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🚨 Do you use digital trace data / web tracking data? Do you want to measure what people do online? We published a Total Error Framework for web tracking data: bit.ly/3hj0qTB We show: how to use it, errors to expect & best practices informed by a real case study! 🧵

Come be my colleague! Our Social Computing Group (University of Zurich) led by Ancsa Hannak has a Postdoc position open. If you are looking for a postdoc position in Computational Social Science or Social Computing, apply! And reach out if you have questions! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

On the last week of October I had the privilege of attending the Digital Democracy Workshop 2022 by Digital Democracy Lab IPZ - Political Science UZH. There I presented on working paper on the Compatibility of the use of Machine Learning Models in democratic societies and the implications for political theory.

Monetization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it New PRODIGI paper, together with Meysam Alizadeh (lead author) and Emma Hoes osf.io/har52/

For the area of "digitalization", Emma Hoes brilliantly presented her research on the responsiveness of social media platforms to media reporting on them, as well as on the effects on user behavior of monetization of social media content. IPZ - Political Science UZH

Call for papers: Political Communication and Policymaking in the Age of Digital Media Workshop chaired by Emiliano Grossman & Dr. Ana Ines Langer #CfP #ecprjs23 European Consortium for Political Research ecpr.eu/Events/Event/P…

The #Encyclopedia of #Technology and #Politics is finally out! 94 great scholars from 5 continents (47% female; 46% junior) talk about lights and shades of digital & tech revolution e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar… 🧵

Roundtable: Liquid Democracy Universität Zürich, Dec 15, 6-8pm With Karsten Donnay et al. uzh.ch/agenda/record.…

Human-in-the-Loop Hate Speech Classification in a Multilingual Context New paper with Ana Kotarcic, Dominik Hangartner, Selina Kurer & Karsten Donnay Ana Kotarcic is presenting it at #EMNLP2022 this week, check it out if you're attending arxiv.org/abs/2212.02108

4/ #Facebook campaigns are on average more balanced than newspaper advertisement campaigns in all Swiss direct-democratic campaigns from 2010 to 2020. bit.ly/3WQhpvv Fabrizio Gilardi IPZ - Political Science UZH Universität Zürich Digital Democracy Lab DSI Digital Democracy

Thank you so much, Frederik Hjorth and everyone at Department of Political Science, UCPH Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science for hosting me this past month! I truly enjoyed my stay in Copenhagen and I’ll miss that stunning office view! 🔜 back to IPZ - Political Science UZH Digital Democracy Lab

We have a new, research-focused professor position in #Frankfurt Goethe-Universität: Full Professor of Sociology with a focus on digital transformation and work womenalsoknowstuff CES Political and Social Sciences at EUI Digital Democracy Lab EPSA European Consortium for Political Research FES Future of Work Politics of Inequality InFER Frankfurt

ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks with Meysam Alizadeh Maël Kubli We find that zero-shot #ChatGPT: > has better accuracy than #MTurk > has better intercoder agreement than MTurk and trained coders > is 20x cheaper than MTurk arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

👉New Scientist report on our work on #ChatGPT annotation capabilities Meysam Alizadeh Maël Kubli newscientist.com/article/236697…

ChatGPT Can Replace the Underpaid Workers Who Train AI, Researchers Say VICE article on our work on #ChatGPT annotation capabilities Meysam Alizadeh Maël Kubli vice.com/en/article/ak3…

⚡️Call for papers⚡️ Digital Democracy Workshop (4th edition) October 26-27, 2023 University of Zurich DSI Digital Democracy Digital Democracy Lab ⏰ Application deadline: May 31, 2023 🙌 Please share widely! digdemlab.io/forms/workshop…

Deadline Wed next week — send us your abstracts now!

⚡️ New paper ⚡️ "Open-source LLMs such as HuggingChat and FLAN exhibit text-annotation performance metrics that generally exceed those of MTurk and rival those of ChatGPT" with meysam alizadeh @maelkubli et al. arxiv.org/abs/2307.02179 #ChatGPT #LLMs #OpenSource #NLP

Very happy that our paper "ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks" is now out at PNASNews 😀 with Meysam Alizadeh & Maël Kubli pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #ChatGPT #LLMs

⚡️Job alert ⚡️ 2-year postdoc position, part of my PRODIGI project IPZ - Political Science UZH > Digital tech & politics > Causal inference or computational social science > PhD completed or close to completion > Starting Jan 2024 (or later) Happy to answer any Qs! fabriziogilardi.org/resources/jobs…