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  1. Measuring climate backlash in Twitter and Reddit archives: Lexical definitions, recorded responses and participant turnover

    Oct 6, 2026Wentao XuSocial Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

  2. JEV versus LLMs: Accuracy, Cost and Calibration on Seven Political Science Replications

    Oct 5, 2026Steven Denney, Matthew DiGiuseppeLLM EvaluationComputational Social Science

    Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University. · Institute of Political Science, Leiden University.

  3. Artificial Intelligence and the New Science of Culture

    Oct 5, 2026Douglas R. Guilbeault, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan, James A. EvansCultural EvolutionComputational Social Science

    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, U.S. · Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, U.K. · Sociology & Data Science, University of Chicago, U.S.

  4. Data-Driven Personas for Survey Simulation: Insights into Simulation Alignment Across Data-Access Regimes

    Oct 5, 2026Dongryeol Lee, Weronika Łajewska, Leonardo Perelli +1Computational Social ScienceUser Modeling

    Seoul National University · Amazon

  5. Inductive Claims Extraction at Scale

    Oct 4, 2026Sandrine Chausson, Björn RossSocial Media AnalysisArgument Mining

    University of Edinburgh

  6. How Do People Challenge Racial Stereotypes Online? Counter-Story Detection Across Reddit Communities

    Oct 3, 2026Uma Sushmitha Gunturi, Jimin Mun, Maarten Sap +1Social Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

    IBM · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Colorado Boulder

  7. Science Utopia? Closed-Loop LLM Simulation of Academic Research Ecosystems

    Oct 1, 2026Yiqiao Jin, Yiyang Wang, Lucheng Fu +8Scholarly Peer ReviewComputational Social Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology · University of California, Los Angeles · University of Chicago +1

  8. Paying for Too Many Tokens? Valid and Cost-Efficient Multimodal LLM Annotation with Simple Heuristics

    Sep 30, 2026Zhixi Zhu, Kristina GligoricVLM EvaluationVideo-Language Model Evaluation

    Johns Hopkins University

  9. MetaPersona: Task-Grounded Synthetic Populations from Empirical Social Science

    Sep 29, 2026Jinyi Ye, Yuangang Li, Chenxiao Yu +7Personality Modeling in Language ModelsSynthetic Data Generation

    University of Southern California · University of California, Irvine · 2077AI +1

  10. Fake News Theories: Harnessing Disciplinary Insights for Computational Modeling, Detection, and Explanation

    Sep 24, 2026Zhaoyang Cao, Miriam Metzger, Reza ZafaraniFake News DetectionComputational Social Science

    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA · Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

  11. Artificial Societies Benchmark: A Validation Framework for Synthetic Research

    Sep 24, 2026Edoardo Chidichimo, Min Jun Jung, Felix P. S. Wallis +1Benchmark DesignComputational Social Science

    Artificial Societies University of Oxford, UK

  12. The Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC): An Open Tool and Reproducible Pipeline for Analyzing Social Group Discourse at Scale

    Sep 22, 2026Babak Hemmatian, Sarah Hadjarab, Jessica Chen +1Social Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

    AI Innovation Institute, Stony Brook University · Department of Political Science, University of Chicago · Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign +1

  13. From Utterances to Networks: Modelling Slang Adoption and Diffusion Across Subreddits

    Sep 22, 2026Xiaoning Wang, Ted Underwood, Zhewei SunSocial Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

    School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

  14. SocioVerse2: A Longitudinal Dynamic Social Simulation Framework under a Human-AI Co-evolutionary Paradigm

    Sep 21, 2026Xinnong Zhang, Jiayu Lin, Jia Wang +19Computational Social ScienceAgent-Based Modeling

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · Fudan University · Tongji University +7

  15. Evaluating Decision Models for Text Annotation in Computational Social Science

    Sep 21, 2026Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir ZakiLLM EvaluationLLM-Assisted Annotation

    Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  16. Testing, not presuming, adequacy: calibrating generative social simulators against emergent network structure

    Sep 21, 2026Tengfei Shao, Chao Li, Xu Wang +1Simulation-Based InferenceComputational Social Science

    Global Education Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan · Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan · School of Informatics, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan

  17. From Web(logs) to Web(AI): Questions, Platforms, and Methods across Twenty Editions of ICWSM

    Sep 20, 2026Koustuv Saha, Eshwar ChandrasekharanSocial Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

  18. Social Influence and the Allocation of Scientific Attention in AI Populations

    Sep 18, 2026Maxim ChupilkinScientific CommunicationComputational Social Science

    Department of Politics and International Relations University of Oxford

  19. Digital Twins for Opinion Dynamics: A Generative LLM Framework for Social Networks

    Sep 17, 2026Omran Berjawi, Giuseppe Fenza, Rida Khatoun +1Opinion DynamicsHuman Behavior Simulation

    Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI) Institut Polytechnique de Paris, T´el´ecom Paris Palaiseau, France · Management & Information Systems (DISA-MIS) University of Salerno Fisciano, Italy · College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky +1

  20. ABM-SIRTEM: A Hybrid Agent-Based and Epidemiological Model for Pandemic Response

    Sep 16, 2026Sheryl Paul, Samuel Williams, Preetom K. Biswas +2Dynamical SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA

  21. BeWater: Effective Protesters Navigate Watersheds in Street Networks

    Sep 15, 2026Guillaume Moinard, Matthieu LatapyMulti-Agent CoordinationComputational Social Science

    Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6, F-75005 Paris, France

  22. Quantifying Organizational Environmental Action from Web Data and Large Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Quinn Reynolds, Daniel Shore, Vianey Leos Barajas +2Semantic SearchDocument Information Extraction

    Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto · School of the Environment, University of Toronto

  23. Making Political Text Scaling Comparable: Infrastructure and Hyperparameter Sensitivity for 17 Algorithms

    Sep 13, 2026Patrick ParschanComputational Social ScienceHyperparameter Optimization

    Department of Media and Communication LMU Munich

  24. Graph Neural Networks for Influence Maximization in Social Networks: An Unsupervised Minimum Dominating Set Approach

    Sep 12, 2026Erfan Ahmadi, Mina Shirazi, Behnam BahrakCombinatorial OptimizationNeural Combinatorial Optimization

    Computer Engineering Department, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS), Tehran, Iran. · University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

  25. Not All Duplicates Are Coordination: Generic vs. Non-Generic Duplicate Campaigns in Information Operations

    Sep 12, 2026Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun AhmedSocial Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

    Mathematics and Computer Science, Augustana College, USA · Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Dakota State University, USA

  26. Diverse Minds, Divided Networks? Personality Composition, Polarization, and Collective Intelligence in LLM-Based Social Simulations

    Sep 11, 2026Raad Bin TareafOpinion DynamicsHuman Behavior Simulation

    German University of Digital Science, Potsdam, Germany.

  27. How neighbourhood ideology shapes misinformation belief in densely tied social networks

    Sep 9, 2026Soroush Karimi, Marcos Oliveira, Diogo PachecoOpinion DynamicsComputational Social Science

    Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  28. LLMs for Social Network Modeling: From Network Generation to Dynamic Processes

    Sep 7, 2026Shikha Mallick, Alex Thomo, Akrati SaxenaComputational Social ScienceLLMs for Graph Learning

    Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada · Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands

  29. Does Syntax Matter? A Graph-Augmented Variational Topic Model for Computational Social Sciences

    Sep 7, 2026Alessandro MeneghiniTopic ModelingComputational Social Science

    University of Udine

  30. IXPLORE: Bounded Ideal Point Estimation with Grid-Based Uncertainty Quantification

    Sep 5, 2026Fynn BachmannComputational Social Science

    Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland