Participant Projects

Projects inspired by, started at, or done in collaboration with SICSS

Since its inception, SICSS participants have produced a wide range of research projects, software tools, and publications. This page highlights a selection of works that began at SICSS or were developed by SICSS alumni.

Publications


Authors Publication Title Journal DOI SICSS Affiliation
Rosenzweig, Leah R.; Bergquist, Parrish; Hoffmann Pham, Katherine; Rampazzo, Francesco; Mildenberger, Matto Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements Political Science Research and Methods https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/survey-sampling-in-the-global-south-using-facebook-advertisements/C1DE0539EB2CC5C395C18F4B9DB5613B SICSS Alumni
Kasianenko, Kateryna; Zhu, Guangnan; Barua, Uttama; Gyamfi, George; Saniei, Shima Gates as a floating signifier in global COVID-19 philanthropy discussions on X Social Sciences & Humanities Open https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102034 SICSS-Sydney
Hastings, Orestes P.; Pesando, Luca Maria What’s a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis Social Science Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103074 Princeton 2021
Goncalves, Marcelo S O; Langrock, Isabelle; LaViolette, Jack; Spoon, Katie Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools PNAS Nexus https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae197 Duke 2022
Almaatouq, Abdullah; Krafft, Peter; Dunham, Yarrow; Rand, David G; Pentland, Alex Turkers of the World Unite: Multilevel In-Group Bias Among Crowdworkers on Amazon Mechanical Turk Social Psychological and Personality Science https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619837002 Princeton 2017
Jennie E. Brand, Jiahui Xu, Bernard Koch, and Pablo Geraldo Uncovering Sociological Effect Heterogeneity Using Tree-Based Machine Learning Sociological Methodology https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0081175021993503 UCLA 2019
Biswas, Arpita; Kolczynska, Marta ; Rantanen, Saana; Rozenshtein, Polina The Role of In-Group Bias and Balanced Data: A Comparison of Human and Machine Recidivism Risk Predictions Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies https://doi.org/10.1145/3378393.3402507 Helsinki 2017
Tiago Ventura; Kevin Munger; Katherine McCabe; Keng-Chi Chang Connective Effervescence and Streaming Chat During Political Debates Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2021.001 Princeton 2020
Victoria Asbury-Kimmel; Keng-Chi Chang; Katherine T McCabe; Kevin Munger; Tiago Ventura The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates Journal of Communication https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab041 Princeton 2020
Li, Muyang; Luo, Zhifan The ‘Bad Women Drivers’ Myth: The Overrepresentation of Female Drivers and Gender Bias in China’s Media Information, Communication & Society https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1713843 RTI International 2019
Than, Nga; Yoong, Diane; Rodriguez, Maria; Windel, Friederike “Welcome to Gab”: Exploring Political Discourses in a Non-Moderated Social Media Platform Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH) https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.0e45f983 Hunter College 2019
Rigobon, Daniel E; Jahani, Eaman; Suhara, Yoshihiko; AlGhoneim, Khaled; Alghunaim, Abdulaziz; Pentland, Alex “Sandy”; Almaatouq, Abdullah Winning Models for Grade Point Average, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge Socius https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023118820418 Princeton 2017
Filippova, Anna ; Gilroy, Connor; Kashyap, Ridhi; Kirchner, Antje; Morgan, Allison C.; Polimis, Kivan; Usmani, Adaner; Wang Tong Humans in the Loop: Incorporating Expert and Crowd-Sourced Knowledge for Predictions Using Survey Data Socius https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023118820157 Princeton 2017, Oxford 2019 and 2021
Gilroy, Connor; Kashyap, Ridhi Digital Traces of Sexualities: Understanding the Salience of Sexual Identity through Disclosure on Social Media Socius https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211029499 Princeton 2017, Oxford 2019 and 2021
Liane Rothenberger; Muhammad Qasim Pasta; Daniel Mayerhoffer Mapping and impact assessment of phenomenon-oriented research fields: The example of migration research Quantitative Science Studies https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00163 Bamberg 2019
Asbury-Kimmel, Victoria; Chang, Keng-Chi; McCabe, Katherine T.; Munger, Kevin; Ventura,Tiago The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates Journal of Communication https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab041 Princeton 2019
Ventura, Tiago; Munger, Kevin; McCabe, Katherine; Chang, Keng-Chi Connective Effervescence and Streaming Chat During Political Debates Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2021.001 Princeton 2019
Than, Nga; Yoong, Diane; Rodriguez, Maria Y.; Windel, Friederike M. “Welcome to Gab”: Exploring Political Discourses in a Non-Moderated Social Media Platform IDEAH https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.0e45f983 Hunter College 2019
Joshua Becker; Ethan Porter; Damon Centola “The Wisdom of Partisan Crowds” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817195116 Princeton 2017
Barnett, Carolyn; Fitzgerald, Mike; Krumbholz, Katie; Lamba, Manika Gender in the Journals: A New Dataset PS: Political Science and Politics https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UVWRTV Rutgers 2020
Barrie, Christopher; Frey, Arun Faces in the Crowd PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259972 Oxford 2019
Bohr, Jeremiah Reporting on Climate Change: A Computational Analysis of U.S. Newspapers and Sources of Bias, 1997-2017. Global Environmental Change https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102038 Chicago 2018
Guber, Deborah Lynn; Bohr, Jeremiah; Dunlap, Riley E. ‘Time to Wake Up’: Climate change advocacy in a polarized Congress, 1996-2015 Environmental Politics https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1786333 Chicago 2018
Larimore, Savannah; Kennedy, Ian; Haskett, Breon; Arseniev-Koehler; Alina “Reconsidering Annotator Disagreement about Racist Language: Noise or Signal?” Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.socialnlp-1.7 Seattle 2018
Abdullah Almaatouq; M. Amin Rahimian; Jason W. Burton; Abdulla Alhajri When Social Influence Promotes the Wisdom of Crowds Available at SSRN: 3633309 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3633309 Princeton 2019
         

Software


Creators Project Name Link SICSS Affiliation
SICSS-AMU/Law 2025 Participants Evaluating predictive models in legal judgement classification https://github.com/SICSS-AMULaw/Edition_2025/tree/eb607b5311583c976f55742fa9ffdc9ec2f74d42/Workshop/Statistical%20reasoning%20by%20Miko%C5%82aj%20Wiecz%C3%B3r SICSS-AMU/Law 2025
       
SICSS-AMU/Law 2025 Participants AI Act – Chatbot https://github.com/SICSS-AMULaw/Edition_2025/tree/main/Workshop/Natural%20Language%20Processing%20by%20Jan%20Mizerka SICSS-AMU/Law 2025
       
Anfan Chen, Yong hu Digital Media Data Initiative http://saas.socialsensor.top/#/login Beijing 2021
       
Bellows, Laura -nicknamez- file https://www.laura-bellows.com/software Rutgers 2021
       
Almaatouq, Abdullah; Paton, Nicolas Empirica https://empirica.ly/ Princeton 2017
       
Barrie, Christopher academictwitteR https://github.com/cjbarrie/academictwitteR Oxford 2019