Jeremy Foote

It's pretty broad. I study online communities - often Reddit - using data about people's posts or comments to try to answer social science questions.

Yes, it's nice. I've really enjoyed living and working there.

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I agree with the sentiment, but the post needs another editing pass - there are a few repetitions, typos, etc.

To be fair, it looks more like n ~ N(-2,4)

ICYMI #commsky #science

Ah, well, I'm interested in if you figure out that anything is missing

Subreddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2024-12 This is the top 40,000 subreddits from reddit s history in separate files. You can use your torrent client to only download the subreddit s you re interested in. These are from the pushshift dumps fro...

Where is your dump from? I use this / want to use this data for lots of stuff, so I'm very interested in figuring out if it's working.

I downloaded the comments from r/asheville from academictorrents.com/details/1614... and used 'grep' to look for '[Hh]elene' and found 8K comments. I'll DM the file

Really? I thought that Arctic Shift was pretty complete. It looks like the R library uses the API, so it will be more up to date, but Arctic Shift should have all older stuff.

Second, some folks have carried on the PushShift legacy, and are uploading dumps of posts and comments at:

arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com

So, this was using PushShift data. While PushShift has gone away, there are still options for researchers. First, Reddit has Reddit4Researchers program, which allows for downloading much more data than the API - www.reddit.com/r/reddit4res...

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Anyway, there's a lot more in the paper, including details about the methodological approach.

The whole team was Tiwalade Adekunle, me, Toluwani Adekunle, @groceryheist.cc, and @lauraknelson.bsky.social.

Instead of trying to persuade a group of conspiracy theorists or extremists away from their beliefs, it may be more effective to try to help people leave the group or to join other groups.

This is something I'm planning on testing in a new project. (Happy to discuss more)

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Taken together, one takeaway is the need for different messages for different groups. Unfortunately, where group identity is strong messages that come from outgroup members just aren't very persuasive.

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We also found evidence of the role of group identity in reinforcing beliefs — e.g., mocking the "other side" and discussing the sagacity and reasonableness of "our community".

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Another key finding is that both groups talked about risks, they just focused on different risks - public health risks for r/Masks4All, and mental health / education /economic risks for r/LockdownSkepticism.

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One interesting finding was the distinction the groups made between individual and group responsibility. The pro-masking subreddit talked much more about responsibility for others, while the anti-masking community thought of responsibility as resting with individuals.

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Exploring Conceptualizations of COVID-19 Risk in Ideologically Distinct Online Communities: A Computational Grounded Theory Analysis Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on societies and economies around the globe, and experts warn about the potential for similar crises in the future. Risk communication theor...

I am fascinated with how people come to such different beliefs about the world.

In our new paper, led by Tiwalade Adekunle, we used @lauraknelson.bsky.social's computational grounded theory to compare how a pro-masking subreddit and an anti-masking subreddit talked about risks during COVID.

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Whose approval/disapproval of Trump has shifted the most?

We just posted an interactive on changes in approval for Trump from right before he was inaugurated to the present. We have very large samples (30k), and the interactive allows you to look at changes within very small slices of the public.

www.chip50.org/blog/whose-a...

IMO, one of the most important ideas from social networks is that our social world is not an agreed upon fact but is perceived differently by different people and those perceptions matter.

I loved working on this project led by @kyosuketanaka.bsky.social , who is an expert in network perceptions.

photo of a single earring: rainbow color pencils and a disco ball

Attn #ICA25 tragically I lost an earring in the Hyatt Regency. It is a very cool earring. No reward except good karma but do let me know if you find it. :)

Great to see you! Safe travels!

Aw, thanks!

Your explanations of tensions between discoverability and privacy and security from trolls were super interesting.

Great talk, Casey!

This session on causal inference was very good with some well-designed studies.

We should do more causal inference!

#ica25

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If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

My new students brainstorming some project ideas

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.