Say goodbye to conference rooms. We studied 100s of people in small groups over months in 192 panoramic or closed worlds. Large, open spaces improved nonverbal behavior, restorativeness and group cohesion. In VR space is free (and beneficial). news.stanford.edu/2022/12/14/vr-…

Mechanical Turk plays a big role in research & it worked well for years… but there are ominous signs: 📉Invalid data in MTurk only happened in ~10% of answers 2015-2017, but that went to 62% in 2018 & 38% in 2019. 🤖2022: out of a sample of 529 MTurk workers, only 14 were human

Our newly published article with professor 조희창 in NUS, and Lipengxiang in Minzu university of China Nostalgia, Social Media, and Subjective Wellbeing: The Dualistic and Conditional Effects of Nostalgia During the COVID-19 Pandemic tandfonline.com/eprint/GINXNJT…

Pandemic Nationalism: Use of Government Social Media for Political Information and Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in China - Anfan Chen, Yingdan Lu, Kaiping Chen, Aaron Yikai Ng, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

Introduction to Sharon Dunwoody Memorial Issue - Susanna Priest, Lee Ann Kahlor, Robert J. Griffin, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Introducing 🥔POTATO: The Portable Text Annotation Tool. Potato comes with 20+ templates for many types of labeling tasks, editable UI, pre-screening questions, and many other features that can make data annotation easier and better. Github: bit.ly/3Z4EjBw (1/8)

Thrilled to see our CR paper out! Shout out to my great co-authors Lei Guo Kate Mays Afra Feyza Akyürek Derry Wijaya & Margrit Betke. This paper extends the agenda-setting effects to the next step: political expression online. Here are some free copies: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4IXRYXT…

Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers! We’re excited to share more details about our self-serve access. 🧵

GPT is becoming a Turing machine: Here are some ways to program it GPT-3 variants can be triggered to perform iterative behaviours necessary to execute programs that involve loops. arxiv.org/abs/2303.14310

NLP comprises a diverse range of approaches. Although #ChatGPT gets all the hype right now, our latest #OpenAccess publication in Political Analysis shows that we do not have to make everything that complicated to achieve our goals using text as data. doi.org/10.1017/pan.20…

We emphasize that ChatGPT should be viewed as acomplementary tool, not a replacement, to the crucial work of human fact-checking experts. 🔗 Pre-print: psyarxiv.com/qnjkf

📣 We are proud to announce Gephi Lite 🎉 It is a free and open-source web application to visualize and explore networks. It is a lighter version of Gephi, on the web. You can try it here: gephi.org/gephi-lite

SegGPT: Segmenting Everything In Context abs: arxiv.org/abs/2304.03284 repo: github.com/baaivision/Pai…

So excited to see our paper finally out in New Media & Society! We found racial inequality in influencer compensation through mixed-method analyses of #Instagram worker-generated data. Wonderful collab w/ @AngeleChristin and greatly inspiring my research in this emerging area!

A amazing week in Toronto, met some many intellectual researchers, impressed by great works, and make sense of the community agenda

Excited🌟to see my new article online Social Media+Society where I examine how non-political #influencers and regular users on #Weibo co-shape a network to oppose a media gender policy in #China. Check the open-access article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

🌟New #CHI2024 Paper. Thrilled to announce our new research on cross-cultural differences in public perceptions of AI conversational agents between the US and China (w/ Zihan Liu, chen anfan, Renwen (Alice) Zhang, Yi-Chieh Lee). More in this thread 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2402.16039

Our study of conversational AI privacy is now online: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Bin Chen, Anfan Chen, & Shuning Lu explores how the #ChatGPT media hype was produced within a framework of international information flows and the localization of a global issue. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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