🌟 New Pub 🌟 If your computational social science study focuses on “most engaged” or top-liked content, you may be measuring what people publicly signal, not what they actually pay attention to. For political content, that gap is especially wide.
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Rethinking digital trace inference in political communication: evidence from a simulated platform experiment
Digital trace data such as likes, shares, and comments are widely used to infer what captures attention in digital political communication. Yet these visible signals may not map closely onto underl...
