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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

sM is exhausting, which is saying something as an academic. Is the a pt to this?

Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

@sscratsage.bsky.social received it 1,000th submission today - November 1st. Last year, the journal broke its submission record at 1,020. I wonder what we will do this year?

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We talked about ‘sovereign AI’ today. Sovereignty isn’t just about who owns the model. It’s about whose imaginary defines the future it serves. When states frame AI as a race, they imagine citizens as data resources. How do we reclaim sociotechnical imaginaries that center the public, not power?

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

💔 New research uses ML to unpack why marriages end. Using Turkey’s 2021 Family Structure Survey, Random Forest + Logistic Regression reveal key predictors of divorce: conflict style, cultural rituals, and political disagreement. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

New article! ABM on affective polarization: Selectivity structure is the main driver. Paradox: low homophily + low selective exposure → highest polarization (backfire). Strong local social influence ↓ social diversity; media alone ≠ convergence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Trending now: How repression reshapes digital activism. Using OWS 2011 Twitter, mass arrests/eviction threat ↓assortativity (more inter-group engagement) while cross-group ties stayed stable - evidence of structural, network-wide shifts. By Hansol Kwak journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Riding the Tide: How Online Activists Leverage Repression - Hansol Kwak, 2025

How does repression reshape the way online activists engage with target audiences? While prior research has primarily examined changes in overall online partici...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Deepfakes don’t just fool us. They make us cynical. Study finds that perceived exposure to deepfakes increases media cynicism, &. that confidence in one’s ability to detect them may worsen mistrust. By Christian Pieter Hoffmann et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

📱Trending now: Phubbing or phone snubbing during social interactions is on the rise. Research finds TikTok use (not Instagram or YouTube!) predicts more phubbing, mediated by lower self-control. By Meredith E. David & James Roberts @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Another one! OA guide shows how to replace or augment human coders with LLMs for content analysis - scaling studies 10x, handling multilingual data, and improving transparency. Practical, replicable, and affordable on consumer hardware. By Mike Farjam et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis - Mike Farjam, Hendrik Meyer, Meike Lohkamp, 2025

This paper provides a practical example and guide on how to augment or replace human coders with Large Language Models (LLMs) during content analysis. We demons...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

ICYMI: open-access study shows GPT-4 outperforms human coders and supervised models in identifying politicians’ ideology across 11 countries. LLMs can now interpret nuance + context once thought uniquely human. By Petter Törnberg et al. @sscratsage.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Have you published in @sscratsage.bsky.social in the last several months and want to publish a blog about your piece on Sage Perspective? Let me know! Contact me deana.rohlinger at fsu.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In the meantime, welcome Major Major to the dogs of Bluesky! My girl Penny is a great big sis.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

What a year so far! 915 submissions to @sscratsage.bsky.social as of today. Need to share and amplify the great work being done at the journal as soon as I can. Updating the website and the collections over the next week. Stay tuned!!!

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a... last lines really land. “Everyone’s got to make their nut, even if some people’s nuts are bigger than others. Maybe it takes bleep-you money to buy your freedom. But maybe, “South Park” is telling us, freedom comes from deciding that your self-respect is priceless.”

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Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance

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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Terrific @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Political Engagement at #asa2025 this am. Overall takeaway, conventional understandings of engagement are far too restricted to voting. E.g. Case's research says egalitarian and redistributive ballot initiatives are hugely popular, esp. in red states.

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

New article using Twitter data from 2019 to 2024 (18K tweets) tracking the rise and fall of civil unrest (protests, riots) in South Africa. Super interesting! Take a look: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

So many great papers assessing how to use LLMs effectively. This article by @mikefarjam.bsky.social is OA.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Check out this interesting paper and be sure to follow the journal!

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Interested in trolling (academically speaking)? Learn more below!

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

New article in our journal looks at the perception of chatbots' humanness and how it influences anxiety towards AI, based on a survey conducted in 2023 in China. Take a look! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Check out this OA article on @sscratsage.bsky.social! While you’re there, look in our collections for papers organized by broad themes.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Where is the joy on Bluesky? Asking for a friend…..

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Trending topics less than 7 hours on Sona Weibo. Incredible!

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

One of a few new and forthcoming pieces on the topic of using LLMs on qualitative research.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Interesting article on electoral forecasting. Check out the abstract below.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

ICYMI! Great piece on minority business ownership, consumer reviews, and survival rates during the pandemic.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy Summer Solstice! Enjoying today.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Great read. Check out the great pieces on SSCR’s website.

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fear of missing out...on reading this article? Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... "Being female, perceptions of social media influence, and fear of missing out predicted depressive symptoms."

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Christoph Mergerson @mergerson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Amplifying this. When I took @laurenfeldman.bsky.social’s course in political communication as a media studies doctoral student at Rutgers, she assigned us Jeffrey Berry & @sobieraj.bsky.social’s 2014 book “The Outrage Industry.” Worth checking out. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Picture of Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj’s 2014 book, The Outrage Industry, about how regulatory, cultural, and technological changes influenced the proliferation of vitrolic radio and cable TV programming.

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

New article in SSCR using the technology acceptance model (TAM) to understand the problematic use of short-video apps among elderly adults. Link to article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Check out the our methodological innovations and data analysis collection (n the collections tab). So many great advances!

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Molly Scudder @mollyscudder.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Special issue on Democratic Listening forthcoming @polcommjournal.bsky.social. 9 excellent articles using experimental, observational, & philosophical methods to study this key component of political comm. Check out the TOC + intro essay by Michael Neblo & myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

@sscratsage.bsky.social received submission 410 this morning for 2025. While I have to reject most of these, it is really cool seeing the breadth of research done globally in the social sciences.

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Published in November 2024: Cyberbalkanization Without Monotonic Polarization: Temporal Dynamics and User Heterogeneity in Online Debates on Traditional Chinese Medicine. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Some findings:

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Has ChatGPT Disrupted the Education Sector in the U.S.? Great question! It's the title of a new article in our journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New article: People, Platforms, and Places: The Conditional Effects of Psychological Distances on Livestream Viewership journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What kind of data are people willing to donate? Check out this new article: Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... People are willing to share their LinkedIn data. More details:

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Michael Good @goodmp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I am begging Meta to hire a sociologist — there are lots available these days

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Worth repeating. If the main contribution is adding country specific data or insight, a general interest, interdisciplinary journal is not a good fit in most circumstances.

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Thinking of sending a paper to SSCR or another interdisciplinary global journal? Don’t forget to talk beyond your case. Tell the reader why they should care about your specific data by making it clear what process, point, variable matters and why. @sscratsage.bsky.social

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hot topic: social media and depression, but with a different twist: “Depression is not Real; I Don’t Need Help”: Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media and Help Avoidance. Available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hot topic: social media use and depression. Here's a new open-access article to read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Based on a sample of 849 Israeli men, here are some of the findings:

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Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In other news, great night. Violent Femmes were awesome! So glad that my youngest son’s first concert was so fucking good. Isn’t always the case.

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Sage's Social Science Computer Review @sscratsage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Interested in misinformation? Read: Survey on Deep Learning for Misinformation Detection: Adapting to Recent Events, Multilingual Challenges, and Future Visions: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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