analyses: The use of rhetorical feature sets for training artificial neural network models. Technical Communication Quarterly 32(1), 63–78.
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Language Modeling
- Orhan, Y. E., Pirim, H., & Akbulut, Y. (2023). Building political hashtag communities: A multiplex network analysis of 2022 U.S. midterm elections. Computation 11(12), 238.
CSDS research areas: Digital Politics | Computational Social Science | Network Modeling
- Lu, S., & Luqiu, L. R. (2023). When will one help? Understanding audience intervention in online harassment of women journalists. Journalism Practice, 1-19.
CSDS research areas: Digital Journalism
- Liang, F., & Lu, S. (2023). The dynamics of event-based political influencers on Twitter: A longitudinal analysis of influential accounts during Chinese political events. Social Media+ Society, 9(2), 20563051231177946.
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Digital Politics
- Fox, J., R. Finke, & D.R. Mataic. (2021). "The causes of societal discrimination against religious minorities in christian-majority countries." Religions, 12(8), 611,
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Government & Politics
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Majdik, Z. P. (2021). Five considerations for engaging with Big Data from a rhetorical-humanistic perspective. Poroi, 16(1).
CSDS research areas: Digital Humanities
- Luqiu, L. R., & Lu, S. (2021). Bounded or boundless: A case study of foreign correspondents’ use of Twitter during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Social Media + Society, 7(1).
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Digital Journalism
- Mataic, D.R. & K. Goff. (2021). "Organizations and religious restrictions: an international overview of the intersection of state and non-governmental organizations and religious groups." Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 12, 197-219,
CSDS research areas: Government & Politics
- Meserve, S.A. & Pemstein, D. (2020). Terrorism and internet censorship. Journal of Peace Research 57(6), 257-263.
CSDS research areas: Digital Politics
- Graham, S. S., Majdik, Z. P., & Clark, D. (2020). Methods for extracting relational data from unstructured texts prior to network visualization in humanities research. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 6(8).
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Digital Humanities
- Majdik, Z. P. (2019). A computational approach to assessing rhetorical effectiveness: Agentic framing of climate change in the Congressional Record, 1994–2016. Technical Communication Quarterly, 28(3), 207–222.
CSDS research areas: Digital Politics
- Mataic, D.R. & R. Finke. (2019). "Compliance gaps and the failed promises of religious freedoms." Religion, State, & Society, 47(1), 124-150.
CSDS research areas: Computational Social Science | Government & Politics
- Meserve, S.A. & Pemstein, D. (2018). Google politics: the political determinants of internet censorship in democracies. Political Science Research & Methods 6(2): 245-263.
CSDS research areas: Digital Politics